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        <description><![CDATA[Nice information and i gathered more information from your blog. Thanks for sharing. Joomla Development]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[webhost123]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:37:49 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Social Networking AKA Modern Marketing Strategy!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Yeah I agree to all people out here, but i'm afraid this will not just go away, but this will be a good venue for marketing, they just put it that way to socialize etc... the essence really here is Marketing marketing marketing...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jorovan]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:30:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[SMS vs TWEET]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[SMS is straight to you. It aint going to be 'googled' or 'archived'. It's a personal thing that does not need to be broadcast to everyone else.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ShaggySheld]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 05:18:58 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Number 6]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think that #6 is going to be here for the duration.  Anything that leads a charge in reducing costs, centralizing management and extending the usefulness of hardware always hangs around.  Cloud computing and virtualization are not just a fad, they may be superceded by newer technologies in the future, but they are not going away anytime soon - IMHO.  The mobile craze may wane or even change dramatically which could lead to another paradigm change with development and maintenance of applications.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ole88]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:00:46 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Spot On!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I concur.  This pretty much seems to match my thinking.  The only much stronger distinction I'd make would be about mobile apps.IMHO, 10 years from now, a PC and a LAN will look as antiquated as a typewriter does today.  And, I predict everyone will single out this period 2009-2012 as the timeframe when the new standard  I/P/SaaS-to-Mobile architectural infrastructure comes to be the way systems are done.  So, I think mobile is the future.   The native mobile apps will be a big part of this new architecture, but secondary to mobile device's interaction with each other with and through  the broader apps running up in web (cloud).]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[tyelmene]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 03:28:05 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hi IT Guys - You need to &amp;quot;see the wood for the trees&amp;quot;]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I agree with &quot;spawnywhippet&quot; - there has been a paradigm shift.  Social Media in business is becoming &quot;Social Business&quot;.  Part of it is about improving transparency and accountability in business.  Sure there are issues to deal with - but social media environments for business will have a major impact on improving internal communication and connectedness]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[krisgraves]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:59:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hope it's a fad!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Have you ever tried to carry on a conversation or get something done with these FB'd, twittered, apped folks? It's like dealing with a person with severe ADHD. Even if you're not interrupted once or more per minute with them checking out whatever their getting, they'll get uncomfortable if they have to ignore. I've had it take ten minutes to convey what should have taken a minute to one of these idiots. They're so addicted to the infernal devices that they pay more attention to someone tweeting about the new shoes they bought (or other self involved nonsense) than to someone telling them something actually important to them.As for phone apps? The main purpose of apps seems to be showing people what a cool app they can run on their phone. Wast of Bandwidth. They're toys.Give me fast computers, give me fast connections, give me good software. Not toys.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mjc5@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:21:43 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Re: re: More of a bubble]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Very true about the banks. I'm seeing twitter feeds coming up on most TV shows now which is just getting ridiculous. Sometimes it really is just a bit too unneccessary]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[BrendanS89]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:16:32 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[So glad I'm not alone]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[From most comments it's clear that I'm not alone in finding all social networking utterly boring and something I can do without.  I was starting to think there was something wrong with me.  From my observations social networking appears to be a teen and maybe early twenties thing.  I've never uttered a single tweet.  Must be my age.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:51:41 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[&amp;quot;Taking personal private info of the users ...&amp;quot;]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Info those users offered voluntarily, info they would have realized was going to be mined had they bothered to read the terms of service, info they should have realized was the true price of that 'free' service had they given the slightest thought to the economics involved.This is a two-way street; you can't mine data if they're not tripping over themselves to give it to you, unconcerned with what you do with it.Not to mention your assumption that all data mining involves personal info.  There's plenty of opportunity in this field working with other forms of data.