Web 2.0 News Desk

Coming to a Screen Near You – iCON

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:15:00 EDT

Dan Lyons, the modern American Clark Kent known, loved and loathed as the Fake Steve Jobs, has been signed by EPIX, the online TV and film network, to create a half-hour Silicon Valley comedy series with Seinfeld writer Larry Charles called iCON, “a study of ego, power and greed.” Charles claimed in a press release that it will be “nothing less than a modern Citizen Kane.” The composite centerpiece of the “scabrous satire of Silicon Valley and its most famous citizen” is a guy named Tom Rhodes. iCon, by the way, was the name of that unauthorized biography that Jobs ordered off the shelves of Apple stores.

NSDesign Creates Bespoke Social Networking Business Site

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:18:00 EDT

Social networking expert NSDesign has launched a bespoke business social networking platform for the International Business Technology and Innovation Exchange (IBTIX) - www.ibtix.com. The £25,000 contract is one of the largest NSDesign has secured to date and is another significant addition to the company’s growing portfolio. The network will allow innovative businesses to showcase their products and services and connect with new customers using state of the art business social networking tools. Managing Director of NSDesign, Gary Ennis, said: “We are delighted to have been working with IBTIX as this network can offer companies like ourselves the opportunity to acquire new business and grow. Not only has this been one of our biggest financial contracts to date but working with IBTIX has given us the opportunity to be introduced to major international companies.”

Web 2.0 Mobile Revenues to Reach $18.9 Billion by 2014

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:57:00 EDT

Demand for mobile access to Web 2.0 applications and services will see related annual revenues from these services hit $18.9 billion in 2014, a new report from Juniper Research has found. Presence-enabled communities, such as mobile voice-over-IP (VoIP), will be the primary market driver, followed by rapid growth in the social Web – which encompasses social networking, user-generated content (UGC) and mobile dating, chat & professional applications. Geolocation will also be an important enabler, and is forming part of an increasing number of Web 2.0 mobile mash-up service offerings. The mobile social web report found that despite pricing models and monetisation of Web 2.0 presenting a significant challenge for many online service providers, numerous opportunities exist in the mobile market based around advertising, messaging, premium services and virtual economies, coupled with the strategic micro-billing capability of mobile.

Google China Has Called the Movers: Reports

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:15:00 EDT

Google's reportedly admitting that it's met somebody that's bigger, tougher and even more dominance-minded than it is, namely the Chinese government, which isn't going to let a little thing like Google leaving the country come between it and a censored Internet. Whatever talks Google has had with the Chinese government have apparently gone nowhere. The Financial Times has it from "a person familiar with the company's thinking" that Google is 99.9% certain to shut down its Chinese search engine and has drawn up a detailed evacuation plan.

2010 Turing Award Goes To Microsoft's Thacker

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:45:00 EST

This morning I read in the WSJ about the Turing award for this year given to Charles Thacker. I must admit I did not now much about Charles Thacker, he being mostly from the hardware side of the business. For those not familiar with this award, it is the highest honor given to contributions in computer science. Some call it the equivalent of a Nobel prize. It comes with a check of $250K and a citation. The late Dr. Ted Codd, pioneer of relational database theory received it back in 1981. The late Jim Gray got it in 1998 for his pioneering work on the “ACID properties of a database” and here is a short article by Mike Stonebraker on why Gray got it. Charles Bachman got it way back in 1973 for inventing the concept of a DBMS based on his work on IDS which became IDMS in Cullinet.

Google Sets Up Google Apps Store

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:30:00 EST

Apple is beginning to know how Xerox PARC felt. Like Apple did to PARC, Google has lifted from Apple again this time on behalf of Google Apps and set up a Google Apps Marketplace where third parties can sell business programs that integrate with Google Apps to the two million companies and 25 million users that have reportedly adopted Google Apps in the last three years. The marketplace, which will irritate Microsoft, launched Tuesday with some 50 programs from companies like Intuit and Atlassian and more reportedly coming from companies like NetSuite and SuccessFactors. Skytap is kicking in its cloud.

