The Future of the Internet

About six years ago I wrote a blog titled “I have no idea what  Web 2.0 means“.  That blog had link to a video where IT leaders were helplessly trying to explain what Web 2.0 means. One guy said something like this, “Everyone wants to do it, and you can’t find enough people to do... (more)

The mythical Lycos Inc., headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, announced today the appointment of Rob W. Balazy as its CEO. Lycos is owned by Indian media group Ybrant Digital since 2010. Besides its well-known lycos.com portal, Lycos Inc. has evolved with the changes in the ... (more)

AUSTIN, TX -- (Marketwire) -- 04/26/12 -- Liahona Venture (http://www.liahonaventures.com), a boutique investment firm, has hit the mark again, this time with Austin-based Sneaky Games, an emerging social game developer. As reported in the Austin American-Statesman -- http://bit... (more)

NextGate® today released MatchMetrix® v8 and the NextGate Registries for Healthcare: the technology platform and integrated solution that resolve identity matching uncertainties to enable accurate exchange of healthcare information in support of the industry’s patient-centric, me... (more)

NEW YORK, April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Some of the primary responsibilities of a marketer are to educate consumers, convey the value of a product or service and identify interested prospects that could ultimately be converted into sales. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.... (more)

TMC and Crossfire Media today announced that Kiran Prasad, Director of Engineering, Mobile for LinkedIn will deliver a special keynote address at their DevCon5 – HTML5 Mobile App and Developers Conference this month in Santa Clara, California. DevCon5 takes place April 25-26, 201... (more)

WASHINGTON, DC -- (Marketwire) -- 04/02/12 -- Efiia Creations has recently announced that three successful information sharing projects -- CopBook, myHomeland, and the Medical and Public Health Information Sharing Environment (MPHISE) -- have been merged together to form the Info... (more)

Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/150aa9eb/technology_and_kno) has announced the addition of Woodhead Publishing Ltd's book "Technology and Knowledge Flow: The Power of Networks" to their offering. This book outlines how network technology... (more)

The Unicode® Consortium today announced the Call for Participation for the Thirty-sixth Internationalization and Unicode Conference (IUC). IUC 36 will take place in Santa Clara, Calif., USA at the Hyatt Regency Hotel on October 22-24, 2012, sponsored by Adobe. This is the premier... (more)

TMC and Crossfire Media today announced an impressive lineup of presenters participating in their upcoming DevCon5 – HTML5 Mobile App and Developers Conference, April 25-26, 2012 at the Network Meeting Center in Santa Clara, California. Led by experts from Adobe, Google, Yahoo, L... (more)

CHICAGO, March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Jadu, Inc. a global Web Content Management vendor today announced that Tyler Junior College (TJC), TX, has selected the Jadu Universe CMS to deliver a new, rich student web experience for the college's corporate online communications. TJC ... (more)

Intelligent Medical Objects, a leader in medical informatics tools, announced today that it will be opening a new research and development center on the campus of the University of Illinois. IMO was attracted to the University of Illinois because of its significant history in th... (more)

ISYS Search Software, the Master of Enterprise Search™, today announced that its class-leading Document Filters text extraction and analytics technology has been selected by TEMIS – a leading provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise – to power its cutt... (more)

Oslo, Norway, March 08, 2012 --(PR.com)-- "This release is a very important release for us. It demonstrates our commitment on a number of levels, not only regarding semantic web technologies, but also more pure CMS improvements," said Ole Gulbrandsen, CTO of Webnodes. “In our con... (more)

NEW YORK, March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- (http://www.myprgenie.com) -- Personalized Media Inc., a leader in content discovery and user engagement for online media companies, has launched a new platform for premium publishers, which enables publishers to engage users better with th... (more)

Kasabi sees its role very much as an enabler of aggregation. Rather than focusing, as some data markets do, on simply providing access to data sets, Kasabi is betting on the power of being able to combine and recombine data in compelling new ways. Hidden under the hood, Talis’ pl... (more)

WebMediaBrands Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBM) today reported results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2011. Highlights for the fourth quarter of 2011 include: Revenues for the fourth quarter of 2011 were $3.4 million compared to revenues of $2.7 million for the same p... (more)

ThingWorx™, the provider of the first application platform for the connected world, announced its partnership today with Carnegie Mellon’s Pennsylvania Smart Infrastructure Incubator (PSII). The ThingWorx platform will be used to gather and manage real-time information communicat... (more)

The #EnterpriseSocial tag refers to the use of social media within the enterprise, for purposes of enhanced collaboration and knowledge management, as enabled by Cloud Best Practices. This is also known as Enterprise 2.0, and is a fairly well established term now, coined origina... (more)

WebMediaBrands Inc., (Nasdaq: WEBM) today announced that its conference call reviewing 2011 fourth quarter results is scheduled for Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 5:00 pm ET. Results will be released on Tuesday, February 28, 2012 after market close. The conference call number is 8... (more)