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:44:41 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[social networking fad]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[this will be a fad only if there is not a ROI seen by the CFO, this is highly possible as it will be difficult to measure exactly how Social Media influences the bottom line. Right now nobody wants to miss the boat like they did when corporate websites started appearing. Social technologies are picked up by the twenty something crowd because they have a strong need/desire not be be left out and feel that what there doing interests other people. Initially this was big for then but i believe as time passes (and these people get older) this type of connectedness will not be as important as it was. I personally feel that this type of social interaction is time well wasted.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[g434murray]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:32:17 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Donovan, nice analysis]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[IT provides tools and resources; it doesn't create content.  Expecting the average IT department to do Marketing or Design's work just because it houses web servers is like expecting it to do Accounting's job just because it installs Excel or Quickbooks.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:32:11 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mobile apps are vitally important]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[After all they are needed to justify those Mobile Devices that are currently so popular. Without the Apps the devices have no real use and are relegated to being Phones.The real question isn't so much are Mobile Apps Important or not but are Mobile Devices necessary?The one thing that I'm concerned about with the rush into Mobile Technology is the lack of security involved with these devices and the way that they are tied to other more important devices that business uses.Currently look at the Droids or iPhones and tell me what actual security they have on them and how difficult it is to crack them.Don't rely on the old It's not going to happen to me line as it's a pointless exercises and ultimately pointless as when it does happen it's way too late to begin to pick up the pieces and try to recover.Currently Banks will cover Credit Cards and Account Transactions On Line if the computer being used is adequately protected and not being used by multiple people outside the family. Well just how many Smart phones fall into that Category? How many Smart Phones have any form of AV or Malware Protection even available let alone installed by default? When someone works out that there is a lot of money to be made by cracking millions of Smart Phones you had better believe that it's going to happen and when it does there are not going to be one or two affected people but millions of them. Literally anyone who doesn't do any On Line Banking or Buying will not be affected provided that their Bank/Credit Card Details are not in their phones but everyone else will be affected and when numbers like that start to hit the Banks you have better believe that they will not cover the losses. They will cover losses in the small side of things and maybe even to 20% of the total Transactions done On Line but even that will be a Large Stretch of the Imagination to actually believe that Banks will willingly accept a 20% loss. Currently in the UK the News of the World has proven that if there is enough Money to be made by doing something not quite right it's going to be done and anyone who believes that they are the only ones involved in Cracking Voice Mail are living in Ga Ga Land. Even if this was only confined to the Company who Owns News of the World, News Corp the number of adversely affected people is a lot and the likelihood that they are the only company involved baggers belief.Currently the people who use Smart phones to do On Line Transactions are very poorly protected and they are relying on Security by Obscurity which is no Security at all. For that matter there isn't even any Obscurity just something that has not happened yet, or that has not been realized it's already happening. After all just how many people actually check their monthly statements? The likelihood that these devices have not been cracked by now is another of those things that Baggers Belief but even if it hasn't happened yet it will very soon. The only possible thing that may save these type devices is the advent of the Cloud Computing as it may offer much richer rewards for those willing to apply cracks but even then that at best will only be a short lived existence before someone realizes that there is way too much competition in the Cloud for that activity and look for greener pastures where they are not required to work quite so hard for the return that they get/want.While both iOS and Droid is secure by design that in no way implies that they are secure just slightly more secure than the Phone 7 Offering supplied by Microsoft. The single thing that has not been addressed by the companies who produce these Operating Systems or devices is Who Pays when things go wrong.When that actually happens it's going to be massive and I have no idea of the consequences that will happen. But even if a App Developer was prepared to develop some form of AV Product for these devices the simple fact of the matter is that the users wouldn't pay for it, or even if it was free, wouldn't install it because they know no better and are under the mistaken Impression that their devices are safe and that they are protected in the event of something happening which they most defiantly will not be. In the old Analog Days those who's calls where intercepted by Scanners where unlucky  or the Target of Deliberate Actions against either themselves or their employers. Or simply never knew that their communications where being intercepted by unauthorized people. Today those that are not adversely affected by the Mobile Device Cracking will be the exception not the Norm and will be the lucky ones who everyone will look up to while paying out the mess that has been created. A few business may fail but if anyone believes that the Ones Really responsible will pay and that the blame will not be shifted to small fish with the exportation that the Government will clean