The Crunchpad: The Rest of the Story
Last week, Michael Arrington announced that the Crunchpad is DOA, no more, and has ceased to be. John wrote about it on the editorial backchannel shortly thereafter: I think that Mike made a good…
Mobile Monday: Mobile App News for Week of November 29th
By Sean P. Aune
Analysts predict 300,000 iPhone apps by the end of 2010 From the "Really, you got paid to make that prediction?" file, comes the one that tells us their will be 300,000 iPhone apps in…
WeTokU: Dead Simple Video Interview System
I’m always on the lookout for tools that will allow me to record video interviews with relative ease for both me and the interviewee. The market for software tools in this respect has come…
Turn Luck Into a Skill
By Tina Seelig
Richard Wiseman, of the University of Hertfordshire in England, has studied luck and found that lucky people share traits that tend to make them luckier than others. First, lucky people take advantage of chance…
12 Handy FTC Disclosure Badges [pics]
Earlier today, fellow blogger and friend Louis Gray came out with a set of eight highly useful badges to display in the event of a possible FTC disclosure situation. The new FTC disclosure rules…
Solving For Impossible: The Four Quadrants of Innovation
I recently wrote up a post, Most Dangerous Innovation Misperception – The Silver Bullet Approach. In it, I discussed the issue of organizations myopically focusing on only disruptive innovations to the exclusion of more…
When Can We Expect Those FTC “Non-Blogger” Guidelines?
We spent a lot of time talking about the FTC blogger guidelines when they were proposed and approved over the last several months. The new rules, in case you missed the news, went into…
SharePoint 2010 from an Infrastructure Management Perspective
In recent weeks, we’ve heard a ton of news about Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010. Most corporations use SharePoint for collaboration on a single platform through extranets and the Internet. Revising the toolset, as Microsoft does…
The Inexorable Convergence of Cloud and Security Services
By Nico Popp
Concerns for the security of application run in the cloud are running high. The perceived lack of security of cloud platforms is often cited as the primary obstacle to adoption. Whether "cloud" is defined…
Open? I Don’t Think That Word Means What You Think It Means.
By chrissaad
In my mind, there are four kinds of open. Torvalds Open. Zuckerberg Open. Not Open but we use the word Open anyway. Saad Open. This fragmentation has diluted the word open to the point…