Snow Leopard: Hopes, Misunderstandings, and Gotchas

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Snow Leopard (aka OS 10.6) looks like a great system update for Mac users: better performance, smaller hard drive footprint, cheap price (if you’ve been keeping up with your OS updates). That said, we personally are always cautious about upgrading to the “x.x.0” version of anything: Call it old age, but quite often we prefer […]

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Web 3.0: Rise of the Intelligent Machines

Although Web 3.0, also known as the semantic Web, is a conceptual technology many years from maturation, the industry is already beginning to see how it might play out in the enterprise. In the semantic Web, all content — whether it’s text, images, video or something else — will have descriptors that bring meaning, context […]

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After Effects Apprentice Video Tutorial #9

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Earlier this year we released After Effects Apprentice (2nd Edition). The DVD-ROM that comes with the book includes an hour and a half of video tutorials that provide gentle introductions to major features inside After Effects. We’ve been releasing these videos one per month here on PVC. This tutorial provides a jump-start for using the […]

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Phlight of the URLs: BT banjacks Phorm

Posted by Paul Quigley 2nd September 2009 Reports that BT is distancing itself from controversial web monitoring firm Phorm emerged last week, changes which coincided with start warnings from father-of-the-web Sir Tim Berners-Lee that web privacy was sacrosanct and that the web should be “like a blank piece of paper”. With the only other internet […]

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The Future of Premedia – Part 1 – The Stage

It’s been more than a week since my last blog and this one comes in collaboration withPeter van Teeseling as he has some ideas on this subject, together we have a shared vision of what the futurepremedia service offerings will be. To start a series of blogs covering each subject in more detail I will […]

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And now for something completely different…

I posted a number of tweets recently about ECM and Information Management (IM).Richard Veryard (@richardveryard) asked me on Twitter to assemble these tweets on my blog so that he could comment properly. So, here is an attempt describe and expand my train of thought in the format of a blog post (and hopefully soon get […]

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Canon releases 7D DSLR HD Camera

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Canon obviously saw the potential of the 5D Mark II and has now released the 7D which addresses many of the issues people had with trying to shoot HD with the 5D Mark II. From their website announcement: With a host of brand new features designed to enhance every facet of the photographic process, from […]

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Influence and social capital of 21st century leaders

Myprevious post summarized “four fundamentals of networks” with special emphasis on the context of leadership. Today I’ll take a closer look at the foundation of the four fundamentals: personal influence. This foundation is highlighted in the bottom two quadrants below, which share a network focus on influential positions and roles:These two quadrants provide a good […]

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Twitter Analytics: Five Practical, Lesser Known Free Tools for B2B Professionals

“Need to know…” drives much of the marketing conversation. Who’s listening, what’s competition saying, reach and extended reach. For Twitter to evolve to a useful B2B platform, metrics must keep pace. So…you’ve succeeded a B2B Twitter initiative- whether as a client with a first internal campaign, or anagency profinallycoaxing clients to engage, or the marketing […]

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Value-added taxa: from knowledge management to enterprise taxonomies

Posted by Paul Quigley 01 September 2009 When the SEO behemoth Google took the wraps off its new indexing for content application ‘Index Now‘ site search, the whole sphere of enterprise taxonomy andfolksonomies is conjured as the role ofknowledge management and context become ever more critical to effective content management strategies. Enterprises and organisations are […]

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