Starting this Friday: The Cube, Broadcasting Live from Austin [SxSWi]Published: March 11, 2010
In case you haven’t heard, there’s a little gathering of geeks taking place in my home state, starting this week, called South by Southwest. Naturally I’ll be down there attempting to bring relevance from the chaos which generally is that event. I’ll be assisted by Michael Sean Wright, Robert Scoble, Leo Laporte and a cast of dozens. You’ll be able to find my primary coverage here at SiliconANGLE, but also showing up on the TWiT Network, The Inquisitr, Nicefishfilms, Rizzn.com, and el... [
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Published: March 12, 2010
A report by Mashable that walks through data researched by Barracuda Networks Labs speaks volumes on what I call a new class of web user. The fanatic, engaged early adopter.
We (SiliconAngle labs) were storing and analyzing twitter up until July 2009 until the project moved over to Bing. The reported data from Mashable is pretty much on the money.
Mashable reports:
Barracuda Labs also analyzed Twitter’s growth over time, and the numbers are consistent with previous reports that show while T... [
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Published: March 5, 2010
18 Use Cases That Show Business How To Finally Put Customers First
Social and CRM: How Companies Will Manage Their Social Relationships
Over the last six months, I’ve been working closely with Ray Wang who is well known in the CRM space as an expert. Coupled with my focus on social technologies we did a deep dive on how our worlds are intersecting at Social CRM. In our opening webinar when we announced our joining of the firm, we made it clear that we were looking at the holistic business, a... [
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Published: March 9, 2010
When asked the biggest challenges in online video advertising this year, top executives at media agencies like Starcom and MediaVest say they're most eager to target audiences better and to access more sophisticated data around viewership. At last week's 4A's conference in San Francisco that drew top brass at ad agencies and brands, Daisy Whitney caught up with MediaVest's President Donna Speciale, Starcom USA CEO Lisa Donohue and 4A's Managing Director Harold Geller. Here's what they had to say... [
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Published: March 9, 2010
As reported on Friday I was reporting a huge announcement from Cisco that was dubbed "The Internet will change forever" hype. If you want to track the live blogging of the announcement go here from Scott Raynovich. It was the general opinion of all journalists that this made Cisco look bad for overhyping this announcement. TelecomTV was very critical of this overhype.
I reported five major elements that Cisco was going to announce an end-to-end network play which would either will be announce... [
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Published: March 9, 2010
A friend of Art and I, Dr. Melissa Clothier, put a post up on her blog today talking about an interesting trend in society fueled in part by social media and our ever splintering layers of technology: Rent-a-friends:
This Rent-A-Friend concept is intriguing. So rather than fussing with some person with a boring, involved life-story, call up Joe and go to the movie. You hang out, talk about the movie, have some temporary company and then, boom, done. No sordid break-up stories. No diatribes agai... [
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Published: March 9, 2010
Gabe Rivera's Techmeme is the news reader of choice for much of the Silicon Valley tech-setters -- more so than Techcrunch because it has a much wider selection of articles.
I often see Gabe at press events, he has a press pass like other journalists. But is he a journalist? After all, he doesn't write any of the stories that appear on Techmeme.
It seems that the Austin based conference South By South-West (SXSW) doesn't think he's a journalist because it refused to give Gabe a press pass. Does... [
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Published: March 7, 2010
Its been a few months since I last blogged on Energy Use in the Office. If you remember from pervious blogs, we did a small proof of concept last summer studying different energy saving techniques in the office environment and found that just providing individuals with Awareness of their usage and some simple tips and tricks to reduce was the most effective. Weve been planning a follow-on PoC, on much larger scale, for some time now and Im very excited to tell you that it is finally about to sta... [
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Published: March 9, 2010
If you are or about to commence a vPro activation, chances are you are using remote configuration for the provisioning process. That remote configuration process starts with you obtaining a Remote Configuration Certificate from one of the available commercial certificate vendors, such as Verisign, GoDaddy, Commodo or Starfield.Recently there have been some changes introduced by Verisign, for which a blog was posted by a colleague of mine - http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/vproex... [
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Published: March 9, 2010
On Friday March 12, I will be presenting on the topic of Data Center Efficiency along with Chris Auger, Manager Dell Enterprise Technology and Ziff Davisapos;s Aaron Goldberg.A quick excerpt from the agenda is captured here:The single biggest conundrum for IT is that of having to spend the bulk of the budget just maintaining existing systems, and having precious little to invest in the game breaking new applications that will really drive your company.My involvement and focus will be to share ho... [
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