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If You Can't Beat Consumer Apps, Why Fight Them?

If you've ever sat in front of your computer and wished that you could see your ugly enterprise software appear in Web 2.0 applications such as Facebook or iGoogle, WorkLight might be the startup vendor for you.

| Interview | Internet | Software | 11/17/08 at 12:13 pm |


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Recession Upside for Enterprise 2.0 Upstarts

Enterprise 2.0, the market of vendors that sell technologies such as blogs, wikis and social networking applications to companies, is likely to become more competitive as IT budgets get trimmed.

| Interview | Business | Internet | 11/11/08 at 9:18 am |


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Defrag 2008, A Social Networking Conference

Defrag 2008 was held in Denver last week. Defrag is a social networking conference that brings together innovators, businesses and investors for a couple of days of robust dialoging on the business value of social networking tools, what is available in the market and what is coming down the pipe. The last day of the Defrag conference did a smooth transition into the Denver-Boulder Technology MeetUp, which made for an immersive, intensive, educational experience on the state of social networking.



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A Top 25 List Worth Checking

Lists abound on every subject, and “top” lists certainly depend on the lister, who often has different ideas than the listee. However, PC World in September put out a list titled “25 Best Business Software Tools and Web Services” that should include at least a dozen items from everyone's Top 25 list.

| Opinion | Small business | Windows | 10/10/08 at 12:21 pm |


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