JackBe Launches Cloud Computing Mashup Platform

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:15:00 EST

JackBe enterprise mashup software company, on Thursday announced that its award-winning Presto Enterprise Mashup Platform is now running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. ‘Presto Cloud (Community Edition)’ is immediately available at no cost to all members of JackBe’s Mashup Developer Community. Presto Cloud (Community Edition) combines agile mashup creation with the instant accessibility of a cloud service, enabling mashup developers to connect Internet-based data sources in their own secure workspace and easily share their mashups with community members around the world. With Presto Cloud (Community Edition), users can also take advantage of a public mashup catalog consisting of hundreds of mashable data sources from JackBe Preferred Partners as well as shared mashup applications created by other community members.

Social Media Marketing & Advisors Take Spotlight As Advisōlocity Launches

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:37:00 EST

Advisōlocity, a social media marketing resource dedicated to advisors and money managers on a creative budget, launched to criticism and acclaim this week. Charlie O'Neill, former managing director of Putnam Investments said, "Advisōlocity should be careful not to look like just another marketing agency. The message should be consistently about the power of social media." Paula David, Chief Marketing Officer of legacy firm Funds Distributor, Inc. praised Advisōlocity's founders D. Bruce Johnston, John Drachman and Zach Hedges for their initiative and said, "Their methodical approach to creative will put nervous clients, unfamiliar with the social media marketing process, at ease." "What distinguishes us from other agencies is our executive level understanding of the investment industry," said D. Bruce Johnston, Institutional Investor's 2000 Fund Marketer of the Year. "Combining traditional marketing communications and financial social media, we offer a comprehensive, flexible menu of solutions that can grow with our clients' firms over time." A first step in that effort is the Advisōlocity Social Media Starter kit that offers a social media policy statement, white paper, blogging support and metrics -- all for under $9,000.

Melih Oztalay Launches "Local Business Listings" Topic on Ulitzer

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:30:00 EST

Local business listing give the local business and the small business the opportunity to tap into the local consumers that they rely on for their revenues. Local business listings are showing up on the first page of search results as well as on mobile search when the local consumer is traveling around town. In order to properly tap into this local business marketing tool you have to claim your listing, update your listing, manage your listing at multiple local listing websites. Progression of this local business marketing tool includes QR Codes, Consumer Review Management and Citations. Additional marketing tools will become available as the industry matures and evolves around local business listings in the next three years.

Open-Xchange & Bull Germany to Offer Hosted Groupware

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:00:00 EST

Bull will now offer its German customers Open-Xchange mail and groupware. They can use Open-Xchange as a hosted solution provided by Bull or run it in-house as on-premise installation – and switch between the types of operation any time they like.

Salesforce Chatter Hits Private Beta

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:45:00 EST

Salesforce.com has started privately beta testing its newfangled Chatter widgetry, the socially tuned real-time enterprise widgetry that’s supposed to accelerate the end of pricey and complex legacy apps like SharePoint and Lotus Notes. Although 67,000 customers reportedly volunteered, Salesforce has got a hundred companies including Reed Exhibitions, the Schumacher Group and TransUnion piloting the stuff and accessing feeds via BlackBerry and iPhone, an unexpected feature. The company says participants from various industries, including financial services, manufacturing, high tech and professional services, were chosen based on their existing Salesforce.com deployments and potential Chatter use cases.

Microsoft Ties Outlook to LinkedIn; Facebook & MySpace to Follow

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:15:00 EST

Microsoft Wednesday tied its Outlook e-mail client to LinkedIn – with Facebook and MySpace to follow – to “bring social networking into the inbox.” It’s supposed to be more private than Google’s disaster with Buzz and connect to existing social networks rather than create new ones. LinkedIn for Outlook, a 32-bit downloadable public beta, lets users of the Office 2010 beta see status updates and photos in e-mail. Outlook contact data can be updated by LinkedIn contact data, LinkedIn connections can be added through Outlook and mobile phone contact info sync’d with web data. Facebook and MySpace connections will be available down the road. The widgetry will be in Office 2010 when it comes out in June and made available as add-ons to Office 2003 and 2007 complements of Microsoft’s so-called Outlook Social Connector.

