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WriteToMyBlog.com

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:15:29 +0000

Just testing out a new-ish service that provide a very sophisticated editor as a service that allows you to edit your blog. Read more

Mashups Meet Widgets in New Serena Mashup Composer

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:59:33 +0000

Bangalore, June 12th, 2008 — Mashups are an increasingly popular enterprise tool. In fact, Forrester projects that the enterprise mashup market will reach nearly $700 million by 2013 in a May 2008 report called “The Mashup Opportunity.” To capitalize on this momentum, business users are now looking to blend more consumer information and easy-to-use widgets into their workplace mashups. Serena...

Social Networking Overkill

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:17:58 +0000

I suspect that there’s no Web application that won’t eventually acquire a whole slew of social networking features. Rather than just doing whatever their core competency is it seems that every startup along with many established Web applications provides friends, comments, content voting, messaging, and so on. This makes me wonder how quickly the gloss will fade for users as they wind up with yet...

How Low Can Your Budget Go?

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:53:30 +0000

I’m wondering how much IT budgets might be cut … In a February 6th teleconference with financial analysts Cisco CEO John Chambers said that in the quarter ending in April the company’s revenue would increase by just 10 percent. As the company’s forecast had been for a revenue growth of between 13 percent to 16 percent for the 2008 fiscal year Wall Street wasn’t at all happy with the news...

Showing Your Support

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:08:15 +0000

I have just been trying to get some software running on my Web site hosted by EasyCGI. It should have been easy but, you guessed it, it was anything but. First I had to figure out how to enable the right version of PHP. Not a Herculean task but neither was it obvious. Then I had to get the right version of MySQL running. Turns out you have to ask EasyCGI's tech support to make that happen. I'm guessing...

Death by Old PSUs

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:01:57 +0000

I just read a mail list posting in which a friend explained how he had to shut down and number of servers in a data center for facilities maintenance for the first time in six years -- the machines had all been running non-stop for the whole time. On restart a significant number failed because -- it is suspected -- the power supplies which could supply power for normal operation could no longer handle...

The True Nature of Web 2.0

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:45:06 +0000

In Network World this week there's an article titled "IBM's fight over Web 2.0 will dwarf past clashes against Microsoft". The proverbial bottom line of this article is that IBM is going to flood the market with advanced products and services based on Web 2.0 technologies and then beat us to death with a marketing tsunami that will rock the worlds of Microsoft, Cisco, and everyone else who stands in...

Time Warner Capping A Good Idea?!

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:28:35 +0000

In the last Backspin column I discussed Time Warner's dangerous plan to set caps on consumer Internet service and charge for exceeding those caps. While I'm sure that TWC would defend their scheme vigorously I'm amazed to see the likes of David Isenberg in their corner! In his blog post "Time Warner Cable does the right thing" Isenberg contends that "If you must manage congestion, then doing it explicitly...

Technorati Claim

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:03:08 +0000

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Fun With Ecomm

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:44:20 +0000

In another post here in Gibbsblog a reader of my recent Gearhead column asked what ecommerce solution I finally settled on. I'll go in that in next week's column but if you insist on a spoiler it was Network Solutions Pro Ecommerce. They claim that this service is provides an easy-to-use design editor or customize your site with your own HTML and offers "Seamless integration with QuickBooks." What...

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