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Mobile Computing is Giving Social Media a Redesign
In today's technology-driven society, we're using cell phones to do just about anything, from chatting with Grandma to watching Monday Night Football highlights. When we're constantly on-the-go, it's no wonder forgetting to grab our cell phone is kind of like forgetting to pick up the kids from daycare (yikes!).
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Date: 2008-10-31
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Online Holiday Spending To Remain Steady
The impact of the credit crunch is expected to effect holiday shopping but projected consumer spending online remains steady at $100 - $250 on average, according to the eBillme Online Spending Index, a quarterly survey about consumer online spending.
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Date: 2008-10-31
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The Great October Crash
"The Great October Crash 08" is one of the most important events for all economists and financiers across the globe to study and understand the implications on various other sectors of businesses. There are tough times ahead for all businesses and the rock bottom world economy isn't also helping the cause.
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Date: 2008-10-30
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Test Cases in Your Browser with Selenium
One of the hardest things to do is build out automated test cases for testing the security of your web server. Building out test harnesses is a pain to do, but something that needs to be done not just to stress your web server, but to check on conditionals and security flaws or even not called API strings within the confines of the web server.
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Date: 2008-10-30
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Book Review: You Can't Win If You Don't Enter
Contests are a way for for companies to attract and keep customers, pure and simple, writes professional contestant Carolyn Wilman in her fun and informative book You Can't Win If You Don't Enter: Canadian Edition. The author describes how to run contests to attract potential customers, and also shares very detailed techniques for entering and winning contests.
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Date: 2008-10-30
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Tips To Improve Your SEO Ranking
We continue our series of weekly SEO basics questions and answer today with a question that acknowledges the value of approaching search engine optimization holistically, but indicates a desire to keep things simple and focus on the basics.
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Date: 2008-10-30
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The Value Of Solution Based ERP Offerings
A few years ago I performed an onsite ERP software demo for a small manufacturer. It was a good demonstration, the people were nice, and it seemed like a good functional fit. I left feeling positive about the day and positive about the company. The company eventually purchased our ERP software, implemented, and they are now part of our user base. During the implementation process one of our executives asked the decision makers why they selected Enterprise 21. The answer was that we demonstrated an industry solution, not just software. And that instead of arriving with a generic demonstration, we provided examples and terminology for their industry and their business.
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Date: 2008-10-30
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Data Management Continuum Guidance
All data follows a lifecycle from initial creation and storage, to protection and retention, and each of these phases has differing and unique requirements. Thus there should be a range of storage devices and processes to address these varying requirements. For example, enterprise devices, while having higher redundancy and performance are not as flexible as mid-range arrays and represent a higher cost per GB of capacity.
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Date: 2008-10-29
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A Gaming System for Hardcore Software Developers and Early Adopters
Linux based EVO gaming console is set to be launched on November 18 by Envizons Computer Entertainment. Play Station 3 is an out-and-out gaming console and therefore would be able to run Linux based applications effortlessly. The target market of this gaming system would be the hardcore software developers and the early adopters. Linux would mainly act as a liaison which would be used to control the EVO system and make it look more like a home computer than just a gaming gadget.
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Date: 2008-10-29
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Emerging Threat Trends for 2009
The Georgia Tech Information Security Center has released what its trends an indicators are for emerging information security threats for 2009. Unfortunately, these are all things we have been battling for years and just not winning.
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Date: 2008-10-29
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Focus Your Time on The Prize
One thing that I have learned over the past month is how to effectively use my time. As a result of pledging a fraternity combined with midterms and various projects I have had no spare time to post on this blog or to keep up with my other affiliate marketing projects I was working on. Thankfully I have survived pledging and now I am in the process of recouping my time, and I noticed that despite today being by far my busiest day, I have gotten a massive amount of work done.
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Date: 2008-10-29
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Considered All Integration Issues Swithch to SaaS
Not surprisingly, SaaS vendors have decided there's no time like the present to make a full court sales press. In a down economy with slashed IT budgets, when there's no tolerance for 18-month software implementations and the price tags for on-premise software from Oracle and maintenance fees from SAP applications are not falling, software-as-a-service and cloud computing offerings become more attractive options for businesses.
