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A Master Inventor at work
How IBM?s Andy Stanford-Clark and his llamas inspired a new type of car insurance?and other tales of innovation

The Top 10 Ways to Botch Enterprise Java Application Scalability and Reliability
In this presentation, Cameron Purdy discusses Java scaling. Topics include performance improvement versus scaling improvement, serial bottlenecks, queue theory, rewriting existing frameworks, avoiding the database, single points of failure, avoiding abstractions, disaster recovery, one-size-fits-all architecture, large JVM heaps, network failures, and trusting product claims.

Performance Testing Software from TuffRunner is a Total Joke!
That?s why we?ve hacked into their site and changed some things. Take a look! If you want load testing that actually works, Borland� SilkPerformer? is where it?s at. But if you want a good laugh, check out www.tuffrunner.com.

John Fund on Prospects for Tax Reform in the New Congress
In this podcast, Wall Street Journal columnist and author John Fund discusses the ?Appropriations Party?; the problem of earmarking; lobbying; the growing complexity of the tax code; and reform possibilities for the alternative minimum tax, Social Security, and taxes on savings.

GTR: Prefinishing Green Flooring with Carlisle
Sean Daily, Green Living Ideas' Editor-in-Chief talks with Lindsay Barczuk, Green Programs Coordinator at Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, about prefinishing green flooring as an effective way to control VOC-offgassing during home floor installation.

Designing effective 'self-serve' portals for user convenience and business efficiency: SAP ? a case study
Jerome and Ed share a roadmap to plan and implement successful, user-centered portals. Topics include: The shift to "self-serve" portals: usability is not a luxury What customers want: attributes of effective portals SAP runs SAP: a case study Portal trends in the marketplace, including Web 2.0 User-centricity: a strategic imperative Examples draw on SAP's global experience as an ERP vendor, along with the story behind their own implementation of a user-centered corporate portal.

The Social Graph: The Key to Search Marketing's Future?
"The social graph" is garnering a lot of attention these days, including a vigorous debate between search marketers who believe leveraging social networks is the next big thing, and traditional search marketers who dismiss social search as the latest fad. This webcast explores: - The types of social media sites that appeal to search marketers - How to understand and leverage the "social graph" of influentials and power users for maximum impact - How campaigns on social networks can quickly go viral, producing tons of traffic - How to sustain interest after the first spike of interest fades - How much time and resources should search marketers invest in social search campaigns.

GTR: Green Web Hosting with Solar VPS
Sean Daily, Green Living Ideas' Editor-in-Chief, talks with Ross Brouse, founder and owner of Solar Virtualization Technology Group (Solar VTG) and Solar VPS, about green web server hosting for personal and professional applications.

The Secret of Social Media Marketing for Online Retailers
You've heard about the kid lipsynching on YouTube getting millions of views, but how do regular retailers like you leverage social media to drive real sales? It's not as difficult as it seems. We will show you what to do and what not to do when it comes to social media marketing on blogs, video sites, and social networks.

Hitting Network Vulnerabilities with a One-Two Punch
Join eEye Digital Security and Core Security Technologies for a free webcast where you will learn how to: -Effectively combine vulnerability assessment with automated penetration testing - Accurately discover business assets and assess the risk with identified vulnerabilities - Safely emulate attacks and prove the exploitability of uncovered vulnerabilities - Evaluate security policies and exposure to social engineering attacks - Increase your security posture with improved regulatory and corporate IT policy audits - Verify the effectiveness of your vulnerability remediation efforts - Audit defensive security applications

Episode 1 - 2007 Top Technology Initiatives Overview
Welcome to the Top Technology Initiatives Podcast. Here in Episode 1 we discuss the AICPA's 2007 Top Technology Initiatives project which lists the most important technology initiatives for CPAs and IT professionals working in the field of financial management to consider in upcoming year. Join Greg LaFollette, CPA.CITP and Jim Bourke, CPA.CITP as they discuss how the list was determined, and what it means for the accounting profession. These intitiatives are going to change the way you do business.

Closer Collaboration with Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional - For Print Professionals
Hosted by Mark Atchley and presented by Steve Werner This eSeminar will show you how Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional and Adobe Reader 8 offer innovative new ways of enhancing collaboration for print and design professionals. Shared Review provides an easy-to-set-up means of creating PDF reviews with your clients. Enhancements to Adobe Reader. 8 make Shared Review and saving Acrobat forms available to Reader users. Web-based meetings can easily be started with Acrobat Connect. And a PDF-JDF workflow can communicate job and process controls for design and print consistency.

