del.icio.us bookmarks for January 25th through January 28th
These are my links for January 25th through January 28th:
- One of the key selling points for cloud computing is scalability: the ability to handle traffic spikes smoothly without the expense and hassle of adding more dedicated servers. But this week some users of Amazon EC2 are reporting that their apps on the cloud computing service are having problems scaling efficiently, and suggesting that this uneven performance could be due to capacity problems in Amazon’s data centers. - %extended%
- Six in 10 cloud computing customers say that they’ve been able to reduce their IT capital costs, according to a recent survey, in which end users also report that cloud deployments have improved service quality, reduced IT operations costs, and reduced IT management complexity. - %extended%
- “Memeo Connect for Google Apps presents our customers with an attractive option to integrate or migrate all of their files into Google Docs.” Matthew Glotzbach,
Product Management Director, Google. - %extended% - ASHER is a global leader in developing sales strategies that increase profits and decrease turnover. Our team has improved the skills of over 12,000 sales professionals around the world. We specialize in sales and marketing education, strategic planning facilitation and business development process workshops. We also focus on sales aptitude by offering the CPQ, an assessment that helps select candidates ideally suited for sales and coach current team members to greater success. - %extended%
- Cloudslam - %extended%
- The billing industry’s most reliable, flexible and scalable SaaS based on demand tool for accelerating revenue capture while significantly reducing operating costs. - %extended%
- In July 2009, experts predicted that advertising on Facebook would surpass MySpace by 2011. What represents a tectonic shift in social media spend is now anticipated in twenty-ten (2010).
A new report published by eMarketer, “Social Network Ad Spending: 2010 Outlook” documents the major shifts in social network advertising spending that emerged in 2009 and will ultimately unfold in 2010.
- %extended% - Enomaly's Elastic Computing Platform (ECP) is the answer for service providers that want to leverage the power, flexibility, and compelling economics of cloud computing. - %extended%
- Cbeyond is a leading business phone service (VoIP), broadband Internet, mobile voice and data, and IT application service provider built exclusively to serve the communication needs of small businesses. - %extended%
- Imagine everything your company does with a computer - all of your applications, company data, and emails now brought to you with lightning speed from a single, secure, managed data center. All you have to do is simply login and you're ready.
Meet Cloudworks. - %extended% - we look ahead to what we can expect and should plan for in 2010. Here is my list of the top ten trends founders, CEOs, and entrepreneurs of start-up, emerging, and medium-sized businesses should consider as they prepare for the new year. - %extended%
del.icio.us bookmarks for January 15th through January 21st
These are my links for January 15th through January 21st:
- Citrix VDI Solutions. - %extended%
- The ninth book in MSI's Relevant Knowledge Series, Innovation Diffusion and New Product Growth by Eitan Muller, Renana Peres, and Vijay Mahajan, offers a framework for understanding how diffusion occurs in today’s multifaceted and complex markets. In their review of classic and more recent diffusion models, the authors investigate the mechanisms that underlie new product growth—with particular attention to current market trends such as information proliferation, globalization, competition, social networks, and growth in service markets. 128 pages. - %extended%
- Learning how to think critically — how to imaginatively frame questions and consider multiple perspectives — has historically been associated with a liberal arts education, not a business school curriculum, so this change represents something of a tectonic shift for business school leaders. Mr. Martin even describes his goal as a kind of “liberal arts M.B.A.” - %extended%
- SaaS Summit & SIIA OnDemand join forces to create the world's most all-encompassing Cloud Computing event to take place on one stage. - %extended%
- TechCrunch Awards - %extended%
- It's important to remember that Cluetrain in the first place was an expression of rebellion against marketing, and a declaration of liberation from it. Note the voice in "We are not seats or eyeballs or end users or consumers. We are human beings and our reach exceeds your grasp. Deal with it." We were not speaking there as marketers, or as "the audience," or as "consumers," but as ordinary people. - %extended%
del.icio.us bookmarks for January 7th through January 13th
These are my links for January 7th through January 13th:
- “Memeo Connect for Google Apps presents our customers with an attractive option to integrate or migrate all of their files into Google Docs.” - Matthew Glotzbach, Product Management Director, Google. - %extended%
- With server virtualization technology improving data center efficiency and agility, rates of adoption are expected to continue to rise dramatically in 2010. At this summit, leading industry experts, analysts, and end-users will discuss the latest innovations, best practices, barriers to implementation, and measurable benefits of server virtualization with a particular focus on today's real world solutions. - %extended%
