You don’t need to be a developer to create mashups or FaceBook apps. Dan Fernandez demonstrates creating a FaceBook app in minutes using an alpha release of PopFly. It is built on Microsoft’s Silverlight technology. With tools such as these, brace yourself for a flood of FaceBook apps coming your ...

Sun has become one of the most enthusiastic supporters for open source technologies after a long period of ignoring the movement. Sun recently hosted an Open Source Summit in a bid to identify itself more closely with open source software. This event offered global perspectives and was moderated by Sun’s ...

The final session of the recent Graphing Social Patterns conference featured a “Fanboy” panel discussion moderated by Michael Arrington from TechCrunch. With his bosom buddy Jason Calacanis on the panel, it became the “Arrington & Calacanis Show.” Fellow panelists Robert Scoble, Rodney Rumford, and Dave McClure had to fight their ...

The final session of the recent Graphing Social Patterns conference featured a “Fanboy” panel discussion moderated by Michael Arrington, from TechCrunch. With his bosom buddy Jason Calacanis on the panel, it became the “Arrington & Calacanis Show.” Fellow panelists Robert Scoble, Rodney Rumford, and Dave McClure had to fight their ...

I was over at the Halo 3 launch party at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus and ran into Dan Fernandez, lead product manager for Visual Studio, demonstrating Popfly. It’s an alpha version of an easy-to-use mashup platform that allows consumers to easily create web services with multiple data sources, and embed ...

Jeremiah Owyang is Forrester Research’s new senior analyst focused on Social Computing. He is leaving PodTech where he was community manager and spent a lot of time travelling and speaking at conferences evangelising social media. Previously to that he managed the community marketing program at Hitachi Data Systems where ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. September 25, 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. introduced its first quad-core x64 (x86, 64-bit) systems, including the world’s smallest four-socket x64 server — which delivers up to twice the expandability and compute power as other servers, yet is half the size. The Sun Fire X4450 and

Marc Benioff, founder, chairman & CEO of salesforce.com, kicks off Dreamforce ‘07, with exciting product, platform, and customer announcements you won’t want to miss. Witness as salesforce.com unveils the next generation of on demand and learn what that means for your success. See how community-driven models-arising from the Internet-inspire ...

Marc Benioff, founder, chairman & CEO of salesforce.com, kicks off Dreamforce ‘07, with exciting product, platform, and customer announcements you won’t want to miss. Witness as salesforce.com unveils the next generation of on demand and learn what that means for your success. See how community-driven models–arising from the Internet–inspire ...

Salesforce has always been a powerful platform for creating mashups, and the latest platform features make it more capable than ever. This session offers an introduction to some of the more popular Web APIs and shows how they can be leveraged inside your apps. Presentations include sample code demonstrating these ...

Nick Carr is an acclaimed business writer and speaker whose work centers on strategy, innovation, and technology. His 2004 book “Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage,” published by Harvard Business School Press, set off a worldwide debate about the role of computers in business. Nick ...

John Chambers, the CEO of Cisco Systems, gave a keynote at Saleforce.com’s user conference. He spoke about the growing use and importance of Internet video in helping companies collaborate on projects and communicate with staff and customers. Internet video will be a key driving force fueling the expansion of ...

Adam Carson is sharing some of his experiences in bringing Enterprise 2.0 to Morgan Stanley. He is providing valuable insights to how large organizations can start thinking about Enterprise 2.0 strategies, adoption methods, deployments, and risks. Adam discusses the approaching “generational wave” and how a partnership with IT is critical ...

Tom Foremski speaks with Joost Pronk van Hoogeveen from Sun and Ronit Belson from OpTier, an ISV partner of Sun’s, about virtualization. The conversation covers five points about virtualization: Understanding your business application; How do your virtualization technologies fit your business conditions; Where should you compress your ...

Social computing is the rage, everyone knows that. But isn’t it just kid’s stuff? Why should an enterprise focused on B2B even bother with it — and if it does, are the rules of engagement any different than for the run-of-the-mill consumer kind? This panel looks at two fresh research ...

Generation Y is entering the workforce 70 million strong, should the current organizations implement new ways, structures to accommodate the new behaviors of Generation Y? What else should companies know about the new workforce?

I recently met with Omer Shaikh, one of the co-founders of Friction.TV, a British company launching the U.S. Mr. Shaikh used to head Saatchi and Saatchi Interactive and he says he founded Friction.TV to encourage debate. The site has quickly established itself in the UK and now it wants to ...

Tom Foremski speaks with Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL, the second-largest open source company, about Silicon Valley and the challenge of managing teams of programmers spread across the world.

I spent Saturday afternoon crammed into a room in Palo Alto with a couple of hundred people listening to presentations from young developers creating Facebook apps. The enthusiasm was great and there was a sense of being at the start of something big.

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Josh Hallett and Alex Kim, from Solution Set, talk about building social media platforms within enterprises and the roadblocks that IT departments create. Lots of good advice on overcoming those obstacles. A Silicon Valley Watcher report from a meeting of the Third Thursday club held at ...

I ran into Anurag Nigam, CEO and co-founder of IncSync recently, and got a quick demo of their 411Sync service. It’s a really easy and quick way to move any kind of information onto your cell phone without requiring any IT resources. They set up a Silicon Valley Watcher ...

Tom Foremski talks with David Thompson, CEO of Genius, an on demand software company with a unique technology that enables sales people to track leads. Genius also announces its first conference, Sales 2.0, in San Francisco at the end of October.

Motorola is aggressively adopting mobile linux as the key operating system for its cell phones. It is launching its first North American cell phone with Linux, the new Razr V8. Tom Foremski talks with Christy Wyatt, VP Ecosystem and Market Development at Motorola about the move to Linux and if ...

Tom Foremski speaks with Diedier Diaz, SVP for Product Strategy Management at Access Systems Americas. “Access is one of the largest companies you’ve never heard about,” says Mr. Diaz. Its specialty is in creating applications for cell phones. It also acquired Palmsource, and now has the Palm OS and ...