As US sanctions against the Islamic Republic increase, Yahoo and Microsoft have removed iran from the country lists for their webmail services. You’ll still find Iran as an option for Google Gmail, though. ... Go to Full Article

It's not only the sell off that's a concern, but the accelerating rate of the sell off. That will end up accelerating inflation too. -- KM *** It's no secret that the dollar is on a downward spiral. Its value is dropping, and the Fed isn't doing a whole lot to change that. Go to...

I’ve been using a couple of new things lately that are taking advantage of social networking not for the purpose of creating yet another social network (YASN) but rather aggregating the activity feed of the collection of networks we use ... Go to Full Article

But the really exciting step will be when they use this to intermediate purchases of gas. -- KM *** Google Maps are already winging their way across the skies courtesy of a partnership with jetBlue. Now Google and gas pump maker Gilbarco Veeder-Root have announced a partnership that...

http://www.kidmercuryblog.com/RFID security is going to be hugely important -- especially from Big Brother. But in the end, technology favors freedom, and that will be reflected in the market through stuff like RFID Guardian. -- KM *** Gizmodo.com RFID Guardian Firewalls Your...

Man the inflation is only going to get worse....I wonder when people will actually start to talk about it: rising food price, rising gas prices, slower income growth. Hope you all are hedging yourself against dollar devaluation so that you are at least preserving the value you currently have. --...

Elgg has been on my list of things to check out for some time. As the open source CMS space is the most lucrative thing in my vision (which is of course biased towards my skill set), I think Elgg or something like it could be the foundation for the next great Internet platform. -- KM *** ...

The link below goes to the first comment, which really hits the nail on the head in terms of the problem, IMO. I really think the solution starts with open source production communities. -- KM *** Why should enterprises go social, and what are the compellingreasons for adoption? ...

Bug is a real trailblazer here, there will be so much to learn from watching them. As a parallel in the software world, I feel this is the route that private companies should use to disrupt the content management system market -- a market I feel is ripe for a big disruption. -- KM *** ...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled Facebook Ads, his company’s plans to take on the heavyweights of online advertising. Speaking before some of the company’s biggest sponsors in New York, Zuckerberg said: ... Go to Full Article

Great move by MSFT. Note how enterprise technology is getting commoditized, so that the tools of the enterprise are becoming available to small businesses -- even the individual. All a part of the world being inverted. -- KM *** Microsoft announced a new free enterprise search...

Has any new media pundit bothered to mention Loose Change, the biggest Internet movie of all time -- the quintessential symbol of the Internet's power to create cultural change? No, of course not. But that does not change the Truth. And in addition to the Truth about 9/11, Loose Change also...

For those of us who have been down with social networking back in the old days -- you know, back when it was called forums -- YouTube's initiative here is the same as appointing someone a moderator. There's a prestige factor here as well, which is crucial to making the community work well. A nice...

I feel customer experience management tools, which are discussed in the article below, are a key part of the future of web analytics. I think it'll be very important stuff for marketers and user experience architects. -- KM *** As web analysts, at times to fully get to the heart of...

Google Enters the Wireless World — Google took its long-awaited plunge into the wireless world today, announcing that it is leading a broad industry alliance to transform mobile phones into powerful mobile computers that could accelerate the convergence of computing and communications. ...