Friday, August 06, 2010

Stuff I read on the beach if Internet surfing counts as beach activity Aug 2-6 2010

SAP Releases New Version of SAP® Business ByDesign(TM) http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4336538&access=EH


Vimeo SAP today social network analysis

http://vimeo.com/11738021


Tumblr, a New Spin in the Flurry of Social Media


The Cellular Network - Not Just For Cell Phones


Hal Varian on Combinatorial Innovation [Video]

http://youtu.be/hqaA-fgdXEE


Microsoft expanding cloud strategy, exec says


As promised, SAP expands open source efforts, execs say


Twitter Celebrates 20 Billion Tweets, 30 Billion Coming Soon


Groupon’s CEO on Coupons and Start-Ups

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/06/09/groupons-ceo-on-online-coupons-and-start-up-success/?KEYWORDS=groupon


Enquisite Adds Social Reports


More on Social Reporting in Enquisite

http://www.eightfoldlogic.com/blog/2010/02/more-on-social-reporting-in-enquisite/


A cost-effective approach for petabyte storage systems


Will Future Virtual Intelligence & Precrime Predictions Kill Privacy?


Social Media Changes Old Web Habits
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1140901/5553367/104562/0/


Phone calls: An endangered species, killed off by social media?


Social media sucks up 23% of time online


JR Raphael: The truth about those 'data-mining' Android apps


Mitch Wagner: Is Google doomed to always fail at social media?


Sun, Oracle VARs Differ Over Future Of Sun Hardware


Booming Social Networking Means Managers Beware


Peter Schooff: The Competitive Advantage of Predictive Analytics: Talking With Information Builders


Kaitlin Brunsden: Managing Data: Talking with Algebraix


Joe McKendrick: AOS, the Polar Opposite of SOA


David Linthicum: Burton Group Outlines a 5 Step Process to the Cloud


OpTier Launches Business Events Module


Social Registration May Come With a Few Surprises
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/70538.html


UAE to Go Dark for BlackBerry Data
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/70533.html


The Qualified Data Modeler


Ray Kurzweil On 'The Singularity' Future


'CrackBerry' no more


Oracle Product Chief Offers Glimpse at New Fusion Apps


SAP Reports Strong Growth, Completes Sybase Deal


The numbers speak: Amazon cloud soon to be a billion-dollar business


Drupal has a two-prong enterprise strategy


Amazon cloud perfect for building start-ups, says John Seely Brown


Can we abandon the copper plant?


Google Researchers Outline Pseudonym Sign-On


Rdio Opens Social Music Service To Public


Intermedia Adds Cloud PBX Service


Reflections on an Agile BI Program


An Imperative to Build, Not Buy, Agile BI


Successful social media analytics requires commitment, experimentation

http://searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com/news/2240020413/Successful-social-media-analytics-requires-commitment-experimentation?


Vendors push social media analytics, but some question the technology’s readiness

http://searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com/news/2240020394/Vendors-push-social-media-analytics-but-some-question-the-technologys-readiness?


The price of free Internet: a piece of your soul


Are Business Processes Detected or Invented?


Are Motorola and Verizon Building A Boob Tab?

http://bit.ly/dtBTYh


(Really) Big Data


Everybody's a Mega-Vendor


SAS, WPS and R


Will Cloud Computing Finally Bring Innovation to the Contact Center?


Interdictive Analytics: Catching Baddies at the Pass and in the Nick of Time


A Strategic View of Data Lifecycle Management


Position-based quantum cryptography: A scientific breakthrough?


What Is Microsoft's New Mystery Product?
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1145043/5553367/105206/0/


Bing Maps Gets New Interface, Calculates Cab Fares
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1145043/5553367/105210/0/


Google Multiple Account Sign-In: A Getting Started Guide
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1145043/5553367/105214/0/


Google Multiple Account Sign-In: Why It Matters
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1145043/5553367/105224/0/


On Web's Cutting Edge, Anonymity in Name Only


BatchBook: Sociability Meets Mobility
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/70530.html


Software Innovation At Stake in SAS Suit


Teradata Announces 2010 Second Quarter Results http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4339872&access=EH


Practical Analysis: Do Oracle Exadata Gains Warrant The Risk?


An Imperative to Build, Not Buy, Agile BI


INTEREST IN MOBILE BI LACKING DESPITE VENDOR PUSH
http://go.techtarget.com/r/12176889/2433922


SOA Or Cloud? You Be The Judge


Car tech: Building the zero-fatality car


Google drops Google Wave


Keeping your company image safe on social media


Social Media Analytics vs. Social Network Analysis


White spaces: Technology overview


Wolfram|Alpha Widgets


Facebook, Farmville, etc. now consume a third of Web time


Complex Event Processing: IT Liberator or Over-Engineering Hell?


LinkedIn Acquires mSpoke


Kickfire's apparent demise

http://bit.ly/byEsX4


IBM closes acquisition of Coremetrics
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32248.wss


Practical Analysis: Do Oracle Exadata Gains Warrant The Risk?


Google Wave failure may help Google Me succeed


Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Wave fails, Twitter wins. Why?


Social computing's evolution in the enterprise


Social Engineers Successfully Gather Info


Promoting Equality in the Marketplace of Ideas


Data Management: Building a Solid Foundation for Supply Chain Excellence


Infinite Data Retention Leads to Costly Mistakes


SOA or Cloud? You be the Judge