What is cloud computing?
In this week’s Real Deal podcast, Tom Merritt and I try to explain cloud computing in concrete terms. Starting with an utterly opaque description from Forrester Research, we get into the realities of...
View ArticleGoogle diving into 3D mapping of oceans
We’ve got Google Earth and Google Sky. Next up will be a map of the world below sea level–Google Ocean. The company has assembled an advisory group of oceanography experts, and in December invited...
View ArticleSlashdot parent company experiences overnight outage
As of Wednesday morning, there appears to be some sort of outage at SourceForge Inc., parent company of iconic geek news forum Slashdot and retailer Thinkgeek (among others). Neither SourceForge nor...
View ArticleArtsy side of search: Designers, pop stars create iGoogle themes
This is Google’s video introducing its work with artists worldwide to createbeautiful, funky, and visually enticing iGoogle pages for the masses.(Credit: Google) If you thought Google’s capacity for...
View ArticleConfirmed: Mister Wong acquires Lifestream.fm
It’s gossip no more: as rumored, Germany-based social-bookmarking site Mister Wong has acquired the social-media feed aggregator Lifestream.fm for an undisclosed amount. The news was originally...
View ArticleMint adds investment tracking, burger buying trends
The personal finance Web application Mint is adding investment tracking, making it a more well rounded service for people with moderately complex financial situations, as opposed to people who care...
View ArticleNip/Tuck Facebook app tells you how ugly you are (with math)
Normally I steer clear of writing about Facebook apps that have been created for promotional purposes, but this one is too good to pass up. It comes from FX UK, which has put together a very strange...
View ArticleWeb analytics and Twitter: An incomplete story
Hitwise released research this week reporting that Twitter had a nice relative growth spurt this year. The key word is relative. The site grew from a market share of a whopping 0.0005% (U.S. Internet...
View Article73% of Consumers Wooed By Superior Customer Experience
Want to make your customers more loyal? Provide a superior customer experience. According to research by Monetate, 73% of consumers would buy again from a retailer if they had a superior customer...
View ArticleInfographic – Marketing Automation 101
Cloud-based marketing automation software provider Marketo is attempting to reveal the “magic behind the curtain” of marketing automation in a new infographic that serves as a tutorial on the purpose,...
View ArticleWhy Persistent Wanted Akumina’s Tech, Talent
Persistent Systems wants to help clients better deploy and manage Microsoft technologies like SharePoint. Akumina’s bread-and-butter product, InterChange, optimizes the SharePoint experience. That made...
View ArticleIs This Cloud 2.0?
No single vendor will usher in the Cloud 2.0 era. Instead a consortium of technology vendors ranging from IBM and Pivotal to SAP and HPE and commercial enterprises as diverse as Huawei, Swisscom, BNY...
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