Having moaned about the poor job vendors are doing in helping customers explain how they manage the potential pitfalls and barriers associated with SaaS it was refreshing to see spons...

Even though cloud computing is few years old now and Amazon Web Services is considered as the poster child of public clouds, pundits and others were deeply mystified about the size of Amazon's cloud c...

Chess by Alejandro Fernandez Everybody seems to agree with the “content is king” mantra. At the same time most articles, blog posts in and outside the SEO industry seemed to i...

IBM invited a group of bloggers for a day to talk with executives and a visit to the labs. This morning the discussion centered on analytics. This afternoon the conversation still focused on analytics...

After three weeks of testing, Flickr is rolling out its massively redesigned photo pages to all of its users.The redesign overhaul focuses three key aspects of the photo page: the navigation, the cont...

I recently concluded a very detailed study of the most influential technical documentation sites of 2010 to determine what made them influential.  What I discovered transcended documentation to incl...

Cloud Computing Is Here to Stay! For some, this summer is shaping up to be the “Summer of Cloud Computing,” with every major technology vendor announcing products, or at least...

When Facebook started work on its first wholly owned data center almost eight months ago, it was heading towards 400 million users worldwide and plans were set for a 147,000 square foot facility. But...

Network Solutions has released a unique iPhone application that enables the search and purchase of domain names. Named DomainStorm, the application is Network Solutions first. The applications BrainS...

We put together a new infographic about The History of Search Engines. You can take a sneak peek below, or head on over to the full-sized infographic: This post originated on the WordStream Blog. Wor...

By Scott Gillum, SVP GyroHSR The Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary defines a cloud as a “visible mass of particles of condensed vapor.”  According to CIOs interviewed for an article in the...

I am at IBM's blogger day at the corporate headquarters in Armonk, New York. Officially it's called the "Smarter Planet Blogger Day." I'm hoping to get some insight into a company with more software t...

The game used to be relatively simple. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye. Keep it updated. Make your content at least semi-friendly for search engines. Bingo!...

One of the things about being an analyst is that clients rely on you to cut through the hype and claims to find out about reality (or as close as they can get).  I have had some interactions with som...

Rapportive - is a plug-in for GMail (or more exactly - for browser) which in the GMail's right pane instead of ads shows the social profile of the person who sent you the email. The information for th...

Despite being the fastest selling OS in history, Windows 7 has yet to eclipse XP, which holds greater marketshare than Vista and 7 combined, according to NetApplications.

According to the recent Yankee Group survey, "more enterprises consider cloud computing a viable technology, with nearly 60 percent saying they view it as a business enabler versus less than 40 percen...

Source GigaOM It goes without saying that with its array of web services, Amazon has transformed the computing landscape and nurtured what is generically known as the cloud comput...

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.The debate continues on w...

The week before last our team decided to divide and conquer to cover two simultaneous events.  Half of us headed to Portland, Oregon for  OSCON and the other half stayed here in Austin to participat...