Thursday May 9, 2024

After Four Months In Private Beta, Salesforce Chatter Finally Arrives As A Public Conversation

Salesforce’s foray into injecting social features into the enterprise world, Chatter, is finally open to the public after four months in private beta. Announced last November, Chatter leverages what Salesforce CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff calls the Cloud 2, delivering realtime access to data and information, using social sources, such as YouTube and Twitter. In […]

American Express Open Partners With Clickable To Launch SearchManager For Small Businesses

Clickable, the ad management platform that lets search marketers measure and track the performance of their online marketing campaigns across different search engines and advertising networks, is partnering with American Express OPEN to launch SearchManager, a product that allows small business owners to streamline search advertising and marketing. American Express is essentially white-labeling Clickable’s platform […]

Semantic Web Startup Inform Technologies Lands $4 Million, New CMO

Inform Technologies, a New York-based developer and provider of semantic web solutions, this morning announced it has secured $4 million in a Series A funding round led by previous backers Spark Capital, The Stephens Group, and The Oklahoma Publishing Company. In addition, the startup has announced that Tony Dunaif, former SVP at Internet Broadcasting, has […]

Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity is Not the Place to Cut Costs

In today’s business environment, many enterprises are looking for way  to reduce their expenses by cutting overhead. Often this takes the form of reducing headcount, particularly in areas that are regarded as ancillary or non-core components of the enterprise. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity often are placed in that category and, as a result, can […]

Zoho Adds Workspaces, Access Controls, Widgets And More To Zoho Wiki

Zohi Wiki, which originally launched in 2006, is getting an upgrade today, with additional collaboration features, access controls and more. Zoho has added workspaces within Wiki to allow teams to have their own groups within organization wikis. Each workspace has its own administrative and customization options and can serve as a separate portal. Zoho has […]

Jive’s New Features and Management: Finally a Serious Enterprise 2.0 Play?

There are few people I would get up to meet on a Sunday morning after spending five weeks on the road and mired in China-to-SFO jet lag. There are also few people I would believe when they said they were building a great “Enterprise 2.0” company. Tony Zingale is one of those people. We’ll get […]

Yammer 3.0 For iPhone: Now With 100% Fewer Crashes

At the risk of pissing off our new office neighbors, I have a confession to make: I loathed the Yammer iPhone app. Don’t get me wrong, I love Yammer, and find it absolutely vital to our work. But the app was easily the least stable of the dozens of apps I have  on my iPhone. […]

IDC Projects 19.8% PC Market Growth In 2010

IDC reports impressive year-over-year growth for global PC shipments of 27.1% in the first quarter of 2010, which has prompted the company to revise its projection for the entire year. In light of slow but certain economic recovery, IDC now foresees 19.8% growth in 2010, according to its Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. Unlike most of […]

Conductor Launches SEO Platform Searchlight To The Public

Conductor, a New York-based provider of SEO measurement and optimization solutions, has publicly launched Conductor Searchlight, the startup’s search engine optimization (SEO) operating system. The platform was previously in private beta and has been used by 30 companies, including Siemans, over the past few months. Conductor markets technology which aims to empower online marketers and […]

IBM Buys Web Analytics Software Maker Coremetrics

IBM is jumping into the web analytics software space with the acquisition of San Mateo, CA company Coremetrics. With the purchase, IBM intends to expand its business analytics capabilities with Coremetrics’ cloud-based delivery platform, which enables companies to gain real-time insight into consumer interactions internally through social and other online media networks to increase the […]