E-Commerce Fab.com: Social Shopping That Works Picture a full-screen Facebook news feed filled with all the beautifully designed items that all your aesthetically inclined friends have purchased. Now clean up the user interface so there's no spammy news ticker. Got it? Then you have arrived at Fab.com, the Web's fastest growing flash sales site specializing in design. Today it launched an… Social Alicia Eler View comments
Apple Is Apple Condoning Siri Hacking? Apple isn't exactly known for letting consumers and developers tinker with its products. While the Apple II had expansion slots and a relatively open design, later hardware shipped by the company would become harder to modify. What they sold was what consumers got, with very little room for customization. Today, developers are having a field… John Paul Titlow View comments
Analysis Running Bugzilla on ActiveState's Stackato Here's an interesting post from ActiveState's Jan Dubois on running Bugzilla on their Stackato PaaS. It's not a quite as simple as running on your own server, but Dubois does a good job of explaining the steps. The process Dubois outlines includes: Joe Brockmeier View comments
Product Reviews BetaBait Connects Apps With Beta Testers From the blogging-as-a-service department, here's a tool I think any app development team could use. BetaBait offers a simple proposition: sign up to try new apps on one side, sign up to find beta testers on the other. It's a free, email-driven service. When you join, you're on the daily email list, which breaks down the apps by category. BetaBait… Jon Mitchell View comments
Trends CIOs Survey: Consumerism Threatens the Enterprise Cloud The fact that cloud services and virtualization are making it feasible for executives to oversee the administration of their enterprise networks from devices like smartphones and tablets, has boosted the power of the cloud like no single innovation before. But a new survey commissioned by application performance management tools maker Compuware… Enterprise Scott M. Fulton View comments