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Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com
The Google You Tube take over has got people talking about what media 2.0 will look like. One part of the debate is: does it mean a radically lower overall cost of advertising? Here’s my answer.In the past media organisations have had some form of control (being able to meet distribution costs, owning broadcast networks...
Filed at 5:28am
Editor · Enterprise Applications
Posted by David Bercovich, Product Marketing Manager Alacra has announced that they are using the Google Search Appliance to power search behind the Alacra Compliance Web , a vertical search application that enables financial services companies to comply with the litany of regulatory constraints present in that industry.
Filed at 10:13am
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software
There's a great article in Baseline Magazine on the current state of adoption of Web Services Management platforms. It includes several case studies and references of organizations that are using them to govern their SOA deployments.
Filed at 10:15am
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com
The week’s really been about classifieds. It might have been about Google and YouTube or even Iran, Bush, Blair, Bertie or bungs but it’s definitely been about classifieds and classifieds are what will change our lives.What’s currently protecting newspapers from rapid decline - in fact what’s keeping newspapers buoyed - is the fact that the...
Filed at 11:43am
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com
The editor of Business 2.0 is asking every journalist at his magazine to create a blog. And in a possible first for a major publisher, the participating bloggers at the Time Inc. title will be paid based on their traffic.Via Iwantmedia.
Filed at 11:56am
Dave Hitz · Founder and Executive Vice President, Network Appliance · Networking
There is an interesting relationship between the bandwidth of the human optic nerve and the evolution of computer architectures. Early timeshare systems had way too little bandwidth between the computer and the user. Way, way less than the bandwidth of my eye. As a kid, I remember playing the computer game Star Trek on a 300 baud modem. The "long range scan" was painfully slow, even though all it printed was a 10 by 10 array of letters showing the current sector in space. (E is for Enterprise; K is for Klingon.) Later, when I got my first programming job, my terminal was 1200 baud—only senior engineers rated 2400 or 4800 baud terminals. Still painfully slow.
Filed at 1:30pm
Randy Littleson · CEO, Kinaxis · Enterprise Applications
Technology Forecasters, Inc. (TFI) is predicting continued growth in outsourcing via their updated five year forecast. According to a release they just put out, TFI estimates that total outsourcing is projected to grow from just over $200 billion in 2005 to nearly $380 billion by 2010.
Filed at 1:58pm
Editor · Storage
StorageMojo’s comment on "The Capacity Illusion" points out that RAID was developed 20 years ago when "capacity was expensive and I/Os were relatively cheap…. Now the world is different and capacity is cheap and I/Os are expensive", he submits that "if Patterson et al. were designing a fast, very big, very reliable drive today, it...
Filed at 4:50pm