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October 2009 Archives

Tuesday, 27th October 2009

Connecting Cognos and Lotus With Data, Mashups and Social Interaction

At the IBM Information on Demand conference, we asked Robert Ashe to sketch how he sees integration between the company's business intelligence and collaboration technologies. What he shows is how business intelligence applications and Lotus products could connect business users through mashups and social interactions. He is a general manager…

Enterprise Alex Williams comments

Health and Sex Education: HealthCentral and 5min Video Partnership

Some conversations are best illustrated by educated strangers. Instead of listening to my mother drone on awkwardly about oral contraceptives, breast examinations and what she deemed "special lady time", I wish I could have saved us both the embarrassment and consulted a health-related video site. Instructional video platform 5min is teaming up…

Dana Oshiro comments

Salmon Protocol for Distributed, Real-Time Content Expands with Open-Source Project

The Internet is a mess these days. Conversations are distributed and fragmented; a blog post's comments will almost surely appear on a number of sites other than the author's blog. Considering factors from Facebook shares, likes, and posts to comments on Google Reader or even content curators such as Hacker News, site owners have found it…

Jolie O'Dell comments

How to Capitalize and Profit from Systemic Failure

Fear of failure rarely keeps serial entrepreneurs down. In fact, said Marc Pincus, CEO of Zynga at today's FailCon event, "As entrepreneurs and programmers we're used to failing aren't we? If you look at it as A/B testing until you get the perfect product, then it's not an issue. It's important to learn from it...Otherwise, honestly, why change a…

Dana Oshiro comments

EFF Launches Takedown Hall of Shame; NPR, CBS, NBC, Warner Music Cited

Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation launched a "Takedown Hall of Shame" for what it sees as egregious abuses of digital copyright regulations. Traditionally the champions of Creative Commons and other, more open methods of IP protection and creative sharing of content online, EFF is now calling out a bevy of big-name media corporations to…

Jolie O'Dell comments

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