GoAdv Acquires Italy's Top Blog Network Blogosfere

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:30:00 EST

GoAdv, one of Europe's fastest growing digital media companies (http://www.goadv.com), has acquired Italy's top blog network as part of its worldwide growth strategy. Blogosfere, launched in 2005, now counts more than 210 professional blogs across its network and has a user base of over 3 million* (http://www.blogosfere.it) Complementing GoAdv's vision for expansion, Blogosfere fits perfectly inside the Group's core media brands of specialized vertical websites delivering high quality editorial to passionate communities. As one of Italy's most notable professional blog networks, Blogosfere counts many of the country's most read and commented blogs in its portfolio and covers a diverse range of subjects including news, economy, culture, sport and entertainment.

Alane Moran Launches F5 Networks Topic on Ulitzer

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:30:00 EST

Alan Moran on Wednesday launched F5 Networks "new media" topic on Ulitzer. Alane Moran is the Sr. Director of Corporate Communications at F5 Networks. Through her interaction with industry pundits, journalists and partners around the globe, Alane works to convey F5’s unique value proposition, helping the market mature from simple ‘load balancing’ to today’s mission critical ‘application delivery’ market. F5 Networks is the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), focused on ensuring the secure, reliable, and fast delivery of applications. F5’s flexible architectural framework enables community-driven innovation that helps organizations enhance IT agility and dynamically deliver services that generate true business value

Google Buzz May Violate Wiretap Laws: EPIC

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:15:00 EST

Introduced last week Google's Facebook / Twitter-like Buzz social networking widgetry, untested outside the company and put in Gmail as a default, immediately raised a privacy hullabaloo over the idea that a list of the people Gmail users communicated with the most would be automatically shared with a Google-created network of their friends and who knows who else. Silly Google. It must have no secret lovers, abusive ex-husbands or politically incorrect friends best not known to each other or Big Brother. So far the company's apologized at least once, changed the thing twice, set up a "war room" to monitor reactions and contemplate further changes like creating a standalone Buzz, not integrated with Gmail, besides the one tied to Gmail.

Ulitzer Launches Google Buzz News Topic

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:15:00 EST

Google Buzz "new media" topic launched on Monday on Ulitzer. Google Buzz is a social integration and messaging tool by Google, designed to integrate into the company's web-based email program, Gmail. Shared links and messages show up in the user's inbox. Buzz focuses on integrating photos, videos, and links as part of the "conversations" aspects of Gmail like conversation threading. Ulitzer is the first "new media" platform in the world that revolutionizes how we will create, deliver, and consume content on the Web. Ulitzer authors can get started with their first article in a few minutes and may start a new "topic" on any subject or write a story and post it both to their Ulitzer author page and to any existing Ulitzer topic. The network effect of people using Ulitzer to communicate and collaboratively produce and categorize content is disruptive, bypassing traditional media and middlemen. Topics published on Ulitzer range from Greek Isles in the Summer to New-Media via Personal Branding and Marketing & Sales.

Google Buzz’s Privacy Tweaks

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:15:00 EST

PC World – Google Buzz got off to a rocky start this week with complaints over exposed Gmail contacts and other privacy issues, and Google has scrambled to fix them. In a blog post, Gmail and Google Buzz Product Manager Todd Jackson outline some changes that will make it easier for new Google Buzz users to control their privacy settings. Here’s a rundown, along with more privacy suggestions — as long as Google’s in the mood to fix things.

Google Buzz’s Rocky Start May Lead to Gmail-Free Version

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:15:00 EST

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Twitter & Facebook Get a Buzz Cut

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:15:00 EST

Reportedly unable to buy Twitter last summer, Google got Twitter-ized Tuesday. It has integrated a self-affirming, “I tweet therefore I am,” so-called babble-style capability smacking a lot of Facebook and Twitter into Gmail so users can share media and status updates with a connected circle of their friends – and the web, if they choose, where it will be indexed and searchable.

Location-Enabled Social Media

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:15:00 EST

GyPSii , the market-leading mobile digital lifestyle application and geo-mobility social media platform, and Telmap, the mobile search, mapping and navigation pioneers, jointly announced today a partnership to develop and introduce advanced location-based social networking as part of Telmap’s Mobile Location Companion. As part of the cooperation, Telmap will introduce social networking and user-generated content, to the Telmap5 Mobile Location Companion using GyPSii’s Open API, OpenExperience™. Telmap5 will offer users access to all their networks of friends across social networks including Facebook and Twitter. The integration with GyPSii’s Open API empowers Telmap5 mobile users to connect the real world with the digital world: accessing and contributing location-aware content, sharing locations, reading and posting recommendations, videos, pictures, finding friends, events, and places, geo-blogging, and more—all in one app.

