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Twitter Facebook App Blocked

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Twitter June 23 made it possible for its 190 million-plus users to find and follow their Facebook friends that use the microblog service. One small problem though: this functionality isn't working. - The company, satisfying a heavily requested feature, upgraded its Facebook application to show Twitter users what Facebook friends of theirs are on Twitter. Users may then save them to a Twitter List and post tweets to a Facebook profile and Facebook Pages. Ideally, this functionality would promo...

22 Percent of People's Time Spent On Social Networks

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Nielsen said Internet users all over the world spent 22 percent of their time on social networks such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other such Websites in April. - The research firm found social network or blog sites are visited by three-quarters of consumers who visit the Web. This bodes well for advertisers and the free social networks trying to make money from their users' rampant use of their walled gardens to trade and share links, photos, videos and othe...

Experiment by Google News Selects Editors Picks from Pubs

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Google confirmed it is experimenting with human-curated content with Editors Picks, a new section on Google News that features favorite stories culled from editors at Reuters, The Washington Post, Newsday, and several other publications. - A new experiment Google is conducting on Google News includes a special section that features favorite stories culled from editors at Reuters, The Washington Post, Newsday, and several other publications. That approach is a critical departure from Google's usual math-based methodology. This sort of ...

Analytics Firm Smallthought Bought by Twitter for Commercial Accounts

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Twitter has made it clear it wants to add analytics capabilities for its eventual paid accounts, and the microblog took a step in that direction June 10 by snapping up Smallthought Systems. - Twitter acquired the startup for Trendly, which Twitter analytics lead Kevin Weil described as a "tool that helps Websites distinguish signal from noise in their Google Analytics data." Twitter has said it wants to inject analytics into commercial accounts to help marketers better reach their audien...

Why Hadoop Has Google Fans (and Rivals) Excited

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:13:39 -0400

by David F. Carr

Based on distributed computing technologies Google has publicly disclosed, Hadoop provides an open source implementation for other companies with very large data analysis challenges, including Yahoo! and Facebook. The free software, named for a toy elephant, now runs on some of the largest sites on the Web. - ...

Microsoft Sets Pricing, Fee Sharing for Services

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:10:49 -0400

Microsoft Online Services is part of the software maker's effort to capitalize on the shift by corporate customers to abandon their own in-house computer systems for "cloud computing," a less expensive alternative. - SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp introduced on Wednesday pricing for its suite of online services targeted at corporate customers and a revenue-sharing plan to encourage other companies to sell the software company's products. The company plans to charge corporate customers a monthly subscri...

SaaS Versus Hosted Apps

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:58:24 -0400

Understanding the architectural differences between hosted software and true software as a service (SaaS) applications. - When evaluating software offerings from so-called cloud vendors, its critical to understand the architectural differences between hosted software and true software as a service (SaaS) applications. System architecture, and the process supporting it, can enhance or detract from the quality of service...

Serving Up SaaS

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:58:23 -0400

IT leaders polled about software as a service confirm that it delivers robust applications typically at lower cost than conventional deployment and licensing models. But implementation is slow in the enterprise core, where data security, availability and ease of integration remain key concerns. - Andy Steggles, CIO of the Risk and Insurance Management Society, considers himself a convert to software as a service. It was a very different story 18 months ago, when he was sure SaaS would never work for RIMS complex systems and the mission-critical data the New York-based professional associat...

Software as a Service Survey

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:38:26 -0400

In an April SaaS survey conducted by Burton Group and Ziff Davis Enterprise Research, 67 percent of the 252 CIOs whose companies use some form of SaaS have been doing so for two or more years. - 10 Project Chartering Tips IT Security Market Survey Five Immutable Laws of Virtualization Security Closing the Security Gap...

The Journey Toward Shared Services

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:12:46 -0400

Taking a strategic view of shared services. - If you have implemented a shared-services organization or contemplated doing so, you are not alone. Most companies have. If youve been less than ecstatic with the results, you are not alone, either. Enough benefits have flowed from centralizing the provision of human resources, finance and acco...

10 Ways to Help Keep Your Job Under Control

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:37:46 -0400

Baseline sifts through calendars, task management utilities, project management programs and freeware for the best in functionality to keep your days organized and productive. &

- Productivity tools and Web sites are more than a convenience; they've become an absolute necessity. The prevalence of social networks, virtual teams, global project groups and independent consultants who function as a core part of a team has driven an explosion in the development of productivity too...

Web Services` Disruptive Power

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:56:01 -0400

Web services will eventually disrupt the existing corporate it paradigm and technology market.

- If you havent read Nicholas Carrs latest book, The Big Switch, its worth cracking the spine. The author of the infamous 2003 essay �IT Doesnt Matter� compares the emergence of Web services to the maturation of the electrical industry an apt comparison. Carr recalls how Thomas Edisons model for po...

Disruptive Forces: Amazon.com

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:31:02 -0400

- Amazon.com Location: Seattle CEO: Jeff Bezos Revenues: $14.8 billion What they do: Online retail, storefronts for small businesses and enterprise-class cloud computing Disruptive qualities: Amazon tripled revenues in the past six years with innovations that include adding outside vendor...

10 Tips for Getting Started with Service-Oriented Architecture

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:12:23 -0400

Dig around a little and you'll find that service-oriented architecture is worthy of much of the hype it receives. But if you are just starting out, can your business and infrastructure handle all the complexities? Here are ten tips for approaching SOA successfully before over-committing, over-paying and under-delivering.

- As service-oriented architecture (SOA) technologies and practices have gained the attention of CIOs and executive teams for showing business value, more and more IT managers are facing the prospect of trying out SOA for the first time. Just last year, SOA expanded by 100 percent, according to a st...

Best Firefox Add-ons

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:29:36 -0400

Check out these more critically functional enhancements to Mozilla's Firefox.
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