Big companies are now embracing open source. If more companies are turning to software, they are going to need someplace to store all that code. Enter GitHub, the hot startup behind the popular online source code repository used by thousands of individual developers as well as big-name companies like John Deere, SAP, and Microsoft. These… Read more »
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Social media and the security risks they pose for business
Discussion: As more and more businesses see the value in social media applications like Twitter and Facebook, they face a big dilemma: allow these applications to go through their current network without the proper security infrastructure or block them altogether. Nir Zuk, co-founder and CTO of Palo Alto Networks, says the next big thing in… Read more »
Google’s Vint Cerf on web future
Discussion: Vint Cerf, who helped design the architecture that the Internet is built on, is now the chief evangelist at Google. In an interview with CNN, Cerf describes the Internet as a “giant tent, under which you can do almost anything you can imagine and program.” Cerf praises the Egyptian people for using the Internet… Read more »
Facebook, Twitter and Groupon: The Next Economy or the Next Tech Bubble?
Discussion: Beverly Macy, technology writer and author of The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing, discusses the rise of social media and whether it’s a mainstream, revenue-generating business or the next dot.com crash. While companies like Facebook and Groupon are indeed making money, what’s concerning is the amount of money chasing the next big thing… Read more »
We Need to Reclaim Our Private Spaces
Social scientist Sherry Turkle discusses her hopes for society’s use of technology over the next 30 years. She is the author of Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other Source: Discovermagazine.com Date: October 2010 Link: http://discovermagazine.com/2010/oct/13-sherry-turkle-need-to-reclaim-private-spaces
Marissa Mayer: Who says you have to be a guy to be a geek?
This Google senior executive is teaching a new generation that femininity and technology are a winning formula. Source: Newsweek.com Date: December 22, 2010 Link: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/12/22/google-s-marissa-mayer-girls-can-be-geeks-too.html
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