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Wednesday, 30th March 2011

Google Wants You to +1, But Why Would You?

Google announced this morning that it is taking the inclusion of social recommendations in its search results a step further with the introduction of the long-awaited Google +1. The new feature puts a "+1" icon next to each search result, allowing users to recommend certain results and websites directly from Google, rather than on Twitter or…

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No Wireless? No Worries. ForeverMap Gives You Offline Access to Maps

Ah, the frustrations of trying to access a map on your phone when you've got limited Internet connection. Well now you needn't worry with ForeverMap. Google gets a lot of kudos (and, okay, triggers a fair amount of concern) about its mapping efforts with Google Maps and Google Street View. But even with innovations to the vehicles that Google is…

Audrey Watters comments

Virtual Networks for Virtual Applications

You've prepared your critical applications for virtualization. You've tested and selected a virtualization platform. You've built out a fleet of virtual servers and migrated your applications to them. Your hypervisor is configured and you're ready to start sending your uses to your spiffy new virtual environment. Wait. There's one more step you may…

Klint Finley comments

Hacker Poll: Are You Still Developing on the Twitter API?

It's been a few weeks now since Twitter asked developers to stop building new clients. Reaction from the developer community has been generally negative. But has there been a backlash? Sure some developers have built a competing microblogging system, but are API developers quitting the platform? What about you? Are you still still developing…

Hack Klint Finley comments

Network Effects and Pricing Models in the Social Enterprise

Like any other social network, the value of an enterprise social network is tied to the number of active users. In general, the more users the more value - more knowledge shared, more questions answered and more connections made. In this case, does the per-user pricing model of many enterprise social software tools make sense? Enterprise…

Klint Finley comments

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