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• Rumor: Microsoft about to unveil web-apps strategy
• FairTrade bloody music
• Repricing Microsoft's future
• Monetizing illness
• Devices for the deviceless
• Social networking goes to war
• Alan Turing, cloud computing and IT's future
• HD DVD RIP
• Why S3 failed
• Google's footprint
• EMC's "very massive" storage cloud
• Crash: Amazon's S3 utility goes down
• Crowd control at eBay
• Amazon's river of bits
• Does Microsoft need consumers? Yes.
• Page 99
• lonelyauthor15
• Sneaking behind IT's back
• Spies in Second Life
• One computer to rule them all
• Bad timing
• Who cut the cables?
• Goliath's slingshot
• Desperately seeking the "killer best way"
• EB and me
• Software is becoming a media business
• Looking at a see-through world
• Monkey/wrench
• Exit Gates
• Media's next target: ISPs
• The billion-dollar switch
• Cloudwar
• The lucky 200
• Hell is other gadgets
• I love you, co-consumer
• Rewiring the mind
• A little too much aaS
• Is encryption a right?
• Fear and loathing in the social network
• From crippleware to spyware
• Replanting the hedges
• The network is the data center
• IT's alive!
• Among the dynamos
• A spider's web
• Where did the computer go?
• Open the pod bay door, iMac
• Scoble: freedom fighter or data thief?
• 2008: SaaS's breakout year?
• Will work for virtual gold
• Nodal man
• Like a computer
• Cleaning the slate
• Top ten posts for 2007
• Illuminating cities: Cisco's grand ambition
• He with the most data wins
• Golden nuggets
• Big Switch: now shipping
• Reality mining and your cell phone
• Free Big Switches
• The Office question
• Like, hello?
• A manifesto for greener servers
• Falling walls
• Googlepedia
• Merry Christmas, sucker
• Dominating the cloud
• Google Knol takes aim at Wikipedia
• The techno-utility complex
• FIRESTORM!
• When CyberLover met Dirty Santa
• Colliding worlds
• Misunderstanding enterprise software
• Slutbot aces Turing Test*
• A foolhardy lot
• Sun guru foresees data center disaster in '08
• A look at our modern oracle
• Through the Kindle window
• A star for "The Big Switch"
• My(Work)Space
• Understanding Google
• Microsoft extends data center buildout to Siberia
• India's online Office knockoff
• Is the social graph Web 3.0?
• 23andMe wants your DNA
• Thought for the day
• The vertical cloud
• Against free
• Why Kindle is no iPod
• Google gets a warning from Congress
• The Luddite dream of Jeff Bezos
• Look, ma, no servers
• YouTube's stagnation
• Legacy system
• Spycasting
• Attention bloggers: "Big Switch" giveaway
• Tapping at the window
• The social graft
• McLuhan's web
• OpenSocial and Enterprise 2.0
• Mugr: from facebook to mugshotbook
• The user-unfriendliness of enterprise apps
• Veropedia and the Wikipedia mine
• When economists blog
• Behind the hedgerow, eating garbage
• Google's cloud
• Yahoo!?
• The "$15 billion" nonsense
• A loaded gun
• The science of blog reading
• Platforms want to be free
• Vampires
• Quote of the day
• For Wal-Mart, too, IT is a commodity
• The business case for TimesSelect
• Get on my cloud
• Twine: a social network with brains
• The casino economy
• Google, Apple and the future of personal computing
• Is Zonbu the CloudBook?
• Measuring the leaderboard effect
• Feeding Google its own dog food
• Rethinking the business PC
• Microsoft seeks mind-reading patent
• What is and what should never be
• Caterpillar: Web 2.0 giant
• Sermo's twist on social networking
• The means of creativity
• The case for Google
• Avatar-human mind meld announced
• Storage: too cheap to meter?
• Abundantly abundant abundance
• Can I bring my flame thrower into Second Life?