- Get your documentation and training resources up on your intranet quickly with our customizable Google Sites templates. These templates come complete with everything you need to help your users make the transition to Google Apps with ease — including quick start guides, switching guides, training videos, and more! Just make a few simple customizations and your site is ready to go. There's no easier way to help your users "Go Google!" - %extended%
- We are a unique, fresh and fun organization on a mission to serve Minnesota’s high tech startup community. By providing local, relevant and timely news, we seek to inform those who want to know more about early stage Minnesota tech ventures. There’s a lot in store for the next 30-60-90 days: we’ll be creating/aggregating news, expanding our team, finalizing our featureset, fixing bugs and building momentum towards a more complete, fully functional product. - %extended%
- Minnebar site for tech startups. - %extended%
- IMNO.org for profit site. - %extended%
- The Academy of Achievement brings students face-to-face with the extraordinary leaders, thinkers and pioneers who have shaped our world. - %extended%
- As the decade I call the twenty-oh's ends, think on what a transformational change we have just all witnessed. Our obsession with the latest product from Google or Apple often clouds our recognition of the long-term effects. We all know where we are. But I think many of us have forgotten where we were, and just how dramatically things have changed in ten short years. - %extended%
del.icio.us bookmarks for December 31st through January 4th
These are my links for December 31st through January 4th:
- Consensus Point customers benefit from Foresight. The power of collective intelligence is delivered by the sophisticated Foresight Platform, which recently reached its sixth feature release. - %extended%
- The good news: 86% of professionals have adopted social media in some way, according to a recent survey by Mzinga and Babson Executive Education.
The bad news: A whopping 84% of survey respondents who’ve adopted social media don’t measure their social media programs.
- %extended% - Cbeyond is a leading business phone service (VoIP), broadband Internet, mobile voice and data, and IT application service provider built exclusively to serve the communication needs of small businesses. We work exclusively with the growing entrepreneurial class of customers, and it shows in everything we do - from our integrated bundle of business-grade phone, Internet, and mobile to our value added applications like Web-Hosting, email, data back-up and security. Cbeyond's value is in its simplicity and superior customer support. - %extended%
- Countless powerpoints and one wayconversations are replaced with participatory two way engagement. This reinvented format encourages all participants to create and exchange leveraging the experience and knowledge of the collective intelligence of the FEI crowd. - %extended%
- Unblab has one main focus: helping you find the messages that matter most. To do this, Unblab has built the Unblab Smart-Cloud, a cloud based web service that uses learning machines to automatically learn your importance preferences. It learns without requiring you to change any of your email habits. - %extended%
- Digital Intuition is a secret. Something sort of like the Da Vinci code, except Tom Hanks isn't involved and no one is trying to kill us. Yet! - %extended%
- With a $1 billion valuation, Twitter is becoming, according to Co-Founder Evan Williams, an information network, a practically priceless exchange for connections, information, and the resulting activity that ensues. - %extended%
- Six months ago I wrote about a startup called Shopkick (it was then called MOBshop). The company won’t disclose much of what their eventual product will be, but they’ve attracted some of the most high profile investors in Silicon Valley: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Reid Hoffman - %extended%
- The majority of future online sales will happen offsite. Customers will be able to shop with brands wherever they happen to be whether they're on YouTube, a favorite blogger web site, or in Facebook. Alvenda is moving commerce forward to these touch points and is generating remarkable sales results. - %extended%
- In the world of business-to-business companies presentations with slides have become a staple for internal and external meetings. Because many of us rely on slides, we often need inspiration and help putting together the perfect deck. Recently I have become a fan of SlideShare.net, a site that allows users to upload and share their slide presentations with others. I have found it a great source for presentations on a wide variety of topics. - %extended%
- Forced Evolution: In the company which has reached the high teens in run rate, the CEO may still have maintained the habit of acting as chief-of-everything. In order for the company to grow, this CEO must reinvent himself and serve his creation in an entirely different manner than was adequate during the early stages. So much of the activities which filled a normal day must be offloaded. An Advisory Board can accelerate this process and help the CEO navigate through a stressful time. - %extended%
- Today's cloud-computing vendors focus on infrastructure, but that won't be the case for long. It can't be. As competing vendors seek to differentiate themselves, they're going to move "up the stack" into applications. - %extended%
- To get started offering your own cloud computing services (such as hosted applications), there are two intertwined elements that solutions providers need to put into place. The first is implementing a service delivery platform (SDP). The second fundamental element involves a cloud infrastructure. Here are some more tips for VARs and service providers. - %extended%
