Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Jan. 8, 2012 11:38 AM EST
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how businesses need to respond to a marketplace changed by social media mechanisms.
The purpose of this article is to tell you how to take a perfectly good (or even a great) product that you’ve potentially spent years and millions of dollars creating - and thoroughly and efficiently ruin it in the shortest amount of time possible.
“Why would I want to do that?”, you ...
Social networking websites are fast adapting the new 'daily deals' model to attract small businesses and social networkers. Some companies that focus on daily deals, such as Groupon.com and Livingsocial.com, are attempting to go IPO soon, reinforcing that this is an emerging market. Go...
One of the things that struck me was how much innovation was being driven by very small groups of software developers – and how those innovations are enabling even more innovation by lowering the technical and financial barriers to the creation of new software.
There's some very excit...
We are a society obsessed with labels. When applied to similarly functioning software, a label that "sticks" becomes a category - like Business Intelligence software. Categories are supposed to help us make sense out of things. Good categories do. But some categories just confuse t...
We are a society obsessed with labels. When applied to similarly functioning software, a label that "sticks" becomes a category - like Business Intelligence software. Categories are supposed to help us make sense out of things. Good categories do. But some categories just confuse t...
A lot of people have preconceptions about what Crowdsourcing is. What are these common preconceptions? Are they wrong?
If you haven't heard about Crowdsourcing, you will soon. Crowdsourcing is increasingly in the news, and if you take stock in Google Trends, interest in the topic is ...
A number of interesting issues have come to light in the recent announcement of Google+ intention to move into social networking in direct competition with Facebook.
It may be that Google finally “gets it” with the idea of “circles” and “sparks” as a way of understanding social netwo...
These days it seems nearly impossible to talk about the enterprise without mentioning the words "social" or "cloud." At first glance, social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and cloud computing services like Salesforce.com appear to be separate and distinct technolo...
The talking heads on CNBC Tuesday were all atwitter with the news that Facebook is planning to go public in 1Q12 at a “vertigo-inducing valuation of over $100 billion.” It expects the social networking marvel to put in its IPO papers around October.
Facebook has been in the news in a bad way recently with revelations of its use of the Burson-Marsteller PR agency to conduct a stealth hate campaign against Google.
But it has also been cooperating with Google and others in conducting a stealth campaign against proposed privacy-en...
Someone asked me the other day if Asia was developing the Mobile Cloud as quickly as North America. He wanted to know if there are similar legions of people carrying around iPhones, iPads, and new Droidphones.
My answer to him was, in a word, “Yes.”
All this stuff costs about th...
This helpful role is because of the key relationship between this type of portal community web site and the principles and practices of 'Open Government'. Not only in terms of open source software but also in terms of utilizing Open Innovation principles to transform how government pro...
Social Media plays an important role in how people use the Web these days. That is already affecting the way many people work, into their personal lives. In 2014, eMarketer estimates that 65% of all U.S. Internet users use social networks. We know that Google now uses the algorithm of ...
First came Tunisia's "Jasmine Revolution" and now we have the "#Jan25 Uprising" - the world's first revolution named for a Twitter hash tag. Calling it the "Twitter Revolution" misses the beauty of the hash tag itself, and besides what would one then call the upcoming social unrest in ...
Well, as Mr. White said in Pulp Fiction, "let's not start celebrating just yet" (or something to that effect.). He was referring to rehabbing a car; I'm referring to redefining an industry.
Specifically, I'm thinking of Salesforce.com and its use of the term "Cloud 2." It threw that...
Facebook is either going to have to make financial disclosures just like a
public company or go public by April of 2012, the Wall Street Journal said
after it leafed through the 100-page private placement document that was
released to potential investors Thursday.
The New York Times is reporting that Goldman Sachs has invested $450 million in Facebook, with the Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, which has already invested $500 million in Facebook, investing $50 million more. The new half-billion round of investment, says the Times...
If you ask a teenager today what is social networking, we all know the answer will be Facebook. But, I don’t think social neworking started with AOL or even with online community called “The Well” (founded in 1985). I think social networking has been here since the very beginning, sinc...
Marketers historically have paid close attention to site traffic, time on site and page view metrics. Success on today’s Internet, the social web, is not guaranteed by any of these numbers. The game has shifted, and most savvy marketers are waking up to the fact that new key performanc...
