Although an official press release has yet to be published, Silverpop received word early this morning from Goodmail that it will cease operations on Feb. 8, 2011, at 5 p.m. PST, giving its customers...

I'm just returning from another really great year at SXSW. It's always fun to meet up with so many new and old friends in just a few days in Austin. Beyond that, one of my favorite thing is bumpin...

Image by Krista76 via Flickr The chorus appears to be getting louder and louder on content marketing in bloggersphere, digital media, and traditional media.  Like any new concept over the years in bu...

I get asked a lot by developers and sysadmins how they should write their log messages and how they should configure their applications to log. They feel that often they miss to log at the right momen...

Amazon Web Services announced today the availability of a new service: Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances. Instead of using a multitenant architecture, the new service gives customers dedicated hardware....

A lot of tech vendors - and channel partners - are struggling over what channel partners' play in the cloud services demand chain is going to be. Technology is decreasingly delivered/consumed in the f...

More and more companies are moving from traditional servers to virtual servers in the cloud, and many new service-based deployments are starting in the cloud. However, despite the overwhelming popula...

AWS (Amazon Web Services) customers can now run their cloud applications on hardware dedicated to them, the company said on Monday.

Google thinks search agencies need a new name. In a recent Ad Age Digital Next blog post, John Nicoletti, Google’s head of agency development, asserts that search agencies have an opportunity to evo...

One of our readers has pointed out that Facebook page suggestions sent by administrators now include their images next to recommendations. This simple addition draws a lot more attention to these re...

Two recent news reports are bringing the digital wallet closer to reality. American Express  is offering a one-stop-shop payment platform in the form of an app for Apple iOS or Google Android users a...

When your data center is constantly under pressure to address operational risks, try leveraging some ancient wisdom from King Leonidas and William Wallace The Battle of Thermopylae is most often reme...

Tintri, developer of a purpose-built storage system for virtual machines, last week announced Tintri VMstore, a storage system that allows enterprises to overcome costly problems associated with the s...

Earlier this year I reported the launch of Starbucks' branded mobile payment system. A couple of months down the road, and millions are getting their caffeine fix with a wave of their mobile device.

The checkout process is a popular area of your site to test, and for good reason. When a visitor has added items to cart and clicks the “proceed to checkout” button, it’s a good indication of pu...

I was fortunate in many ways to “grow up” in my career within a “Giant.”  The $750 million dollar business unit I led had major competitors, but we were the leader in our ind...

Brands and businesses are looking for ways to leverage Facebook’s recently unveiled Questions tool in ways that differ from what they’re already doing on QA sites such as Quora, Yahoo Answers a...

A Fresh Look at the Crazy World of B2B Marketing today Last Thursday I attended the SDL Engage Summit in New York City. The keynote speaker was Brian Solis of the Altimeter Group (and author of the b...

As we know web browsers are a necessity for us to browse the world wide web and web browser isn’t just a software which was once created and we have been using that same application today. Like tech...

I am one of those people who has found a way to find the requisite balance between social media and a private life. Sure, it has taken a lot of work to get to that point (including nearly a month off...