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Salesforce.com is readying a mobile app version of its business social networking and collaboration tool, Chatter. It'll soon be available for iPhone, iPad, Android, and RIM BlackBerry devices. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder "Facebook for the enterprise". Not to mention a BSOD rhyme...
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Tired of getting tracked as you browse the Web, and being stalked by the same ad following you from site to site? Maybe it's time to heed the calls for a "Do-Not-Track" list, much like the federal "Do Not Call Registry" that lets you be placed on a list than bans telemarketers from calling you.

Google Apps for Business users are the Charlie Brown of Gmail. When gmail.com users get all the best new features, we users of Google's private-label Gmail service peer into our Halloween bags and glumly proclaim, "I got a rock."

Keiko Takamura, a San Francisco indie rocker, raised some of the money to record her album and built a following by playing concerts in Second Life. She uses a broad array of other social media to find listeners and sell her music.

In my day job I'm a retirement planning consultant. Starting this year, most of our clients have to file their pension returns electronically. My guess is that in an effort to migrate toward a paperless filing. Before they can electronically file a return, our clients have to go to a specific Department of Labor (DOL) Website and register for electronic “signing credentials” which consists of a user ID and PIN number.  The registration process is pretty straightforward and easy and the information the DOL requires isn't all that detailed or too personal.

Have you ever stopped to think just how much of your life has become digitized? 

Consider a few simple facts:

Several days ago, CEO Eric Schmidt outlined a future in which Google would know so much about you, it would know what you think before you know it yourself. He may well be right. But there are free add-ins that can help protect you against Google data gathering. Here are two good ones I recently rounded up.

Persistent rumors of a Google tablet computer, or "gPad" simply won't die. This time, we're told Google and Verizon will be selling a Google iPad-a-like from November 26. But if you were expecting an Android device, you'd be wrong -- according to the rumor-mongers, it's running Google's thin-is-in-client platform: Chrome OS. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers look forward to Black Friday. Not to mention Simon's cat in the box...
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As if we needed more proof that it's August, here comes Wired Magazine with some unbelievable hyperbole. Apparently, the Web is "dead," supplanted by other internet apps. Should Condé Nast be ashamed of itself, or do Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff have a point? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ask, "What's a magazine?" Not to mention The Oregon Trailer...

Four Democratic congressmen have joined together to denounce a Google-Verizon proposal that they believe will spell the death of net neutrality. They've written to the head of the FCC, asking that he act soon, and not allow "two large communications companies with a vested interest in the outcome" to decide the Internet's future.

Facebook is getting ready to announce its foray into location-based services, according to reports. Maybe they'll be able to answer the question, "What's the point?" I'm a Foursquare addict, I check in to locations regularly when I'm out and about. And I have absolutely no idea why I do it.

Plenty of people have worried that because of the amount of information Google knows about people, it could become an Orwellian Big Brother. Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently took a look at Google's future, and it's more Big Brotherish than you can imagine. How about Google knowing what you think before you do yourself? That's in the cards, Schmidt believes.

You may remember a couple of weeks ago, I baited a trap for Twitter spammers. Let's see how that experiment turned out, in The Long View.

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Apple has long been known for its fanatic fanbois, who attack anyone online who even hints that the company or its products are not perfect. Now the tables have turned: Brandwatch has found that Apple has become the most reviled brand on the Internet.

Oracle, owner of Sun Microsystems since January, has finally clarified roadmaps for its Solaris operating system and Sparc servers. Well, made them less uncertain, anyway. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers peer through the murk to divine the future. Not to mention online dating pics...
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