• No free music, no peace
• Techmeme's juicelessness
• Google patents containerized data centers
• When data centers compete
• The YouTube-AdSense death toll
• The word on the net
• Selling a community
• Facebook and the grownups
• Neurotic bots rule
• Intimations of intimacy
• Web 2.0: intelligence in the back end
• Your life is an open mine
• Twilight of the CIO
• A beggar upon horseback
• Multitenancy and the network effect
• Little switch for Big Switch
• Inside Amazon's dynamo
• The BlackBerry vine
• Skype and the madness of management teams
• The automated guitar
• Number 34, but fading
• Microsoft: the cloud as feature
• Jobs, Radiohead and the iPhone
• Off the plantation
• The electric grid and the computing grid
• The wiki-clique
• A cautionary tale
• Fat Guy in Salesforce hell
• The mind-reading computer
• The island of misfit Wikipedia articles
• Transacting friendship
• Corpse-generated content
• Thank you, Dave Winer
• SaaS talk
• Google's vertical integration
• The week that Big Software shattered
• Only disconnect
• ByDesign: has SAP unleashed a cannibal?
• A very silly report on "fair use"
• The people formerly known as informed
• Adblock Plus: what would Jesus do?
• Capgemini to pitch Google Apps
• Adblock Plus: the nuclear plug-in
• The WHOIS deadlock
• Data center porn
• Yahoo's change of venue
• Google's friend-to-friend ad network
• Should the Net forget?
• Where's my CloudBook?
• Mark Glaser's dubious silver lining
• Virtualization gets personal
• Rise of the wikicrats
• My, what a friendly ad
• Invite bonanza: Pownce, Freebase, iMedix
• Skype and the hedge fund problem
• Long player: bonus track
• The end of ERP?
• Dell's tainted soul
• VMware, Xen and the hardware business
• ERP's troubled legacy
• Edgeio vs. Freegeio
• Cheaper, better IT
• The automation of social life
• Growing up virtual
• What is Web 3.0?
• Microsoft's forecast: cloudy
• Poof!
• No fatties allowed
• Conversational marketing is marketing
• How to install a Blackbox
• Dialectic
• The industrialization of software
• Flickering Man
• Never forget
• Negroponte vs. Intel
• It's too hot to blog
• Google's stopgap
• Amazon's unseemly tags
• Bad ad fad
• The mythical Google PC
• More words!
• Dealing with Google
• What thoughts should I think?
• Happy Birthday, Cathedral & Bazaar
• Google uncovers a million malware sites
• Free AdSense
• Long player
• The digital dump
• You can get anything at eBay
• The shrinking web
• Big Switch: contents and preorders
• Facebookipedia
• Womb-based SEO
• Google preparing to police web
• The tweet-filled void
• The YouTube elite
• Microsoft eyeing Yahoo
• Rough Type gains geek cred
• Elegy for the photojournalist
• Amazon re-prices S3
• Google builds in Benelux
• Microsoft is dead in theory
• The new heavy metal
• Users
• Stabbing Polonius
• Open source and the programmer's dilemma
• A scandal looms for IT industry
• SAP touts SaaS savings
• Go ask Alice's avatar
• All roads lead to Omaha
• Intuit's cloudburst frustrates customers
• Google buys PowerPoint editor
• Announcing "The Big Switch"
• Rules for warbots
• Googleopoly
• MIT announces Human 2.0
• Flight of the wingless coffin fly
• The blogosphere's most popular headline
• You ain't going nowhere
• The sharecroppers' tools
• Bathtub computing
• Citi whacks IT
• Sony may launch PlayGrid
• Wilf this
• Salesforce vs. Google
• Thanks, Tim and Jimbo!
• Teaching computers to see
• The real Web 2.0
• Unwelcome guests
• Ozzie walks the line
• Apple intros $13,000 PC
• Amazon patents cybernetic mind-meld
• Dell heads for the cloud
• The best Odd Couple episode ever
• Showdown in the trailer park II
• Showdown in the trailer park
• Born again again
• Oracle v. SAP
• Are CIOs "dead weight"?
• Oracle sues SAP for "theft"
• Is a "neutral" net anticompetitive?