Magic Software to Demonstrate Microsoft SharePoint Integration with Social Media

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:21:00 EST

Magic Software Enterprises Inc., a subsidiary of Magic Software Enterprises Ltd., a provider of application platforms and business and process integration solutions, on Tuesday announced that its new iBOLT business integration suite component for Microsoft SharePoint will enable unlimited closed loop integration between Microsoft SharePoint and enterprise systems for ERP, CRM, HRIS and other critical business functions as well as social media content from websites such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Science Discovery: The Next Computing Landscape

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:45:00 EST

Computational science is the field of study concerned with constructing mathematical models and numerical techniques that represent scientific, social scientific or engineering problems and employing these models on computers, or clusters of computers, to analyze, explore or solve these models. Numerical simulation enables the study of complex phenomena that would be too expensive or dangerous to study by direct experimentation.

Google to Join the Babble Crowd: WSJ

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:30:00 EST

Reportedly unable to just buy Twitter last summer, Google is going Twitteresque. According the Wall Street Journal, Gmail will be adding a self-affirming, pointless babble, “I tweet therefore I am” capability in the style of Facebook and Twitter to its skills so users can share media and status updates with a connected circle of their friends.

Snowpocalypse 2010: Report From ShmooCon 2010

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:30:00 EST

Here I am at ShmooCon 2010 right in the middle of what people here in Washington DC are calling Snowpocalypse 2010. The Metro, busses, and taxis are all closed down and essentially the city has shut down. Being from Cleveland I find it a little laughable but it’s still a pretty bad storm. Well that hasn’t stopped ShmooCon from going strong.

This being my first hacker con it took me a little while to get acclimated to what kind of talks would be interesting and relevant to me as a network/firewall security guy. The first talk I found interesting was about an OWASP project called OWASP BWA (Broken Web Application). This project combines many of the web app testing programs into one place to help you sharpen your web app testing skills. You can install the iso in a VM as a place to test against. BWA combines Mutillidae, WebGoat, etc with some old versions of real programs like phpBB 2.0.0 and WordPress 2.0.0. Essentially it’s a one stop shop for broken web apps. The thing I found especially interesting was that it integrates with many WAFs like mod_security. This way you can test your WAF (Web App Firewall) to see how much it’s really blocking. This seems like a decent way to audit your WAF yourself. It’s good from time to time to test your firewalls to make sure they’re blocking everything they claim/should be.

The other talk that I found interesting was a demonstration of a Perl script that someone wrote to exploit the most recent VMWare vulnerability. Using an XSS attack the script (called gueststealer) can be put on to the hypervisor and it will steal the vmdk and vmx files of all the guest machines running there. So if you haven’t done your VMWare patches I suggest you start putting plans in place to get that done.

Another thing I’ve learned is a bit about lockpicking. I spent some time with some other con attendees learning how to pick from them. I got through a few 3pin locks and a Master lock rather easily. It definitely scared me a little how easy it was. The easiest lock to get through I thought was the wafer locks which you see a lot on filing cabinets and car doors. A set of wafer keys will get you into those cabinets and cars in literally seconds. It makes me glad our stuff is stored encrypted and and not in a filing cabinet somewhere.

I spent Friday evening attending the FireTalks. A series of 15 minutes talks not technically sanctioned by ShmooCon but with some talented people sharing what they know/learned/built. The most interesting of which being the SET v0.4 talk given by Dave Kennedy. He did a good job despite having real snowballs being thrown at him while he was presenting. I’ve seen his work on SET presented before but he has added some great features like exploits for Mac, Linux, as well as Windows which was the only OS supported before. He also put in self-signed Java applets so the user thinks the applet running is actually from the legitimate site that you just cloned. If you want to test how good your company’s security awareness policy is use SET (shameless plug: And once you’ve tested call us at Hurricane Labs to help you get to where you need to be).

I’m looking forward to more learing tomorrow and I’ll let you know what happens.

Talk to you then,

Matt

PS – You’re probably reading this on Saturday when I posted it. I didn’t post on Friday because the wireless here isn’t all that secure and I couldn’t pick up the wireless from our hotspot up in my room. In case you don’t know, NEVER use the wireless at a security conference. It’s just asking for trouble.

