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Paglo - IT management gone Web 2.0
2007-11-21 13:43:00
For all you network administrators out there who feel that the Web 2 .0 revolution has left you in the Jurassic age, say hello to Paglo. Paglo is a search engine for your network. Its a great way of knowing exactly how many different types of softwares are installed, where they are and much, much more. The Crawler, ...
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Books on Knowledge Management
2007-11-20 16:25:00
I’ve put together a list of books on Knowledge Management below, if you find these books interesting you should be able to find them at a book store close to where you are staying ( keep your fingers crossed ) or order them online via Amazon. If you have read any of these books do leave ...
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What is Kindle?
2007-11-20 13:02:00
Kindle is a new product from Amazon that is a book reader device. This allows you to read your books via a 6″ display screen on the device. Advantages include being able to download book through a wireless connection that connects directly to Amazons’ kindle store that boast over 90,000 titles. Amazon.com Widgets Share ...
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Dewmocracy - Promo Video
2007-11-20 12:50:00
A mountain dew GAME?? Seriously?? Download! Share This
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Tools for Knowledge and Learning?
2007-11-20 08:57:00
An excerpt from a book that is “A Guide for Development and Humanitarian Organizations” “The idea of capturing, storing and sharing knowledge so as to learn lessons from the past and from elsewhere ? overcoming the boundaries posed by time and space ? is far from being a new one. In recent years, a growing movement ...
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Which Social Network do you like the most? - A new Poll
2007-11-19 18:35:00
The new Poll feature which was started last month concluded today. The results are as follows. Poll : Your Favourite Browser is… Firefox - 72% Opera - 13% IE - 11% Safari - 4% A new poll has been started, this time the question is Which Social Network do you like the best. The options are as follows : Linkedin Facebook MySpace Orkut Hi5 If ...
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Bango?s ?Button? - Multimedia content to Mobiles
2007-11-19 09:15:00
Bango, the mobile software developer has designed a system that will allow digital content to be transfered to mobile phone users. This “button” allows users, with a single click, to allow users to receive multimedia content on their phones. A great place for a service like this would most logically be social networking sites like MySpace ...
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Video Store
2007-11-18 10:30:00
Amazon has a very cool feature i stumbled upon rather recently. This new widget allows publishers to display a list of DVD’s of movies and tv shows. “Show studio previews for a huge range of recent and classic movies or tv shows avaliable from the Unbox video download service. The Amazon Unbox video downloads store has thousands of DVD-quality TV shows, movies, and more for you to purchase or rent. This widget lets you display the studio previews for movies and tv shows directly on your page. You can either select specific movies and tv shows you’d like to highlight, or show a constantly updating list of latest or greatest shows. You can choose to show movies sorted by Amazon sales rank, release date, box-office ranking, Amazon customer or IMDB rating, and more.” I’ve created a section on this blog for you to browse through the movie and tv serials currently available on amazon. Share This
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Web 2.0 - A funny video
2007-11-18 08:54:00
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Cnet’s top 10 reviews this week..
2007-11-18 05:58:00
For those gadget ( and all things cool ) freaks out there check out Cnet’s top 10 reviews this week. 2008 Jaguar XKR Convertible ( Editors’ rating: 9.2 ) With a six-figure price tag, you’d expect the 2008 Jaguar XKR Convertible to have it all–and it nearly does. Its refined cabin, elegant and advanced technology, supercharged V-8, consummate handling, and traffic-stopping looks make it an all-round winner. Sony PlayStation 3 (40GB) ( Editors’ rating: 8.5 ) While Sony has cut a few corners to get its entry-level PlayStation 3 below $400, it’s still a great package for the money–so long as you can live without backward compatibility for PS2 games and are willing to wait several months for the more promising exclusive titles to hit store shelves. Monoprice 5×1 HDMI switcher ( Editors’ rating: 8.3 ) The Monoprice 5×1 switcher offers more inputs for less money than its competitors, and it doesn’t sacrifice on perfo...
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Escenic to be acquired by Israeli company
2007-11-16 14:57:00
The Web CMS vendor Escenic was recently acquired by a company called Vizrt based out of Israel. Vizrt is focused on the media space, with products for media asset management and broadcast graphics. Vizrt seems to be a much larger company with close to 10 times the revenue generated by Escenic at $62 million. Based ...
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And the second prize goes to?.
2007-11-15 16:30:00
This video won the second prize in the recently concluded “Think Green” contest on rollmio. For more videos, rollmio.com Share This
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Google in trouble?
2007-11-15 14:35:00
European regulators refused Tuesday to approve Google ?s $3.1 billion purchase of the Internet advertising company DoubleClick. This halt was made after vehement protest were raised by publishers, consumer groups and wait for it… their rivals. The justification for this halt is the concern that this could lead to a monopoly on the online advertising ...
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IBM buys Cognos for $4.9 Billion.
2007-11-15 14:20:00
Well, its finally official. IBM has purchased Cognos for $4.9 billion dollars, in cash! Another acquisition like this one seemed on the cards as only a short while earlier Business Object ( a French company ) was taken over my SAP for a tidy sum of money. In March of this year Hyperion ( another ...
