Gartner Magic Quadrant; a dark horse clo... Just been reading the Gartner Magic Quadrant: Social Software. Jive  come out as the clear leaders, closely followed by IBM and Microsoft (the latter featuring better on ability to execute). Other notables – Drupal, Telligent, SocialText and blueKiwi jostle with Google for the Visionary space....
Google is after SharePoint... Another interesting move from Google spotted here by Rob Diana http://regulargeek.com/2009/09/27/google-sites-goes-after-enterprise-collaboration/ and following on from my points about their desktop notification API as an internal comms...
Subscribe to RSS via e-mail... This feed feature is now fixed. Just one niggle after Google took over Feedburner and removed the Feedburner ID. Technorati Tags: Feedburner, Google, ID,...
Flock vs. Chrome : RSS... So far Flock beats Chrome hands down when it comes to RSS reader. In fact Flock beats all players when it comes to RSS. Not sure what it is about Flock’s built in reader but it just seems to work so well. It runs as a sidebar amongst all the other social media functionality that Flock provides and the...
Every Cloud has a Chrome Lining... Yesterday I downloaded Microsoft’s Live Writer after Neville Hobson gave it a plus. Trouble is it downloaded not only the Blogging tool but a villain’s swag bag of other goodies too. I now need to find a new ’round-2it’ to unpack them and see what’s on offer. As the angel fish...
ProBlogger's top SEO Plugins... These are very good – Google is now picking up my site after a migration: ProBlogger’s top SEO Plugins Technorati Tags: Google, ProBlogger, Search Engine Optimisation, Search Engine Optimization,...
Google’s Net Necessities... A lot written  following from The Wall Street Journal’s article on Google and net neutrality: Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web. John Battelle for example, recalls his interview with Vint Cerf, Google’s net-neutrality guru and compares this with the WSJ news.  Over at CNET Declan...
Cloudy thinking & clever data... Souce: Dion Hinchcliffe I find the following worthy of a scribble so I don’t forget, Amazon’s use of APIs is making its network traffic rocket  Microsoft has lost a top data center nerd to Amazon Amazon has launched an elastic cloud Amazon is building a giant new datacenter near a big dam Google...
MySpaceID: Google 1, Microsoft 0... A great post from Rick Turoczy on readwriteweb on the ongoing format login scrap between Facebook and MySpace. Rick comes down firmly in favour of MySpace arguing that their way is more Open and favours interoperability. What’s more he says, MySpaceID: fires a very real shot across Facebook’s...
Paper, Stone, Scissors, erm hold on̷... Following on from my piece on Google’s Open Social – as I was sorting out read and unreads on my RSS feeds I noticed another posting today on Open Social and the rest at by Richard MacManus at Readwriteweb.com - The Distributed Social Networking Puzzle: Putting The Pieces...

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