#TwitterJamBand to Perform Benefit Concert Live

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:00:00 EST

Over the last six months, a group of social media musicians in San Antonio have been playing music together under the name, #TwitterJamBand. It's really been a way to get friends together, jam and just have some fun. In the process, the band is being noticed by the media, world-wide. As the band and the get-togethers progressed, they decided to combine social media with social good by holding what they believe to be the first live, streaming benefit concert during the Super Bowl on Sunday, February 7 (the band is not associated with the NFL).

Marilyn Moux Launches "Bergen County Real Estate" News Topic on Ulitzer

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:45:00 EST

Marilyn Moux launched on Friday "Bergen County New Jersey Real Estate News" topic on Ulitzer. Marilyn is a licensed real estate broker associate with Weichert Realtors, in Ramsey, New Jersey. She can be reached at mmoux (at) weichert.com or by phone ta 201 446-1402. Bergen County is the most populous county of the state of New Jersey, United States. As of the 2000 Census, the population was 884,118, growing to 904,037 as of the Census Bureau's 2006 estimate. It is part of the New York Metropolitan Area. Its county seat is Hackensack. Bergen County ranks 8th among the highest-income counties in the United States in 2006 in terms of per-capita income.

DrupalCon 2010 San Francisco Venue Announced

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:15:00 EST

Orchestra is excited at the possibility of having DrupalCon 2010 in San Francisco, CA. If you think it would be a good idea to have DrupalCon here on the West Coast, sign up for the site updates and check out the proposal. Leave the team feedback and let them know your thoughts on the City by the Bay. To check out the proposal, go here: DrupalConSF 2010

DrupalCon 2010 Coming to San Francisco in April

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:45:00 EST

Marking its first appearance in San Francisco, Calif., DrupalCon 2010 will take place April 19-21, 2010 at the Moscone Center. DrupalCon is the premier conference for Drupal, the award-winning open source content management framework that is galvanizing social publishing and web development today. Session proposals will be accepted through February 15. The Drupal social publishing system has been downloaded over 2 million times since its inception, and project growth has doubled annually for several years. Drupal is used to deliver a wide variety of application types including single or multi-user blogs, wikis, community networks, digital media portals, and web content publishing and management.

Funambol Enhances Open Source Mobile Cloud for Rich Media, Social Networks

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:45:00 EST

Funambol, the leading provider of open source mobile cloud sync and push email for billions of phones, today introduced a major new version of its software. Funambol 8.5 propels the company's open source mobile cloud platform into important new directions by syncing diverse mobile data, rich media and messaging on billions of phones and PCs. The company is also unveiling its new "build once, deploy everywhere" framework that enables developers to use familiar web 2.0 technology to create one version of a web app that runs on mobile devices with a rich UI, offline storage and social capabilities. This provides several advantages: fast time to market, easy development and native look-and-feel.

Google Hackers Reportedly Spied on Social Networks

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:15:00 EST

The Chinese hackers that targeted Google, Adobe and 30 other companies spied on their employees and learned who their friends were through social networking sites. Then they appropriated the friends’ identities and that’s how they got the unsuspecting employees to open the e-mail that opened the back doors into their corporate networks for the hackers, according to the Financial Times. Of course we already know that the folks they targeted were the ones with access to proprietary data.

Apple iPad Impressive, but Kindle Not Dead Yet

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:00:00 EST

Apple’s iPad announcement is big news. It’s a robust tablet form factor that is a half-inch thick and weighs 1.5 pounds, with a 9.7-inch capacitive touchscreen IPS LCD display that supports 1024x768 VGA video. The ebook implementation is everything one would expect. The application can be downloaded from the App Store and the content is managed by the “iTunes” platform, so it seamlessly integrates e-book with the other popular personal content. All iBooks are stored on your Bookshelf. As you would expect, all books are displayed on a sharp, color screen with many personalization options.

iPad New Media Topic Launched on Ulitzer

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:00:00 EST

Ulitzer.com, the first revolutionary "new media" platform in the world, announced today that a new Ulitzer topic site, Apple Tablet (http://tablet.ulitzer.com), was launched today to provide the most comprehensive breaking news and blog coverage of Apple Tablet. Launch time authors and contributors to the new Ulitzer topic include: Maureen O'Gara, Bob Gourley, Salvatore Genovese, Wilson Kerr, Brandon Watson, Aditya Banerjee, Scott McKain, Bryan O'Rourke, Charles Jolley, Jeremy Geelan, Yeshim Deniz, and Elizabeth White.

