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Zvents will use the proceeds to expand the reach of its local listings advertising network, which enables both local businesses and national chains to promote their locations with search-targeted events such as sales and weekly specials. Zvents will also further invest in expanding the deployment of its successful local search platform, which currently powers a network of more than 250 media partners.

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“Moving to OpenMake Meister 7.2 will provide the Serena Builder customers with many new features and enhancements,” states Stephen King, CEO OpenMake Software. “The most important of these features include Meister’s improved continuous integration server, its ability to perform build mash ups that synchronize IDE builds with the Continuous Integration builds and support for Microsoft Team Build and Visual Studio 2008.”

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A well-known author and industry veteran, Mulholland is a recognized expert in Enterprise 2.0 technologies. He brings a level of sophistication to the overall conversation surrounding the business drivers behind enterprise mashups. He has extensive experience within emerging growth markets and lends that level of validation as an accomplished author in this space. Mulholland’s experience helped him author two popular books titled “Mashup Corporations: The End of Business as Usual” and “Mesh Collaboration.”

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The following is a list of principles I’ve picked up, during my programming career, that I hope to carry in everything I do. They include nuggets from an eclectic group of sages including Dave Winer, Dale Carnegie, Nietzsche, and Pope John Paul II. I’ve seen people who can solve complex problems, and I admire them. Alas, I’m not one of them. So whenever I have to solve a complex problem, I make it simple first. If I can’t make a problem simple, it’s usually because someone else insists that it remain complex. In that case, I have to wait for someone smart to fix it (thank you, smart person), or for someone to change their mind and allow me to make the problem simple. Wayne Conrad

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The term ‘Enterprise 2.0’ has become the catch-all phrase that describes the wholesale change in enterprise IT thinking. Driven by changing business needs and social factors, organisations are starting to do things differently. Speed, agility, mobility, reuse, and innovation are the transformative drivers that are forcing organisations to push aside old technologies, models, and architectures to make way for the new Web 2.0 world of service-oriented, highly-virtualised, truly-commoditised, and eventually ‘utilitised’ systems and solutions. Social software, collaboration, and real-time communications are pivotal parts of the ‘Enterprise Web 2.0’ story, and these are acting as the conduits for new cultural ideas and practices.

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“Zoho Creator 3.0 epitomizes our mission on the web — give our customers powerful applications that are simple to use,” said Raju Vegesna, Zoho evangelist. “Zoho Creator is an ideal solution for people who are not developers, but who still want to create their own ‘situated applications.’ These small, situation-specific applications are often needed immediately, on the fly, and Zoho Creator eliminates lengthy development cycles to deliver solutions in minutes.”

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Joe McKendrick recently commented in his Fast Forward blog, Mashups: So Easy a Caveman Can Write Them? He makes a good case of the continued involvement of IT despite the claims of some mashup supporters. Joe quotes Ovum analyst, Tony Baer, “…no matter how visual mashup tools are, you still…

Jason English

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