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Google Moves Away From Large Navigation Drop Down Menu
Feb 10th
A few months ago, Google introduced a new navigation bar that was black and very large. It was part of the Google+ changes across Google’s properties. Last night, Google announced yet another change to that top bar navigation. The most noticeable change is that most of the main search options…
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Case Over Who Owns Ex-Employee’s Twitter Followers Moves Forward
Feb 1st
San Francisco-based U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria-Elena James will allow a case by a company arguing that a Twitter list created by an ex-employee is its property to proceed.
PhoneDog LLC, which reviews mobile phones and other tech products, is claiming that former employee Noah Kravitz owes it $340,000, or $2.50 for each Twitter follower he kept by switching the name of his Twitter account after he stopped working for PhoneDog. James denied a motion to dismiss by Kravitz on Monday in a case that is being closely watched by companies that have employees develop social media platforms as part of their jobs.
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The case, however, may not be the precendent-setting lawsuit employers and employees are hoping for. As reported last month, the case is fact specific, meaning it will be judged on its individual merits and similar situations at other companies may have different facts and, therefore, different outcomes.
“This case is another example of the application of relatively old legal rules applied to new technology,” Bill Nolan, an attorney with Barnes & Thornburg LLP, said in January. “It’s the 2011 version of the salesperson taking the Rolodex when he/she leaves the company.”
Kravitz started the @Phonedog_Noah Twitter account while he was tweeting and writing for the online publication. When he left the company in October 2010 he changed the account’s handle to @noahkravitz and retained the more than 17,000 followers he had amassed while working for PhoneDog.
“The Court’s decision yesterday [Monday] in effect means that PhoneDog has met the minimum requirements to survive a motion seeking to throw PhoneDog’s claims out of court, but it was not a decision as to whether or not PhoneDog is entitled to the relief it seeks,” Cary Kletter, Kravit’z attorney, said in a staement. “Ultimately PhoneDog will be unable to prove its allegations against Mr. Kravitz, and Mr. Kravitz will prevail.”
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Dumbest Moves of the Year in Web Enterprise Services
Dec 19th
It was quite a year of mistakes, with Carol Bartz leaving Yahoo, HP trying once again to re-orient itself and hiring ex-California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman. On top of this comes various reports that once again email is dead or dying (this could be a tedious repetition of the “year of the LAN” that we went through in the 1990s, even though email has been incorporated at the main notification mechanism of just about every piece of corporate software). But there were some spectacular enterprise Web blunders of the year that we’ve seen that are worth noting here.
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- Delicious sold from Yahoo to YouTube.Delicious continues to be a disappointment, as we wrote earlier this fall, looking like “just another Web 2.0 startup.” As social bookmarking morphs into “Like” and “Share” buttons on just about every social software, Delicious’ time has come and seemingly gone.
- Data.com and Salesforce.com. Data.com has two parents, Salesforce and Dun & Bradstreet. The union will result in combining the information in Jigsaw with the information in the D&B archives, which tracks mostly large businesses across the world. We wrote here that the conflict with Jigsaw, an existing Salesforce effort was going to be a problem earlier in the fall. The jury is still out on this one.
- VMware v5 mispricing. We wrote about the various miscues with the new v5 versions of various VMware products here. While they made some adjustments, their pricing is still far too complex and too costly. Eventually, we think they will regret these decisions. In the meantime, the VMware ecosystem is rich with apps, partners and users. While there are stories of a few customers who are switching, most are just complaining for now.
- Google App Engine overpricing. We wrote about Google’s huge price increases to its App Engine here earlier this fall. They still haven’t done anything to address this and answer the complaint from many of their developers.
- In June, OpenOffice.org began the transition from a 12-year project at Sun/Oracle to a “podling” as they are called in the Apache Foundation open source community. Many of the original developers of OpenOffice left or were pushed out and went to The Document Foundation, where they developed a separate fork called LibreOffice that was first released at the beginning of 2011. Apache’s public license is somewhat different from the GNU licensing terms used by Oracle, which means that code improvements from Apache can be used by Libre but not the other way around. Since LibreOffice began, they have added features and cleaned up the old code, announced plans for delivering iOS and Android versions, and are now the default Office software in numerous Linux distros.
- Microsoft acquired Skype in May and a lot was written about the promises and opportunities. To date, none of these have been realized, but also Skype seems to be fine and continuing under its new overlords. There are new versions for both Mac and Windows, something feared when Microsoft made its purchase but which hasn’t come to pass. Hopefully, Microsoft will leave Skype alone and not try to make it into Unified Live Office Communications Realtime Professional Edition.
- Facebook. No accounting for enterprise blunders of the past year can ignore the numerous bad examples of Facebook. On its way to becoming the great equalizer of the profound and the trivial, they continue to perplex everyone with its UI-of-the-week club, features that come and go faster than Microsoft can say “Office Ribbon” and of course so many privacy options to make your head spin. Perhaps next year will see more maturity and stability of the popular service. Until then, its antics are a case study in what not to do for ordinary mere mortal developers who have apps with say 750 users rather than 750 million).
