Posts from ‘September, 2008’

Via Tech Crunch
by Steve Gillmor on September 30, 2008
SocialText 3.0 is (or will be in the near term) an enterprise mashup of Facebook, FriendFeed, enterprise microblogging, and the wiki. If you were to take any one of these constituencies - social networking, conversation aggregation, Tw*tter, or vanilla wikis and the leveraged sites the technology has [...]

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By Brian Solis
I’ve been on a recent whirlwind speaking tour recently, sharing and learning all things related to the socialization of marketing and service as well as how to measure these new strategies and tactics. From San Diego to New York to SF back to New York and then Vegas and SF again, [...]

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September 29, 2008 - 10:48 am PDT - by Alex Hillman 
Disclosure: I’ve been a tech guy for much longer than I’ve been involved in marketing. I’ve been building things, and acting as a consumer far longer than I’ve been the person connecting those two groups. That’s turned into an advantage as I begin to [...]

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September 29, 2008 - 1:20 pm PDT - by Stan Schroeder  
StallmanRichard Stallman is going berserk over cloud computing. In an interview with the Guardian, he claims that the whole thing is “stupidity.” He claims that “you should not use web applications to do your computing,” because it’s “just as bad as using a [...]

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by Steve Gillmor on September 29, 2008
This week two giants spoke to the technology wave known as cloud computing. Larry Ellison called it a new label on what everyone is doing already. He acknowledged he was going along with it to keep his marketing and sales guys happy, but basically he called bullshit [...]

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By Joel Hruska  | Published: September 29, 2008 - 09:20PM CT
Microsoft and Washington State officials announced a new partnership today aimed at fighting scareware in general and one specific vendor in particular. Today isn’t such a good day for one James Reed McCreary IV, of The Woodlands, Texas. Mr. McCreary is the sole [...]

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September 29, 2008 - 8:58 pm PDT - by Doriano “Paisano” Carta 
Acquia has announced the availability of Acquia Drupal, a free and commercially supported distribution of the popular Drupal open source social publishing system. They also unveiled the Acquia Network, which offers subscription-based access to technical support and remote network services that simplify the [...]

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September 29, 2008 - 9:30 pm PDT - by Steven Hodson 
Mark Evans wrote a post a couple of days ago that asks a simple question that as far as I am concerned every single web service start up should be asking: “What’s In It For Me?”
While his central point was more about developers asking [...]

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by Michael Arrington on September 30, 2008
 
Facebook launched more than a new iPhone app this evening - they also have a new home page (the page you see when you aren’t logged in) and a new tagline. Gone is all the descriptive language suggesting you sign up to “Keep up with friends and [...]

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September 29, 2008 - 4:52 am PDT - by Stan Schroeder

If you’re a Facebook user and are at the same time interested in doing whatever you can to help your country, you may have seen an odd advertising campaign there from Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service.
The Facebook ads bear text [...]