In the early days of the Web there was a lot of experimenting going on. It was a brand new world where almost anything seemed possible. Decades later, many of those dreams have come true and new dreams have been born. In the meantime, a lot of the...
Starting today, Facebook will quietly "poke" users with many subscribers, asking them to verify their identity with a government-issued photo ID. After doing so, such famous Facebookers can drop in an "alternate name" which will be displayed in pa...
Many of us would love to be trained to have more social skills in everyday life, whether at work or at home. Or perhaps we wish other people we know would recieve that kind of training. But is socializing online something that people need to be tr...
You've seen MOO cards, those adorable half-the-size of regular business cards that have a pretty image on one side and your info on the other. Today MOO.com announced a big step toward social business, integrating with Facebook to create real busi...
The social Web is noisy. Each individual social network is noisy enough, but there's a second layer of noise - notifications - in which all the social apps compete with each other just to draw the user in. The creator of Handpick sent me along his...
Tools provide leverage for people to get work done; in many cases they enable us to do new kinds of work. Now consider robots in the workplace. They seem like bad news but do they have to be? What if robots weren't a threat to humanity, only inten...
In the words of Nova Spivack, we are approaching The Sharepocalypse. The real-time Web sounded like a great idea, but it has become impossible to manage. The success of social media has proven, ironically, to be its biggest challenge. The services...
It was a year of consolidation for the enterprise. A year where maturing technologies trumped startups. The year that social networking began to creep into just about every nook and cranny of corporate applications, even something banal like email...
Earlier this week, as part of our annual Year in Review series, we announced our Most Promising Company for 2012. It's an honor we bestow on a startup that we think shows the most promise for the coming year. We chose appMobi this year because of ...
IBM is poised to unleash its revamped mobile strategy with a full suite of tools aimed at enterprise developers with the purpose of providing and end-to-end system for collaboration, development and management for mobile applications. IBM is putti...
Our annual Best Of series continues with the top 10 Web products that revolutionized old services and created new ones this year. Yesterday, Richard MacManus rounded up the top 10 social Web products, featuring services that focus on social networ...
As the year winds down, Google has released some introspective blog posts about its changing nature. Today, it recapped the evolution of search in six minutes, describing the evolution of Google's core product from its breakout PageRank algorithm ...
