Social aggregator site Power.com, which allows users to access multiple social networking sites from one interface, got in trouble recently with Facebook.  Facebook sued Power.com for storing Facebook user credentials within their own database and scraping what Facebook called "proprietary data" (i.e. user data).  Facebook and Power.com are working towards an agreement to settle [...]

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Telling everyone what most people who work regularly with computers already know, a study performed by the University of Utah recently found that computer users with two monitors are routinely more productive than those with one.
In an article featured in the New York Times:
[Researchers] found that people who used two 20-inch monitors were 44 [...]

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Looking for a 10 person hosted Atlassian Confluence wiki?  Good news: it just got a price cut.  Hosted confluence is now $49 / month.  According to the official company blog:
Team Hosted combines the enterprise features of Confluence with the convenience and affordability of SaaS. It lets users:

Edit pages using Microsoft Word
Utilize free third-party [...]

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Google unveiled their Google Apps Reseller program yesterday.  What does it mean?  In a nutshell, Google is looking to get more business user traction for their SaaS business office productivity offerings – specifically: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Docs, Google Sites and their security services for on-premise email servers. (I’d include Google Video [...]

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A disclaimer first: I spent 8 years working for ILOG, previously a leading vendor of BRMS (business rules management software), but I spent those years primarily architecting, building and managing IT systems.  So although I’m pretty familiar with BRMS and related topics, I’m by no means a BRMS expert.  Secondly: if you’re a fellow [...]

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CNET News has a long list of Google projects that are getting scrapped or otherwise cut back.  In short, here’s the buzz:
Getting shutdown (now or soon):

Google Video
Google Catalogs Search
Dodgeball
Jaiku (may live on w/volunteers)
Google Mashup Editor

Rumored to be shut down soon:

Grand Central
Knol
Google Base
Google Notebook

I’d add: Google Sites to that list, too.  But CNET didn’t call [...]

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I’ve been struggling with what to write about the news that Steve Jobs has announced today that he will step down as Apple’s CEO until June, 2009.  I wanted to write something thoughtful that didn’t sound like a “me too” post, or write about how it’s plausible that Apple may be fibbing about the [...]

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