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Date: 2008-10-29
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Gmail for mobile 2.0
Google officially announced about Gmail V2.0 for Mobile Launcher… This new version is geared up with several features that support J2ME and BlackBerry phones and is available in 35 languages.
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Date: 2008-10-28
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Where You Should Put Links on Your WebSite
All of our search engine optimization tips meant to be very specific, they should not take a lot of time to fix or review (to check to see if you are following the search engine optimization best practices), and will be rather "short and sweet" and directly to the point.
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Date: 2008-10-28
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Establishing Priority for Search Marketing
Whether you are an in-house search marketing strategist at a large organization or you're an agency who has a search marketing champion, there is a common barrier that you will consistently come across: Establishing priority for search marketing in conjunction with getting buy-in from required stake holders. Below I have outlined 5 ways you can push search marketing strategies along more effectively within big corporations.
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Date: 2008-10-28
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In The Internet Marketing Industry? Listen Up!
In my day job, I consult with companies classified as SMBs (small and medium businesses) regarding their Internet marketing efforts. Many of these companies are a bit skittish these days regarding the adoption and implementation of Internet marketing. There are any number of reasons including the economy and lack of understanding of the Internet and its benefits. I think there is one reason that might actually be inadvertently perpetuated by the industry itself: being intimidated by the "hugeness" of Internet marketing.
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Date: 2008-10-28
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Content Management News Update
Fierce Content Management is a weekly content management news update, which focuses on best practices for creating, storing and managing documents and information. The site says there are 23,000+ IT managers and executives who get Fierce Content Management via weekly email.
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Date: 2008-10-28
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Entellium says Goodbye
The software industry often expounds that you are 1st, 2nd or 3rd in your category or simply out of business. The question I pose is whether the announcement that Entellium, makers of Rave CRM, has closed its doors, is an early warning of more fallout to come in the CRM space.
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Date: 2008-10-27
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Concentrate on Quality over Quantity
There's an old saying that too many cooks spoil the broth. This is equally true for businesses, particularly smaller ones. While it's essential to grow to continue early success, it's also important to keep realistic with your aims.
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Date: 2008-10-27
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How to Remove Google's Unsafe Display on Your Site
You may have seen "This site may harm your computer" in Google search results - but what does it mean? If you click the search result link you get another warning page instead of the website you were expecting. But if the web page was your grandmother's baking blog, you're still confused. Surely your grandmother hasn't been secretly honing her l33t computer hacking skills at night school. Google must have made a mistake and your grandmother's web page is just fine…
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Date: 2008-10-27
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Protect your WordPress without Akismet
Some web hosts do not allow for plugins such as Akismet to function properly. This is because they turn off the PHP function fsockopen for security reasons. When they do this, any plugin that connects to an outside source doesn't function correctly. The biggest issue then is the inflow of spam.
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Date: 2008-10-23
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Create Online FlowCharts with Mind Maps
With a host of projects to complete for clients, how do you capture your ideas? A platform I use is software for mind mapping is Mindgenius as you can integrate your mind map into a Word document, a PowerPoint presentation,save as a PDF or even a web page.
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Date: 2008-10-23
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How To Pitch An Email
We've all, at some point, received the "request-for-a-link" email. Such emails are useless, on a number of levels, the main reason being that the offer is lousy. However, such emails also tend to get the pitch wrong, so further limit the chances of getting the link. Getting the pitch right - the way the offer is described - is a bit of an art.
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Date: 2008-10-23
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C++ Criticisms Mobilize Fan Base
C++ is under attack, and instead of some random individual, well-known programmer and author Eric Raymond is the person conducting it. We'll cover his assessment, then, along with some of the numerous rebuttals and an overall effect that's surprisingly positive.
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Date: 2008-10-23
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SEO Tip: Check Your Reputation and Links Often
This is search engine optimization tip number seventeen in our continuing series of tips from SEO company Vizion Interactive. All of our search engine optimization tips are very specific, shouldn't take much time to fix or review (to check to see if you are following the search engine optimization best practices), and will be rather "short and sweet" and directly to the point.
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Date: 2008-10-22
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Linux Gets a FireStarter
Irrespective of the operating system, intrusion is one of the key concerns for computers connected to a network. Firewalls, as a matter of fact provide a resistance to this, if not a fool proof protection.
