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 Toronto, Montreal and the Kitchener-Waterloo region (home to BlackBerries) have a lopsided amount of the activity going on in the digital signage sector, but there's absolutely stuff shaking elsewhere. If you subscribe to Google Alerts you see the daily release from PEI-based ScreenSca...Nov. 19, 2009 05:37 PM EST Reads: 309 |
 Last year, as imploding credit markets roiled the economy, mutual fund organizations throughout the country took stock of their revenue prospects. It was clear that a change or two was in the wind at Denver’s Old Mutual Investment Partners, too. For Chief Executive Officer, D. Bruce Jo...Nov. 18, 2009 01:00 PM EST Reads: 431 |
 Many B2B companies know that they should be incorporating an ongoing social media campaign into their arsenal of tactics to generate leads and sales. But, as a business owner or marketing professional, half the battle is trying to get your head around the social media wave, the crushin...Nov. 18, 2009 01:00 PM EST Reads: 494 |
 Google’s desire to speed up the web via a new protocol is laudable, but the SPDY protocol would require massive changes across networks to support |
 3PAR, the leading global provider of utility storage, announced that TheLadders.com cut their total cost of storage in half by replacing their legacy storage infrastructure with 3PAR Utility Storage. The online job search website deployed 3PAR Utility Storage in conjunction with server...Nov. 11, 2009 11:00 AM EST Reads: 543 |
 How to find and select Keywords: Remember this is a start-up's guide the science of keyword research is so vast that only this step can take so much time and effort of a newbie that he might give up the field after few mismanaged projects or might get stuck into never ending reading an...Nov. 10, 2009 01:15 AM EST Reads: 522 |
 Learn How To Create SEO Plan: Following are the steps that I think are crucial in any SEO plan or strategy. The article will a little longer than usual, but I believe it will be noteworthy and helpful to most of the people. Let's start the SEO plan. Competitive...Nov. 9, 2009 06:20 AM EST Reads: 342 |
 Although it is a first lesson in SEO, but believe me, as far as my experience is concerned, this is the lesson that most seo's learn in the last and the hard way i.e. after many failures. Remember the purpose of SEO is not to SPAM or Dodge search engines nor to fool the inter...Nov. 9, 2009 02:42 AM EST Reads: 265 |
 HFS Wrapper is a popular and reliable Mac OS X file system. The HFS+ volume could be made to contain within the HFS file system volume in a way that make it look like the HFS volume and not the HFS+ volume to your systemNov. 5, 2009 12:30 PM EST Reads: 683 |
 SimpleOCR is the popular freeware OCR software with hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. SimpleOCR is also a royalty-free OCR SDK for developers to use in their custom applications. If you have a scanner and want to avoid retyping your documents, SimpleOCR is the fast, free way t...Nov. 5, 2009 12:30 PM EST Reads: 741 |
 I recently added 20 yards of distance to every club in my golf bag with no effort whatsoever (and the chipping now is sublime). For the non-golfers out there, this is quite a significant improvement. I have played the game for about 15 years achieved a reasonable standard and plateaued...Oct. 29, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 491 |
 We process about 300 messages / second in our application. The Service Activator pattern has been very helpful to fork off and distribute processing of messages. We fork off messages to a JMS queue for processing. In some cases, the forked off messages need to run inside the same trans...Oct. 29, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 459 |
 By Tom Hopkins
When we give a presentation to a future client not only do our appearance, visual aids, and body language relay a message, but the words we use create pictures in their minds. When we hear a word, we often picture a symbol of what that word represents. We may even attac...Oct. 29, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 541 |
 My long-time former PC Magazine colleague Al Poor has begun his own series of video reviews of consumer products on his YouTube channel here. You can find a new Epson photo printer, the Buffalo Terrastation, and other products. Like my WebInformant.tv series, they are sponsored by the ...Oct. 29, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 626 |
 A new search site is in beta called DeepDyve that has some promise. First, they claim that they index millions of medical papers from paid journals and free sites. The problem in the past is that this content wasn’t too readily available. Yes, there is Medline, but not a very user-frie...Oct. 29, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 619 |
 The result is BSMReview.com, a site which seeks to analyze the best and next practices in business service management from a third-party point of view. The experts that Bill has brought to the site are literally a who's who of the best and most trusted people in the field: Peter Armstr...Oct. 29, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 624 |
 His latest book, The Idea of Justice, is a serious re-examination of the foundations of justice from a global perspective. He speaks of the two definitions of justice in Sanskrit - niti (institutional justice) and nyaya (realized justice) - and how we are too often misled by the utopia...Oct. 29, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 688 |
 Poor Leonardo. After losing out to Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni during his lifetime, he still doesn't get the credit or recognition his work deserves. Finally, someone trusted their intuition, and bought a sketch which looked to him like a Leonardo, and, lo - it was! His ...Oct. 29, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 585 |
 If you don’t understand why the Real Time Web is huge, you will soon.
