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New Sophisticated Vectors of Attack….

September 17, 2013

Business

Computer security, Cyberwarfare, dropbox, Information security, malware, security, United States, wordpress

I tend to have a fairly laissez faire attitude towards cyber security – while I know full well just how much dodgy stuff happens online (hey, my spambox is as full of phishing attempts as anyones) I tend to…

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Zendesk moves Beyond Support – Launches Self-Service Help Center

August 21, 2013

Business

Adrian McDermott, Denmark, Help Center, Hong Kong, salesforce, Salesforce.com, wordpress, zendesk

Zendesk (disclosure – in the distant past I did a small amount of consulting to the company) is a company I’ve been following almost since its inception 6 or so years ago. In that time they’ve done an amazing…

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The Risk of Knee Jerk Comments and The Perils of Google Drive (Or Not)

May 28, 2013

Business

Critical thinking, Francisco Dao, google, google docs, Google Drive, McDonalds, Uniform Resource Locator, wordpress

As someone who has had more than his fair share of annoying people due to ill-advised and off-the-cuff remarks, a post I read recently on PandoDaily made me wince. Now I have to say that I absolutely love PandoDaily…

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AWS Launches a Marketplace–Proof that Much of the Value is Further Up the Stack

April 24, 2012

Business

amazon, amazon-web-service, AWS, BitNami, cloudcomputing, Platform as a service, VMware, wordpress

Summary – it’s a long post so here’s what you need to know. Amazon Web Services is moving up the stack. Existing ecosystem partners will benefit from that in the short term but it’s a risk for them long…

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Professional-Level Blog Hosting, On a Tight Budget

October 11, 2011

Content Delivery Network

cloud computing, CloudU, twitter, wordpress

A few months ago, finally sufficiently sick of the abysmal customer service and reliability delivered by my ISP, I decided to move the hosting of my blog to another provider. I reached out on Twitter and a buddy of mine (thanks Robot) pointed me in the direction of ZippyKid. Now ZippyKid is a great story […]

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Personyze Aims to Personalize Content Management

August 4, 2011

Business

ConstantContact, Demographics, DoubleClick, google, Joomla, mailchimp, Personalization, wordpress

Cross posted from ReadWriteWeb Every time I look at the visitor statistics for my blog, I’m amazed at the plethora of ways that people consume the content I create. Apart from the people who merely read my posts within…

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SocialText on Barriers to Adoption, and Why Consultants Miss the Point

November 8, 2010

Business

enterprise 2.0, Microsoft SharePoint, Ross Mayfield, Salesforce Chatter, SharePoint, SocialText, wordpress

I spent some time last week talking to Ross Mayfield, co-founder of SocialText and very much a luminary in the Enterprise 2.0 space. The reason for the call was to get an advance briefing about SocialText’s latest product release,…

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Mindtouch Packages Technical Communications with a Social Layer

September 23, 2010

Business

Aaron Fulkerson, MindTouch, wordpress

Mindtouch, the San Diego based enterprise collaboration vendor ,is today launching it’s technical Communications Suite that is designed to combine traditional technical communications content curation with ease of publishing, community engagement and social interactions. Mindtouch has already used this…

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Wordcamp Wellington…

August 2, 2009

Blogging, New Zealand

matt mullenweg, wordcamp, wordpress

This coming weekend sees Wellington hosting the New Zealand round of WordCamp. WordCamp is a conference that focuses on the intricacies of WordPress – one of the most popular blogging platforms on the web. In something of a coup,…

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Installing WordPress on a local machine…

May 17, 2008

Blogging, IT

LAMP, wordpress, XAMPP, xp

Reading yesterday of Mauricio’s problems with the Geekzone outage, I decided to review my backup procedures. I’ve always run an automated backup off this blog on a weekly basis, but in all honestly never knew for sure if I…

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