C.G. Lynch
Facebook Users To Get More Privacy; Developers, Less Freedom
On Facebook, the struggle to figure out who owns and accesses our data remains years away from any resolution - if we ever reach one. Yesterday, Facebook announced that it would act to shore up some privacy concerns that were voiced a...
Report Finds Reliability in URL Shorteners
On Twitter, URL shorteners have become vastly important. With the 140 character constraints for each tweet, we wouldn't have the freedom to share a link and explain its significance without them. It turns out, not URL shorteners are...
Facebook's New Search Engine: What You Need To Know
Facebook rolled out changes to its search engine yesterday that let you query the service for status messages and other pieces of content that people post to the social network. The move reflects Facebook's desire to compete with...
Twitter Tips: How to Find Job Posts on Twitter
Although many companies have been shedding jobs, some employers and recruiters have turned to Twitter to post positions and find new talent.
Facebook's Upcoming Privacy Changes: What to Know
In the next few weeks, Facebook will be rolling out significant privacy changes to the site that will make it easier to share information with people outside your immediate network - making the site more public in nature, like Twitter....
TI's Web 2.0 Success Story
Back in 2004, Texas Instruments (TI) noticed a problem in its customer service department, one that's typical in companies serving technical customer bases. Some of TI's main customers (engineers) buy and use some of the company's...
The man who coined 'Enterprise 2.0' on What's Next
CIO.com – A few years ago, companies were grappling with how to harness Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis and social networks inside the enterprise. Over time, on a departmental level, business leaders would buy these...
How Far Will Microsoft Go with Cloud?
CIO.com – As the Enterprise 2.0 conference unfolds in Boston this week, the whole software industry will be observing Microsoft's shift to online services, as it responds to the cloud computing model championed by competitors like...
Microsoft SharePoint vs. Enterprise 2.0 Start-ups
CIO.com – This week represents an important inflection point for the Enterprise 2.0 market, a set of software vendors that sell social networking technologies to businesses. Analysts say the number of competitors will consolidate in...
Why Enterprises Are Moving to Google Apps, Gmail
CIO.com – Though it started selling software to universities and small businesses, Google has pervaded more large businesses during the past year with Google Apps, the company's suite of messaging and productivity software. Analysts...