• Two views of Web 2.0 in business
• Deneutralizing the net
• Twitter dot dash
• SAP CEO calls SaaS "the better model"
• Google should buy Intuit
• Google Transit Authority
• Freebase: the Web 3.0 machine
• The loose ties that bind
• Customer value and the network effect
• Robot rights update
• The book of Essjay
• Microsoft wags finger at Google
• Wikipedia's credentialism crisis
• In praise of the parasitic blogger
• Essjay's world
• Oracle rolls up Hyperion
• Essjay disrobed
• Working for free
• Server electricity use skyrockets
• The all-seeing net
• Googlegate in North Carolina
• No jobs on the net
• The future of computing demand
• Google's Carolina deal
• IT, YouTube and the wealth gap
• All the news that's fit to, uh, nevermind
• Wikipedia's cash crunch
• Good and bad
• Jobs calls for end to DRM
• The madness of e-crowds
• Flat panel display
• Cloudwatching
• "A very ugly picture"
• Google in Carolina
• When it's good to be sued
• The long tail of Bud
• The googlebomber
• Wikipedia goes to Harvard
• YouTube's strategic sharing
• Radical opacity
• Google's machine
• A moment of fun, a lifetime of regret
• Slumming it in Second Life
• Experts go home
• Google whacks IT industry
• The ultimate leech
• The Montgomery-Finkelstein debate
• Honey, I shrunk the culture
• Is Wikipedia a black hole?
• The link of least resistance
• Citizendium dumps Wikipedia
• The dubious link between IT and innovation
• Free IT
• Does Web 2.0 = B2B?
• Pass the joystick
• OneBoxed-in
• Pay-per-view journalism
• Writing for the machine
• Search advertising and the little guys
• IT doesn't matter, part 8
• IT doesn't matter, part 7
• The Cassandra meme
• New avatar shock video
• Steve's devices
• IT doesn't matter, part 6
• IT doesn't matter, part 5
• IT doesn't matter, part 4
• Death by Venice
• The Wikipedian brain
• The new new journalism
• Crash
• IT doesn't matter, part 3
• IT doesn't matter, part 2
• IT doesn't matter, part 1
• Shock the avatar
• Windows for Robots
• A fine rant
• The Rough Type zeitgeist
• Google's "tip" dance
• Invasive computing
• Dweebs, horndogs and geezers
• Sharecropping the long tail
• Productivity Paradox 2.0
• What us wants
• Study implicates boards in backdating scandal
• You da man!
• Cooling is cool again
• Your new IT budget: $10
• Kill a server, get a rebate
• Fighting free with free
• Thinking outside the hive
• More evidence that iTunes has peaked
• Lost in the shitstream
• When the auctioneer bids
• A preview of Google's "health URL"
• Google's big private-label move
• Curtains for music DRM?
• Death, taxes and spam
• Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians
• IT, automate thyself
• The five Google products
• Knowledge and unknowledge
• The semantics web
• Reverse salients
• 2007 predictions
• Paradise lost
• SAP's mixed-up confusion
• Packaging is everything
• Half a billion, more or less
• SaaS adoption set to explode
• Is Web 2.0 the wrong path?
• In your ear
• Microsoft's rebuttal
• Eric Schmidt's tough talk
• Universal sues MySpace over "user-stolen" content
• The Friday craft corner
• Flattened by MySpace
• The dingo stole my avatar
• Stop them before they code again
• Self-portrait in a flat-panel display
• Knockoffs roil Second Life
• Links aren't messy anymore
• The art of defensive blogging
• We are the Distillery
• Welcome Web 3.0!
• More blogs, less weight
• Welcome back to frugal computing
• Leaving the commune
• Crowdsourcing surveillance
• Flaming the dead
• Knee deep in the big YouTube
• Evidence of attraction
• Shaft the piano player
• Larrying Wikipedia
• Too many ITs
• google this
• Where's Microsoft?
• Larry Ellison and the business of social production
• No room at the data center
• Does the truth pay its invoices on time?
