I started writing this post, but realized that it was going to be way too long. So I decided to split it into a series. Here goes part 1 of my series on Pricing in the Cloud. Happy Birthday, Amazon...

Cloud promises savings, delivers speedComputerworldIT leaders are being urged to use cloud computing to lower costs in the data center. But is speed the real payoff? By Robert L. Mitchell Computerworl...

Too often software design patterns are overlooked by network and application delivery network architects but these patterns are often equally applicable to addressing a broad range of architectural ch...

There’s been a lot of talk recently of the huge amount of search traffic Demand Media are getting from natural search which was disclosed in their documents going with their planned IPO. If you’v...

What’s the problem with promo codes? Also called coupon codes, voucher codes, offer codes or discount codes, promo codes are popular sales incentives offered by online retailers. They are also one o...

There are three stages of preparation. (For a speech, a product, an interview, a sporting event...) The first I'll call the beginner stage. This is where you make huge progress as a result of incre...

But unfortunately for Google and Nokia, bigger isn't necessarily better, and for Apple, less is probably more. The reason: it's not market share that counts. It's what portion of the market you have a...

Image Credit Product Management For A Niche Product Requires You To Hit The Target In this age of social media and short customer attention spans, product managers who are responsible for niche p...

Funny how all the social media pundits were screaming, “Content is King!” from rooftops as far back as there were social media pundits. If you heard that line once in advice, confe...

People are picking Informatica as the next likely acquisition target for Oracle

A couple of weeks ago, Alex Williams asked on the ReadWriteCloud weekly poll what people thought were the "worst terms" in cloud computing. The results were inconclusive. Or rather, there are a nu...

Many companies that I speak with think that the content they use in marketing campaigns needs to be big, heavy-duty pieces like white papers, eBooks and webinars. When theyre assessing how they can im...

This post originally appeared on Forbes.com, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about social media, business and technology.Why do web startups raise money? And how? These are two questions...

Facebook has launched a new feature for content discovery. If you go to facebook.com/pages/browser.php, you can discover Facebooks popular pages.    Users can browse popular pages by categories like...

As we get into more complex cloud computing solutions, the need for governance is back on the radar screen.   Although most have not noticed, there has been a focus lately on management a...

A few months ago one of my clients has changed platforms. The new platform changed almost everything we’ve optimized on-site for years. It even messed up the obvious SEO basics like title tags an...

Have you ever stopped to consider what tools small business owners take for granted in their daily routine?  The fax machine. The cell phone. And then there’s the spreadsheet. Many a time I have op...

Right now, there’s a very good chance that most people in America will soon have just one choice for truly high-speed Internet access suitable for watching video — their local cable monopoly. Wit...

We live in a world in which a kid with big obstacles but even bigger dreams can become a worldwide sensation overnight.  Zach Anner did not need a PR machine, a contract, or even much in the way of t...

Robert Scoble says "If the information is important it will find me". Friends on Twitter, Facebook, and Buzz, will expose the important information to us in real time. Techmeme, Digg, HackerNews, and...