enterprise Lotus Symphony 1.3 Adds Microsoft Office Support Today's 1.3 release of IBM's free Lotus Symphony productivity suite may not be the most innovative of improvements, but it's a product that addresses core needs of the enterprise as it exists today. The flagship addition is full support for importing Microsoft Office 2007 documents. Other new features include the ability to drag-and-drop… Enterprise Steven Walling View comments
Gritty Entrepreneurs How Not to Get Screwed by VCs This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here. Fear of VCs is a common problem for first time entrepreneurs. It is a natural fear. You are going to be negotiating with somebody who is older, richer, and way more experienced in this than you are. You have heard a… Bernard Lunn View comments
Startups ZenDesk Offers iPhone App Customer Support Don't you hate it when someone attractive asks you for an imaginary light, and your iPhone Zippo crashes? ZenDesk is offering a new embeddable drop box solution to give iPhone and Android developers customer support directly in their apps. With the current influx of application development, and the need to serve international mobile audiences… Dana Oshiro View comments
Search OneRiot Updates Algorithm, Releases Factors for Link Indexing Real-time search outfit OneRiot announced today some updates to their search algorithm, which parses data in real-time social streams to index and rank links. Although results based on freshness alone are available through the search engine's real-time firehose setting, the results returned through the Pulse Rank setting are weighted based on… Social Jolie O'Dell View comments
Semantic Web Tags as Far as the Eye Can See: New York Times to Publish Index as Linked Data Today, at the Semantic Technology Conference, Rob Larson and Evan Sandhaus of the New York Times announced together that the Times will soon be publishing its copious index as Linked Data. The Times' data will join content from Project Gutenberg, a vast online library of text from public domain books, data from the U.S. census, and information… Jolie O'Dell View comments