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Don’t Feel Down Just Because Google Is Down

Saturday, July 18th, 2009 by Reid Williams

A recent study conducted by the Chief Happiness Officer provides a clear warning as we all join the Western-style landrush to the cloud: Caution — and deep breathing — should be exercised now that our livelihoods hinge on the web being up and running.

What, you’ve never heard of the Chief Happiness Officer? Then you might not be familiar with “webstress,” either.

Alexander Kjerulf has one of the coolest job titles ever invented. As a consulting CHO, he helps companies figure out how to make their employees happier at work. Pretty cool, right? (more…)

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It Takes A Cloud To Search A Secure Cloud

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 by Reid Williams

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Image by notsogoodphotography/Flickr Creative Commons

According to a research breakthrough at IBM, it appears “the cloud” just got a lot more secure. The irony, however, is that it then takes a cloud to do anything with that secure cloud.

IBM announced that computer scientist Craig Gentry has written his PhD dissertation on “fully homomorphic encryption.”

(Yeah, we had to look it up, too. But Wikipedia gives a somewhat comprehensible explanation for the non-PhDs like us.)

Let’s see if we can break it down even more clearly: (more…)

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The Never-Ending Search Game

Friday, June 26th, 2009 by Reid Williams
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Image by Danard Vincente/Flickr Creative Commons

Just about everybody that follows the web biz knows that Google serves the lion’s share of search queries. But how well do you know the breakdown of the rest of the search market?

Frankly, I was surprised by last month’s figures. I wonder if you wouldn’t be, too.

Here’s a fun test: Based on the May 2009 figures from comScore, see if you can put the following websites in order, from largest to smallest, on the number of search queries each handled for the month.

They are, in no particular order, Craigslist, Google, YouTube, Yahoo, Microsoft Live, AOL, eBay, Facebook, and Amazon.

Ready? Go. (more…)

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Thank You, Google Apps (Hello, Cloud Computing)

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 by Reid Williams

In the coming years, every big and mid-sized corporation will be doing what every small business like ours has already done — move to the cloud.

I’m talking about the shift of information technology infrastructure that’s already started. It’s the switch from desktop PC to netbook, from proprietary servers on local area networks to virtualized database centers, from centralized computing to the cloud.

It used to be that a business of our size, with just 10 people, would still have to spend $10,000 setting up our own system to handle email, house our website, connect us all for workflow and archiving, and cover all the licenses we’d need for office productivity software (don’t get us started on the cost of suites such as Adobe CS4).

You could go broke just setting up the IT you need to get business done.

But why run Microsoft Word on your desktop, when it can run out there, on the web? (more…)

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