How the cloud is rescuing the $300 billion freelance industry from itself Rich Pearson, venturebeat.com Tickets On Sale Now Rich Pearson is Chief Marketing Officer of Elance. The way that businesses recruit and manage workers is undergoing a dramatic transformation. A volatile economy and an increasingly… http://flip.it/gfsrb Related articles Elance unveils Private Talent Cloud to … Continue reading How the cloud is rescuing the freelance industry
How Adobe Reinvented The Pen To Draw On The Internet By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com What is the future of the cloud-connected interface? How about a simple pen and ruler? This week, Adobe announced that the Creative Suite was becoming the subscription-based Creative Cloud. It didn’t go so well. But amidst the bad news, we ma… … Continue reading Adobe redesigns a pen to draw on the Internet
Visualization startup Datahero opens its doors and delivers data analysis for the masses Derrick Harris, gigaom.com When I first met Datahero Co-founder Chris Neumann a year ago, I was pretty excited about what he claimed his new company was going to do. Essentially, he told me, it was going to offer a simple, cloud-based data … Continue reading Data hero: visualization startup cloud based analysis
IBM Predicts: Cognitive Computers That Feel And Smell, Within The Next Five Years By Clay Dillow, popsci.com The computing giant’s annual list of technology predictions for the next five years foresee computers that can taste, see, smell, hear, and touch. At the end of each year, IBM releases its “5 in 5”—five technology predictions that … Continue reading IBM Predicts: Cognitive Computers That Feel And Smell
By QUENTIN HARDY, nytimes.com Software consulting is a multibillion-dollar business, and the means by which most enterprise software actually ends up in business. Consultants figure out what companies need, install it, customize it, and train workers on it. As more software is… http://flip.it/5rrL9 How the Cloud Changes Software Consulting Related articles OpenStack, Mobile, Amazon and … Continue reading How the Cloud Changes Software Consulting
Google’s cloud-based music-matching service has arrived… and it’s free Cyrus Farivar, arstechnica.com This is what Ars editor Cyrus Farivar sent to Google Play this morning.Cyrus FarivarGoogle has announced its own music-matching locker service, but unlike Amazon’s Cloud Player and Apple’s iTunes Match, this new service is free. Google Play, in th… RT @arstechnica: Google’s cloud … Continue reading Google cloud music match is free
Alex Williams, techcrunch.com Y Combinator company ZenPayroll launched its cloud-based payroll service today with $6.1 million in seed funding from Google Ventures and investments from the CEOs at Yammer, Box, Yelp and Dropbox. It is the largest seed round ever … RT @TechCrunch: ZenPayroll Launches Cloud-Based Payroll Service With $6.1M In Seed Funding From CEOs … Continue reading ZenPayroll Launches Cloud-Based Payroll Service With $6.1M In Seed Funding From CEOs At Yammer, Box, Yelp And Dropbox
Smart Body, Smart World: The Next Phase of Personal Computing Sarah Rotman Epps, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research, allthingsd.com In the past half-century, computing has evolved from the mainframe to the desktop to the shoulder bag to the pocket, and now it’s taking over new frontiers: our physical bodies, and the physical environments that we inhabit. … Continue reading Why your body is the next target for social technology
Inside the Latest Office-Design Craze: Hot Desking Flash Steinbeiser, inc.com Inc.com staff As cloud computing and wireless Internet become ubiquitous, workers are cordless. Who needs a cube, much less an office? Just follow the leads of these cool companies. The cubicle’s days are numbered. A concept called “hot… http://flpbd.it/M8sTt Related articles 9 Sentences That Could … Continue reading Inside the Latest Office-Design Craze: Hot Desking
Measuring An Employee’s Worth? Consider Influence By E.B. Boyd, fastcompany.com The performance review of the future will include services like Salesforce.com’s Chatter and its Influencers feature, which measures how much weight you carry among your peers. Today, your performance review is based on things like sales numb… http://flpbd.it/xZePm Related articles Salesforce.com Announces Timing of its … Continue reading Measuring An Employee’s Worth? Consider Influence
Big Data: Facebook’s next big idea By Gery Menegaz for Five Nines: The Next Gen Datacenter | August 1, 2012 — 17:00 GMT (10:00 PDT) Follow @GeryMenegaz, zdnet.com The Facebook fallacy is that at its core the Social Network is really an advertising company. If you look at their quarterly report, you see that about … Continue reading The Next Gen Datacenter
Mac 101: Automator. this tool allows you to tag content automatically to implemenent the folksonomy approach to file storage and search Related articles Cloud Files vs. Cloud Drive (rackspace.com) New Conference Paper: Folksonomies as Subject Access - a Survey of Implementing Tagging in Library Online Catalogs and Discovery Layers (infodocket.com) Amazon Glacier: Back Up All … Continue reading Mac OSX Automator as a folksonomy builder
I've been using this a bit and it isn't half bad. Collaboration Software: Share Documents Online, Cloud Email, Task and Mobile Collaboration. Related articles Are online collaboration tools ready for your business? (zdnet.com) Video Conferencing & Unified Collaboration Solution Now Available at No Cost (virtual-strategy.com) Top 5 Social Enterprise Technologies for Business (mashable.com) Rackspace and … Continue reading Hyperoffice Collaboration Software: Share Documents Online, Cloud Email, Task and Mobile Collaboration
via www.gartner.com This rather exciting conference coming up in March covers the frontiers of digital business, enterprise 2.0, cloud computing, collective intelligence and other stimulating subjects. Related articles Business Intelligence Trends | Three Upcoming BI Trends | Domo | Blog (domo.com) Worldwide AD Market To Top $9bn In 2012 - Gartner (misco.co.uk) Many CIOs moving … Continue reading Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit
Etelos Takes Next Step in PAAS Offerings - Application Development - News & Reviews - eWeek.com. The new field of PAAS offers to host your applications using the LAMP stack such as SugarCRM, Mediawiki etc. Related articles The Evolution of PaaS in the Enterprise (theenterprisearchitect.eu) Platform as a Service is so much more than deploying … Continue reading Etelos Takes Next Step in PAAS Offerings
Forrester Research : Home. This is the best way to pick enterprise software apps: look up this firm's reviews. They have a special section for Information, Content and Knowledge Management pros. Related articles Forrester: Tablet ownership rising steadily (lenovo.com) Getting to Business Value Webinar (slideshare.net) How Agencies Should Help the Global CMO (greatfinds.icrossing.com) Understanding the … Continue reading Forrester Research: How to pick enterprise software
More Than 6 Million Users Work Online With Zoho. This is a top rated office 2.0 suite by rule the web. But will it stand up to the big guns at Google? Related articles Zoho Services Having Performance Problem, Please Use Read Only Version (blogs.zoho.com) Zoho CRM & Zoho Creator: the affair is getting better (zoho.com) … Continue reading Zoho: Office 2.0 using cloud based software at a bargain price
ThinkFree Cloud Office. top rated office 2.0 by Rule the Web Related articles Cloud services and your business: What's your strategy? (bizblog.blackberry.com) Join Us at CloudCamp Austin This Saturday (rackspace.com) Riverwalking Inside The Rackspace Cloud (rackspace.com) Building43 Launches On Cloud Sites (rackspace.com) Pagerank for Event Graphs (windley.com) PRACTICE … Continue reading ThinkFree Cloud Office: ditch those servers and paper pushers
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