Upgrading from the break-room bulletin board and one-way customer e-mail lists model to achieve a Facebook-like social network for your business?You might try Facebook itself, of course, but the clash of business and
Published on: October 9th, 2009
Zack Stern
@itbusinessca
Word of mouth makes the best salesperson, according to all the sales manuals. Are you ready to take advantage of electronic word of mouth? That's what I believe social media has become, at
Published on: October 7th, 2008
James E. Gaskin
@itbusinessca
It has been well documented that online media is eating away at print and broadcast media revenue. This decline in print and broadcast media has been going on for years, and newspapers, magazines
Published on: October 6th, 2008
Melissa Chang
@itbusinessca
Social network MySpace lobbed a shot across the bow of Apple iTunes last night with the launch of MySpace Music, a new site that offers free on-demand music streaming along with MP3 downloads
Published on: September 29th, 2008
Heather Havenstein
@itbusinessca
Everyone has their limits, as this week's quiz amply demonstrates. The past week saw Comcast place caps on how much bandwidth its subscribers could use. Microsoft tried to halt the slide in Xbox
Published on: September 9th, 2008
Dan Tynan
@itbusinessca
Within two years, I believe mobile social networking will become the most valuable business application since e-mail.Instant messaging started out as a social life booster for teens, but evolved into a vital form
Published on: September 8th, 2008
Mike Elgan
@itbusinessca
If you thought posting the clip of you and your pals doing a Girl's Gone Wild impression on YouTube was a cool idea – think again.One of the viewers could turn out to
Published on: September 8th, 2008
Nestor Arellano
@itbusinessca
As Wikipedia grew in popularity, becoming the eighth most visited site on the Web, many companies decided to purchase and build wikis internally to help enable better communication, knowledge sharing, collaboration and project
Published on: August 28th, 2008
C.G. Lynch
@itbusinessca
Buzz, the social news site that Yahoo launched in beta form in February, may pose a serious threat to social news pioneer Digg.com, according to some industry observers and even Digg users. Yahoo
Published on: August 21st, 2008
Heather Havenstein
@itbusinessca
The size and scope of security problems is growing to be so large that security experts are having more difficulty than ever protecting end users from emerging threats. That was evident in the
Published on: August 8th, 2008
Andrew Brandt
@itbusinessca
Visa Inc. recently unveiled the Visa Business Network, an application built on Facebook to help small business operators network and drive new business -- while generating $2 million in advertising revenue for Facebook
Published on: July 29th, 2008
Heather Havenstein
@itbusinessca
Twitter, a social networking site that allows people to track each other by writing and exchanging short text messages, has spurred business technology leaders to investigate how they might utilize such a service
One of the first social networking upstarts, MySpace, is facing continuing security problems that threaten to spoil many of the innovative features that make the site useful.Hackers, spammers and Internet malcontents have turned
Under fire from angry shareholders and rocked by a stream of high-profile executive departures, embattled Yahoo on Thursday announced another reorganization, its latest attempt to snap out of its years-long technology and financial
Published on: June 30th, 2008
Juan Carlos Perez
@itbusinessca
