New Search Engines Help Users Find Blogs - wsj
Piece "Web logs, online diaries written and published by everyone from college students to big media companies, are being created and updated at an astonishing rate -- and established search companies such as Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. don't always catch them fast enough. Now, a handful of closely held upstarts such as Technorati Inc., Feedster Inc. and IceRocket.com LLC see an opportunity: Build a search engine that can track the information zipping through blogs, nearly in real time."
DRM in ERM: Know Your Rights Provider - rednova
Piece "Surely, though, over the next few years, enterprises will continue to deploy ERM software at a rapid pace to enable secure communication between business partners and customers and to protect their vital information, wherever it may reside.
Companies Featured in This Article
Adobe
AirZip
Authentica
ContentGuard, Inc.
ECM/Documentum
DigitalContainers.LLC
GigaMedia Access Corp.
Informative Graphics Corporation
Liquid Machines
Microsoft
Pinion Software
SealedMedia "
The Secret to Saas Success - sandhill
Piece "Innovation is still the key to growth in the high tech business, but it has broader implications than in the past. Today some of the most important innovations are about the business model - how technology is being sold and delivered.
In fact, nearly 80 percent of software CEOs surveyed at the Enterprise 2005 conference stated that business model innovation is equal to or more important than technological innovation to business success today. Software as a service (Saas), on demand, hosted, and subscription models are all reshaping key customer relationships for high tech companies.
In the long run, these new models smooth out the revenue curve for vendors. But the transition can be tough. Many strategies - sales, marketing and development, for example - must be in place in order to execute the transition successfully.
The most important operational issues by far occur in the finance department. Billing, renewals, cash flow, and revenue management practices must change dramatically from the traditional product licensing days in order to ensure success. "
Reactivity Looks to Add Security to RSS - globelogger
Piece "Security is obviously a high-priority requirement for enterprise RSS applications and this offering should help address that requirement. The article says that Reactivity will be partnering with SimpleFeed and FeedBurner, but there's no mention of the deal yet on those companies' sites."
Piece "I've spent a bit of time looking at all of them and here is my assesment of each of them.
Technorati - Used to be great. I believe they invented the concept of link tracking fro blogs. But it is now is unusable for link tracking. It does a lot of other things now and maybe link tracking is no longer strategic to them. But it still is for me.
PubSub - They do an amazing job of tracking all the links and compiling a huge amount of information on the links. But I find it very hard to decipher all the data and get to the one thing I really want to know, which is who has linked to me in the past 24 hours? While I recognize the quality of the data, I can't deal with the presentation.
IceRocket - The newcomer and fast follower of the crowd. They picked up the ball from Technorati and ran with it. I like their UI the best and the data is pretty good. I don't think they are comprehensive becuase Feedster finds links they don't. But they are a pretty decent solution for link tracking and I like them a lot.
Feedster - They have been the number two after Technorati in link tracking and I have always checked them out from time to time, but never made a habit of it. I think they may be more comprehensive than IceRocket. But I don't like the UI as much. One thing I do like a lot about Feedster is their link tracking goes back a lot farther in time, so they have 2,867 links to my blog whereas IceRocket only has 735."
Q&A: Security Wonk Dan Verton - redherring
Piece "Data theft is rapidly becoming one of Corporate America’s biggest problems. And corporate fraudsters have had a banner year in 2005, with at least 46 incidents of data loss reported so far, according to estimates from Forrester analyst, Noel Yuhanna. For the consumers, meanwhile, the trend is harrowing as a growing number of high-profile data leaks have resulted in the theft or violation of their information like credit card details and social security numbers."
Microsoft, Google Rumble - Redmond and Google switch competitive venues from the Internet to a Seattle courtroom.- redherring
Piece "Microsoft and Google compete in a number of arenas, but on Tuesday the companies faced off in a courtroom to challenge a court order barring a former Microsoft employee from working for Google.
In July, Microsoft sued Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, its former employee, to prevent him from taking a job at Google. Microsoft claimed that by taking the job, Dr. Lee would be violating a non-compete agreement he signed with Microsoft back in 2000 (see Microsoft Sues Google). "
Microsoft and Google - emergic
Piece "Here's a sampling of reasons why Microsoft is history:
* Microsoft wants everyone to have a rich desktop experience, Google wants everyone to have a rich Internet experience.
* Microsoft's business model depends on everyone upgrading their computing environment every two to three years. Google's depends on everyone exploring what's new in their computing environment every day.
* Microsoft looks at the world from a perspective of desktop+Internet. Google looks at the world from a perspective of Internet+any device.
* Microsoft wants computers to help individuals do more unaided. Google wants computers to help individuals do more in collaboration. In the Internet age, who wants to work alone any more, when all the unexplored opportunity is in collaborative endeavor?
* In a few year's time, who's going to still be working at a desk anyway?"
Consolidation vs. federation - infoworld
Piece "You have dozens, maybe hundreds, of operational data sources spread among multiple business groups and locations. If only you could get a clear, consolidated view across all this information at once, you would gain a better understanding of what’s working and what’s not -- in sales, customer service, manufacturing, you name it. The cure to this common problem involves a fundamental decision: Should you consolidate all your data onto a single database platform, or implement a federation solution that allows you to query all your data right where it is now? "
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