Benefits Of A CPA Firm's Affiliation With An Association
Benefits Of A CPA Firm's Affiliation With An Association

Neal Gafter Discusses Closures, Language Features and Optional Typing
In this interview from QCon London 2008, Neal Gafter discusses upcoming language features in Java 7, superpackages, what closures are, the differences between the three major closures proposals (CICE, FCM and BGGA), optional typing systems for dynamic languages, and the next major language.

Introduction to Random Password Manager Webinar
This 35 minute webinar presents a hands-on look at Random Password Manager, describes why your common built-in administrator and root account credentials are putting every one of your systems at risk, and demonstrates the best solution to resolve this security threat.

Employee Benefits for businesses
Agility Solutions Group offers PEO services which includes employee benefits for businesses and companies of all types and sizes.

Episode 99: Transactions
This episode takes a close look at transactions from different angles, starting with their fundamental properties of Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability but also investigating advanced topics like distributed or business transactions.

Configuring Account Reset Console Webinar
Discover how easy it is to configure and manage Account Reset Console - including user delegation, password reset options, and generating reports - in this detailed 30 minute webinar.

Introduction to Account Reset Console Webinar
This 35 minute webinar presents a hands-on look at Account Reset Console, and describes how you can significantly enhance the productivity of your end-users and IT staff. Discover how users can securely reset their own passwords and unlock their own accounts, without involving the Help Desk.

EuGENia: Kick-start your GMF Editor Development
This screencast demonstrates the EuGENia tool implemented in the context of the Epsilon GMT component. EuGENia can generate the .gmfgraph, .gmfmap and .gmftool models required to build a GMF-based editor directly from the ECore metamodel itself (augmented with some GMF-specific annotations). The screencast demonstrates using EuGENia to implement a GMF-based editor for an exemplar FileSystem metamodel without needing to touch any of the intermediate models manually. A detailed presentation of EuGENia and instructions on installing and using it are available here.

eCommerce, All Grown-up
The new Infopia Transact eCommerce platform is built upon the success and award-winning technology of Marketplace Manager. It is an evolution of that effort?expanding with technology and services that give online merchants the ability to both centralize and ramp up their online selling efforts across multiple channels.

Varvares Says Fed to Keep Rates at 2% Until Early 2009
Varvares Says Fed to Keep Rates at 2% Until Early 2009

DNSSEC: When SSL is Not Enough
The Internet is an increasingly unfriendly environment. Companies and organizations are consequently committing significant resources to securing their infrastructure to fight a rising tide of phishing, pharming and other attacks in an apparently never ending battle. Unfortunately the DNS is too often overlooked in building a secure environment. Without reliable and verifiable results from the DNS, site based security can be rendered ineffective if a user does not get to the right place ? the right IP address. Fortunately, modern DNS security standards (DNSSEC) are available to secure this essential infrastructure component.

MDT UML2Tools: New Features in Ganymede Release
This presentation covers some of the new features of UML2Tools. It features the newly implemented Object diagram, Provided and Required Interface links, long-awaited AssociationClass element and some new usability issues implementing decorator design pattern.

Driving Results with Customer-Centric Marketing
Marketers accept that building meaningful relationships with customers will lead to long-term success. Increasingly, they try to achieve this by embracing customer-centric marketing strategies instead of product-focused ones. True customer-centric marketing requires a fundamental change in how most organizations do business ? but, with the right tools, practices, and commitment, the goal of customer-centric marketing is now entirely achievable. View this insightful webcast to learn how you can achieve customer-centric marketing in your organization. Join Jay Henderson, director, segment management, Unica Corporation and guest, Suresh Vittal, senior analyst, Forrester Research to learn: How to assemble the right team; How to redesign business processes to fit customer-focused strategies; How to identify a new set of metrics to define success; How to make customer-centric insights actionable.

