If you don’t use Firefox, then you probably haven’t seen StumbleUpon, a toolbar that “helps you discover great websites.” That’s because it was only available for Firefox – until now. StumbleUpon has begun offering a version compatible with Internet Explorer.

‘ITIL’ is a term that is fast gaining currency around the IT world. It is often wrongly described as ‘IT governance’ – in fact, on its own, it certainly isn’t this.

Disaster can strike a business at any time. Despite an entrepreneur’s careful plans to handle any possible emergency, life has a way of throwing the odd curveball.

A couple of new features at ApartmentRatings.com use one of Google’s newer services to help people plan their moves.

Many parts of the antitrust settlement Microsoft agreed to with the US Department of Justice will expire soon, but the company said that will not stop them from adhering to 12 tenets of good corporate behavior.

Weblogs Inc and Netscape head Jason Calacanis is offering $1,000 per month to the top users on Digg, Reddit, Newsvine, Delicious, and Flickr to do for the revamped Netscape what they currently do for free for those other sites.

Who hasn’t heard of the long tail? Actually, quite a few people if my experience is any indicator. If I try and explain it, or use a diagram in a presentation, I often find my work cut out in telling the story.

Domestic appliance maker Whirlpool is testing some smart appliances with networking capability that show what we can expect to see around the home soon:

A French blogger was sacked (Roland Piquepaille, famous technologist blogged that).

Opera Widgetize attempts to encourage more of its browser users to create little applications, or widgets, with a few mouse clicks instead of lengthy coding sessions.

I was pleasantly surprised to find a lengthy article in The Province newspaper (Vancouver) with the following headline:

Microsoft is the 900-lb. gorilla in the world of software, and the company likes it that way. Rarely do you see it work with the open-source community, and among that group, Linux might be considered its biggest enemy. Now, in a sure sign that the apocalypse is right around the corner, Microsoft has announced plans to accommodate Linux technology.

I’m overwhelmed. This is the book I wanted when I started learning about Unix. OK, Linux didn’t exist then, but if it had existed, and if I were sticking my toes in it, this would have been THE book.

Being able to understanding and identify waste then requires removing that waste. The initial question then is where and how to begin implementing lean supply chain management.

Your time is valuable. Is it by-the-minute valuable? If you think so, Jyve and Click&Buy have developed a Skype-based plug-in called JyvePro to help you monetize your oh so powerful noggin.

The list of domain names owned by the Googleplex consists of the expected, the unexpected, and the gmmgjd too.

The Hub will be the retailing giant’s online attempt to win over the online teen crowd and bolster its flagging fortunes in the hotly competitive apparel market.

By now, organizations around the world have begun to realize the benefits of creating a corporate blog. In fact, a new weblog is created every second of every day.

People in the US tend to spend 80 percent of their budgets within 50 miles of their homes, and the Kelsey Group thinks that bodes well for local advertising’s $110 billion market to shift more into local search ads.

A calendar designed to encourage more women into IT occupations, and help dispel the notion that IT is not a desirable career for women, has caused a storm of controversy in Australia.

One of several sites that have had their AdSense payments frozen by Google over accusations of click fraud has struck back and accused the search advertising company of acting in a draconian manner.

A web-based content management system (CMS) is used for webdesign so that the php, asp or jsp scripts call in the data from the mysql or sql database to create the content on a page.

Ethan Zuckerman asks “what do India, Pakistan, China, and Ethiopia have in common?”

Branding is more than product recognition or a simple logo. It is the overall intellectual and emotional impression people have when they think of your company and its product. It is a strong and consistent message about the value of your business.