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Find Friends On Google+
Google+ is spreading-expanding and reaching out at a rate that is maddening. Everybody, who's anybody, is on Google+. So are you, and you are faced with two questions, related totally to the 'social' part of G+:
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Date: 2011-07-28
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Last Friday of July
System administrators everywhere know what the last friday of July is. All the rest of the year, we spend our time getting the infrastructure to behave in an orderly manner. Most of us system administrators often get treated as though we only keep the Internet up, and the replacement hardware and software installed. However, for the past eleven years people have been trying to bring more recognition to the plight of the SysAdmin by designating the last friday in July as System Administrator appreciation day. A day to engage the system administrators you know, without having a problem that needs to be fixed first.
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Date: 2011-07-28
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Don't Forget The Small Details
When you deal with big projects, it is often easy to overlook small things along the way. It's not that anyone is cutting corners, but rather some small detail gets overlooked. Sometimes even the smallest details can matter a great deal!
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Date: 2011-07-27
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Is Your Web Site Failing? This May Be Why
The world of business is rapidly shifting to online business and marketing. Companies are seeing the cost benefit in introducing site-specific sales and online promotions. All you have to do is have someone that's monitoring the site and you can do the work of hundreds of employees through a single source. The problem arise, however, when a company thinks they're going to be successful simply because the have a web site. This is most definitely not the case. Though the costs of doing business online are cheaper, it still takes forethought and careful planning if a site is ever going to be successful. If yours isn't, these are some of the reasons your site is probably failing:
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Date: 2011-07-26
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MySQL Runs the Web
Not only is the LAMP software stack the most common web implementation, but MySQL is also built into the leading CMS engines: WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, phpBB, and others. It is used by the largest websites in the world: Google, Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia, and Flickr. When looking at database architectures, SQL is here to stay, and of them MySQL will continue to run the web.
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Date: 2011-07-26
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Google+ Tips- Know Who Removed You From Their Circles
Google+ is all about finding friends, connecting with them and Adding them to your 'Circles' and being added to their 'Circles'. There is no concept of a 'friend request' here. Just people and circles. So, the big question, 'how do you know someone has removed you from their circles?' There is a way, and you will get notified immediately, when that happens. Below is the 'How?'
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Date: 2011-07-26
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Who Has Removed You From Their Google Circles?
Google+ is all about finding friends, connecting with them and Adding them to your 'Circles' and being added to their 'Circles'. There is no concept of a 'friend request' here. Just people and circles. So, the big question, 'how do you know someone has removed you from their circles?' There is a way, and you will get notified immediately, when that happens. Below is the 'How?'
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Date: 2011-07-26
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Social Media Feedback As Customer Prophecy
My wife and I decided to celebrate for no particular reason at a favorite restaurant. When my wife went to the restroom, I checked-in on Foursquare to pass the time. When I "checked in" to this location, I was surprised and delighted to see a review from one of my best friends pop up on my screen. What a coincidence. He had been to the same restaurant within the same week. Here was his review:
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Date: 2011-07-25
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Echo Global App Improves SCM Agility
Keeping track of shipments is essential to managing supply chains. Supply chain managers succeed and fail based on their ability to quickly respond to the ebb and flow of demand. In the rapidly changing economy it is difficult to keep up with the high volume of information without the help of technology. Echo Global's new free mobile application hopes to give needed visibility to managers for tracking shipments.
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Date: 2011-07-22
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36 Resources To Help You Teach Kids Programming
As a parent, I am always looking at what my children are learning and what they like. As a software developer, I hope that my daughters embrace their inner geek one day and get involved with technology. That being said, I was wondering at what age kids should learn programming and what resources there are to teach kids programming.
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Date: 2011-07-21
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What Age Should Kids Learn Programming And Development?
As a parent, I am always looking at what my children are learning and what they like. As a software developer, I hope that my daughters embrace their inner geek one day and get involved with technology. That being said, I was wondering at what age kids should learn programming and what resources there are to teach kids programming.
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Date: 2011-07-21
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Debunking Popular Myths of Social Media
Social media is many things to many people. For some, it's a core part of their overall business and marketing strategy. For others, it's a key player in driving traffic to their blog. For others, it's a new toy they're just beginning to play with. And for some, it's about as interesting as pond moss.
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Date: 2011-07-20
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Social Media Myths
Social media is many things to many people. For some, it's a core part of their overall business and marketing strategy. For others, it's a key player in driving traffic to their blog. For others, it's a new toy they're just beginning to play with. And for some, it's about as interesting as pond moss.