Equinox Security
Security is an important concern for applications written on top of Equinox and the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. Spanning areas such as protection of sensitive user data, authentication of platform users and authorization of bundle code, Eclipse has a growing list of features to support important security related use cases. In this session, we will cover the new enhancements related to security in the Ganymede release of Eclipse and Equinox. In particular, we will discuss the following new features: Secure storage ? protecting sensitive data (e.g. passwords) using encryption Trusted Bundles ? denying the loading of bundles based on signer information Login Framework ? integrating authentication of users based on JAAS The format of the webinar will be a presentation plus some live demos, and will be similar in nature to those presented at the security-related EclipseCon sessions in March. Attendees should be familiar with the fundamentals of Java security and with the core concepts of Eclipse RCP and the Equinox framework.

PR in a Social Media World
PR used to be about bombarding the media with your pitches and press releases. You had to beg the media to write about you to communicate with your customers. But today, your customers are going to the Internet to learn about you and your products directly. Blogs, online news releases, social media, and other forms of web content give companies the opportunity to communicate with buyers directly. View this free marketing webinar to learn how to leverage the Internet and social media to make your PR program more effective.

Former Director Reinhart Says U.S. Asking Too Much of Fed
Former Director Reinhart Says U.S. Asking Too Much of Fed

Parry Says Fed Is Facing `Serious' Policy Challenges
Parry Says Fed Is Facing `Serious' Policy Challenges

Auction Tips
Online auctions can pay off big as a central or secondary online selling strategy. Get insider tips on how to grow revenues from individual listings and streamline your auction costs.

Jerry Cuomo on Virtualization, Cloud Computing and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise
In this interview, Jerry Cuomo talks about Virtualization and Cloud Computing and what IBM is doing with WebSphere Virtual Enterprise to help virtualize middleware and application stack. He also explains the progression of virtualization using virtual servers, collection of servers, and virtual clusters. Jerry mentions that next release of WebSphere Version 7 will have a virtual appliance option.

5 Steps to Increasing Productivity & Profitability with Email Hosting
Many organizations are realizing significant gains in productivity and profitability with hosted email and mobile messaging services. What are some of the main benefits of hosted messaging and hosted Exchange? What steps can be taken to evaluate hosted messaging and management for your organization? How does hosted messaging lower the total cost of ownership for messaging? How does hosted messaging simplify mobile messaging? Join us for this informative webinar which will discuss the five steps to increasing productivity and profitability within your organization by leveraging today?s leading hosted messaging providers.

Equinox Ganymede
This presentation introduces Equinox and its use as a set of building blocks for creating applications. We overview the architecture and technology, and demonstrate many of the building blocks using an example client/server application.

Managing Risk to Critical Infrastructures at the National Level
Protecting critical infrastructures and the information they use are essential for preserving our way of life.

Tricks & Tips Column
Web 2.0 Continues Internet?s Evolution, But What Is It? Is Web 2.0 more than just a buzzword? Isaac takes a look at the phenomenon and provides a subjective definition in the first of a two-part column.

Repeat Buying
It?s much more cost effective to sell to existing customers than acquire new ones. In this webinar, discover ways to gather and leverage customer data to not only increase profit margins, but grow revenue throughout the year.

Kotok Says Crisis of U.S. Financial Markets Is Historic
Kotok Says Crisis of U.S. Financial Markets Is Historic

The eSecurity Advisor Column
The Threat From Inside When data security is involved, professionals often focus on the electronic threats from outside a firm, but John points out 10 sources of potential data loss that could happen internally. He also gives some advice on how to manage these threats.

Cross-Border Transactions: Emerging Markets
As globalization pursues its relentless forward march, corporations, specifically Corporate Development (CD) functions, are increasingly looking toward doing transactions in emerging markets to meet corporate goals. From experience, however, they have found that emerging market deals are not straightforward.

Divesting for Value: Carve-Out Financial Statements and Operational Separation
Implementing a successful divestiture is one of the most demanding and complex initiatives an organization can undertake. This second Webcast in our Divesting for Value series focuses on two essential elements: preparing robust audited and stand-alone financial statements, and executing a smooth operational separation of the business.

Episode 128 | Qantas Hits More Turbulence, Why Cuil Is No Threat to Google
Qantas Hits More Turbulence Why Cuil Is No Threat to Google

Website Traffic & Conversions
Are you driving the right amount of traffic and converting enough visitors to meet your website revenue goals? If not, find out what traffic and conversion methods other retailers are using to grow their online businesses.