• The quality of peer production
• Web 2.0lier than thou
• Offshoring consumption
• The metabolic thing
• Zeitgeist
• The rebound that never came
• Trailer park computing
• Excuse me while I blog
• Easy as pie
• United States vs. Google
• Innovation, not infrastructure
• A glass house
• Beyond question
• Bezos on Amazon's utility
• Concerns grow over online advertising
• What will kill Citizendium
• An IT sea change for smaller companies
• The strange world of digital music
• Sanger forks Wikipedia
• Office generations
• Open and shut
• Innovate strongly but narrowly
• Small pieces unjoined
• Undiggnified
• Searching in time
• Deletionists, inclusionists and delusionists
• Introducing Rough Sort
• The problem with RSS
• Social software in perspective
• Make widget
• A sharing of interests
• The Google-Microsoft axis
• Rough sort
• The kool-aid antidote
• The coolness of Google public service ads
• The Great Unread
• The shape of the tail
• Cold treats
• Information central
• Outhouses vs. TiVos
• Monetize me
• Our new Delphic oracle
• Ongoing
• Teenage clicks
• MySpace exonerated
• Bastard apps
• People like old media
• Meet Thelma Arnold
• Malware as a service
• Open source as metaphor
• MySpace friends Google
• Just say "delete"
• Breaking news: Kids still bored
• Quality control
• Yo ho, yo ho
• Social networking is bunk
• Few to many
• The web is unflat
• A reality check for online news
• Benkler on Calacanis's wallet
• Lee Gomes responds to Chris Anderson
• Amusements
• Is video the new fiber?
• How large is the long tail?
• JotSpot's suite dreams
• Blackball 2.0
• Rethinking PC, rethinking Dell
• Zune and the Apple way
• When "direct" becomes a disadvantage
• Between two worlds
• Calacanis's wallet and the Web 2.0 dream
• Cluetrain sabotaged!
• The long tail of unwatched DVDs
• Microsoft and the app stream
• The blog channel
• The malling of populism
• Web 2.0 is, uh, not bad
• Amazon's data socket
• No room on the web
• Software kills hardware
• Into the chasm!
• Dell's unorthodox blog
• The third age of IT
• The allure of crowds
• Emergent bureaucracy
• California kings
• Bad acid
• Netscape's junk drawer
• Deciphering the AdWords discount
• "There's something here"
• Lycidas, with power chords
• Crooked links
• Longhand
• Rosen on Reynolds
• But, officer, the door was unlocked
• Cut and paste
• Why do you think they call it "lock-in"?
• The very long tail of spam
• A bureaucracy of sorts
• Because we can
• The new powerplants
• Have face, will travel
• Hear no evil?
• Out of context
• Zittrain's "generative internet"
• In praise of "static" and "passive"
• Google's Office add-on
• Open source policing
• The MySpace mirror
• Complementary innovation
• The grid land
• SaaS and net neutrality
• The hybrid utility architecture
• The collectivism fetish
• Inside the Google mind
• The global karaoke machine
• Where the money isn't
• The neck of Beck's guitar
• Microsoft vs. Microsoft
• Updike's speech
• Blog justice
• Remember MySpace?
• The serendipity trail
• Open-source trademarks
• Staking claims
• We suck! We suck!
• Now, let's bury the myth
• The world butts in
• The death of Wikipedia
• Maxwell Smart 2.0
• Welcome back to the Middle Ages
• MySpace peddles its eyeballs
• Screening
• "Keep your edges dry"
• Microsoft's PC utility
• Our liberator, the internet
• Sunday links
• Mr. Google and Mr. Spock
• Is SAP for sale?
• The engine of serendipity
• CIOs flee IT
• Blah blah blah
• Little black Mac
• The dog that didn't bark
• The knowledge glut
• The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock's avatar
• 47,381
• Not quite a New Age
• Unbound for glory
• Feds clear Microsoft's browser
• And the curious shall lead us
• Management theory, debunked
• Out of beta: Google Press Day
• War of the lopsided octopuses
• Sky's the limit (again)
• So who's Sancho Panza?
• Are two OSes better than one?
• What Moore's Law giveth...
