Yes indeed, we had an awesome panel that I moderated at the MPLS Conference 2009 held in Washington D.C. on October 26 2009. The panel entitled, “Emerging Technologies and Business Architectural Impact: Cloud Computing, P2P applications, Social Networking and Infrastructure …Read more.
Posted by Monique Morrow on October 30, 2009 at 09:49AM
The average broadband subscriber in the world generates 11.4 Gigabytes of traffic per month, and the top one percent of users generate over 20 percent of the global internet traffic. These and other interesting insights can be found in the …Read more.
Posted by Doug Webster on October 21, 2009 at 08:29AM
(DJ and Digital Cribs star Paul van Dyk) Sometimes I look down at my cell phone and an overwhelming feeling of thankfulness comes over me. I think, “thank goodness I was able to access Google Maps and find that new …Read more.
Posted by Johanna Fry on August 14, 2009 at 12:22PM
As mentioned in this week’s Cyber Risk Report (CRR), a hacker, known by the handle Croll, was able to gain access to private accounts owned by employees of the Twitter micro-blogging website. The hacker successfully guessed password “secret question” recovery …Read more.
Posted by Nicholas Leali on July 20, 2009 at 02:45PM
Video is changing the way many of us communicate and digest content. As fans of Michael Jackson rushed online, to reminisce or pay homage to the King of Pop’s famous tracks, his music videos held nine out of the ten …Read more.
Posted by Johanna Fry on July 10, 2009 at 07:09AM
A few weeks back, I gushed about being based in San Francisco and how the location puts our team right in the middle of a lot great discussion about digital media. So many digital media conferences roll through the city …Read more.
Posted by Chuck Fishman on May 19, 2009 at 11:57AM
Community was a hot topic at the Web 2.0 Expo in SF last week and I wanted to share some advice I learned from a presentation called Sparking a Crush, focusing on how to attract and retain new users to …Read more.
Posted by Johanna Fry on April 08, 2009 at 04:00PM
Friendfeed made this neat widget. Embedding it here so we can see what everyone’s reaction to the next 24 hours or so of tech-news will be like. I wonder if the folks at #SXSW will hear about it… …Read more.
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on March 15, 2009 at 11:33PM
I’ve lived in several places and my family is very distributed, so I’m an early adopter when it comes to using the Internet to communicate with my “social network.” My daughter’s first steps, first words, first potty training success are …Read more.
Posted by Tod Famous on March 11, 2009 at 09:08AM
by Joe Burton, chief technology officer, Cisco Unified Communications Forrester coined an interesting term not too long ago: IT-To-BT Transformation. According to Alexander Peters of Forrester, ubiquitous computing and business technology (BT) are the two forces coming together that will …Read more.
Posted by Joe Burton on March 10, 2009 at 10:58AM
Tweeters Use Twitter for Business...was a story that ran recently through MediaPost’s ONLINE Media Daily and caught my attention. My work at Cisco doesn’t require me to be an engineer - I am a marketer…(DON’T STOP READING!) I do have …Read more.
Posted by Peggy Ballard on March 04, 2009 at 03:52PM
Everyone seems to have their own definitions for the terms social networking, social media, and community . Rather than debate topicality, we’ve generally operated with the general definitions from Wikipedia (linked above). That said, there are important nuances to call …Read more.
Posted by Scott Brown on January 20, 2009 at 10:20AM
Blended into all of the excitement from last week's MacWorld and CES events was an interesting new area of Cisco.com we launched for our Cisco Eos product. Eos is a platform that allows media companies to scale a community-based entertainment …Read more.
Posted by Martin Hardee on January 16, 2009 at 06:02AM
Today, the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project report that “the share of adult internet users who have a profile on an online social network site has more than quadrupled in the past four years—from 8% in 2005 …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on January 14, 2009 at 02:50PM
January 2009 – While the end of December usually provides a brief moment for a retrospective of the past year, the beginning of January always manages to usher in additional time for a more contemplative deliberation of our hopes and …Read more.
Posted by Morgan Elliott on January 05, 2009 at 11:17AM
Everybody seems to want a “community” today. Media companies are no exception and many are looking to building “communities of content” that allows their fans to interact with and around their content. There’s already a healthy market conversation going on …Read more.
Posted by Scott Brown on January 02, 2009 at 03:12PM
Over the last year the Cisco Media Solutions Group has worked with several media companies to build online communities around their branded entertainment content – for example, your favorite band, sports team or TV show. It seems obvious now, but …Read more.
Posted by Scott Brown on December 12, 2008 at 02:41PM
I love using video on this blog as much as possible. It helps communicate messages easily and video is more fun to digest, rather than loads of text. Visual Networking isn’t just in reference to videos on YouTube or video …Read more.
Posted by Johanna Fry on October 29, 2008 at 03:52PM
We tend to think of video phones as a modern-day thing, but can you believe they were first demonstrated about 50 years ago? Sure, there were technical barriers that prevented them from being adopted; but there was another factor, too: …Read more.
Posted by Marie Hattar on October 01, 2008 at 04:56PM
1. Get your Second Life Facebook account activated. Second Life on Facebook There are two applications that are relatively easy to communicate with your friends on Facebook either in RL or SL. Second Friends is tailored to work on your …Read more.
Posted by Dennis Mancini on September 02, 2008 at 03:07PM
Our final chat with Pete Cashmore from Mashable was on the topic of online video and social networking converging to form new visual networking experiences. As both video and social networking become more pervasive we are beginning to see intersections …Read more.
Posted by Mike Kisch on August 11, 2008 at 10:56AM
Earlier today, TechCrunch announced that TokBox, one of an increasing number of online based video chat companies (including Skype and WebEx) is débuting new technology to increase the user experience of Visual Networking. Visual Networking… does the phrase ring a …Read more.
Posted by Johanna Fry on July 14, 2008 at 04:27PM
Social networking sites are buzzing; the debut of Google Friend Connect promises to add to that buzz. And so, the race is on to make social networks much more open and portable, according to Kim Hart in her recent blog …Read more.
Posted by Marie Hattar on May 14, 2008 at 02:07PM
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