Tuesday 29 June 2010

Thelonious: WordPress 3.0. ready to upgrade. Ready to download

It's never too late to announce very loud. Actually, I really love the introductory sentence from WordPress blog:

"Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard)."

Wednesday 16 June 2010

Wireless Oligopoly Is Smother of Invention | Epicenter 

If the people who brought us television had played by the same rules that today’s wireless carriers impose — we’d probably all be listening to the radio.

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Sunday 13 June 2010

It’s a mistake to view IT simply as a commodity

There’s no question that cloud computing, commodity solutions and open-source software have changed our perceptions about the value of IT. Many, in fact, are convinced that information technology is rapidly becoming a standard utility, much like the water and electricity that flows into our homes and businesses.


Perceptions about IT as a standard utility miss the mark.  It’s a mistake to view IT simply as a commodity: that’s like saying people are a commodity, or talent is a commodity, or capital is a commodity.

Here are four key ways IT is making a difference in the companies’ capacity to innovate, @SmarPlanet.com

Saturday 5 June 2010

Professional-Strength Social Media Aggregators



Any system for monitoring or measuring social media has three basic components: data collection, analytics, and application. The differences are in the details, and each component can be the subject of its own build-or-buy decision. If your goal is to beat the industry standard in a particular area, you build, but if industry-standard is good enough, you don't have to.
Social Media Today is sharing some interesting tips and a also a list of professional-strength social media aggregators

Friday 4 June 2010

Apple posts demos of how HTML5 can beat Flash

In an attempt to prove that Flash isn’t necessary, Apple has posted a set of 7 demo pages that show off the power of HTML5, the emerging new standard for Web content that will run, theoretically, in any browser on any device.
venturebeat.com posted about the new HTML5 features.

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