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JotSpot Releases Intranet Blogging Application

JotSpot, which sells an enterprise wiki application, has added a blogging utility to its product line.

Meet the Community at OSBC

Panel with Brian Behlendorf from Apache/Collabnet, Josh from PostgreSQL, Chris Hoffman from Mozilla, Larry Wall from Perl and David Wheeler from Bricolage. Moderated by Christian Einfeldt, “How these communities result in 1 + 1 = 5…”

Homemade Nike Commercials

While we were recouperating at home from spending six days in the hospital my brother-in-law (the one who works at Apple) and I watched the golf classic the Masters.

Improving Customer Relationships: Beyond the Buzz

Customers are always a hot topic. But lately the discussions on customer relationships, including retention, satisfaction, and loyalty, have intensified. What is the basis for these discussions, and more importantly, what are leading organizations actually doing to improve customer relationships?

Circuit City Announces Financial Results

Circuit City reported results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended February 28, 2005.

Anti-Aliasing for Great-Looking Text Graphics

Macromedia has a wonderful software application that helps users create great-looking text graphics by using anti-aliasing capabilities.

Intel, AMD Fight For Dual-Core Debut

Last week, it was reported AMD would be releasing their dual-core processing technology featured in enterprise-level machines later this month (April 21). Chief competitor Intel has not taken this news lying down.

Judge of Khodorkovsky Trial Takes Time To Think

Judge Irina Kolesnikova of former Yukos Chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s trial has retired to think about the verdict setting an April 27 deadline.

Microsoft Files 8 Lawsuits Targeting Counterfeiting

Microsoft’s legal department announced the filing of 8 lawsuits in 7 different states against PC developers and resellers for the alleged distribution of counterfeit, illicit and unlicensed Microsoft software and the components accompanying them.

Greenberg Needs Time To Prepare for Testimony

Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, former American International Group chairman and CEO will not testify when questioned by regulators.

AOL and XM To Create Online Radio Service

America Online and XM Satellite Radio announced that they will join forces to create a new online radio service.

Geoffrey Moore: The Role of Open Source Computing

I’m a little bit of a late arriver at this party. Personally, a late adopter. You want to catch up when you are late, but I don’t think sobriety is your strongest suit. Want to talk about what you look like to someone coming late to the open source cultural, personal and technical movement. And why are we where we are now?

IBM, Sanyo Introduce Fuel Cell Battery Prototype For IBM ThinkPads

Today, IBM and Sanyo have introduced plans for a prototype micro direct methanol fuel cell system to power IBM ThinkPad notebooks.

Spammer Gets 9-Year Sentence

A Virginia Court gave Jeremy Jaynes, who was convicted of sending bulk emails with spoofed addresses, a nine-year sentence on Friday.

Microsoft and Gateway Resolve Legal Issues

Microsoft and Gateway have entered into an agreement to resolve legal issues between the two companies and work together on the marketing and development of Gateway personal computing products.

Prince of Wales “Momentary Lapse”

Just catching some of the TV coverage of today’s marriage of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles, I saw a brief BBC TV interview with the Prince’s communications secretary, Paddy Harverson.

Are Bloggers Journalists?

Ana Marie Cox, author of the Wonkette blog and keynote speaker at the upcoming IABC international conference, dismissed the question “Who is a journalist?” when it was posed to her at a panel discussion telecast on C-Span.

Priceline Introduces One-Stop Travel Reservation Site

William Shatner and priceline.com are going where the pioneer Internet travel service has never gone before.

Google’s fresh link filter discussion on SEO Radio
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Google’s alleged fresh link filter is on the minds of many website owners and search engine optimization professionals. If indeed, Google is filtering new links into web pages, and not providing full link popularity transfer, then SEO is a whole new ballgame.

Engineered Support Systems Co-Founder Becomes Nonexecutive Chairman

Engineered Support Systems announced that, effective April 30, Michael F. Shanahan, Sr. will serve in the capacity of Nonexecutive Chairman of the Board of Directors.

4.5 Million MSN Spaces Created in Four Months

Congrats MSN Spaces on getting to 4.5 million. Funny, now other teams are asking me…

Google Q&A
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Google Search now has new functionality that will attempt to answer what it perceives to be a question that you’ve keyed into the search box. It’s called Google Q&A.