- Blog Post: Tim Berners-Lee and the Invention of the World Wide Web
April 29, 2011
Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA (born 8 June 1955[1]), also known as "TimBL", is a British physicist, computer scientist and MIT professor, credited for his invention of...
- Huawei’s cloud computing ambitions
April 29, 2011
I was recently in China, visiting Gartner clients and prospects in Beijing and Shanghai, and attending Huawei’s analyst summit.
Why Huawei? I am an analyst covering services, after all, not equipmen...
- Yottaa Optimizer makes websites faster through the cloud
April 28, 2011
Yottaa has announced Yottaa Optimizer, a tool for optimizing websites through its cloud routing technology, resulting in faster page load times.
The service uses a variety of techniques for optimizati...
- 3 Lead Generation Myths That Will Clog Your Sales Funnel & Keep You From Closing More Sales
April 29, 2011
The Pipeline Guest Post – Joanne S. Black
Sales gurus tell us that getting more sales is all about your “activity,” but is it?
Our job as salespeople is to move as many qualifi...
- Amazon (finally) issues an outright apology.
April 29, 2011
It’s been almost two weeks since Amazon’s EC2 and RDS service took a fall sending an enormous number of websites and web apps crumbling to their feet.
One of the biggest criticisms of the whole...
- The history of search (infographic)
April 29, 2011
Aliweb, Wanderer, Lycos. They were amongst the first search engines out there in the early 1990s when Internet became a real public tool. It wasn’t until 1995 we saw the birth of Yahoo and Altavista...
- The Value Of Utilitarianism Marketing
April 29, 2011
It's a cluttered world. It's an even more cluttered Marketing world.
Brands still think it's all about the pomp and circumstance. It is... and it isn't. No one (especially me) is going to deny that a...
- Google Chrome 11 Kills Bugs, Adds Speech Input
April 28, 2011
The company paid out a record $16,500 in rewards to security researchers who helped to eliminate more than two dozen bugs.
- In Case You Missed It: Cloud Controversy
April 28, 2011
Cloud Tweets
@alexwilliams (Alex Williams) tweeted: “It’s not that AWS has doomed the cloud. Bullshit. The cloud is a lot more than AWS. They are just the leaders. That means more scrutiny.”
@ru...
- Gettin’ the scoop on the OpenStack Design Summit
April 28, 2011
Earlier this week, I attended the first two days of the OpenStack Design Summit out in Santa Clara, CA. Before I took off I grabbed sometime with Jim Curry, GM of Rackspace Cloud Builders and the...
- iPad Users Scroll More Google Search Results Than PC Users
April 28, 2011
In the still nascent tablet market, research is ongoing about how consumers interact with this new computing medium. Whether it is how users interact with tablet magazines or how much time they spend...
- Is Reddit Eclipsing Digg in Traffic?
April 28, 2011
Digg’s precipitous plummet has left Reddit with a bigger-than-ever piece of the Internet pie, according to stats from three major traffic-tracking organizations.In fact, according to two of these...
- Does Social Media Marketing Ever Sleep?
April 28, 2011
When it’s your job to be the brand ambassador or community manager for a company, is it ever OK to just tune out?
Last night, I had just started to drift off to Dreamland land when...
- #OpenStack “Operating Hyperscale Clouds” preso given at Design Summit on 4/27. #crowbar
April 28, 2011
Today, I gave the a presentation that is the sequel to the “bootstrapping the hyperscale clouds.“ The topic addresses concerns raised by the BlackOps concept but brings up history and perspectiv...
- How to Incrementally Embrace Public Cloud Computing
April 28, 2011
Make the Financial Case for Virtualization and Cloud ComputingWhen it comes to production applications in the enterprise, many cloud computing service providers are willing to be bench players.Instea...
- Digital Realty Buys Land for Ashburn Expansion
April 28, 2011
One of the data centers at the Digital Realty Trust campus in Ashburn, Va.
Digital Realty Trust has bought additional land in Ashburn, Virginia and plans to build new data centers on the property to a...
- Content Marketing Expert Joe Pulizzi interviewed by Hubspot
April 27, 2011
B2B Lead Generation | Content Marketing
Joe Pulizzi, Content Marketing Expert
Great video interview with the author of Get Content, Get Customers by the smart folks at Hubspot. Here’s the permalink....
- Congrats to Marketing Automation companies for a great quarter!
April 27, 2011
Lead Generation Company | Great quarter in marketing automation
Find New Customers wishes to congratulate the marketing automation industry for a fine quarter. We especially congratulate strong suppor...
- Steve Jobs and the Power of Storytelling
April 28, 2011
Quick, think of a good story you’ve heard in the last few months, or even years – any story (short story, childhood bedtime story, a narrative joke, story in a presentation, etc)....
- What CenturyLink is Getting with Savvis
April 27, 2011
I scribbled off a quick blog post on the CenturyLink acquisition of Savvis but didn’t have time to delve into it in detail at the time. This is a bit of a follow-up.
Savvis has three core businesses...
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