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Tue, Sep 15, 2009 14:52 EDT
Thank You, CIO.com
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Posted by: C.G. Lynch in News Topic: ApplicationsBlog: Web 2.0 Advisor
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In June 2005, on a muggy New England summer day, I began working as an intern at CIO's headquarters in Framingham, Mass., a suburb outside Boston. I was 21, a junior in college at Northeastern
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Chrome Confusion: Google Must Educate Consumers on Browser and OS
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Posted by: C.G. Lynch in News Topic: ApplicationsBlog: Web 2.0 Advisor
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If Google wants people to start using its Chrome browser and upcoming Chrome OS to compete with Microsoft more aggressively, it must ensure that mainstream computer users -- not just bloggers,
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Surprise: Twitter's Full of Grown-Ups, Not Tweens
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Posted by: C.G. Lynch in News Topic: ApplicationsBlog: Web 2.0 Advisor
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The emergence of Twitter has been driven by an older demographic, The New York Times reported today. What I wonder is, how will that affect the way we consume information in the future and, more
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Dear Facebook: Stop Trying to Be Like Twitter
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Posted by: C.G. Lynch in Rants Topic: ApplicationsBlog: Web 2.0 Advisor
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Hey Facebook. Just stop it. This has gone far enough. I've met some of you. You're smart guys and gals. With any technology, you shouldn't muscle it into doing something that it was never designed to
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Think Outside the Filing Cabinet
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Posted by: C.G. Lynch in Best Practices Topic: ArchitectureBlog: Web 2.0 Advisor
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As we enjoyed the rise of the personal computer, e-mail and corporate networks, you might have deemed filing cabinets a relic of the 20th century. You'd be wrong. The truth is, thanks to
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Real-Time Search Riddle: Should Google Buy Twitter?
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Posted by: C.G. Lynch in News Topic: ApplicationsBlog: Web 2.0 Advisor
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Now that Facebook acquired FriendFeed, a social networking service beloved by social media insiders but unheard of by most of the general populace, should Google consider buying Twitter?Yes, Google
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The Trouble with Banning Twitter
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Posted by: C.G. Lynch in News Topic: ApplicationsBlog: Web 2.0 Advisor
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The news that the Marines have banned Twitter, Facebook and other social networks shouldn't be surprising, especially given the nature of the military and the amount of information it must keep
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