COSO Project 2008 Update: Guidance on Internal Controls
Trent Gazzaway, Managing Partner, Corporate Governance, Grant Thornton LLP, and project leader to the COSO initiative, provides a truly unique insider?s understanding of this updated guidance on internal controls.

Daiwa's Moran Says Productivity Slowing Inflation's Rise
Daiwa's Moran Says Productivity Slowing Inflation's Rise

The 2008 Global CEO Study: Implications for the CIO
To start on that journey, consider the many roles the chief information officer will play in the Enterprise of the Future, a vision outlined in the IBM Global CEO Study. This new CEO agenda challenges CIOs to become masters of change by enabling flexible, automated IT infrastructures that can respond dynamically to challenges and opportunities.

7 Ways to Reduce your 2008 IT Burden with Email Hosting
Begin a plan to reduce the IT costs and resources associated with managing your organization's email system. Join to learn how USA.NET can help you solve seven costly and time consuming problems that will impact your organization soon, if they haven't already. Find out how upgrading to Microsoft Exchange 2007, advancements in mobile messaging, increased security concerns and a growing number of regulatory compliance laws will impact your in-house email system and IT staff. We'll discuss how email hosting will help you focus on projects that are strategic to your business and allow you to free up your budget, staff and infrastructure from the challenges of managing a complex in-house email system.

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Special Edition
Karthik Raman joins Jim and Dave to discuss the security implications of each bulletin. MS08-041, MS08-042, MS08-044 and MS08-045 are highlighted.

All about the Fusion Middleware Best Practice Centers for Applications
Nishit Rao, Group Product Manager and Markus Zirn, Senior Director, Oracle Fusion Middleware discuss Oracle's Fusion Middleware Best Practice Centers for E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and Siebel, and how Application Developers can use the how-to guides, blogs and webcasts to learn Oracle Fusion Middleware components and create SOA solutions with their favorite applications.

Buyer Trust
A huge percentage of shoppers online that could buy, don?t. Learn about how to build up trust with all your potential buyers?whether on eBay or your website?before the holiday season ramps up.

Policy, The Heart of SOA Governance
There?s lots of discussion on the word ?Policy? in the context of SOA Governance. In this podcast Miko Matsumura defines Policy and how it is developed; also the policy lifecycle.

SOA Lifecycle Governance
Different from ?lean? or ?six-sigma?, lifecycle governance is all about supporting the service consumer.

Guy Steele on Programming Languages
Sun Fellow Guy Steele is interviewed by Floyd Marinescu, co-founder of InfoQ, and Bobby Norton of ThoughtWorks. Guy works for the Programming Language Research Group. The interview focuses on programming languages, the lessons to be learned from the past and what to expect from the future.

Author Wallace Says Gates Surrounds Himself With Smart People
Author Wallace Says Gates Surrounds Himself With Smart People

DeQuadros Says Rate Hike for Fed Not Likely In 2008
DeQuadros Says Rate Hike for Fed Not Likely In 2008

Email Marketing
Email marketing is a powerful way to increase revenue and build a lasting brand. Look at the challenges and opportunities email marketing presents to eTailers this holiday season. Get practical advice on how you can make your email marketing more effective.

Episode 105: Retrospectives with Linda Rising
In this episode we're talking to Linda Rising about retrospectives. We start by defining what a retrospective is and discuss some of the logistics of making it work for software projects. We then look at the different phases of a retrospective.

GTR: Green Living, Podcasting, and Martial Arts with Meredith Medland
Sean Daily, Green Living Ideas' Editor-In-Chief, talks with fellow green living podcaster Meredith Medland of Personal Life Media's popular Living Green Show about green media and podcasting, life-changing epiphanies, and the benefits of martial arts practice.

Franulovich Says Australian Terms of Trade at Generational High
Franulovich Says Australian Terms of Trade at Generational High

Elizabeth Economy Calls Olympics a `Nightmare' for China
Elizabeth Economy Calls Olympics a `Nightmare' for China

Recruiting in Emerging Markets
Join Judy Panagakos of JPMorgan Chase; Frank Wittenauer of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu; Pete Engardio of BusinessWeek; and Don Chun of Taleo in a one-hour panel discussion and Q&A session. Get expert advice on developing recruiting strategies to succeed in China and India. Learn more about these key factors: Demographics point to a 10 million worker shortfall in the US within a decade. There are now 110 million Internet users in China-second only to the US. India has the youngest professional population in the world and ranks second in GDP growth.