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Date: 2008-10-22
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Learning the Basics of Website Building
Google has decided that it will make all the webmasters and users learn the basics of the internet-world from the beginning itself! According to a recent blog at the Official Google Webmaster Blog, Google elaborated on the fact that it would answer all the queries (no matter how small it is) for its users!
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Date: 2008-10-22
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Start up Investors are Still out There
A number of early stage investment outfits have popped up over the last few years, making what would amount to tiny investments in as many as a dozen companies at one time and then recouping their investment plus some as those companies mature and either build viable revenue models or become acquisition targets of other related businesses.
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Date: 2008-10-22
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Think Greener When Building Links
This is the first post about thinking greener when building links. This post is about understanding different types of links plus when and why the different types of links will be important depending on what type of site you are building links for. The second post, to follow, will be about the three "R's" of link building: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle links.
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Date: 2008-10-21
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Make Your Site Actionable
One thing to keep in mind when digging into your analytics data is whether or not your research has the possibility of causing you to do something. Many pundits like to refer to this as making it actionable. I think this is a pretty good way of expressing it.
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Date: 2008-10-21
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The Gentle Art of Persuasion
We spend a lot of time thinking about how to get visitors to our sites, but how much time do we spend thinking about better ways to persuade people once they've arrived? Such topics are often talked about in terms of conversion and split/run testing. However, I'm like to talk talking about something a little more subtle.
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Date: 2008-10-21
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Customizing Microsoft Word On a Mac
I don't know what's changed, but in the past, when I wanted to see revisions and changes to a document in Microsoft Word on my Mac it showed me what was inserted and deleted. Now, however, it has zillions of little balloons on the side of the document. What the heck? How do I change Microsoft Word so revision tracking shows up the way I prefer?
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Date: 2008-10-21
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3D Environment For Business Collaboration
A news item Shel and I discussed a report in the Wall Street Journal's Technology Blog about a partnership Linden Lab, the developer of Second Life, is announcing this week with Rivers Run Red, a developer of content, applications and tools for virtual worlds like Second Life:
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Date: 2008-10-21
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SQL Loyalty and Competition
MySQL's Kaj Arno has an interesting post titled: "On Loyalty, Competition and Underdogs". Kaj starts with his son's list of reasons to stay with Bayern Munchen, the longtime favorite, or why to switch to TSV 1860, two German soccer/football teams. Kaj then draws parallels to the Oracle or MySQL question.
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Date: 2008-10-21
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February Perl Conference Planned
Make no mistake about how cold things will be during this conference; we're talking about Minnesota in early February, and the daily lows and highs should be around 10 F and 30 F, respectively. But for the hearty and winter-loving individuals out there, Frozen Perl 2009 promises to be an interesting event.
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Date: 2008-10-21
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Does Your link Source Pass Pagerank
Due to the rough scale of PageRank, outdated toolbar PageRank scores, hand editing of toolbar PageRank, and a variety of other factors, it is somewhat hard to get confirmation from Google if a link source passes PageRank. The slow way to test is to make 1 link be the only link you point at a site and then let it age for a few months. Then, if a toolbar PageRank score appears it probably passed PageRank.
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Date: 2008-10-21
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Skillsets for SOA Developers
I have discussed the role of the SOA Evangelist and the importance of the architects. Today I will discuss the different developer roles and the characteristics that make a successful SOA developer.
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Date: 2008-10-20
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Do Customers Prefer Live Agents?
Randy Saunders had a great post over on the Perfect Customer Experience -Can I please speak with a live agent? In it he has a great quote: Forester's study finds that 45 percent of consumers prefer to speak with a customer service agent to answer questions and resolve service issues, yet most walk away from customer service agent interactions disillusioned, disappointed, and disgruntled.
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Date: 2008-10-20
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Protecting Your Company's Brand
I often have a hard time convincing clients that they need to buy additional domain names to protect their brand. I even give them a list of all the domains I could think of that we think will help with brand protection. Unfortunately, I have nobody doing that for me!
