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Live: Mashable Monthly

6:30 p.m. The blogger lounge is loaded with pizza, cupcakes, and Fiji water. Pete Cashmore's sending off party is hosted at Roe in San Francisco, and the place is filling up. I got to work quickly and made friends with the representatives from Artiklz. ...

Tags: Cupcake, Flickr, Pete Cashmore, Strands, Blogging, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Mashable Monthly debuts in San Francisco

Pete Cashmore's social media news blog is known for covering stories about the ever changing web and how to better interact with it, but it also has an offline presence. Mashable's founder likes to travel around the country and meet the folks that read his blog. This is a rare...

Tags: Blog, Social Media, Video, Pete Cashmore, Corporate Communications, Blogging, Marketing, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-23

Additional Resources

Transcript: PDC08 Keynote – Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson

Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet;  Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething — and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...

Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-27

MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Silverlight and Facebook With Pete Brown (Level 200)

The geekSpeak webcast series brings the industry experts in a "talk-radio" format hosted by developer evangelists from Microsoft. The presenter of this webcast shows how to build Facebook social platform applications using Microsoft Silverlight 2 and ASP.NET.

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Facebook, Microsoft Silverlight, Webcast, Microsoft Corp.

Webcasts 2008-10-22

Snooping on wired keyboards overhyped

Snooping on wired keyboards overhypedNot worried todayBut 5 or 10 years from now it may be a different story. So keyboard makes had better take this into consideration for future products.Not really worriedNot really worried - it's a pretty short distance, and you're right, it looks like pretty ideal and...

Tags: Keyboards, Ludo, keyboard, Snooping

Discussion threads 2008-10-21

Sony recalls 'LittleBigplanet' over Koran passages

Sony recalls 'LittleBigplanet' over Koran passagesAnd "singing" about death, etc., only offends Muslims?So the rest of "us" shouldn't be offended by these passages why?RE: Sony recalls 'LittleBigplanet' over Koran passagesThese are the facts.Firstly.even though you aren't dead now, we will each of us die. probably not together like dinosaurs, but...

Tags: Games, Koran, Koran passage, LittleBigPlanet, Sony Corp., game, dirt

Discussion threads 2008-10-20

Profiting from Contagion

With the global financial contagion continuing to spread today, forcing the 'invisible hand of the market' to roll up multiple titans of industry into single defensive units against the credit crunch, the frothier end of the tech scene parties on. The fall tech conference season is...

Tags: Innovation, Train, Financial, Compartment, Dennis Howlett, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-09-17

A Myriad of Microblogging Options...

The Microblogging world just got more complicated with Yammer winning the Pop Idol/American Idol style knock out ‘TechCrunch 50" competition, in which "52 of the best startups launched their products in front of the industry's most influential venture capitalists, corporations, fellow entrepreneurs, and press", along with a substantial...

Tags: Twitter, Yammer, ESME, Blogging, E-mail, Corporate Communications, Instant Messaging, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Groupware, Web Services, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-09-10

StatusHQ: another Twitter clone for enterprise

  Twitter clones are starting to come out the woodwork. The latest candidate is StatusHQ, which surfaced last Friday and which my pal Luis Suarez describes as: "What Twitter could have been." Maybe, maybe not. The central premise behind StatusHQ is that individuals can...

Tags: Twitter, StatusHQ, Susan, Pete, UI, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Sarbanes-Oxley, Business Structures, RSS, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Internet, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-01

Web archiving enterprises: keep trying

Web archiving enterprises: keep tryingMSN VistaDrive is Coming!VistaDrive and the MS Cloud will radically change all computing! Steve talks about it:http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.comNot nice to dis your mom in public...[i]Normally when saving a page like this, it’ll come out as an array of absolute mess and formatting turns out looking like my...

Tags: Business intelligence, Web archiving enterprise, archiving enterprise, archiving, Web

Discussion threads 2008-08-24

Enterprise 2.0 Conference notebook

Ironically this week has probably been my most offline in months - Sprint failed the brand new Westin Hotel in Boston disastrously with terrible or non existent wifi service. It was a real shame because Jive Software had an instance of Clearspace for the conference attendee community and there was...

Tags: Security, Notebook, Collaboration, Environment, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Wireless LANs, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-12

Will it work with Office?

Will it work with Office?Very little need for training with Open OfficeI think you can safely go for Open Office all the way. I think that only very little training will be needed. The user interface of Open Office has been designed to pose as small a barrier as possible,...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Workforce management, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, training, OOo, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-11

The newspaper's last stand

Interesting news today...or was it yesterday? I have no idea. I got off an eleven hour flight from Johannesburg this morning, and then had to race to the US embassy to get more visa pages in my passport because I've managed to fill every available visa slot with stamps, causing...

Tags: Newspaper, CBS Broadcasting Inc., London Underground, Consumption Habit, E-books, Internet, Personal Technology, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Google and Salesforce.com: Why don't they merge?

Google and Salesforce.com: Why don't they merge?There are compelling arguments in favor ...as I speculated last year during all the chatter in the run-up to the original announcement of Salesforce's alliance with Google:http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=334But would Google be willing to pay so much? (it would have to be quite a bit more...

Tags: Sales force management, Google Inc., Salesforce.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-04-14

Google: App Engine 'not fit for business'

We pundits are getting carried away with ourselves, it seems. I caught up with Google App Engine product manager Pete Koomen a couple of hours ago and he told me quite categorically that App Engine is targeting consumer-focused applications, and not the business market: "A couple of the restrictions...

Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Koomen, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-04-11

ProtoTest readying open source commercial alternative to IBM Rational, HP's Mercury tools

One startup I bumped into at OSBC is quietly carving out a solid if not sexy open source niche -- in automated test tools. ProtoTest, a services provider in Centennial, Colo., plans to launch later this year its first commercial software product based on the open source...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Tool, IBM Corp., ProtoTest, Selenium, Selenium IDE, Productivity, Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-03-27

NYPhilkids.org - what an educational website should be

I recently had the opportunity to meet one of the developers of NYPhilkids.org, a slick website devoted to musical education from the New York Philharmonic. While the site is hardly meant to replace a Juilliard education (even though the site developer just happens to have a degree from the...

Tags: Shockwave, Web Site, Site, Web Site Development, Apple Mac OS X, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-03-16

Microsoft presses on regardless with OOXML SDK

Microsoft presses on regardless with OOXML SDKExcellent!And yeah, some MS bashers will whine, the rest of the world will move ahead.SpiteCan you really call it spite if people oppose a standard that actually contains a company's product's name? Seems like a fair enough objection to me.I'm Shocked![i]Durusau has an interesting...

Tags: Quality, Microsoft Corp., OOXML, OOXML SDK, SDK

Discussion threads 2008-03-13

The trade-offs in mental health parity

The U.S. House, for the first time, has passed a bill giving mental health insurance parity with physical health. (The picture is of sponsor Patrick Kennedy from a 2005 briefing for Friends of NIDA.) But a look at blogger reaction shows the trade-offs here...

Tags: Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-07

Frog Hunt (exe)

Frog Hunt is not the best game there is. As a matter of fact it's probably the worst, but that's OK since that's the whole point. See it as an experiment in game design or as an example of what happens if you mess with the fundamental laws of gameplay....

Tags: Frog Hunt, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-01-31