The speculation about Apple’s motives in the Topsy deal started as soon as Apple announced they were buying the self-proclaimed realtime search engine for the social web. So why did Apple buy them? Or better yet, why isn’t it clear why Apple bought them? If Twitter had bought Topsy, there would be little of this…
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Rhythm 2.0 Released – Helping High-Performing Teams Accelerate Growth
Gazelles Systems has released Rhythm 2.0 focusing efforts on making it easy for high performing teams to Think, Plan, and Do according to the processes outlined in Verne Harnish‘s Mastering the Rockefeller Habits and further refined by Gazelles Systems coaches. We considered the vast amount of feedback and learning from our Rhythm clients and innovated…
Is all data public?
Roger Grimes writes in InfoWorld that asking if a database is secure is the old way of thinking. The new way is to know if a data source is valuable it will be hacked or more likely already has been hacked. If you ask security experts, every database worth stealing is already in the hands…
Digital Advertising Evolution from Pointroll
Pointroll discusses the evolution of digital advertising in this slideshow and infographic: The Evolution of Interactive, Rich Digital Advertising from PointRoll Mashable carried the Evolution of Digital Advertising story with this fullsize Infographic.
Google and Smithsonian partner to help visitors find food and the loo
Google and Smithsonian partner so visitors spend less time lost, more time learning | VentureBeat. Google adds 17 Smithsonian Museums to the 10,000 indoor maps they already have. Both parties will continue to work together to increase the level of exhibit detail and map features.
Gartner Predicts 2012 IT Spending Growth Slows
Gartner’s newest IT spending forecast shows the march to digitalization slowing — on pace to reach $3.628 trillion in 2012 and $3.786 trillion in 2013. That is only an estimated 3 percent and 4.4 percent increase compared to the the $3.523 trillion spent last year in 2011, which was 7.9 percent growth compared to 2010….