More on SharePoint 2010

So the key difference from a technical point of view is the 64 bit architecture and the seeming necessity for 8 GB of RAM. This means that presently I can't run VMs of it on any machine I own.

Let me take a chance to talk about 64 bit. Few people who promote it really understand what it does. I have seen a number of 64 bit architectures with 4 GB or RAM. Actually you can managed 4 GB of RAM as well, if not better with 32 bit. The entire difference between 64 bit and 32 bit is how much RAM they can manage. 32 bit can manage, in theory, 4 GB of RAM but places a limit of 4 GB.

So far all the VMs of SharePoint 2010 I have heard about need that 8 GB, so there is going to be a problem getting a look at it.

It is called "20" "10".

There is a great deal of talk around expanding Social Networking and using Silverlight. People are talking a great deal about good stuff coming in Social Networking, that SharePoint will be pushing in that area.

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BBC NEWS | Business | Online advertising 'overtakes TV'

Online advertising spending in the UK has overtaken television expenditure for the first time, a report has said.

BBC NEWS | Business | Online advertising 'overtakes TV'

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First problem with SharePoint 2010

Well I have already hit my first problem with SharePoint 2010. What I am hearing is that the VM can only run in 8 GB RAM as a minimum. I am hoping that this is NOT the case, and that a 64 bit VM on a single box that can run with 2 GB of RAM is possible. If not I see no way to really evaluate and test the server in anger.

I am planning on getting a 64 bit Linux server next year and installing VirtualBox from Sun. For those of you who don't know yet VirtualBox is a Open Source Virtual Platform. Virtualis such a standard thing in my opinion and I think Sun has a real excellent product here for creating VMs.

But I have yet to test 64 bit, I am hoping in the coming year I can establish a 64 bit Linux host with VMs of both x86 and 64 bit. Kind of a strange monster to have sitting on your desktop but I think Microsoft has made it necessary. I am simply not going to buy a 64 Windows 7 machines an install Hyper-V.

Hyper-V is sort of the ugly twin of SharePoint, and the two live in a kind of strange drama. Just as SharePoint has been raised to glory Hyper-V has become kind of a joke.

But the pont I think I am trying to make is that people simply won't use SharePoint 2010 if they have to go through all this just to provide dev boxes on virtual machines. I fear Microsoft has another XP vs. Vista or 2003 vs. 2008 here, with client electing to stay on established software.

Microsoft innovation model breaks down at a certain point where products become so mature people have no interest in the new. I think this may have happen with the OS and Office stack. Frankly I can't imagine more I want out of Windows than XP, I certainly don't want Vista. And as for Office, I have tried the Office 2007 at great length since its beta in 2006 and though I like it I don't need it and its terrible bloat ware. I find myself more and more using Open Office.

Yes I am a SharePoint consultant, but I do call them as I see them. I fear Microsoft has lost the plot before the play even began. And in this industry decisions about the fate of platforms are made in weeks. SharePoint 2010, if Microsoft does not work to make it access able and promote the clear advantages, could go the way of Vista.

StatShot: U.S. Web Users’ Time on Social Networks Has Tripled

U.S. web users tripled the amount of time they spent on social networks in August from the same month last year, according to Nielsen. And advertisers took note — estimated online advertising spending on social networks more than doubled over the same period.

Around 17 percent of all time spent on the web in August in the U.S. was on social networks, up from 6 percent during the same period a year ago, suggesting that sites like Twitter and Facebook have not only grown their audience size, but augmented user engagement. Meanwhile, advertising on social networks rose to $108 million last month from $49 million in August of 2008, an increase of 119 percent.

In the meantime, Facebook’s sale of self-serve ads has helped the social network become cash-flow positive, something to which Twitter — which doesn’t generate any significant revenue despite now being valued at $1 billion — may want to pay attention. A report from research firm Interpret found that Twitter users are twice as likely to click on advertisements or sponsors than people who belong to MySpace and Facebook. But while the San Francisco-based micromessaging site recently changed its terms of service to allow advertising, co-founder Biz Stone said earlier this week that Twitter won’t put ads on the site this year.