• Selling ourselves
• One interface to rule them all
• Pandora's search engine
• Google's grand ambition
• Will Google win the enterprise?
• Kind of hard to miss
• Monetizing the wasteland
• Google and choice
• The default war broadens
• Amazon dumps Google for Microsoft
• An open letter to Line56
• The zen of Web 2.0
• Web 2.0's numbskull factor
• On the hot seat
• The Google gag order
• The web services schism
• Party like it's 1999
• 2 ways of looking at Microsoft
• Being virtual
• The great Google float
• A year in the 'sphere
• More on mindlessness
• Linux + Windows on the desktop
• A beautiful mindlessness
• Is Web 2.0 enterprise-ready?
• Disney's screen test
• Machine hed
• Conservative innovation
• Disney's counterrevolution
• Boot Camp and the PC war
• Grace notes and bank notes
• A problem has been detected
• The wages of illegal immigration
• Watersheds
• All the news that's fit to feed
• Generous to a fault
• Is Skype safe?
• April Fools Day jumps the shark
• Onanism 2.0
• The MySpace purge
• Putting blogging to the test
• Free as in ride
• Update on Google Brain Plug-In
• Lame, but smart
• IT's risky
• Seven rules for corporate blogging
• The "Neat!" epidemic
• The hitmaking machine
• Britannica's indictment
• Alien territory
• Grid unlocked
• Is that a ticking crocodile?
• MySpace's vacancy
• Open highways and traffic jams
• Microsoft's Apple strategy
• Google Supermarket
• Elementary worldly wisdom
• Amazon's dilemma
• Once upon a time in the west
• Steve does Hollywood
• Guardrail to guardrail
• The unamerican search engine
• Friday snark attack
• Stack war
• The clickthrough's tyrannical efficiency
• The editor and the crowd
• iTunes tests subscription pricing
• Easier said than done
• Disrupted
• Here comes HaaS
• Not-so-naked conversations
• The SaaS ramp
• The UnOscars
• Scale and scalability
• Roasting wienies on a stick
• Does SAP sap profits?
• Getting it
• More thoughts on servers
• A question for readers
• When information becomes "information"
• A requiem (beta) for Edgeio
• A clean, well-ventilated place
• Is the server industry doomed?
• The new narcissism
• Nature's Flawed Study of Wikipedia's Quality
• Oracle's open source rollup
• My funny valentine
• Gmail attacks Outlook
• FON's unsavory buzz
• "A little too frothy"
• The truthiness of Web 2.0
• So much for specialization
• Revenge of the middlemen
• The new architecture
• Search in the world
• The net's killer app
• Google Dashboard (beta)
• Free fake computers!
• Half-SaaSed
• End of the megapixel war
• Salesforce.com's hiccups
• Market gerrymandering
• Peaked
• The debate that won't die
• What's Microsoft afraid of?
• Open source's other advantage
• The trust scale
• "We must fight the net"
• The supply-side boom
• Down the drain
• Don't be stupid
• Sergey's education
• Oracle's funny numbers
• eBay and the auction auction
• Porn again
• SAP's truth-stretching ads
• Yahoo passes a stone
• Memeomainstream
• The old-world internet
• Who'd a thunk?
• The amorality of open source
• The beta culture
• It's official: Macs do Windows
• World of adwarcraft
• As the world turns
• tvPod
• Predicting Apple's fall
• The perfect tollbooth
• Big Brother 2.0
• Google's trojan horse
• The geek's paradise
• Is the ad bubble leaking?
• Google branches out
• Every click is precious
• Just try to pay attention
• The click economy
• Tribes of the internet
• Microsoft buys Opera!
• Predictions: 2006
• Let Wikipedia be Wikipedia
• Is the internet too dumb to survive?
• I'm with Google
• Memeorandum's close quarters
• "What our company is about"
• Really simple pricing
• The dark markets
• Have faith
• Everything's negotiable
• The 5% solution
• Monster mash
• Free for all
• How much for that click in the window?
• The piecemeal economy
• Competition and ad profits
• Where am I?