Who Do You Know? Sourcing in a Networked World
Join us for an expert discussion on the increasing value of using online and traditional social networks to boost your sourcing strategies. Learn how you can: Increase your talent supply. Use social networks to boost your sourcing. Work your connections to recruit top talent.

Mylyn 3.0: Code at the Speed of Thought
Mylyn has changed the way developers work. This talk provides both an overview of the technology and a series of demos that will help newcomers get started. For seasoned users, the demos provide some quick overviews of new features and best practices. The theme of the talk is the idea that focus and flow are key to creative work, and that tool support can facilitate focus and help us maintain flow, dramatically increasing our productivity. The talk overviews some of the motivations and foundations behind Mylyn's task-focused interface, including the split between our brains' semantic and episodic memory systems. After that, things get more concrete with several demos of Mylyn 3.0, followed by a showcase of the tools that make up the Mylyn ecosystem, including open source connectors as well as commercial tools such as the SpringSource Tool Suite and Tasktop.

Comparison Shopping Feeds
Most online sellers focus on just a few sales channels, like their website and eBay. Comparison shopping feeds give eTailers access to profitable channels above and beyond traditional marketplaces. Learn about the sites your products should be on and practical tips for maximizing listing effectiveness.

Performance Management at the Hub of the Talent Wheel
In this session, Lisa Rowan of IDC and Judy Sweeney of Taleo outline their research on why Performance Management has become the focal point of talent management. Learn all of the vital talent functions and how they work together for achieving true talent management maturity. Lisa's presentation is followed by Taleo's latest research on the benefits of unified talent management.

Technology Assessment: Foundation for Product Strategy
How do we develop a market driven product plan? How do we establish corporate strategic alignment? One of the necessary first steps is to assess where your current product portfolio is positioned. Product managers can then use this positioning to establish alignment and agreement with development to drive future product direction and strategies. In this session, John Milburn will introduce Pragmatic Marketing's Technology Assessment Grid? and explain ways to use this powerful analysis tool.

The Strategic Role of Product Managment
Product management is often ill-defined and misunderstood in typical technology companies. Yet the role can be one that propels the company to the next level of performance. Rather than running the business like a hobby, effective product managers focus on the business aspects of defining and delivering products to market. Steve Johnson explores the strategic role of product management using the Pragmatic Marketing Framework. Also included are action items for reviewing and assessing the product management role at your company.

Merrill Sells $8.55 Billion of Stock, Unloads CDOs
Merrill Sells $8.55 Billion of Stock, Unloads CDOs

Renwick Says NY State Aid Cuts Would Shift Burden Locally
Renwick Says NY State Aid Cuts Would Shift Burden Locally

Barclays Capital's Kantor Sees U.S. Economic Growth
Barclays Capital's Kantor Sees U.S. Economic Growth

Start With the Ending: When the Role of Product Management Changes from Tactical to Strategic
So you attended product management training and got all fired up! You came back to the office ready to be market-driven. You anxiously awaited the look of joy and amazement at your newly found skills as a product manager. And then reality hit you... hard! Development couldn't care less! They're not listening!! How could this be? You missed a step; you skipped the part where you earned credibility. Sound familiar? Learn what works and what doesn't when your role changes from tactical to strategic.

Magnify the Power of Assessments in Your Hiring Process
Join us for the fourth installment of the Taleo Assessment Webinar Series featuring Charles Handler, PHR?president and founder of Rocket-Hire, a consultancy that helps organizations build effective, legally sound employee selection systems. Dr. Handler will explain the advantages of an integrated assessment strategy and the pitfalls of using assessments randomly.

GTR: Technology Reuse with Josh Levitt of UsedCisco.com
Sean Daily, Green Living Ideas' Editor-In-Chief, talks technology recycling and reuse with Green Living Ideas Technology Green Guru, Joshua Levitt of UsedCisco.com.

Got a Great Product? Get Over it!: Effective product marketing is not about the product.
Four trends are converging to change the way technology companies market their products, driving the need for new skills and processes; products and markets are maturing, buying criteria and personas are changing, the buying process is changing, salespeople are dealing with change too. Learn how product management and marketing roles are evolving to drive more profitable, successful products and services.

