I was never the queen of the popular crowd.  But I do have a core group of really good friends, and I have a lot of other friends all around the world, all at different places in life, all with different personal goals, dreams, and aspirations. And some of them I’ve never met in person. [...]

Curt Monash – leading analyst and author of “The Explosion in DBMS Choice,” my company’s latest sponsored white paper – pointed me to an online discussion he did yesterday over at NetworkWorld in which he gives his take on using social media/networking as a business advantage rather than viewing it, as so many companies do, [...]

In yet another example of a big company not realizing the value in free publicity, Hasbro has sued the creators of the Scrabulous Facebook application for violating intellectual property rights. The Scrabulous application was created by two brothers and quickly became listed among the top ten most popular applications on the social networking site. The [...]