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Date: 2011-07-20
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What Is (A) Community?
While a rather fascinating and inspiring conversation is developing nicely further on over in Google Plus, around a recent blog entry that my good friend Euan Semple published over at his blog under the title "Ten ways to create a knowledge ecology" (A superb piece of writing that, by the way, I can strongly recommend you all have a look and read it through as well, in case you haven't done it just yet, as I do believe it's probably one of the best articles published this year around the social transformation that businesses need to go through in order to become and live social, and help prepare for that knowledge ecology that Euan hints so nicely), the topic of communities and gardening communities through community managers (Or community facilitators) came up again and I thought I would go ahead and share with you folks this quick blog post where I can reference a rather interesting and very thought-provoking short video clip that tries to answer the question we have all been trying to answer all along: What is (a) community?
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Date: 2011-07-20
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Google Ad Extensions with Mona Elesseily
For the last 12 years, Mona Elesseily has focused on paid search strategy and conversion improvement. In her career, she has significantly improved campaign performance for brands such as Capital One, CareerBuilder.com, Cathay Pacific and The Jimmy Pattison Group to name a few. She regularly speaks at Canadian, US and international online marketing events on paid search, landing page optimization, ad copy creation and integrated online marketing strategy. Some of the events Mona presents at include Search Engine Strategies (SES), Search Marketing Expo (SMX), Ad:Tech, Shop.org, the International Marketing Conference (IMC), WebmasterWorld (PubCon) and the International Internet Marketing Association (IIMA).
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Date: 2011-07-19
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Oracle's JDK 7 for General Availability Coming Soon
Adam Messinger, VP of Development of Oracle, describes the release of JDK 7 as more evolutionary than revolutionary. It has been almost 5 years since JDK 6 was released, which he comments has to do with business and political reasons. The new version holds valuable improvements for developers and a bright hope for future breakthroughs in the Java platform.
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Date: 2011-07-19
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Various Types Of Ad Extensions for Google AdWords
For the last 12 years, Mona Elesseily has focused on paid search strategy and conversion improvement. In her career, she has significantly improved campaign performance for brands such as Capital One, CareerBuilder.com, Cathay Pacific and The Jimmy Pattison Group to name a few. She regularly speaks at Canadian, US and international online marketing events on paid search, landing page optimization, ad copy creation and integrated online marketing strategy. Some of the events Mona presents at include Search Engine Strategies (SES), Search Marketing Expo (SMX), Ad:Tech, Shop.org, the International Marketing Conference (IMC), WebmasterWorld (PubCon) and the International Internet Marketing Association (IIMA).
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Date: 2011-07-19
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Is Social Media About Conversations?
In the dawn of social media, pundits repeated the mantra that social media is about conversations. While conversations are part of the mix, I think it's a small part, and, while it's necessary, should be minimized with an eye for ROI
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Date: 2011-07-18
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Top 20 Google Plus Tips & Tricks!
Everyone is on Google+ or G+, as it's fondly called now. If you want to master this newest social networking mecca, then you need to learn the tricks of the trade. As most of us are in the exploring and experimenting stage on G+, listed below are a few pointers, that will aid you in using the social platform better and faster.
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Date: 2011-07-18
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Google Plus: Tricks Of The Trade
Everyone is on Google+ or G+, as it's fondly called now. If you want to master this newest social networking mecca, then you need to learn the tricks of the trade. As most of us are in the exploring and experimenting stage on G+, listed below are a few pointers, that will aid you in using the social platform better and faster.
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Date: 2011-07-18
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Is Cloud Computing the Victim or the Suspect?
When cloud computing arrived at center stage back in the late 1990's, it was the future. It was the invention of the microchip all over again. IT departments and CFO's everywhere were breathing a sigh of relief. They saw the cloud as a means of ending budget overages, pesky support tickets and reducing hardware costs. As soon as the media got wind of this nifty cloud thingy, well, the cloud metaphors were more prolific than Captain America cosplayers at a Comic-on. In fact, one could even say the media was largely responsible for the cloud's success. After all, we know the media is built on driving the rise of a trend and then greedily exposing its crash and burn. That begs the question, is cloud computing really as fabulous as we think it is? Is the cloud a victim of commercialism or a suspect in the breakdown of data security?