up the mess do not fully comprehend the possibilities. Oh and just as an after thought if you have a Data Plan on one of these devices your Details when they are Cracked will at the very least hit the Account that pays the Bill if nothing else so effectively everyone who has one of these Smart phones and uses Data will be the ones affected. Then there is the very slight matter of what happens when the available Bandwidth is used up and the new users can not adequately access their devices. Unlike other things there is a strictly limited amount of Bandwidth available which is rapidly being reached. At the moment the only solution is More Cell Towers which no one wants in their back yard but they demand Access so what is going to give there? Even when every one has a Cell Town on their roof or in their office what happens then when more people want/demand that the devices that they buy work as they expect. &quot;^0Col]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[OH Smeg]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:57:52 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[re: More of a bubble - exactly]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[+1 SMS is the best because it always with you. Even good-old email would serve the same as tweets.The froth of the social media will dry eventually.This is true bubble.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[lishchuk]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:12:52 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[why label it at all?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Who cares if it's a fad, or to what degree it will or will not survive? While we have an eye to the future, we've got to function in the present, and learn from the past.I can recall when, to be in business, you absolutely positively had to have a fax machine. Today, people get by without a fax machine at all. And if, for some reason, they must send a fax, they're likely to be able to scan and send the document as an email attachment or go to a local FedEx Kinko's and use their machine.However, back when faxes were all the rage, they'd need to be repaired, and parts replaced, so if there was a demand for maintenance service for these machines, someone would - and rightly should - step in and supply it.What's so different now? Plus ca change, c'est plus la meme chose.http://nontechietalk.blogspot.com]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Non-techie Talk]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:17:25 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Same old, same old...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jkameleon@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:19:07 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What's with all the angry people on the web?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Negative comments, made me think of this article I just read on your site, from email digest: http://ct.techrepublic.com/clicks?t=898618949-c6cd2569b529edf109712d12414add1d-bf&amp;brand=TECHREPUBLIC&amp;s=5LOL ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[seabruce@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:11:47 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Two different subjects.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Social is necessary for the planet to grow and change.Mobile drives business.Milk delevery drivers in Chile use smart phones to streamline their forntend/backend systems.Moblie has not even scratched the surface.Your dog's collar will be a mobile device, your dog will call you if it gets lost and tell you where it is.Never a lost pet, never a lost anything.My wife spends too much time looking for her ipod!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Smartron]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:36:54 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Evolution of technology]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There is an evolution to all technology and we see this cycle everywhere on the internet. Think about how webmail was just 10 years ago, Squirrel Mail was the standard and quite frankly one of the best and only options for an enterprise ISP but now, my god look at the webmail interfaces and SaaS options such as Google Apps. Then there is IRC, I still use the (pretty much) original format but you have chat rooms and chat applications based on it using prettier interfaces and easier to use for newbies. I remember reading an article in 2000 about how chat and IRC were going to die, well it hasn't, in fact it evolved, think Skype/VoIP, most solutions not only provide the calling but IM and/or chat too. And this is where I see social networking and media heading, the Google+ type of route.For business I see a lot of value in integration with apps such as email and Office, I see the open source social networking applications already appearing in market that support closed networks for companies, and to be honest some look (at face value at least) very impressive and powerful. Especially when talking collaboration, research, brainstorming, really anything that is sharing of information. For personal usage, social networking is turning more into an OS every day, look at Facebook and compare the 'features' with MS Windows for example, you have your contacts, messages and mail, chat, feeds, photos, calendar, games, notes, pages, applications, it goes on. Now think about how the Google Cloud based OS will tie in these types of features to Google+. I don't see social networking dying just evolving.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[h8usernames]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:04:25 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I agree!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This social networking nonsense is out of control.  A SMS text or email accomplishes this kind of need much more safely, and cuts out the cute &quot;latest fad&quot; that everyone says &quot;we gotta do!&quot;.My Motto is:  Just because technology allows us to do something, does not mean we need to do it!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[paulg8753@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:03:58 -0700</pubDate>
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