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5 SEO Moves for More Traffic – By Aliza Earnshaw – FeedFront Magazine
Oct 28th
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5 SEO Moves for More Traffic – By Aliza Earnshaw
FeedFront Magazine These five top SEO (search engine optimization) tactics will help you rank higher in search results and attract more customers. Lots of people use insider jargon on their sites. You may think you sell “performance-enhancing stabilizers for … Is Your SEO Strategy In Line With User Search Practices Asks SEO Advisor Matt Cutts: SEO is not spam Top 5 SEO & Social Media Horror Stories: Part 1 |
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Google News Moves Advanced Options To Search Bar; A Sign Of Things To Come?
Oct 21st
In what may be a sign of things to come across other Google properties, the advanced search search options in Google News have been moved away from their own page and placed right inside the main search bar. Here are before and after screenshots to show what I’m talking about. Before: After:…
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VMware Moves Deeper into Business Intelligence Virtualization
Oct 19th
Cloud-based business services are becoming commodities. As such, applications, storage, bandwidth, and now even analysis are marketable items with fluctuating values, almost by the day. As enterprises’ hybrid clouds extend their boundaries to encompass not only their native data centers but multiple public cloud providers, cost management becomes an everyday operational task.
“The way that things are being done is dramatically changing. How infrastructure is provisioned and managed — how applications and frameworks and emerging deployment models are being developed and provisioned. You now have VMs moving dynamically across the environment, and entire services that are starting to move across service providers.” This from Rob Smoot, VMware’s director of product marketing for management tools, in an interview with RWW.
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This week at the VMworld Europe conference in Copenhagen, VMware is demonstrating a number of revised and extended approaches to virtual data center management. These include a rethought vCenter Operations console and a new application deployment tool called vFabric AppDirector. It’s a new mix of management concepts, and a new alignment of product names against those concepts (in all honesty, I got it wrong a few times myself on first try).
Perhaps just as important as these new concepts, but sneaking more slowly into the spotlight this week, is the culmination of VMware’s June acquisition of BI service provider Digital Fuel. Redubbed VMware IT Business Management Suite (IT BMS), the new toolset enables enterprises that both consume IT services from elsewhere and provide their own services to customers, to manage costs and expenditures in real-time.
“The cloud ownership model is changing,” Smoot tells RWW. “IT is no longer the full provider of services; it’s becoming more of a broker of services. At the same time, there’s not visibility down to the lower layers of the infrastructure.” For example, a business running its services on Amazon’s EC2 typically isn’t able to observe performance, service availability, and expenses in real time, at that level. “There’s a separation happening at the various layers of the IT stack, and as a result, you need a different management approach.”
IT BMS addresses this concern with three components, one of which — IT Finance Manager — provides live analytics into how resources are being utilized, and how costs are being distributed, with an up-to-the-minute indicator of TCO. IT Service Level Manager helps businesses determine the requirements and resources necessary to accommodate service-level and operations-level agreements (SLAs and OLAs) required by customers. And IT Vendor Manager reverses the roles, tracking performance of the services businesses consume, assessing in real-time how — and if — service providers are meeting their SLA commitments.
Using the IT BMS suite, Smoot tells us, the CIO of a company will have a dashboard that charts all services in use, whether they are being provided to the company by a SaaS or IaaS provider, or the company is providing them. Here, different clouds may have varying compliance standards, changing resilience metrics, and fluctuating performance levels. The CIO will be able to manage these relationships at a glance.
“We’re enabling the movement of these services across providers,” he remarks, “so you can think about making a real-time decision to move an application first to a cloud… There are significant cost and compliance considerations in doing something like that. So if IT wants to stay at the helm of managing the diversity of models and different providers of services, it needs more actionable and accurate information about costs, compliance, and the vendors they’re working with.”
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Google moves to secure searches, alienates SEO jockeys – Ars Technica
Oct 19th
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Google moves to secure searches, alienates SEO jockeys
Ars Technica The move to make searches more private has caused an uproar among search marketers and SEO experts, who will now get limited information about how site visitors found them. The move is part of Google's ongoing response to concerns over the privacy of … Google's Encrypted Search Meets the Myopic SEO Google encrypts search data against hackers, marketers 'howl' Google to Encrypt Searches & Clicks by Default [Google Increasing Web Security … |
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SEO Seattle LLC Moves to New Office Located in Prestigious Skyline Tower – Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Sep 26th
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SEO Seattle LLC Moves to New Office Located in Prestigious Skyline Tower
Virtual-Strategy Magazine Seattle, WA, September 26, 2011 –(PR.com)– SEO Seattle LLC, a Search Engine Optimization Services Company recently completed its move to their new office located in Downtown Bellevue, Washington. As a resident of the Skyline Tower SEO Seattle will … |
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