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June 12, 2008  9:40 PM

What is Microsoft’s vision for social computing? Sharepoint’s Community Lead offers some perspective.



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Lawrence Liu is a Senior Technical Product Manager and the Community Lead for SharePoint Products and Technologies at Microsoft. In the short video below, he talks with WhatIs.com's Alex Howard on the demo floor at the Enterprise...

June 12, 2008  6:08 PM

What is Social Sites 2.0? Newsgator enhances Sharepoint’s social computing utility for the enterprise.



Posted by: GuyPardon
applications, business, buzz, collaboration, demonstration, design, enterprise 2.0, innovation, Microsoft, screencast, social bookmarking, social networking, software, tool, video, Web 2.0, Web applications, Web design, YouTube

Newsgator's Social Sites 2.0 integrates with Sharepoint to create a Facebook-like environment on an enterprise's intranet. The video embedded below features Brian Kellner, NewsGator's Vice President of Products, demonstrating the interface that the software adds to existing Sharepoint...


June 10, 2008  12:16 PM

What is enterprise 2.0? Cloud computing proponents mix with social software vendors in Boston.



Posted by: GuyPardon
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The question of creating an agreed upon definition for enterprise 2.0 continues to come up here on the Boston waterfront, as hundreds of software executives, CIOs, software vendors, media and curious technologists mix and...


June 5, 2008  10:12 AM

Video: What is cloud computing?



Posted by: GuyPardon
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Sure, WhatIs.com has a definition for cloud computing. And our director has posted one of the best...

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May 19, 2008  10:29 AM

What is the future of the Internet?



Posted by: GuyPardon
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Do you think much about the future of the Internet? Last week, the academics and technologists...


April 30, 2008  6:03 PM

May 1st is RSS Awareness Day. Have you checked your feeds today?



Posted by: GuyPardon
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Are you hip to Really Simple Syndication? If you're still behind on the adoption curve, May 1st is RSS Awareness Day. Daniel Socco of


March 31, 2008  11:58 PM

Happy April Fools’ Day 2008: A roundup of the Web’s best jokes, hoaxes and lies



Posted by: GuyPardon
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In 2008, April Fools' Day Jokes are everywhere. Here's a roundup list of some of the best/worst of the lot. Gday, MATE, from Google Australia. Future...

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March 6, 2008  2:35 PM

Video: Twitter in Plain English



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CommonCraft.com is already well known in the blogosphere and social media world for creating brilliant, lucid short videos that explain tricky concepts. The two-person team that make up CommonCraft (

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December 4, 2007  2:54 PM

Year in Review: ‘Tis the season for the top tech trends and tools of 2007



Posted by: GuyPardon
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Ah, December. The first real snow has fallen here in Boston, the malls are full of holiday shoppers and the blogosphere and pages of industry mags are full of annual summaries of the best and worst of the year in technology. We'll be coming out with our own most notable word of the year, as you'd...


November 15, 2007  9:11 AM

The IT Room: Streamingly funny IT humor coming to a tiny/medium/large screen near you



Posted by: GuyPardon
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Thank to its ubiquitous advertising spots on BoingBoingTV, I've discovered the IT Room. Clearly, I'm part of...