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Date: 2008-10-20
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The Community and Communications Professionals Social Tools
Twitter is nothing short of a phenomenon. At the very least, it connects people to each other through a rich and active exchange of ideas, thoughts, observations, and vision in one, highly conducive ecosystem (known as the Twitterverse). The social fibers that weave together this unique micromedia network is strengthened by the expertise, respect, trust, admiration, and commonalities. These fabrics bind the people who breathe life and personality into the global community as well as fueling the disparate micro communities that ultimately extend across the Long Tail.
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Date: 2008-10-20
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Planning and Intergration of On-Premise Applications Via Cloud
Here are several excerpts from an informative article by Mathew Schwartz, Integrating Your Cloud And On-Premises Applications: Most small and midsize businesses are eyeing one or more software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, yet have already made numerous investments in on-premises software. And despite the potential cost upsides of making the move to SaaS, one crucial success factor for running part or all of your business in the cloud is going to be the ability to tie cloud computing applications to on-premises systems.
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Date: 2008-10-20
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Economy in Trouble Search Marketing can Help
Hey, did you hear that the economy is in trouble? Of course, if you didn't know it you have either A) chosen to ignore it B) are just numb from the onslaught of doomsday talk or C) have your head comfortably buried in the sand. I do not have any magic elixir for you. Whether you are a business owner who uses search marketing services, an Internet marketing services provider, or consultant, you are faced with an interesting paradox. Despite the great industry that search and Internet marketing has always been, there is simply no guarantee that anyone will be able to capitalize on it in these conditions. Here's why.
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Date: 2008-10-17
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The Top 10 Most Common ASP.NET Mistakes
At work I've come to realize that I don't always produce code that just work. I make mistakes and often forget to test properly before I sign off a task. So I talked to our test lead and asked him to compile a list of the most common issues he finds when testing my work. I then printed out the list and hung it on the wall next to my desk as a checklist to go through whenever I think a task is done.
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Date: 2008-10-17
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Broken Business Processes due to E-mail Overload
E-mail overload is the leading cause of preventable productivity loss in organizations today. Basex Research recently estimated that businesses lose $650 billion annually in productivity due to unnecessary e-mail interruptions. And the average number of corporate e-mails sent and received per person per day are expected to reach over 228 by 2010.
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Date: 2008-10-17
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Windows XP Combats Pirated Software with the Black Screen of Death
Microsoft introduced WGA when Vista was launched. For those who are not aware of what WGA is all about. WGA is a mechanism used by Microsoft to detect pirated and non-genuine installations of Windows but as all Microsoft product it also has a problem which is while it's been good at detecting non-genuine installs of Windows, it can sometimes incorrectly flag a genuine install as non-genuine and sorting this out can be tedious and time consuming and even Microsoft tech support acknowledges that WGA can sometimes be wrong.
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Date: 2008-10-17
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How to Stop Google Translator
There are official specifications for the HTML language which are provided by the World Wide Web consortium. And then there's more spontaneous additions to the language which are not part of the HTML specs (though they may or may not validate as HTML).
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Date: 2008-10-15
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Upcoming Teradata Product Unveiled
We know, we know - the economy sucks (the Dow's down 450 points at the moment), and unless a product can spit out gold bricks, you don't want to buy anything new. Still, Teradata Corporation has just announced the Teradata 13.0 database, and the thing seems to be worth a second look.
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Date: 2008-10-15
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How to Keep Growing During Tough Times
With the economy going down the tubes, many small businesses are suffering slowdowns right now. Yet my own, ongoing business success shows it doesn't have to be that way. So what do you need to do to make sure your business keeps growing when times are tough?
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Date: 2008-10-14
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Sharepoint Integration With CMS
Many Web Content Management Systems (CMS) vendors have spent the last year trying to differentiate on SharePoint integration, but the results have been mixed, according to new research from CMS Watch, an independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies.
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Date: 2008-10-14
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Wireless Network Security Takes A Hit
Fair warning, everyone: due to the work of a Russian security company called ElcomSoft, wireless networks are looking rather less safe than they have in the past. ElcomSoft's researchers claim to have sped up the process of cracking WPA and WPA2 keys by a factor of up to 100.