• Sun and the data center meltdown
• Buying eyeballs
• The birth of Google
• Be civil, asshole
• Web 2.0's collateral damage
• Breakthroughs to nowhere
• Consumer utilities
• Not like breathing
• Kill all screensavers
• Hypermediation 2.0
• A blogosphere thanksgiving
• Jellybeans for breakfast
• Two-dimensional culture
• Distrust and verify
• Process matters
• Your brain on Google
• Worth reading
• The web's porn problem
• The MySpace (bottle) rocket
• Such a cute gorilla
• Love, money and podcasting
• Peter Drucker, RIP
• Secrets and lies
• The thinnest client
• Ozzie ascendant
• SapOracleSoft
• The sixth force
• Lies, damned lies and IT statistics
• Cute puppy or fist in face?
• Search is a commodity (again)
• HITs for HAL
• The all-seeing eye
• Fair or unfair use?
• Keats vs. Matrix
• The mainstream blogosphere
• Tent shows
• Live and kicking
• Michael Dell is from Mars
• Wireless 1.0
• Beyond Google and evil
• Pot. Kettle. Black.
• Shock treatment
• Inside Google
• Trouble in Wiki Land
• Ear waves
• I work for Google
• America's Internet
• The law of the wiki
• The age of exploitation
• It beats talking to yourself
• Entrepreneurs everywhere
• Is Microsoft a victim?
• Feedback
• Cold War 2.0
• The price is wrong
• More on Wikipedia
• Governance is not enough
• Stay tuned
• Big whoop
• The amorality of Web 2.0
• They like me
• Platform fever
• The soft grid
• Office vs. Explorer
• Standardization and competition
• Head phakes
• Weekend diversions
• The end is near(er)
• Massachusetts and Microsoft
• Unloading MSN
• Communal delusions
• SHARE and share alike
• Consolidation and disruption
• Bubble 2.0
• Digital home wrecker
• Thanks but no thanks
• From darling to demon
• A lordly view of IT
• Where's the OS?
• Google's $4,000,000,000 question
• Taking a break
• HP, the GE way
• Oops
• The slow death of traditional software
• Don't bank on it
• Good governance
• Money isn't everything
• The great divide
• Cisco's nosy mailman
• Down the rat hole, happily
• A test for innovation
• Around and about
• The money trail
• Tax the net
• The blade bloodbath
• Dumb Google
• The long tail, junkyard-style
• A big opening for little guys
• To hell with culture
• The economics of mischief
• Welcome to the morass
• Continuous partial nonsense
• The people problem
• Utility computing and the digital divide
• Other takes on utility computing
• The view from inside the box
• Power shift
• It's all about me
• When in China...
• Dell's Lexus
• The two Amazons
• The Sarbox molehill
• Bully for CNET
• Apptel?
• Follow the data
• What's IT worth?
• Deus ex computer
• Searching for business
• Consolidate, standardize, prune
• Disruption from above
• Nope, it still doesn't matter
• Six Sigma software
• The thing that goes on the hip
• Ceci n'est pas une portal
• "The hype machine is broken"
• A spirited defense of waste
• Nothing will ever be the same!
• Juicing the web
• The next UI
• One-hit wonders
• The education bullshit
• Who's outsourcing whom?
• Introducing the impersonal computer
• Big brains, little profits
• How ivory is your tower?
• The anti-Nicholas Carr thing
• The skinny on smart IT
• The Beeb feed
• Really simple revolution
• Ellison's binge continues
• Offshored slackers
• It's my company, and I'll cry if I want to
• Microsoft hearts SAP
• Brother, can you spare 64 bits?
• Cheapskates rule
• IT's industrial revolution
• Bloggers are pretentious nitwits
• Google eyes
• Megapixels don't matter (but other things do)
• Does Linux belong on your desktop?
• What IT's all about
• Abusing the airwaves
• Has outsourcing peaked?
• A slightly thinner Microsoft
• Intel's commoditization machine
• Siebel and the software market
• The end of corporate computing
• Big blues
• The geography of the Internet

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