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Date: 2011-07-15
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Google's Panda Ranking Algorithm Changes SEO Forever
Every day, I run into people affected by the Panda update. "Affected" always means negatively affected, because when your rankings go up, it means that Google is finally recognizing the quality of your site. When your rankings go down, blame it on Panda. Now, none of this is to say that Google's Panda algorithm update, and its ongoing tweaking that has followed, is not a big deal. In fact, this might be the biggest search ranking algorithm change since Google inaugurated link analysis in the late '90s. Because the search ranking algorithm isn't really an algorithm any more, because people don't set the rules. Google has embraced machine learning, and SEO will never be the same.
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Date: 2011-07-15
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SEO Will Never Be The Same
Every day, I run into people affected by the Panda update. "Affected" always means negatively affected, because when your rankings go up, it means that Google is finally recognizing the quality of your site. When your rankings go down, blame it on Panda. Now, none of this is to say that Google's Panda algorithm update, and its ongoing tweaking that has followed, is not a big deal. In fact, this might be the biggest search ranking algorithm change since Google inaugurated link analysis in the late '90s. Because the search ranking algorithm isn't really an algorithm any more, because people don't set the rules. Google has embraced machine learning, and SEO will never be the same.
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Date: 2011-07-15
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CentOS Releases 6.0, Eyes 6.1 Upstream
The wildly popular CentOS distribution moves out of version 5 and into version 6. Essentially an open source redistribution of their 'upstream provider' Red Hat Enterprise Linux. They mostly removed the Red Hat branding, and added only package that contains distribution version information, while removing the Red Hat documents. So, it is practically bit for bit exactly like Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0, and that is why it is so wildly popular. This upgrade brings needed updated packages for the more popular technologies.
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Date: 2011-07-14
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Kinect Now "Connects" to Windows
One of the biggest revolutions in the gaming industry (as well as the technology industry in general) is the Kinect for the well-known gaming system Xbox 360. The Kinect changed the gaming world by releasing a component for the Xbox 360 by enabling users to interact with the game they are currently using without using any handheld controllers. This gives the user/player more freedom and better controls their character/avatar/entity on the specific game that the user is playing. Just think: What if this technology was brought into everyday computing functions? Well, that dream is now reality.
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Date: 2011-07-14
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What You’ve Missed With C++: 2011 So Far
The past few months have been a jam-packed with a few developments in terms of C++. Not only did C++0x get the almost unanimous nod of the industry to be good enough to be called C++11 but there's also a few stories that have come out that need some attention too. There was the Google findings which show that C++ is by far the best performing programming language (if you have enough programmers that know the language well enough to wield it proficiently) and C++ AMP which aims to bring massively parallel C++ programming closer to the mainstream by Microsoft. Also, last May BoostCon 2011 was held with a pretty good lineup of talks that Boost users would be most appreciative of. It seems like 2011 is the year that C++ dusts off its boots and starts marching on again to the top of the programming language hill. Or is it?
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Date: 2011-07-13
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It’s Time to Try Social Technologies
At the beginning of the series of blog posts on Google Plus that I started earlier on this week I mentioned how I would be putting together about four different articles about my first impressions on playing around quite a bit with G+, something that those folks who have been following this blog for a long while now would know it's not something that I do rather often, so you can imagine how it is starting to grow on me more and more by the day. You could say I am having a blast with it, to the point where most of my other external social networking activities have gone a bit dormant in the last few days! I do realise though how I still need to post that fourth article and all, but I thought I would go ahead talk about something else today: the value I am getting from Google Plus already on my first week of usage. Because I guess that's what we all care about at this point in time, right? What (business) value do we want to get from G+? We all remember that social for the sake of social is not going to take us anywhere. So how am I benefiting from making use of it at the moment? Well, let me summarise it with a single sentence: facilitated serendipity on steroids!
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Date: 2011-07-12
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2011 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium: Enterprise Analytics = Business Values
Here are more of my notes from the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium: Enterprise Analytics = Business Values. Participants included: Moderator: Michael S. Hopkins, Editor-in-chief, MIT Sloan Management Review, panel: Rock Gnatovich,
SVP & COO, Spotfire, TIBCO Software Inc., Brad Peterson, CIO, Charles Schwab, Sid Probstein, CTO, Attivio, and Renée Romano Nocker, Director of Technology Product Marketing, SAS.
