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Google Indexes AJAX and Javascript Comments
[2012-01-05] If you use the Facebook Comment Box for your website, your readers' content may now affect your Google PageRank. This is big news because Google is indexing the AJAX or JavaScript code on your website, which previously wasn't picked up by search engines. SEOs may reconsider their earlier advice to avoid these services as indexed comments will provide fresh content appeasing Google's algorithm changes, such as query deserves freshness (QDF).
Developers Getting Excited About The New Kindle
[2011-12-06] The introduction of the Kindle Fire has seemingly heated up the running for the king of Android tablets.
Cutting Data Center Building Costs With Open Source Servers
[2011-10-28] The Open Compute Project Foundation recently announced results from Facebook's attempts to build an efficient data center at the lowest possible cost. The foundation claims to have reduced the cost of building a data center by 24 percent, and improved ongoing efficiency by 38 percent versus state of the art data centers.
Social Media Flies Past Email and Search for Web Usage
[2011-10-04] I can remember when Email and Search were the top two in Web usage (aside from porn). Of course, I can remember when there was no Web. Times have changed. Ross Dawson recently shared (on his blog) a new Nielsen report with detailed statistics on online activity that I learned about from his Twitter feed. It puts social media and blogs on top for Web usage by a significant amount (22,5%) over the new number two, games at 9.8%. Email now comes in third at 7/6% and search is a distance sixth at 4.0%.
Should You Move Your Email To The Cloud?
[2011-09-23] I am attending Forrester's Content & Collaboration Forum 2011. Forrester notes that in five years, almost half of US workers - about 63 million people - will work virtually. I am already one of them. This will change everything in workplace IT support from designing workplace information strategies for collaboration, to delivering content experiences to people across channels, to engaging the next-generation workforce to serve customers better.
Gartner Reports that Big Data Challenges Go Beyond Managing Large Volumes of Data
[2011-08-24] Big Data is certainly a hot topic. I went to a session on Big Data Analytics for Social Media at the recent Enterprise 2.0 conference. Here is some advice from Gartner that we can certainly agree with as reported by Nathan Eddy in the Channel Insider. The article begins buy noting that many IT leaders are managing "big data" challenges by focusing on the high volumes of information and properly covering the many other dimensions of information management. According to Gartner, this can leaving massive challenges to be addressed later.
VMware Backs Down On Licensing Changes
[2011-08-05] VMware's vSphere 5 new licensing model raised eyebrows and tempers across the industry just three weeks ago. Bowing to the negative response, VMware has announced three changes that should appease customers - but will still likely lead to higher virtualization costs for VMware customers.
Is Cloud Computing the Victim or the Suspect?
[2011-07-15] When cloud computing arrived at center stage back in the late 1990's, it was the future. It was the invention of the microchip all over again. IT departments and CFO's everywhere were breathing a sigh of relief. They saw the cloud as a means of ending budget overages, pesky support tickets and reducing hardware costs. As soon as the media got wind of this nifty cloud thingy, well, the cloud metaphors were more prolific than Captain America cosplayers at a Comic-on. In fact, one could even say the media was largely responsible for the cloud's success. After all, we know the media is built on driving the rise of a trend and then greedily exposing its crash and burn. That begs the question, is cloud computing really as fabulous as we think it is? Is the cloud a victim of commercialism or a suspect in the breakdown of data security?
Has The Tech Industry Forgotten Users?
[2011-06-23] You know when I read David Heinemeier Hansson write that all he needs is 10 apps I believe we've all lost our minds. Then I look at Techmeme and see all the insider baseball and nothing about real users and I realize we have indeed lost our minds.
Chrome 12 Hits Users, Improved Security and Privacy
[2011-06-10] Google Chrome has the fastest growth of all browsers and currently has over 160 million active users. That puts them at over 10 percent of the total web population in the U.S. and a substantially larger portion overseas. Part of the reason for the broad adoption of the fledgling browser is the release of frequent new features; Google Chrome is on a six week release cycle. The most recent version of Google Chrome, version 12, just went "stable" and will be distributed to users in the next few days.
Microskype? Skyprosoft? Microsoft Buys Skype
[2011-05-12] This is one of those cases where we get to see why rumors are just rumors. Last week we reported that a potential deal between Facebook and Skype was on the table. Today, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft and Tony Bates of Skype have concluded a deal with Microsoft purchasing Skype for $8.5 billion. This would be the largest external purchase by the former IT behemoth Microsoft.