Do you want to know how IOW link popularity development can help you? You will find all about it in the article.
It is self evident that by blogging and placing articles on your site's topics help you to promote the site by getting many deep links thus enlarging the audience of your r...
Speaking Thursday in Tokyo at The New Context Conference 2010, the founder of Twitter, Biz Stone (pictured), put onto the record two sentences that will stand the test of time in the era of social computing: "Twitter isn't a triumph of technology it's a triumph of humanity. A more conn...
It’s funny! Actually, it isn’t funny it is kind of sad at the number of organizations who still don’t understand the value of social media marketing. I have probably met with a dozen companies, founders and senior level executives who have all said. “I don’t get it” or “Our company isn...
In an announcement made Tuesday at the company HQ by the CEO of Twitter, Evan Williams (@ev), who bought one of the world's most famous domains for just $7,500, Twitter revealed its new look.
If you listen to Gartner then you will get confused. In 2009, Gartner in their Hype Cycle declared that Web 2.0 is the technology which will have transformational impact on enterprise. However, on 2010, Web 2.0 does not even find a place in the Hype Cycle. Since Gartner is sending conf...
Skype, now 70% controlled by private equity house Silver Lake which valued the joint at $2.7 billion when it bought in, wants to go public and raise $100 million. The Internet phone service has 8.1 million customers who pay to make calls to conventional or mobile phones, up from 6.6 mi...
Google has pulled the plug on Google Wave, the real-time browser-based collaborative messaging service nobody knew what to do with so they pretty much just ignored it.
Social media can be a vexing component of the overall marketing effort. On one hand, hundreds of millions of people use it. On the other hand, how does a company make use of it? The power of the network is the number of people on the network itself. The beauty of a popular platform...
While they acknowledge that use of the Internet as a tool for communications can yield both positive and negative effects, a significant majority of technology experts and stakeholders participating in the fourth Future of the Internet survey say it improves social relations and will c...
According to Alexei Oreskovic of Reuters, the purchase of $120M in Facebook stock by Elevation Partners - a private equity firm whose partners include U2 frontman Bono - values the social networking company at a staggering $23BN.
Google has lost the guy who started and led its Chrome OS project to Facebook.
Matthew Papakipos, who joined Google in 2007 when it acquired PeakStream which he founded, tweeted the news Monday morning, saying “Now that Chrome OS & WebGL are in good shape, it’s time for something n...
What is the values proposition for allowing employees access to web 2.0 resources such as social networks?
Every other day, we hear about the risks. Compromised Twitter accounts, phishing via LinkedIn, malicious Facebook apps were only a sample of an every growing landscape. Most ent...
Digg, a leading crowd-sourced content discovery and sharing Internet site, recently enlisted the Cotendo Site Acceleration suite - from Cotendo, an innovative CDN and Site Acceleration Services Provider - to speedily display the nearly 20,000 news and video submissions it receives dai...
Newspapers were published from the 1500s to the 1900s, not by professional journalists but by citizen journalists. Now, with the worldwide movement of citizen journalism, THE CITIZENS ARE BACK!
The idea of citizens writing the news is not a new one. In fact, it is an idea that is a...
In all the discussion about the open graph release by Facebook (more here), I think this is the real point behind the story. Facebook has done an amazing job of using the power of the network effect to build a huge, active and growing user-base. Even without these announcements the com...
On Thursday 25th March 2010, people from an estimated 200 cities across the globe will come together to celebrate and support the second Global Twestival. Defined by Twitter as ‘a way to take part in a global event that transforms lives’, Twestival was created last year by London based...
In the ten years since Real Simple Syndication (RSS) has been invented, it has been one of the most significant technologies that Rodney Dangerfield would say “got no respect.” Providing the connective glue behind most social media, linking various Web sites for automatical...
Social networking may be all the rage, but when it comes to sharing links, content, pictures and ideas—email remains the star. And not just by a little bit. According to a StrongMail study, "fully 86% of sharing activity related to social programs run on [their] platform in Q3 3009 was...
A Nov. 30 article in the Business Journal covered some of our experiences with being a company listed on Wikipedia, and with that listing being challenged. I wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the lessons we learned and provide some simple advice for those of you who would li...