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Date: 2011-07-11
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Netflix Neutrality, Speaking Out Against Tiered Plans
A member of Netflix's management derided the recent maneuverings of the Telecommunications Industry that he witnessed at the annual National Cable Television Association. He was not speaking about the recent agreement by ISPs and the Entertainment Industry to send increasing "alerts" to people seen to be sharing copyrighted content. He was speaking of the intentions of the Telecom companies' when they are planning on the eventual future where bandwidth is scarce and customers must offset that demand by paying for bandwidth and content in tiers. It is the only way they see to stem the growing use of high-speed Internet services such as high definition video streaming.
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Date: 2011-07-11
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Tackling Storage Overload Via Information Lifecycle Management, Part 1: Data Classification
"We are drowning in a sea of information. No one knows the value, how long it should be kept, or what the risk of keeping or getting rid of it is" (J.P. Morgan). A white paper by Recommind on getting data under control mentions that "the amount of enterprise data doubles every 18 months," according to an IDC report. Be it an individual or massive organization, hours can be wasted on trying to find information and nightmares can plague trying to manage it if a solid Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) policy isn't made. An ILM plan begins with defining the data's properties, category, and type.
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Date: 2011-07-11
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Tips and Tricks for SSH and SSHFS, Part 1: Setup
Secure Shell (SSH) access is a marvelous utility for all computer users. It can be used to seamlessly mount remote drives, run daily backups, and much more. The purpose of this series of articles is to share ideas on how Linux developers can get the most out of SSH and hopefully bring up new possibilities many are unaware of. In this part we will look at the initial setup of SSH and SSHFS.
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Date: 2011-07-08
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Schemas, Microformats, Rich Snippets, And SEO
When I was a kid, sometimes my father called me a dirty little schema. (He's from Brooklyn.) OK, OK, he didn't spell it that way. It wasn't long ago when "schema" was a word only used by database geeks. Microformats and rich snippets are even more obscure terms, but they are becoming increasingly important. If you don't know what they are, remain ignorant at your own peril, because these arcane terms are making big changes in SEO--probably the biggest markup-related changes since search engines stopped looking at the keyword meta data field.
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Date: 2011-07-08
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Rich Snippets And SEO
When I was a kid, sometimes my father called me a dirty little schema. (He's from Brooklyn.) OK, OK, he didn't spell it that way. It wasn't long ago when "schema" was a word only used by database geeks. Microformats and rich snippets are even more obscure terms, but they are becoming increasingly important. If you don't know what they are, remain ignorant at your own peril, because these arcane terms are making big changes in SEO--probably the biggest markup-related changes since search engines stopped looking at the keyword meta data field.
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Date: 2011-07-08
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Qontext.com Brings Greater Context to Enterprise Collaboration
When Gartner named Qontext a cool vender in the context-aware computing space they wrote, "one of the holy grails in the collaboration market is the ability to embed collaboration services directly into business processes." This allows you to "build the collaboration service directly into the business process and make historical collaboration content accessible from the application." I could not agree more. I have long been a proponent of this approach going back to building process-aligned knowledge management systems beginning in the early 90s. Now Qontext has taken the approach a step further with its pinning concept. I recently spoke with Samir Ghosh, Qontext, VP, Business Development & Strategy, about their capabilities.
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Date: 2011-07-07
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Making Better Use of Customer Intelligence
Forrester's Tamara Barber asked the question: Are You Prepared For The Intelligent Enterprise? She looked at the future of market research and saw a trend and need for increased collaboration between the market insight professionals who go out and proactively collect market research data and those who passively collect transactional and behavioral data. We applaud this. She worked with a colleague, Dave Frankland, to look at how these functions best collaborate. These came up with these findings and suggestions.
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Date: 2011-07-07
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Share Your Content By Mapping Your Social Graph
"A powerful global conversation has begun. Through the Internet, people are discovering and inventing new ways to share relevant knowledge with blinding speed. As a direct result, markets are getting smarter-and getting smarter faster than most companies." The Cluetrain Manifesto
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Date: 2011-07-05
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The Filter Bubble & Personalization
So what is happening to our interweb these days? It's been several years now since the web evolved into a truly interactive arena. With the advent of blogs, wiks, social networks, eBay selling, Amazon self publishing etc. end users started to became publishers, online retailers, product creators and so on. Effectively the end users of the web started to become the new generators of the web with the smart bigger player simply providing a platform for this to happen. The wonder of user generated content.
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Date: 2011-07-05
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