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Twitter Acquires TweetDeck to Target Marketers, Publishers

Thu, 26 May 2011 15:38:37 -0400

Twitter confirmed it has acquired TweetDeck, software that lets users organize Twitter feeds. - Twitter May 25 confirmed it has acquired TweetDeck, which corrals the numerous, real-time Twitter feeds on the Web. The reported-but-unconfirmed purchase price was $40 million, which would make TweetDeck the company's largest purchase to date. Twitter is a fine source for real-time information...

SideXSide: LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter?

Mon, 23 May 2011 17:41:43 -0400

In the wake of the lucrative LinkedIn IPO, we decided to take a SideXSide look at the social networking site and its cousins, Facebook and Twitter, from the perspective of the CIO. Here's our comparison of which social media offer the best professional networking options for IT leaders. - In the world of social networking, Facebook and Twitter get most of the attention from CIOs -- and not much of it positive. With hundreds of millions of users, these are the social media sites you probably worry most about your employees using in inappropriate ways. In contrast, LinkedIn -- with mor...

LinkedIn IPO Could Mean Another Dot-Com Bubble

Mon, 23 May 2011 16:00:41 -0400

LinkedIn's gaudy IPO numbers, spurred by giddy investors, recall the days when Pets.com and TheGlobe.com were ridiculously valued in the dotcom gold rush before crashing and burning. - LinkedIn's (NYSE:LNKD) opening IPO price of $83 May 19 shocked the high-tech world and spawned another wave of dot-com bubble paranoia that had investment experts such as Henry Blodget cringe. LinkedIn had raised over $100 million from Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners and Bessemer Venture Capit...

Toyota, Salesforce Partner on Social Network for Your Car

Mon, 23 May 2011 12:48:53 -0400

Powered by Salesforce.com, Toyota Friend is a private social network that connects Toyota owners to their cars, dealership, and Toyota itself. - Salesforce.com sells itself as a social network for businesses, allowing workers to share information in ways made familiar by Facebook and Twitter. Now, with a new strategic alliance with Toyota, it seems as if Salesforce is angling to become the social network for cars. That alliance has res...

Mad Men Meet the CIO

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:29:55 -0500

Web 2.0 is great for marketing, but can cause IT headaches if the CIO doesn't get involved. - Chances are the folks in your marketing department have read an Advertising Age special feature on �The World of Widgets.� Theyre passing around a PR News article about �blogosphere measurement.� Theyre trying to figure out how to emulate a banner-ad campaign they read about in BtoB magazine by us...

Analyst: Apple May Cut iPhone Production

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:25:24 -0500

Slowing demand could force Apple to scale back production of its popular iPhone, an analyst says. - FBR Capital Markets said on Monday that production of Apple's iconic iPhone might plunge more than 40 percent in the fourth quarter from the previous period. quot;Previous checks indicated that iPhone production would fall about 10 percent sequentially in calendar 4Q, quot; said FBR's note by Cr...

5 Top Barriers to Social Tech Adoption

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:27:30 -0400

Security, fear of the unknown keep businesses from adopting buzzworthy social technologies, new research finds. - Why hasn't your company deployed social technologies? Tell us at editors@cioinsight.com, or sound off below. And check out these presentations on technology challenges: Top Challenges to Enterprise Mobility Using IT, Without IT Support Top Obstacles to Collabo...

Microsoft vs. Adobe: The Next Web Showdown?

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:41:37 -0400

The Beijing Olympics have set the stage for a Web software showdown between Microsoft, Adobe. - As the world's best athletes compete in Beijing, the summer Olympic games are setting the stage for a battle between Microsoft and Adobe Systems over the Internet's next big competition. Microsoft's Silverlight technology and rival Adobe's Flash format are currently locked in a race over who delive...

eBay and the Legal Problems with Online Marketplaces

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:09:13 -0400

eBay's recent court battles reflect the legal difficulties with online marketplaces--and show just how important CIOs and lawyers are for corporate strategy. - When is a department store not a department store? When its a bulletin board. Doesnt make sense, does it? Yet thats the takeaway from two recent decisions testing Internet giant eBays liability for counterfeit or gray-market merchandise sold by its users. Courts in the United States and France reac...

Is Web 2.0 Too Much of a Good Thing?

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:09:42 -0400

Drowning workers in choices and overloading them with creativity-enhancing tools is no way to increase productivity. - The Web 2.0 era is supposed to be about empowering the user, with the average Jane and Joe free to create and communicate, using simple tools that unlock their creative potential and perhaps create value for their employer. But Joe Sokohl, director of the User Experience at IT services company Kean...

Try It, You`ll Like It

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:12:00 -0500

Web 2.0 applications must be experienced hands-on to be appreciated, but most CIOs dont take the opportunity.

- If you are not on Facebook, if you have never created and maintained a blog, then maybe you arent putting enough thought into your job. I know youre busy. I dont mean you should be spending hours organizing your life around a social networking site, or ranting to a small audience about whatever it...

Web 2.0 `Changing Politics Forever`

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:55:00 -0400

Political strategists say social networking is opening the floodgates to a new generation of voters. - RESTON, Virginia There was bipartisan agreement on display Thursday about the impact of Web 2.0 technology on politics. Joe Trippi, senior advisor to the John Edwards presidential campaign, and Cyrus Krohn, the director of the eCampaign division of the Republican National Committee, both spoke of h...

Leveraging Web 2.0 to Recruit

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:33:00 -0400

At one time it was about big job boards, but recruiting now is about meeting the candidates where they are. - Historically, recruiting has not been a particularly transparent process. Organizations looking to hire put a job description out on a Web board such as Monster, CareerBuilder or Dice, and candidates apply on that limited information alone. The vast majority are rejected without ever knowing why. ...

A Second Life: 10 Web 2.0 Apps CIOs Personally Use

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:57:00 -0400

Turns out CIOs are avid users of Web 2.0 tools. See what they're experimenting with. &

- We asked CIOs who participated in this month's Emerging Technologies Survey to tell us which Web 2.0 applications they use personally. It turns out they're avid consumers of many of these technologies. Around half watch video online and use wikis, blogs and RSS; about a third use social networking s...

Web 2.0 Reality Check

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Much user-created content doesn't measure up to corporate standards, but that doesn't mean it has no value. - Anyone who's been to karaoke night at a local bar knows that access to a microphone is no guarantee of talent. Or as fans of American Idol might say, quot;Sanjaya. quot; This immutable law remains, well, immutable when content distribution is radically democratized by the Internet. We've learned t...