Biased content isn’t just found on blogs – it’s much more likely to be found in other areas like Twitter and discussion forums. When does discussion become Astroturf?
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Filed Under: Enterprise storage, Personal, Virtual Storage Tagged With: astroturfing, blogging, Disqus, Friendfeed, Google, Intense Debate, LinkedIn, social media, Twitter, Typepad, WordPress
Google Reader Gets More Social
Google Reader has long been my RSS feed reader of choice, but using it was never much of a social experience. The earlier attempts at community, from shared feeds to comments, just fell flat. Good thing the solo experience (not to mention the iPhone version) was so solid or I would have given up a [...]
Filed Under: Personal Tagged With: Friendfeed, Google, Google Profile, Google Reader, RSS, social networks
Google Is Heading For A Cliff; What Will They Do?
Google is the most important company to the Internet. Hyberbole? I think not! Without Google, the Internet that we all know and love would be a very different place, as would the business of IT. Along with Microsoft and the supporting community around LAMP, Google is the very foundation of modern computing. But the foundation of Google itself, its ability to rank Internet content and present relevant information to its users, is at risk. What will they do to fix it?
Filed Under: Computer History, Personal Tagged With: Baidu, Bit.ly, blog, blogging, Cuil, Digg, email, Facebook, Friendfeed, Gmail, Google, Google Apps, Google Reader, IRC, LAMP, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Nofollow, PageRank, Picasa, Reader, RSS, search, SEO, Slashdot, social networks, spam, spider, StimbleUpon, technology, Twitter, USENET, wiki, Wikipedia, Yahoo
Introducing the Enterprise Storage Strategies Blog
As I noted a few weeks ago in my post about joining the Nirvanix team, my professional focus is on helping enterprise IT respond to the changing business climate. Nirvanix management understands that enterprise IT is very different from other potential customers for cloud storage, so they’ve invested in services talent to help bridge the [...]
Filed Under: Enterprise storage, Personal Tagged With: blog, Enterprise Storage Strategies, Friendfeed, Gestalt IT, Nirvanix, social networks, Sunshine Mugrabi, Twitter
Nine Blog Suggestions from a Grumpy Reader
I subscribe to hundreds of RSS feeds, and read them religiously. According to Google Reader’s statistics, I read about 200 items per day out of over 700 posted to all of those feeds. As you might expect, I’ve got some strong feelings about blogs and news sites after reading that much. So this message is aimed at all of you content providers out there: Fix your darn blogs and feeds so I won’t be so grumpy anymore!
Storage Folks Are Twittering
If reading blogs doesn’t give you your enterprise storage fix, there’s a new option in town: Twitter! Lots of the top folks in the enterprise storage community are now using the microblogging service, and a regular community has evolved. It’s really taken off over the past few months. If you’re interested in enterprise storage, here’s [...]
Filed Under: Enterprise storage, Personal Tagged With: 3PAR, BlueArc, Dell, EMC, Friendfeed, HDS, NetApp, Seagate, social networks, Twitter
BackType Is Closing The Blog Comment Hole
I am an avid reader of RSS feeds, relying on Google Reader to keep me up to date with the latest industry news. But there is a hole in the world of blogs – comments are a dead end. I literally read hundreds of blogs and occasionally leave a comment, but I rarely go back [...]
Filed Under: Personal Tagged With: Automattic, BackType, Disqus, Friendfeed, Google Reader, Intense Debate, RSS, social networks, WordPress
Get Your Enterprise Storage Feed Fix From FriendFeed
Serious tongue-twister of a title, right? I just created a “room” at FriendFeed with many of my favorite enterprise storage and backup-related RSS feeds. So swing on over there and enjoy! You can interact at FriendFeed or just subscribe to the Atom feed in your favorite reader to keep up to date on the latest [...]
Filed Under: Enterprise storage Tagged With: Atom, Friendfeed, RSS, social networks
I Want a Real Blog Aggregator
I love Google Reader. I love Friendfeed. I even like Plaxo Pulse. But here’s what I want: A one-stop blog aggregator that lets me do everything for everywhere in one place. I want integrated socialization, and especially threading and integrated commenting. And I think we can do it! Read on for a recipe for the [...]
Filed Under: Personal Tagged With: AssetBar, Friendfeed, Google Reader, Plaxo, RSS, social networks
