Friday, July 23, 2010

Stuff that is just pure brain plumbing nothing more July 19-23 2010

Facebook, Google to Battle Over Smarter Web?
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1117004/5553367/100221/0/


Google buys Metaweb, chases more complicated search


Amazon and IBM are 'cloud champions,' report says


The Sweet Smell of Social Media Success - and the Funk of Failure
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/70426.html


Autonomy Process Automation Helps Baird Achieve Productivity and Efficiency Gains http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4327132&access=EH


IBM Posts 13% Earnings Gain, Raises Guidance


Microsoft's cloud strategy: A question of 'feature parity'


Oracle brings Coherence to data analytics


Facebook Scores Below IRS, at Level of Disliked Airlines
http://images.cio-today.com/images/spacer.gifhttp://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=11000A3Z3RPM


Borders jumps into e-bookstore game


Facebook user satisfaction 'abysmal'


Birst offers concurrent user pricing for BI


Phil Wainewright: Why You Must Learn to Think Like a Polymath


Michael Poulin: Business SOA Facilitates Semantic Technologies


Collective Intellect Intros Social Media CRM


Connecting to Social Networks from Outlook


Spending Soars on Internet's Plumbing


Ten Terrible Web 2.0 Buzzwords


Dell Acquiring Ocarina Networks


Microsoft's MDM product appears


Forrester Wave Findings: Customer Service Analytics Empower Predictive Process


Does Oracle Have a Winner in Exadata V2?


Cloud BI's Perfectly Stormy Future


Q&A: Agile BI Architectures


Q&A: Zynga Stresses Visual Access to Its Vast Data Volumes


Social Media Analytics: You Will Still Need Actual Analysts in the Loop


Where Do You Draw the Lines Between Business and IT Ownership of Data and Information?


Infor24 Makes Applications Simpler to Acquire and Integrate


Apple Shrugs Off 'Antennagate'


Fifty: The Magic Email Number


Microsoft Unfurls Its Multi-Faceted Cloud Message


Antennagate Postmortem: Apple Is Nearly Unstoppable
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/70453.html


Facebook Has Half a Billion Members but Few Real Friends
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/70457.html


Apple Tells Congressmen It Batches, Encrypts Location Data

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Apple-Tells-Congressmen-it-Batches-Encrypts-Location-Data-411968/?kc=EWKNLINF07212010STR1


FarmVille on Gmail? Say it Ain't So!


Oracle steps up smart grid presence


SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin Sets the Record Straight


The Socialization of BI


Tibco Silver Spotfire – Social BI? Why Not?

http://mervadrian.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/tibco-silver-spotfire-%E2%80%93-social-bi-why-not/


The promise and peril of the Social Media Director

http://ohmygov.com/blogs/general_news/archive/2010/07/21/The-promise-and-peril-of-the-Social-Media-Director.aspx


Customer Service Analytics Empower Predictive Process


Agile Data Warehousing: Do You Scrum?


MicroStrategy Launches Mobile Platform


Social Media: The New Front End of CRM System

http://hkotadia.com/archives/2698


Netezza TwinFin with a Hadoop Cluster used for queryable archive analytics? Find out how: http://ow.ly/2f6ha


The Quiet Social Networks

http://jasonkeath.com/the-quiet-social-networks/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter


SURVEY: ALIGNING BI WITH USERS, FUNDING AMONG TOP BI CHALLENGES
http://go.techtarget.com/r/12077445/2433922


SAP-Sybase deal gets EU approval


Facebook's Zuckerberg 'quite sure' he didn't sign away the company


First true SCADA-specific malware detected
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6600147/7006273/305492/0/


SOA Master Data Management in .NET 4.0


Google Images Reimagined


Terabyte-sized Java apps now possible


Microsoft adds Scrum capabilities to ALM server


WHY YOU NEED A FORMAL DATA GOVERNANCE PROGRAM, AND HOW TO GET STARTED
http://go.techtarget.com/r/12070135/2433922


DoD Creates Social Media Hub


Terracotta Announces Terabyte Data Cache For Apps


Vint Cerf Eyes Interplanetary Internet


Google Gets Semantic


Sentiment Analysis Goes High-Def


Social Networks Are the Borg


Siemens: Removing SCADA worm may harm industrial systems


Twitter battles fail whale with new data center


Q&A: Master Data Quality and Governance


Cloud Identity Summit 2010: Report for Day 2
http://travisspencer.com/blog/2010/07/cloud-identity-summit-2010----1.html
http://www.cloudidentitysummit.com/program/Agenda-at-a-Glance.cfm


Augmented Reality: A Point of Interest for the Web
http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/07/augmented_reality_a_point_of_i.html
http://www.w3.org/2010/06/w3car/report.html


Cybercrime Gets Social


SAP-Sybase: What to expect in the first 90 days


Mining the Contact Center for BI Gems
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/70464.html


A Four-Step Approach to Selecting the Right BI Services Provider


Epic fail: Auto-deleting files based on their 'reputation'


Twitter Hopes to Retire 'Fail Whale' With Custom-Built Data Center
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/70468.html


The Incredible, Invulnerable, Indispensable Social Network


Microsoft's New Slogan: Hey, It Could Be Worse
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1127295/5553367/102104/0/