Thanks to micro-blogging sites like Twitter, a constant stream of human-posted content has infiltrated the Web. This growing infiltration has created a bottoms up approach to content creation that via the progressi...Oct. 28, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 898 |
 Welcome to our enterprise cloud computing blog where we'll share our perspectives on cloud computing trends and best practices for the enterprise. We're a team with extensive experience in IT software and systems (learn more about us), and we're passionate about the opportunity that cl...Oct. 28, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 615 |
 A Box Life is a cute idea for QR Codes sponsored by clothing firm Columbia as a recycling initiative. Put a tag on a cardboard box so that when the box is reused you can track the 'life' of the box. By snapping the tag and providing your location data or entering the tracking code prin...Oct. 28, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 484 |
 Kooaba's mobile image recognition (MIR) technology will be used in the November edition of Wired magazine (US) to link print advertisements to online content. Kooaba claims this as a US first. Oddly enough Wired online are also running a vstory on augmented reality (AR) here. The adva...Oct. 28, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 446 |
 I had the privilege of serving on the Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation (now the Leader to Leader Institute) for ten years. Peter was a pioneer in understanding the impact of knowledge workers in the new economy. He simply defined knowledge workers as ‘people who know more about wh...Oct. 28, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 974 |
 "The Secret" was launched by Rhonda Byrne in 2006 and says that thoughts have an energy that attracts like energy and you attract into your life whatever you think about. This tool refers to what Buddha said: "What you have become is the result of what you have thought". It suggests th...Oct. 28, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 810 |
 In a note to the CCIF list, Sam Johnston informed us that Google too has continued on its promise to liberate our data as part of their Data Liberation Front project. This latest Google effort introduces a new feature that makes it much easier to get your content back out of the Cloud...Oct. 26, 2009 07:31 PM EDT Reads: 433 |
 If you have spent any time online using social networks like LinkedIn or Facebook, you know they can be difficult to grow your network and add contacts. But even harder is the ability to extract your contacts once you have built up a reasonably sized network. None of the social network...Oct. 26, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,557 Replies: 2 |
 Ulitzer provides a powerful social journalism platform for content syndication, bridging the gap between traditional and new media. For rapid awareness of news, articles, blogs and other content, Ulitzer's keyword tagging enhances searchability and allows targeted audiences to easily f...Oct. 25, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,235 |
 A new ‘internet’ has been born which can flatten the market place if not managed correctly. New opportunities create greater challenges for any company to stay ahead. Thanks to sites like Ulitzer the corporate world has finally embraced online social media as a real competitive advanta...Oct. 20, 2009 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,046 |
 There seems to suddenly be a lot of focus on “data” and the ability for users consumers to pack up their data and take it wherever they want. Except for people attached to their i-Thing. I think users of i-Things were approached about the concept but were unable to get past the revelat...Oct. 20, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 957 |
 This being predominantly a business-oriented crowd, a few audience surveys revealed things we understand in the DC business community, but perhaps those outside don't - for example, very few in the audience used iPhones, most had Blackberrys, and therefore the point was made that much ...Oct. 15, 2009 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 613 |
 Harry Lewis has a terrific post about a $300 do-it-yourself book scanner he saw at the D is for Digitize conference on the Google Book settlement. The plans are available at DIYBookScanner.org, from Daniel Reetz, the inventor.
There are lots of personal uses for home-digitized boo...Oct. 11, 2009 10:59 AM EDT Reads: 477 |
 I was quite brazen at first, I just logged straight in not fully understand the ramifications. No thought of what could happen if.......? Within Days I was affiliated in magazines, aggregated on global sites, people were creating RSS feeds of my content, the whirlwind grew as my page ...Oct. 8, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,805 |
 Dean Piccirillo Makes a One-Person Blog-powered Website Look like a Major Corporate Presence Online
Building a solid business blog-powered website is challenging for all of us. But it’s even more difficult for anyone who lives in the financial services universe.
Because financial se...Oct. 8, 2009 07:11 PM EDT Reads: 635 |
 Like many who were given early Google wave sandbox accounts, I didn't see the purpose at first. The rather buggy javascript laden interface was actually kind of slow and at times cumbersome and worst of all crashed my browser all the time. This was for the most practical of reasons, I ...Oct. 3, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,936 |
 Effective content marketing online drives Chris Griffith’s blog powered website to number four on search rankings.
You might think that Realtor.com, Yahoo real estate, the Yellow Pages, either of the two local newspapers or all of the big area real estate companies would trample...Oct. 2, 2009 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 460 |
 Google News rolled out small changes to its user navigation today, which I realized as I lost my menu options which have been there for the past eight years on the right upper corner of the page. I usually do a daily search on keywords "advertising industry" then I change my result set...Oct. 1, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 611 |
 It turns out that the four of us think different things about Twitter, as Tim indicates in this brief article. My own view is overall quite positive, but compound. I don’t think Twitter is “closer than anything we’ve seen before” to an ideal conversational medium. Twitter conversations...Sep. 25, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 703 |
 Amazon releases the ability to share EBS snapshots so others can utilize and consume your data, irrespective of format. But EBS is more than just persisted data. It is a whole mechanism to allow for quickly taking snapshots of your data partition and then mounting that partition elsewh...Sep. 24, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 889 |
 Internet Explorer, particularly versions 6 and before, are the bane of any web developer's existence. The Internet Explorer versions Microsoft produced during the competion-free era between when Netscape died and Firefox came on the scene are masterpieces of monopolistic neglect. IE 5 ...Sep. 24, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 930 |
 RIAbiz.com recently discussed the findings of an August 24-25, 2009 Investment News survey conducted on the Twitter habits of the financial-advisory community. Not surprisingly the survey reveals that "a mere 14.9% of financial advisers say they communicate with clients or colleagues ...Sep. 23, 2009 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,341 |
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