2008 Predictions and Implications for Social Media Marketing

from PodTech.net: Technology and Entertainment Video Network by Jennifer Jones Chris Brogan, social media expert and co-founder of PodCamp has three major predictions that can affect marketers. Brogan believes some social networks will start folding, leaving just major platforms afloat, mainstream media will dive deep into online publishing, and PR and marketing firms will announce […]

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"Database-as-a-Service" (DaaS)

LongJump, a provider of highly customizable, interconnectedon-demand business applications, today unveiled applicationprogramming interfaces that enable LongJump’s platform to deliver apowerful “Database-as-a-Service” (DaaS) offering. LongJump’s new DaaSoffering enables companies to self-provision relational databaseaccess and storage on-demand. Similar to Amazon’s S3 on-demand storageservice, LongJump gives developers a compelling alternative forhousing their web-based applications. LongJump’s DaaS provides acomplete […]

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How Microsoft Invests in Semantic Web Technologies

Microsoft has taken steps in the direction of supporting Semantic Web standards such as RDF, OWL, and SPARQL. While their support is minimal and not hyped very broadly it is still nice to see the them implementing these standards in their software. I also haven’t seen any evidence that they wish to formulate a proprietary […]

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10 Semantic Apps to Watch

One of the highlights of October’s Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco was the emergence of ‘Semantic Apps’ as a force. Note that we’re not necessarily talking about the Semantic Web, which is the Tim Berners-Lee W3C led initiative that touts technologies like RDF, OWL and other standards for metadata. Semantic Apps may use those […]

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The Assembly Line Approach to Digital Asset Management

The Assembly Line Approach to Digital Asset Management By Byron Jorjorian, www.naturephotocentral.com Until recently, I suffered from scattered image syndrome. That is to say I had images and projects scattered all over my desktop and throughout multiple hard drives. It seemed a hopeless mess. As a professional nature photographer with more than 180,000 images in […]

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Don''t give away the ''store''–printers embrace digital asset management.

For printers and other graphic communications specialists, harnessing digital asset management as a revenue stream may be getting easier thanks to clients’ awareness of the technology’s power to enable consistent, customized product distribution across geographic distances. “Now PMS blue in Los Angeles will match PMS blue in Peking because everyone is using the same colors, […]

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PaxPro Digital Asset Manager

Available 24/7 globally, your assets are completely secure and easily managed in PaxPro. The PaxPro Digital Asset Manager features thumbnails for easy identification and supports over 400 file formats — from Word to Excel to CAD to Adobe InDesign and pretty much everything in between. Digital assets reside in folders within a workspace for organizational […]

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials) (Paperback)by Robert B. Cialdini Cialdini believes that influence is a science. This idea attracted me. As a rhetorician, I have always thought of persuasion as more of an art. Cialdini, however, makes a first-rate case for the science point of view. But maybe most importantly, he makes […]

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Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference 2008

Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference 2008 Microsoft will host its largest ever Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference at the Washington State Trade and Convention Center in Seattle, WA. The four-day conference will be attended by an audience of over 3,000 business and IT professionals. The conference will provide the best information, demos, and material on the current […]

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