StatShot: U.S. Web Users’ Time on Social Networks Has Tripled

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Twitter confirms major cash boost

Social networking website Twitter has confirmed that it has closed a "significant round of funding".

Co-founder Evan Williams said in a blog post that the site had secured money from five investment firms.

However, he did not confirm earlier reports that suggested the firm had managed to secure $100 million (£62m), which would value the firm at $1bn.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Twitter confirms major cash boost

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Masters of illusion: The great management consultancy swindle - Business Analysis & Features, Business - The Independent

In this respect, the problem of consulting is the problem of the "knowledge economy" in a nutshell. When you put forward the fiction that management is an exercise in calculus, you tend to assume that integrity is a cost of doing business rather than its foundation. When you stipulate that management is the province of experts, you lose sight of the fact that organising fruitful co-operation among human beings is principally a matter of building trust. And you forget the most elemental truth of political philosophy, that in any system that does not have the features of transparency and accountability, no one trusts anyone.

Masters of illusion: The great management consultancy swindle - Business Analysis & Features, Business - The Independent

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Future is TV-shaped, says Intel

The world's biggest chip maker predicts that by 2015 there will be 12 billion devices capable of connecting to 500 billion hours of TV and video content.

Intel said its vision of TV everywhere will be more personal, social, ubiquitous and informative.

"TV is out of the box and off the wall," Intel's chief technology officer Justin Rattner told BBC News.

"TV will remain at the centre of our lives and you will be able to watch what you want where you want.

"We are talking about more than one TV capable device for every man and woman on the planet. People are going to feel connected to the screen in ways they haven't in the past," said Mr Rattner.

Intel's developer forum in San Francisco was told that the success of TV is down to the fact there are a growing number of ways to consume content.

Today that includes everything from the traditional box in the corner of the living room to smartphones, laptops, netbooks, desktops and mobile internet devices.

Attendees were also told to get set for an explosion of content by Cisco's vice president of video product strategy, Malachy Moynihan.

"We are seeing an amazing move of video to IP (internet) networks. By 2013 90% of all IP traffic will be video. 60% of all video will be consumed by consumers over IP networks," said Mr Moynihan.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Future is TV-shaped, says Intel

People have been pushing a TV fronted future for some time, I have my doubts.

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Survey: Half of businesses don't secure personal data | Security - CNET News

Survey: Half of businesses don't secure personal data | Security - CNET News

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Intel show that Moore's law in a law of man not a law of nature

"Moore's Law is not a law of physics, it's a law of human inventiveness," Intel president and chief executive Paul Otellini told BBC News.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Intel shows chips can get smaller

Well that seems to be resolved.  I had long suspected that Moore's Law worked because the few chip producers, for a long time one, went by it to insure they had the right match of stability and innovation so that business would buy now while confidently knowing when to buy in the future.

This gets back to my ongoing discussion on Open Source and Linux.  I hold that an Open Source model will produce more innovation faster than a top down model like Microsoft.  But a Microsoft model can produce innovations in a knowable pattern like a SP the first 6 months and a new release every 3 years.  This ability to know what Microsoft will be doing, roughly, as far as the need to purchase new technology, new licenses, and provide new training that makes Microsoft fit so well in to businesses efforts at accumulation over time.  And it is this "fit" between how Microsoft manages technology innovation and what Capitalist interests want that makes Microsoft such a powerful brand.

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BBC NEWS | Business | Yahoo's new web portal goes live

BBC NEWS | Business | Yahoo's new web portal goes live

I tried it, dull, just a way to get Yahoo to get your logins in my opinion.  Anyone who didn't have this set up years ago is not much of an Internet user.

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Microsoft to buy EA????????

We have no idea where this meshugaas is coming from, but Reuters is reporting unsubstantiated rumors that Microsoft is interested in purchasing the second place third-party software publisher, Electronic Arts. Shares of EA are up today (around eight percent as of this writing) on the speculative purchase.

Rumor: Microsoft looking to take over EA