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Small Business Makes You Feel Good. It Is Not Good For The Economy
Walmart is cheap because they don't offer amazing service, they buy in bulk, they use distribution centers to minimize shipping costs, and [more]
A Peek Inside Facebook's Oregon Data Center
Tens of Thousands of Energy-Efficient Servers Handle the Deluge of Data Generated by More Than 800 Million Users Call it the heart of [more]
Don't Fall to the Consumer Revolution, Lead it!
Today we have a guest post from Brian Solis. Brian is a principal at Altimeter Group, a research-based advisory firm. [more]
Cloud Computing Democratizes Digital Animation
Pay-As-You-Go Datacenter Processing Power Creates Opportunity for Smaller Business Origami Animation"To make things move like paper ... is [more]
Why I love PandoDaily, new media company focused on startups
Today Sarah Lacy, formerly of Techcrunch, announced she was starting a new media company and has gotten funded, to the tune of [more]
How To Practice Carpentry And Basic Woodworking
Carpentry is the oldest of the arts, and it has been said that the knowledge necessary to make a good carpenter fits one for almost any [more]
Today we have a guest post from Dominique Molina. Dominique is President of the American Institute of Certified Tax [more]
CES 2012: Measuring Social Conversations Amid the Noise
A Look Inside the Social Cockpit Intel is Using to Discover and Analyze What's Getting the Most Buzz on Twitter, Blogs, Facebook and [more]
Today we kick-off a 3-part series called “Building Trust at Work” with Chris Brogan. Chris is president of Human Business Works, providing business, communications and emerging technology strategy for mid- to large-sized businesses. He blogs regularly at chrisbrogan.com. To better understand the dynamics of trust at work, I reached out to people who I believe [...]
China is the World’s Largest Mobile Market with Almost 1 Billion Mobile Internet Users As we enter the Year of the Dragon, which began Monday with the Chinese New Year, the huge China mobile market is growing at breakneck speed. In 2011, mobile connections increased almost 17 percent and soon will top 1 billion. [...]
Not all Open Source Software is free, and not all free software is open source. Open Sourcing Software can be done not just for community, but for security or integration. A sure way to make your software well documented is to provide the source code so that those integrating with your system can see the [...]
Walmart is cheap because they don’t offer amazing service, they buy in bulk, they use distribution centers to minimize shipping costs, and labor. All that means they have a lower carbon foot print. Insurance and Pay roll is cheaper by the 1,000. You get all those efficiencies. Buying from small businesses tends to send more [...]
People keep saying, “It’s not Linux” “Linux is just the kernel” “It’s GNU Linux you Idiot”. Yeah posers go back to grade school, I’ve been running Linux since the days before it had a GUI. There are definite Non-GNU versions on of Linux, and While Gnu Linux is Linux not all Linux is GNU Article [...]
Just because you build something doesn’t mean you can give it away for free. You can’t draw a picture of Mickey Mouse, slap it on a T-shirt and sell it. The same is true for the Intellectual Property in software. Patents require licensing, and that limits what software can be truly free. The Free Software [...]
Story telling is the second oldest form of entertainment (the first is only legal in Nevada, and they shut down that section of Craig’s list). TV and Movies aren’t going away. We aren’t consuming that many fewer hours of them either. But we have changed the revenue model. We don’t pay $30 for a DVD, [...]
Tens of Thousands of Energy-Efficient Servers Handle the Deluge of Data Generated by More Than 800 Million Users Call it the heart of Facebook. Take an unusual peek inside one of the world’s largest data centers, Facebook’s monster server farm that opened last year in the remote desert town of Prineville, Ore., 150 miles [...]
Today we have a guest post from Brian Solis. Brian is a principal at Altimeter Group, a research-based advisory firm. Solis is globally recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders and published authors in new media. A digital analyst, sociologist, and futurist, Solis has studied and influenced the effects of emerging media on [...]
Pay-As-You-Go Datacenter Processing Power Creates Opportunity for Smaller Business Origami Animation“To make things move like paper … is a big challenge. And it required lots of computer crunching power to render graphic images into motion.” — J. Walton (Flickr photo) While cloud computing may be nothing more than pie in the sky to some, [...]
