- The Web is Dead: Long Live the Cloud - ReutersAugust 20, 2010RediffThe Web is Dead: Long Live the CloudReutersBernard Golden is CEO of consulting firm HyperStratus, which specializes in virtualization, cloud computing and related issues. ...Dead-tree magazine c...
- Software Is The New HardwareAugust 20, 2010Today Intel announced that it is buying McAfee for $7.7 billion. This acquisition made people scratch their heads. Why McAfee?The obvious arguments are that Intel has hit the growth wall and organic g...
- 10 Common Mistakes Made by API ProvidersAugust 20, 2010Twitter was one of the first to see what happened when traffic to the site came more from the API than the Web. It now has more than 65 million tweets per day, most coming from services that use the...
- Foursquare Experiences Record Signups After Launch of Facebook PlacesAugust 20, 2010Foursquare is experiencing record interest in the wake of the launch of Facebook Places; on Thursday, the location service broke its record for new user signups.Facebook Places brings checkins and loc...
- customers don’t go to your site for the features, they go for the contentAugust 19, 2010I really enjoyed Karen McGrane’s talk (embedded below). Some of my favorites: “People don’t go to your site to look at your templates. They go for the content.” “Emphasize the real goal: no...
- Intel's doomed McAfee forayAugust 20, 2010CEOs, like the rest of us, have their pursuits. Mark Hurd’s was Jodie Fisher. Paul Otellini’s is McAfee. Let’s hope the breakup doesn’t cost Paul his job.
- 10 Common Mistakes Made by API ProvidersAugust 20, 2010Twitter was one of the first to see what happened when traffic to the site came more from the API than the Web. It now has more than 65 million tweets per day, most coming from services that use the...
- Cleaner, Easier, I Dig the New DiggAugust 20, 2010There was a time when a story on the front page of Digg was the holy grail for any web publisher. But in more recent months, the average Joe has moved on from the once and powerful...
- Internet Marketing Research: A behind-the scenes look at MarketingExperiments Web clinicsAugust 20, 2010“Our job is to help you do your job better.” That’s how I sign every MarketingExperiments Journal email, and it’s a mission all of us at MarketingExperiments take very seriously. One of the ma...
- Viridity Chats with IDC About the Future of the Data CenterAugust 19, 2010Today, Michael Rowan, CTO and Co-founder, Viridity and Michelle Bailey, Research VP, Data Center Trends and Strategies, IDC spoke about The Future of Energy Efficiency in the Data Center. According to...
- Viridity Software Raises $8M for Server EfficiencyAugust 19, 2010Viridity Software says it can take the sensors out of data center energy management. On Thursday, the Burlington, Mass.-based startup announced it has raised an $8 million second round of funding from...
- StumbleUpon Comes to the iPhone and AndroidAugust 19, 2010Content discovery and recommendation engine StumbleUpon is bringing its “best of the web” finds to mobile devices with new iPhone and Android applications.The web version, which enables its userba...
- Virtualizing the University Computer LabAugust 20, 2010We are beginning to hear announcements fairly frequently about the states, school districts, and universities that are moving to the cloud for their email and productivity tools. As schools and univer...
- Groupon Smashes Sales Records with Nationwide Gap DealAugust 20, 2010Groupon launched its first national deal today, partnering with Gap to offer $50 worth of apparel and accessories at the low price of $25.The site is known for its local daily deals, often offered by...
- SaaS and the changing face of software salesAugust 19, 2010Will the future leave any room for traditional enterprise software sales engagements, or will everything end up as SaaS? Visit website for full story...
- Business Blogging Set To Grow By 25% In Two YearsAugust 19, 2010A new study from eMarketer estimates that 43% of US companies will be blogging by 2012. And that one third of US companies are currently blogging. No word on their level of engagement or activity, bu...
- What the New Digg Means For Your BusinessAugust 19, 2010Digg has been notorious for driving a server-crashing influx of traffic to web properties worldwide. The social news site has been able to drive anywhere from 1,000 to over 1.3 millio...
- Orleans: Microsoft's next-generation programming model for the cloudAugust 19, 2010One of Microsoft’s biggest selling points for its cloud platform is that developers can use .Net, Visual Studio and other programming tools they already know to write Azure applications. But that’...
- The necessity of PaaS: Will Microsoft be the Singapore of Cloud Computing?August 19, 2010From ancient Mesopotamia to, more recently, Holland, Switzerland, Japan, Singapore and Korea, the success of many societies has been in part credited to their lack of natural resources. The theory bei...
- CloudAudit Effort Gaining MomentumAugust 19, 2010A month ago we wrote about the OpenStack announcement as a potential game changer for cloud security. This week the CloudAudit effort released their first set of deliverables, which did not generate...
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