Unisys Secure Cloud Service Cloud Computing Breakthrough

NetworkWorld.com reports that Unisys Corporation has announced its launch of a cloud computing service called "Unisys Secure Cloud" that is protected by a double-encryption scheme known as "Unisys Stealth Solution" that it says has earned high government security ratings. [Read the entire NetworkWorld article...]

This new Unisys Secure Cloud service looks to be a major breakthrough in cloud computing by addressing one of the biggest concerns people have about moving their operations (applications, applications development, infrastructure, etc) to be hosted within a cloud envirnoment: completely reliable, unbreakable security that they can fully trust. With the Unisys Stealth Solution the double-encryption security "engine" inside Unisys Secure Cloud, plus the incorporated algorhythm that gives the ability to share data and information with various disparate communities of interest in a myriad of interconnected ways, allows organizations he means to conduct fully protected data and information sharing for whatever business or mission purpose the wish, and can do it in a "net-centric"fashion through use of Web 2.0-enabling capabilities such as web services and other services, especially when organized and managed to full effect within a Service Oriented Architeture (SOA). And with all this done within an incredibly secure cloud computing environment, the Unisys Secure Cloud service holds out the prospect of a major, transformational breakthrough to encourage a must faster move by organizations to the use of cloud computing to support their business and mission operational needs. With its announcement and implementation of its Secure Cloud service, Unisys looks to have propelled itself squarely to the forefront as a major, innovative player in the cloud computing arena.

Dow Jones CEO Says "Bite Me!" to Google "Digital Vampire"

Dow Jones Chief Executive Les Hinton says Google is a 'Digital Vampire' and identifies "the newspaper industry as a victim of Google's actions", according to a report in WebProNews. Hinton goes on to say that "there is a charitable view of the history of Google but that the charitable view of Google is that the news business itself fed Google's taste for this kind of blood." So what do you think about Mr. Hinton's assertion about Google? Is Google indeed sucking the life right out of the newspaper business? Or maybe it's a case of the newspaper business not adapting to the new world media order we now live in (and have been for a good while now)? Is Google the vampire culprit here that Mr. Hinton makes them out to be, the proverbial blood sucking Count Dracula made famous in countless horror B movies, or should Google instead be seen as a major catalyst (possibly THE penultimate catalyst) for prodding traditional print media such as newspapers and magazines to adapt and adopt much faster to the world of the Internet and the World Wide Web, including finding ways to take better advantage of the incredible viral marketing, word-spreading effects of the Web 2.0 social media and social networking applications and capabilities that are evolving at warp speed? One thing's for sure: Google doesn't appear to be going away anytime soon. Can many newspapers and magazines say the same?

So what do you think? Not everyone is crazy about Google, and even some think Google's search engine marketing business practices are starting to suck (at least from their eating-Google's-dust vantage point) but does this "Google sucks" business go so far that they can fairly be described as a "Digital Vampire"? If there's any doubt at all that this Vampire business has any truth to it, probably best to play it safe and not get so angry around Google types that you might blurt out the expression "Bite Me!" But it won't be your neck that gets bitten, it'll probably be your corporate wallet. In any case, you can learn more about this fascinating subject by reading the full article in WebProNews. And then you can draw your own conclusions as to whether this Dow Jones versus Google dust-up is a case of 'True Blood' or just 'True B.S.'
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Twitter Empowers Iran Protest Movement and Shows How Use of Emergent Social Media Can Affect Unfolding Events

Influence, the online journal covering innovations in communication, technology and strategy, has a very interesting piece on how the Revolution in Iran has become Twitterfied and what that means as a high profile example of "the next level of emergent social media and citizen engagement."

So what do you think about this rapidly progressing trend to use Twitter and similar Web 2.0 social networking capabilities? This "genie" is clearly well out of the bottle now and won't be going back in, that's for sure, and the world has certainly taken notice in a big way, by the compelling way that Twitter and other social media have been used.

Google Buy of Twitter Has Them All Atwitter

Some carefully watching observers have reported that many people have, in effect, gone all atwitter about strong and persistent rumors that Google will soon acquire Twitter (maybe Ashston Kutcher intentionally started this rumor to launch a Punk'd Web 2.0 style stunt! Wouldn't surprise me, that's for sure.) So what is all this tweetle twattle about Twitter and the possibility of Google acquiring it? And do you really give a tweet? If so, you can find out more at:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/02/sources-google-in-late-stage-talks-to-buy-twitter/

Is Content Intelligence the New Business Intelligence?

Is Content Intelligence the New Business Intelligence? is a very interesting article by Jens Tellefsen that explores various important aspects of the semantic web including how to get best use out of semantic technologies to gather content intelligence from not only the Web but from a wide range of other sources.