Many of the innovations that companies are depending on to compete in a hyper-competitive global economy â analytics, e-business, automation, cloud, and yes, SOA â are all about IT.

Automation implies integration. Integration implies access. Access requires authentication and authorization. That’s where things start to get interesting… Discussions typically associated wi...

“It’s right there, just click on ‘Company’, then ‘About the Team’, and then ‘Areas of Expertise.’” “We need the form to capture the Social Security number, because then our phone r...

  Top Brands on Facebook  by Lauren Pelkey It appears Facebookers love their sweets and caffeinated beverages. Five of the top ten brands on Facebook are Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Oreo, Skittles an...

Ideas spread when people to choose to spread them. Here are some reasons why: I spread your idea because it makes me feel generous. ...because I feel smart alerting others to what I discovered. ....

The slow and steady increase in broadband speeds means we are using the Internet more often for more things. Statistical proof of this trend came via the latest edition of Cisco Systems Visual Network...

Squidoos co-founder Megan Casey says she wants to change our views on game mechanics, how we think about them in the traditional and non-traditional sense. In other words, instead of putting the idea...

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg made a “surprise” appearance on the stage of PayPal’s Innovate Developer Conference today to announce its new integration with PayPal. During her short speech, she d...

I’ve mentioned the benefits of having an editorial calendar several times on this blog, and Lisa has done an excellent job of explaining why you need an editorial calendar from a content production...

Content, which is anything that informs, educates, or entertain online, is your business digital body language. The Internet changed how people find and read content. While it was helpful to have a...

People are having conversations these days, only not with brands but about them. Id like to suggest that were at the start of something big -- something bigger than simple engagement or entertainment,...

Ray Ozzie penned a 3,500 word thought piece called "Dawn of a new day" outlining his vision for the Post PC World. It is an interesting read coming from the Chief Software Architect of the worlds larg...

IBM's cloud computing strategy is apparent to some extent with Cognos 10, the latest release of the business intelligence platform. As part of Cognos 10, IBM is delivering a cloud-based service they...

The below video captures Clara Shih's talk on the Facebook Era at BizTechDay in San Francisco this past weekend. She says, "understand your target market and do your social graph homework." Key takea...

Innovations to improve SaaS platforms often come from people who use the technology every day. People need shortcuts or sometimes, ways to create a workaround for a change to the user interface. Ent...

Believe it or not, Google hasn’t forgotten about Feedburner. The RSS feed service has received an experimental new interface that better matches Google Analytics and looks like it might actually int...

Networking research from Arbor Networks shows that Google continues to see strong traffic growth. “While its not news that Google is Big, what is amazing is how much bigger Google continues to get,?...

When it’s all said and done, there is no more powerful weapon in an online retailer’s arsenal than the add-to-cart button. Merchants can spend unlimited resources on market research, product deve...

With the recent advancement and diversification in online marketing strategies, some might think that email marketing is a relic of the past; but the numbers tell a different story. Not only is market...

My first job was on a bond trading floor at a Wall Street investment bank. It's impossible to overstate the impact of innovations in computing and telecommunications on the financial markets in the 1...