- Discussions about testing and building private cloud computing systems at large enterprises and midrange companies consumed time and energy for many IT decision-makers in 2009. According to most industry analysts, a growing number of IT managers and C-level executives already have carved out some of next year's budget to devote to internal cloud computing testing, hardware, software, services and licenses. - %extended%
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- New Years Day is a time for thinking ahead to a new year and decade. But first, a look back. For me, the Internet started in 1994 with Netscape. - %extended%
- Bill Gates once derided open source advocates with the worst epithet a capitalist can muster. These folks, he said, were a "new modern-day sort of communists," a malevolent force bent on destroying the monopolistic incentive that helps support the American dream. Gates was wrong: Open source zealots are more likely to be libertarians than commie pinkos. - %extended%
del.icio.us bookmarks for December 18th through December 30th
These are my links for December 18th through December 30th:
- Plancast is a service for sharing your upcoming plans with friends. It's a social calendar of sorts. Just submit the things you're thinking about doing in the future, and your friends will be able to hear about them - and maybe join you, too! - %extended%
- Laptop skins for netbooks. - %extended%
- The video, posted this week, features the entire staff of St Vincent’s Medical Center in Portland, Oregon donning pink gloves and dancing for Breast Cancer Awareness. As the grand-daughter of a Breast Cancer survivor, I thought the video was touching. - %extended%
- Meet with local people to discuss and show-and-tell new technology. Looking for individuals interested in pursuing Cloud computing, hosted solutions and dynamic grid based computing. Vendors and End users welcome.
Specifically looking to focus on how people in the commercial sector are looking to use cloud based services - %extended% - Love graphics, love creating, love sharing.
Graduated from BA Graphic Media Communication, here i loved illustration and was fascinated by concrete poetry
- %extended% - For those of you who are not familiar with Naked Pizza it’s an all natural pizza place in New Orleans that actually makes pizza that’s good for you. What’s interesting is that Naked Pizza has been using social media tools such as twitter and facebook to reach out to customers and to generate a positive ROI from their efforts (yes dollars). - %extended%
- 451 CloudScape is an interdisciplinary research and advisory program from the 451 Group and Tier1 Research, providing detailed insight, advice and analysis targeting cloud practitioners. - %extended%
- Via Patrick Dubois comes two examples. The first, above, is a graphic timeline with a couple of charts. A stickler for infographics would point out that the heights of the charts don't really correspond to any data–surely there's a way to fudge that with an axis, and make them into real graphs (this also illustrates the pitfalls of graphing your resume for a bunch of design geeks–the design better be tight). But nonetheless, it all works well enough - %extended%
- AKR Interactive is a full service internet application, software and multimedia development company, with expertise in social media, user experience, exhibit installation, marketing, content development, business process, branding, and graphic design. Our principals have a combined experience of over 30 years in delivering award winning solutions for business, non-profit, artistic and civil society institutions. - %extended%
- iLoop Mobile is the leader in mobile technology and services that make mobile marketing and mobile content delivery fast, easy and compelling. - %extended%
del.icio.us bookmarks for November 2nd through December 18th
These are my links for November 2nd through December 18th:
- In case you missed it, last year was the inaugural Glue conference (a.k.a., “gluecon”). We set out to explore the set of issues that exist once you assume that the move to “the cloud” has occurred. What we found is that, even though we thought we had started to dig in, we hadn’t even scratched the surface. So, even though gluecon attendees left happy, they still left with a sense of “clamoring for more” - more developers, more protocols, more in-depth explorations of APIs, more technically advanced content, more more and more. - %extended%
- When Josh Kopelman and I first spoke about me joining First Round Capital, we talked a lot about alignment of interests—what First Round Capital was interested in with regards to investing in New York City, and also what my interests were with respect to my own career. - %extended%
- Mahesh will be talking on marketing in real-time, using Twitter and other tools. At Pinstorm, we believe marketers today have no option but to use advanced technology and old-fashioned creative thinking to manage brand perceptions on a minute-to-minute basis. - %extended%
- Directory Manager 1.0 is the first module in SherpaTools for Google Apps. Providing a familiar interface, it allows administrators to easily manage User Profiles and Shared Contacts in the Google Apps directory. You can now easily manage important contact fields like phone number, job titles, birthdays and a host of other information. Directory Manager also allows you to import and export data in bulk from a Google Docs spreadsheet. - %extended%
- Google has achieved so much, it's hard to imagine they would need advice from anyone. But, just as star athletes turn to coaches to help them stay at the top of their game, Google asked David to speak about what he knows best: GTD. - %extended%
