Office 365 is now officially out, having been launched with great fanfare by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in New York City this week, but customers of the suite's previous version, called BPOS (Busines...

Google started using MapReduce about 10 years ago.  Somewhere between there and now, Doug Cutting decided that he could copy it while at Yahoo and Hadoop was born.  Doug now works at a company named...

What did you do recently to celebrate Social Media Day?  Blaze a trail of new connections on Twitter, jump into a LinkedIn discussion group? Me? I focused on my client projects and d...

In the complex world of media mix analysis, it’s important to have a trustworthy guide. Just as a last touch attribution model can lead to mis-allocation of resources, over-crediting first touches c...

O’Reilly Media recorded all Velocity Conference 2011 keynotes, breakout sessions and workshops but only made the following video segments of keynote and lightning presentations available for public...

Recently there’s been some chatter about the role of automation in Security and whether it is appropriate or not as a business strategy much less a security strategy. Jeffrey Carr states that EMC’...

If it hasn’t happened already then I’m guessing you’ll be deluged with articles about Google Plus in the coming days. Most articles will fall into two camps: those that think t...

Sometime on the morning of July 3rd, Google Realtime Search mysteriously went offline and, assuming it was just another example of things breaking on a holiday weekend, most tech publications ignored...

Are we becoming slaves to the “like” button, the retweet and the thumbs up — and now the Google+ “plus one” button? In a recent piece in the Wall Street Journal, writer Neil Strauss argues...

Big data — as in managing and analyzing — large volumes of information, has come a long way in the past couple of years. Among the greatest innovations might be the advent of real-time analytics,...

There have been a lot of posts about how HTML5 is great for website development. The subtler, yet more interesting story about HTML5 is that it has incredible potential to make advertising both rich a...

Every B2B company has its own identity, target market and products or services.  But all have one thing in common.  Each wants to be perceived as a leader in its chosen market space, and each wants...

Last Thursday, June 30 was Mashable’s second annual Social Media Day, a day to acknowledge and celebrate the revolution of media becoming social. Mashable organized more than 600 meet-ups all over...

Ah, the joy of long holiday weekends. They re-energize, revitalize and send you back to work... feeling you like you've slept in late and got a term paper due at noon. The reasons for this are unclear...

Gartner published their magic quadrant again for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure. VMware again came out as the number 1 company in infrastructure virtualization. The number of installed serve...

On Sunday, we posted two stories at Search Engine Land that were significant. They included Google Realtime Search Goes Missing and The Google Wonder Wheel Is Gone.Yes, Google features are dropping le...

The most well-known trick criminal hackers have in their bag is the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. To create a DDoS attack, hackers use a botnet to send mass amounts of traffic at a webs...

To a lot of bloggers, linkbait is the ultimate dream. What is linkbait? In its simplest form, it’s a blog post that generates lots of incoming links. It could be controversial, education, funny, inf...

It’s the American July 4th week end, one of our two really big national holidays. People here usually flee the summer heat to gather with friends and family in parks or near water. The night’s in...

Now that someone with lower respect for embargoes has broken the news, there’s nothing stopping me from talking about the latest acquisition for US based Google Apps reseller Cloud Sherpas. Cloud Sh...