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Date: 2008-10-13
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Making Your Resume Stand Out
Since the economy is slowing down, I'm hearing of lots of you who are getting laid off and looking for jobs. Here's my experience on the other side of that - being someone who is trying to hire someone.
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Date: 2008-10-13
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iPhone NDAs Dissolved
You have to figure that it's a little bit hard to have a good relationship with someone who keeps your mouth taped shut. So in what several groups of people are sure to consider a smart move, Apple has done away with the nondisclosure agreements it used to make iPhone developers stay quiet.
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Date: 2008-10-09
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SME Owners Still Going Strong
If there's one thing that you can guarantee the media to do, it's over-exaggerate. Coming from someone in PR, this might sound a bit like the pot calling the kettle black (although I'd like to think I've never been one of those public relation stereotypes that succumbs to hyperbole in every sentence). The current economic woes that we're all facing is a prime example.
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Date: 2008-10-07
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Stay Focused on One Task at a Time
If you're one of those rare entrepreneurs that has the discipline to stay reasonably focused on what you should be working on, feel free to skip the rest of this article with the comforting knowledge that you have my admiration and envy.
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Date: 2008-10-07
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What is the Point of Free Software?
I am quite frankly baffled why a huge company like Google would pay a bunch of programmers to develop yet another web browser, when we have Internet Explorer for Windows from Microsoft, Safari for Mac OS X from Apple, and the great third-party Firefox free web browser for both Mac and PC. What am I not seeing about companies that pay to develop software and then distribute it without charge?
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Date: 2008-10-03
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Why Do Companies Give Away Software for Free?
I am quite frankly baffled why a huge company like Google would pay a bunch of programmers to develop yet another web browser, when we have Internet Explorer for Windows from Microsoft, Safari for Mac OS X from Apple, and the great third-party Firefox free web browser for both Mac and PC. What am I not seeing about companies that pay to develop software and then distribute it without charge?
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Date: 2008-10-03
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Europe Leads In Supply Chain Advances
Europe jumped ahead of North America and Asia Pacific in reaching significant cost reductions, revenue gains and sustainability improvements through supply chain advancements, according to the 2008 Global Survey of Supply Chain Progress from CSC, Supply Chain Management Review, the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and Michigan State University.
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Date: 2008-10-03
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Perltidy Offers Reformatting Help
Take a look at any car that's littered with empty coke bottles and mangled takeout bags. Or any desk that's covered with bent pieces of paper and a dozen redundancies in terms of office supplies. Being neat is so much better, and Perltidy aims to help Perl experts achieve that state.
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Date: 2008-10-03
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Optimizing Site Search for Your Visitors
Back in August of this year, while at Search Engine Strategies in San Jose, I sat in a session where one of the speakers talked about site search. He said something that I fundamentally disagree with but it got me thinking about why you should or should not implement a search feature on your own site.
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Date: 2008-10-02
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Making Your Own Site Search Better
Back in August of this year, while at Search Engine Strategies in San Jose, I sat in a session where one of the speakers talked about site search. He said something that I fundamentally disagree with but it got me thinking about why you should or should not implement a search feature on your own site.
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Date: 2008-10-02
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Oracle Introduces Social CRM
Things like MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter have proven to be extraordinarily popular and frequently useful. It's social sites and applications like these, really, which led to the term "Web 2.0." And now Oracle's seeking to bridge a gap and benefit from the phenomenon by introducing what it calls Social CRM.
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Date: 2008-10-02
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Responding to Online Criticism
It's interesting how issues seem to come at you in waves. Some are like rolling thunder beginning as far back as you can see from the shore. Others are like sneaker waves, crashing over you and knocking you down with full force.
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Date: 2008-10-01
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Digital Illiteracy Discrimination Hitting Europe
Only a few years ago I remember starting to develop my business and being frustrated with the lack of broadband coverage in the area I was living in in Ireland, especially as some of the development programmes I was attending required me to download from the Internet large presentations and audio files.
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Date: 2008-10-01
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C Books On Top In India
Remember the Tom Clancy years? Or maybe Stephen King's string of successes? Although that second example isn't a great one, a look at book sales can be a good way of judging what concerns or interests a nation. And it seems that variants of the C programming language are proving quite popular in India.
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Date: 2008-10-01
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