Technology Firms Are Investing More In Social Media
[2011-04-28] Are technology firms adopting social media' is one of the areas that the recent Eurocom Worldwide 2011 Annual Technology Confidence Survey explored. The survey found that 38% of technology firms examine social media profiles to determine potential employees' suitability for a job - the results in 2010 were similar. (Eurocom Worldwide is a global alliance of independent, privately owned Public Relations agencies.)
Using Semantic Technology and Machine Learning for Consumer Advice: Retrevo
[2011-04-14] With all the publicity over IBM's Watson, there has been a lot of discussion about how far computers can go to "replace" people. Of course, I think that is not really the question to ask. It should rather be conceived as how computers can complement people.
Comodo Hacker Strikes Again
[2011-03-31] A follow up message was again posted on pastebin by an individual using the handle of "COMODOHACKER." This message was from the same individual who claimed responsibility for the hack on Comodo's site and who issued 9 SSL Certificates for major sites such as: mail.google.com, www.google.com, login.live.com, addons.mozilla.org, login.skype.com, and login.yahoo.com.
Open Source Revenue Models: Red Hat's Tactics and Strategies
[2011-03-16] Red Hat recently disclosed publicly a change in the way they distribute kernel patches, explaining that such decision came out in reaction to third parties (competitively) supporting RHEL.
rPath Supports The New Dynamic And Cloud-based Vision For IT
[2011-03-03] A major transformation is occurring with enterprise IT services. I recently spoke with Jake Sorofman, CMO at rPath, to get his perspective on these changes. Jake pointed out that IT used to have a local monopoly on IT services. Their internal customers were forced to accept poor service levels because they had no alternative. Now the Cloud is fast becoming and alternative channel. Instead of waiting weeks or months for a critical application, business managers can simply license and deploy many applications in minutes. Instead of incurring massive implementation costs prior to any performance, they can just lease apps on a monthly basis and stop at any time.
White House Jumping On The 'Cloud' Bandwagon
[2011-02-17] Who knew that making upgrades in the IT sector of our government could potentially save us billions of dollars.According to U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, that's how much tax payer money could be saved by upgrading the country's infrastructure. Kundra wants to see the shutting down of hundreds of data centers and moving to the 'cloud'.
Tibco Releases Social Media Platform For IT Professionals
[2011-02-03] There are numerous social media platforms available on the Internet that cater to specific groups and interests. For internal, corporate structures, there is a new social media application that has been recently developed, catering specifically to IT professionals and technological gurus.
Mid-size Businesses Ready To Move To The Cloud
[2011-01-20] According to a recent survey over 60 percent of respondents in the mid-size business space say they are ready to look to the cloud. Many are already using virtualization but only 4 percent are using the cloud now to back up data. In addition, 63% say they are using 10% or less of their applications on a SaaS platform. So this projects a major shift in the mid-size business IT architecture.
The Top 10 Tech Industry Missteps
[2011-01-06] There can never exist an industry in this world that can survive from making mistakes. And an industry that needs to be very meticulous in fabricating every product, service or solution can also not escape the ugly part of making blunders - I am talking quite obviously of the technology industry.
Four Reasons It Professionals Should Love LibreOffice
[2010-12-16] LibreOffice comes as good news for those worried about Oracle's recent decision to unplug OpenSolaris. OpenOffice.org users who have been worried could finally breathe a sigh of relief after a community of independent developers gave birth to their latest open source project named LibreOffice.
Data Centers, Analytics, and Management – Oh My!
[2010-12-02] Russ Fellows recently posted an article on infostor.com outlining what he believes the "big 3" issues facing information technology are and how these issues will be addressed throughout the next decade. Fellows identifies these three issues as transformation of data centers, data analytics, and integrated data management.
Communication As IT's Essential Success Partner
[2010-11-18] Picture the scene: sun-drenched beaches, a harbour packed with yachts and superyachts, Bentley and Lamborghini showrooms jostling next to Hermes and Chanel stores, crowded bars and restaurants, and attractive men and women strolling the wide avenues by the sea.
Microsoft Begins To Flex Its ''Cloud Power'' Muscles
[2010-11-04] The time has arrived for Microsoft to start ‘showing off' its much talked about 'cloud power'. There were quite a few technology news articles that were focused on Microsoft venturing into the Cloud Computing arena; and it is about time for them to make some noise which shall enable them to fetch some business. By noise, I mean advertising campaigns.
Properly Handling Rich HTML In Python Applications
[2010-10-21] Great approach to prevent XSS or HTML injection in your python application while still allowing rich HTML from untrusted sources. I had a great chat yesterday with James Socol, author of Bleach (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bleach). Many of you are likely already aware of Bleach but I wanted to get some more information out to everyone.
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