Steven Walling

Steven Walling is a Writer for ReadWriteWeb based in Portland, Oregon. Having joined the team in June 2009, he's also a consultant for tech startups like AboutUs, Inc. and has written film and performing arts criticism in the past. In his spare time, he's an active volunteer for the free culture projects of the Wikimedia Foundation. You can contact Steven at steven@readwriteweb.com.

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Friday, 18th September 2009

Alfresco Wants Enterprise Content Management in the Cloud

Alfresco, the open source enterprise content management company, has unveiled a developer program for those looking to host both the community and enterprise versions of its software on the Amazon EC2 cloud computing platform. Alfresco is a leading open source alternative for document and Web content management, competing strongly with ECM giants…

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Thursday, 17th September 2009

Microsoft Previews Free Web-based Version of Office 2010

Back in July Microsoft launched the technical preview of Office 2010. But despite reports to the contrary, that technical preview didn't include the highly-anticipated online version of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Starting today Microsoft is making a limited preview of Office Web Apps available to partners, and has officially said that a more…

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Wednesday, 16th September 2009

Adobe Acquires Omniture: It's All About the Revenue Model

Adobe is looking to stall falling sales and profit by entering into a new market: analytics. But rather looking to R&D, Adobe is instead coughing up $1.8 billion for analytics leader Omniture. This is the largest acquisition by Adobe since the purchase of Macromedia for $3 billion in 2005. The acquisition has puzzled many, since Adobe and…

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Tuesday, 15th September 2009

Apps.gov Gives Cloud Computing a Slice of the $75 Billion IT Pie

The government cloud computing service rumored since late July is here, and companies are jumping at the chance to join Apps.gov, an "online storefront" for cloud services and applications pre-approved for use by federal agencies. According to the post by U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra, Apps.gov will move at the same cautious pace Data.gov has, and…

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Socialwok is a FriendFeed for Google Apps

Google Apps is an impressive productivity suite. But however good Docs and Gmail are, organizations using Apps are left without the kinds of social software they're used to having outside of work. Singapore-based startup Socialwok is attempting to fix that by offering a social app that lives on top of Google Apps. Socialwok resembles FriendFeed…

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Monday, 14th September 2009

Jive Extends its Reach into Social Media

Jive, a leader in "social business software" for enterprise collaboration and community platforms, has added social media expertise to its repertoire. Through social media monitoring tools from Radian6, the new Jive Market Engagement lets companies track and respond to the social Web in real time. Radian6 is the kind of software that we've called…

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Yammer Adds Microblogging to Microsoft Outlook & Windows Mobile

Yammer is a "Twitter for the enterprise" platform that (to our dismay) won TechCrunch50 last year. A year later the enterprise microblogging space is growing rapidly and Yammer is still moving forward, along with competitors like Socialcast and Socialtext Signals. Today Yammer has announced a pair of Microsoft-centric additions that should be big…

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Friday, 11th September 2009

Forget Gen Y: Gen X is Making Real Change

Sometimes even the best researchers forget that the answer you get depends entirely on who you ask. A new Forrester survey of 2,000 information workers has revealed that despite the hype, it's not Gen Y that's getting business to adopt collaborative technology. Gen X, those who are 30-43, are the ones leading the charge for social computing…

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Get a Handle on Google Apps with LTech's Power Panel

LTech, an enterprise partner of Google, has released a new control panel for Google Apps to make managing the suite easier for IT. In addition to general cloud services LTech has a useful series of modules for enhancing Google Apps, such as a utility for backing up Google Docs. While Google has attempted to beef up its guides for Apps, LTech's…

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Thursday, 10th September 2009

Box.net Open Up to iPhone Apps with a New API

Cloud storage and collaboration company Box.net has opened up its platform to iPhone apps today through a new mobile API. The API lets independent iPhone developers join its OpenBox program, and several apps have already added Box.net support in advance. The new service will let Box.net users access their files on the go, avoid storage limits…

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