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- Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy
- No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of "data processing" while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHA's, I'm already starting to see evidence of consolidation between India's major...
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- This week's rants
- This week's rantsYou've got it.I never tire of Robin Harris telling the world that MS has lost all their data...a classic. Even when he admits other filesystems are worse. Why then MS? Well they are the biggest and deserve to be blamed...so there..pouted Robin in reply to that question. ...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-23
- Seinfeld and Gates vs. Apple
- Seinfeld and Gates vs. AppleIn other wordsThey were successful enough to retire early.Any attempts to potshot these guys may go over well in the ABM community, but the general public will see it as sour grapes. Which means this could actually do what MS wants.Seinfeld? WHO?Oh yeah he had...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- 'Last.fm in a Box', ad-supported music service expands its "offsite community" strategy
- CBS continues to show signs that it understands the distributed nature of the net -- and no, I'm not saying that because it's in the process of buying ZDNet's parent company CNET. Today, Last.fm (which CBS purchased in May 2007) announced a major expansion to its "offsite...
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Enterprise 2.0 Boston platinum pass competition!
- I have a full platinum pass to give away, with a runner up prize of a free expo hall pass, for the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. I'm looking forward to four days of discussion and debate across a number of topics, including: * Social...
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Off topic: The facade of objectivity
- This Wired-TechCrunch war is interesting for the media wonks out there, but larger question is this: Does objectivity exists? Does it even matter? Here's the short version. The Washington Post inks a syndication deal with TechCrunch. Wired notes that it's odd that the Post picks up a...
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Profits-strapped Sun continues decade-long pitch to developers on Java dominance
- Leading up to the JavaOne developers conference, Sun Microsystems posted an embarrassing quarterly profit loss, is making OpenSolaris more open than ever, bringing the OpenSolaris platform value to the Amazon Web Services cloud, and is still using variations on the projectile theme to send T-shirts into the international crowd of...
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Guest post: Introducing the Open Data Definition
- This is a guest post by Ben Werdmuller who is the CTO of Curverider and one of the leads behind the Elgg open source social application engine. The Open Data Definition is a new format for the import and export of data from within social applications....
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Web 2.0 success stories driving WOA and informing SOA
- The striking contrast between the stories that we've been hearing lately about the slow going of SOA initiatives in the enterprise and the vibrant and rapidly growing ecosystems similar to them on the consumer Web has been generating a lot of debate and discussion in the enterprise IT community recently....
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Brijit: Saving the planet, one magazine at a time
- In this age of the digital you'd expect magazines, that old-fashioned idea of putting ink onto paper, to fade away. Magazines seem harder to cure than herpes. Once you get 'em, you can't get rid of them. The multiply, they spread, they just appear. And yet...
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Texas: more than just oil and politicians
- Texas. Oil. Politicians. From LBJ to George W, Texas has brought us oil, war and big military budgets. Well, now there are some subversives sneaking yet another energy business onto the scene down Texas way. Wind! Course, much of the ooomph is coming from those dread...
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Set Your Content Free (And Monetize It): How Online Publishers Can Increase Revenue Through Offsite Content Distribution
- Publishers today face a changing online landscape, one in which users are taking control of how and where they view content. Rather than going directly to the destination sites of specific publications, users discover content through blogs and other non-traditional sources. These new publishers often repurpose and sometimes completely republish...
- White papers 2008-03-18
- Are Web 2.0 applications using a form of desktop virtualization?
- I recently had the notion that Web 2.0 applications are a form of desktop virtualization presented to me during a long conversation with a Kusnetzky Group client. I found myself "not in alignment" with this notion. What do you think? The Web 2.0 notion ...
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- Microsoft starts rolling out new Windows Live platform dev tools, services
- One of Microsoft's mystery men behind the cloud, David Treadwell, has gone public with a number of updates coming to Microsoft's evolving Windows Live development platform. (Treadwell, Corporate Vice President of Windows Live Platform Services, is one of the folks in charge of the four Live platform...
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- BlueTie brings 'featuretisements' to workflow
- BlueTie has come up with a novel way to generate revenue for its collaboration suite aimed at small businesses. Rather than licensing, subscription or ads BlueTie is using"featuretisements," where the company is paid on a cost per action basis. The idea is to integrate monetizable services into the workflow of...
- Blog posts 2008-02-18
- Videora (exe)
- Videora is the first personal video downloading program. Utilizing BitTorrent and Really Simple Syndication, Videora automatically and intelligently finds and downloads video you want to watch. With easy to use features like Want Lists and Season Tickets you will be able to watch your favorite video, no matter where you...
- Software downloads 2008-02-04
- RSS Aggregator NewsGator Manages 2.5 Billion Articles With SQL Server 2008
- NewsGator makes life easier for individuals and companies by aggregating Really Simple Syndication RSS data feeds from across the Web to provide users with customized content delivery, enabling everyone to essentially create their own electronic newspaper. The company, which also provides Software as a Service to more than 50 media...
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- IBM and Kapow on how enterprises exploit application mashups and lightweight data access
- Read a full transcript. Sponsor: Kapow Technologies. The choices among enterprise application development and deployment technologies has never been greater. But what's truly different about today's applications is that line of business people can have a greater impact than ever on how technology supports their productive work....
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- Vivvo CMS (zip)
- VIVVO CMS, the flagship product of Spoonlabs d.o.o. is scalable and powerful news and media publishing solution with variety of plug-ins and resources that helps you create a full website easily without any programming skills - an ideal solution for your network or website. Not only you will be able...
- Software downloads 2008-01-17
- Internet ads to grow 14.4% in 2008
- Internet display advertising is forecast to continue growing at double-digit rates in 2008 with Spot TV, Spanish Language Media, Outdoor and Cable Network TV also exceeding the overall market average, according to TNS Media Intelligence. Advertising channel Growth, YTY Internet 14.4% Spot TV 9.9%...
- Blog posts 2008-01-13
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