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Inbox 2.0 ?
2007-11-14 18:10:00
With the massive buzz that Facebook and MySpace have been generating recently Yahoo and Google decided that it might be time to draw attention away from “conventional” social networks. Enter Inbox 2.0. Now, for those of you unfamiliar with the term i’m sure you have reasoned that because of the introduction to this post this has ...
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SDK launch of Android - Video
2007-11-14 17:48:00
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Do you like this Blog? Vote for us!!
2007-11-13 17:16:00
Hi there…. GridLock has been nominated for the bloggers choice awards under 3 different categories. If you like the information here please do vote for us. Vote for us as a “Geek Blog ”. Vote for us as a “Blog about stuff”. Vote for us as a “Business Blog”. Thank you! Share This
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A list of Google Acquisitions.
2007-11-13 15:03:00
For those of you curious, this is a list of the acquisitions made by Google over the past few years. If you take a closer look the trend seems of acquisitions seems to be growing at a rather rapid rate each year. I found this information on Wikipedia, and thought it might make for an ...
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Google?s Postini Solution?
2007-11-13 14:45:00
The Google App suite has, till date, not received very much of a positive response from market analyst. The main concern being a lack of security for the application. Enter Postini, a company Google acquired in July of this year for around $625 million dollars. The service they provide is targeted at companies that maintain their ...
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Google acquiring Sprint?
2007-11-12 18:43:00
Rumors are flying fast and furiously over the fact that Google might be acquiring Sprint . Now while this might seem a little ludicrous to some of you out there you mustn’t forget the company’s appetite for growth, not to mention its interest in exploring new territory. I came across this rather interesting article written by ...
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Knowledge Management Deployment to NYC Schools
2007-11-11 06:01:00
An interesting video on KM deployments to NYC schools. Download! Share This
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Blogging and Advertising
2007-11-11 04:41:00
A lot of you must be familiar with the PayPerPost program that allows bloggers to generate revenue by blogging about products or services from a wide list of advertisers. There has been an intense debate about whether this is a good thing or a bad, personally i don’t think getting paid to blog is a ...
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A Web CMS survey for Universities?
2007-11-09 16:42:00
I came across this rather interesting survey conducted by UCDavis. The focus of this survey was to analyze how Univers ities across the country used Content Management Systems. With a total of 129 respondents the results were pretty interesting. Listed below is a list of the scope and goals of this particular survey: Project Goals Facilitate the creation and management ...
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Think Green - A Rollmio Video
2007-11-08 16:31:00
Rollmio is a new platform that promotes user creativity in the form of videos’. It’s first campaign is on “Think Green ”. I’ve hosted the video that was awarded the first place. Let me know what you think… For more videos, rollmio.com Share This
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True Knowledge - A Natural Language Search Engine
2007-11-08 16:25:00
True Knowledge is an internet search company based in Cambridge, England. Their unique technology represents general knowledge in a form that computers can understand and process. About their Technology : “Very basically we have created a technology which can represent the world’s knowledge in a form that is clear and accessible to humans, as well as being ...
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Google at your local gas station?
2007-11-08 05:17:00
Just when you thought Google was everywhere they surprise you again. Google has just unveiled plans to have a kiosk at gas stations allowing users to find local hotels, restaurants, hospitals and more. A small screen will be integrated in the pumps made by Gilbarco Veeder-Root along with an internet connection. Maps and directions can ...
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New Wiki for MOSS 2007 - The Atlassian Influence
2007-11-07 13:26:00
Just a quick update for the folks of you who are keeping a very keen eye on the new MOSS 2007 developments. Atlassian can now be used inside of MOSS. Using a new connector, this has been made possible. This really gives MOSS users the option of working with a new wiki service. Some ...
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Vignette CMS just got itself upgraded!
2007-11-07 13:07:00
For those of you interested in the world of Content Management solutions, this one is for you… It seems that Vignette has recently upgraded their CMS, the most important of this is the new jazzy Ajax interface. An extract from CMS Watch : “Enterprise-tier Web CMS vendor Vignette recently issued a substantial dot-release to ...
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Yahoo?s new Social Network.
2007-11-06 13:09:00
If there was any doubt that the big players have started putting an emphasis on social networks this story just continue reading…. This new service called Kickstart that is meant to connect college students and alumni and various colleges, a closer looks reveals that it has more to do with the professional social networking structure that ...
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Why is Technology so important to KM?
2007-11-05 13:48:00
One of most difficult questions I’ve had to answer with respect to the subject of Knowledge Management is why Technology is so important. The people asking these questions do not confuse Knowledge Management with Content Management ( as a lot of people very often do ). More often than not they do understand what KM is about and what it could potentially achieve. So what is the answer? Is technology really that important to KM? I tried drawing a correlation between the various KM initiatives I’ve been a part of over the years and whether technology did play an important role in it. The results were pretty startling, in over 80% of the initiatives technology did play a vital role. The most common role being the ability to bridge the huge geographical divide that comes with the day to day runnings of a Multi-national corporation. As I’ve stated in many of my previous posts Knowledge Management is very simply creating channels of communications ( in essence, getting p...