Billboard Mistress Upstages Larry Ellison

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:45:00 EST

Oracle’s co-president Chuck Phillips and his ex-girlfriend YaVaughnie Wilkins overshadowed Oracle’s hard-won victory over the European Commission and its pending $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems last week after Ms. Wilkins plastered snuggly “soul mates forever” pictures of the two of them on billboards in Times Square in New York (where Phillips maintains a place), Atlanta (where his wife and son live) and San Francisco (near Oracle and the $11 million house that he bought for the now-evicted or at least departed mistress).

Content Marketing Strategies on Ulitzer

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:00:00 EST

Continuing its robust growth throughout the global recession, content marketing spending is again slated to grow in 2010, according to the annual Junta42 content marketing survey. The majority of marketing professionals polled in the survey plan to increase their spending on content marketing initiatives in 2010 and are planning to allocate an all-time high of 33% of their overall budget to such efforts. Only 7% of participants predicted they would spend less this year than in 2009.

Ulitzer Expands Its Holocaust Research Project Syndication

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:45:00 EST

Ulitzer.com, the first revolutionary "new-media" platform in the world, announced today that the news syndication for Holocaust Research Project topic on Ulitzer has been expanded. HEART on Ulitzer was launched on April 9, 2009. The aim of H.E.A.R.T is to inform and educate people about the Holocaust and the extermination programs conducted by the Nazi regime throughout Europe during the Second World War. H.E.A.R.T research and material is contributed from a group of independent Holocaust researchers who devote their spare time to research for the production of this website and other forms of related publications, such as leaflets and books.

Ulitzer Blogger Meets President of Philippines

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:45:00 EST

Today, I received an email from Inday Vinas, one of our Ulitzer authors, and her photo meeting and shaking hands with Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Republic of the Philippines. She writes, "as a leading Filipino blogger whose success depends on Ulitzer to reach a worldwide audience, I was a special guest of the Office of the President at Convergence 2009, a conference focused on the present and future potential of the Philippines in the field of Global IT." Inday's blog can be found at http://indayvinas.ulitzer.com.

Kynetx Developer Program Vision Comes to Life with More Than 800 New Apps

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:02:00 EST

Kynetx is a client-side revolution with its unparalleled development platform and program. At the heart of the platform is a rules-based language that allows developers to build entirely new web experiences that are cross-site, cross-platform and respond to context in the user’s environment. By leveraging this platform, the Kynetx developer program has already garnered more than 300 developers resulting in over 800 applications.

Precise Delivers Next-Generation Media Intelligence with Autonomy

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:56:00 EST

Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise and Precise, the UK leader in media intelligence, today announced a strategic collaboration under which Precise will develop and market next-generation media intelligence services to the PR and communications sectors. Precise will employ Autonomy's unique Meaning Based Computing technology to enhance its monitoring and analysis capabilities across the entire media spectrum, including broadcast, print, web, social media and discussion forums. Autonomy's core infrastructure software the Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) was selected owing to its ability to go beyond simple keyword search and provide unmatched conceptual capabilities, format and language independence and unparalleled scalability.

TAITO Makes Longterm Commitment to OpenFeint and DeNA Partnership

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:01:00 EST

Aurora Feint Inc., developer of OpenFeint(TM), the leading social gaming platform for the iPhone® with over 8.5 million players, announced that TAITO Corporation, a major Japanese game developer and one of DeNA's key partners in the gaming industry, has agreed to use OpenFeint in their game line up.

Scott Brown to Win Senate Race by a Landslide

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:06:00 EST

"Being a search marketer who specializes in researching keywords, I decided to launch my own investigation to see if I could find out more information about the dynamics of this US Senate race based on internet marketing and social media metrics," said WordStream Founder and Vice President of Product Development Larry Kim. "The findings were staggering. The data suggests that conventional pollsters and Washington insiders have it completely wrong, and Brown is going to trounce Coakley."