Create and Deliver Suprisingly Compelling Software Demonstrations
?Do The Last Thing First? ? the recipe for a Great Demo! Here?s how to put the ?Wow!? into your demos and make them effective, crisp, and compelling ? engage audiences in the first six minutes of a demonstration. We?ll present how to capture and communicate the information you need to create successful demonstrations. Most important, we?ll show how to organize the content of your demos to ensure that you address your customers? key business issues within the first few minutes of a demonstration ? and generate a ?Wow!? response that compels their interest. The result is crisp, highly effective demonstrations that satisfy VP?s and senior management, champions, users and all other players ? and close the business.

Connecting Through Content: Finding the Right Strategy to Drive Results
Take an insider's look at content-driven online marketing and maximizing the value of an organization's online assets, from white papers to Wikis and podcasts to product sheets -- any traditional or emerging media content type. You will learn about changes in the buyers' behavior when it comes to search, registration and online media consumption, how to determine the right mix of content types, what buyers value most when it comes to content and more.

Buyer Personas: A Smart Way to Align Sales and Marketing
With marketing busy generating leads and getting the sales process started, where is the plan to engage the sales people and motivate them to work on all of these new opportunities? The reason that most sales launches fail to inspire action and uptake is that marketing and sales people just don?t speak the same language.

The Bottom of the Sales Cycle is NOT the Contract
For sales, the most common goal is to get the buyer to sign the contract. And for many, this represents the last thing they do with that buyer. But the bottom of the sales cycle, or the 'funnel' as it is often called, is NOT the contract. And getting the buyer through the next phase often becomes the responsibility of the product manager. What is the bottom of the sales cycle? And what responsibility to product managers have to get each buyer all the way through the cycle?

2007-2008 Product Management and Marketing Survey Results
Every year, Pragmatic Marketing conducts a survey of product managers and marketers in technology companies. This session will review the results of the 2007-2008 survey and discuss current titles and job responsibilities, compensation, and the scope of activities product managers and marketers are performing as part of their role in today's competitive environment.

Maven + MyEclipse
This demo looks at the new Maven features in the MyEclipse 6.5 releases known as Maven4MyEclipse. It gives a beginner's introduction to Maven including what it is and how to use it in MyEclipse, and covers some basics on how you can integrate it into your workflow.

Memory Analysis Best Practices Within Eclipse
The performance of many enterprise Java applications can typically be poor, forcing affected companies to pay the high price of lost sales and tarnished reputations. Fortunately, proactive attention to the performance of an application while it is being developed can eliminate most performance issues before your customers ever see them. Join Ian Skerret, Director of Marketing, Eclipse Foundation and Java Expert Steven Haines, CEO/Founder of GeekCap, Inc., as they present an overview of the Eclipse ecosystem and a strategy for identifying memory leaks in Java applications from the comfort of your Eclipse Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE). You will learn: How the Java garbage collector works The nature of memory leaks and how to avoid them How to configure the automated analysis of unit test case memory usage inside Eclipse How to regularly generate memory profiles in a repeatable fashion

Oracle-BEA Fusion: Oracle's New Strategic Java Platform
Hear Steve Harris, Development VP for Application Server, discuss Oracle's vision and strategy for application servers, Java virtual machine technologies, and the emerging application grid architecture.

Froehlich Sees Oil Falling as Governments Cut Subsidies
Froehlich Sees Oil Falling as Governments Cut Subsidies

Inside Business: Gas Prices
Gas prices are still much higher than they should be. What, OPEC worry?

Scaling Scrum to the Market-Driven Enterprise
Scrum is a team-based process framework that enables lean, agile, and competitive approaches to product management and development. Scaling Scrum to the enterprise involves applying the core concepts of Scrum to various organizational units (marketing, sales, support, product and project management, and development) and integrating these organizational units so that ?requirements? and ?work? flow throughout the ?veins? of the organization to ultimately deliver value and enable the enterprise to be market driven. Many organizations implement Scrum focusing on teams only, but don?t readily consider the enterprise, and thus don?t maximize their return on adoption.

Clarida Says Fed Is Fundamentally Changing Its Role (Correct)
Clarida Says Fed Is Fundamentally Changing Its Role (Correct)

Inside Business: Fiscal Crisis
Even the strong are having trouble surviving the current fiscal crisis.

The New Rules of Marketing: Strategies and Tactics for Reaching Your Buyers Directly
Now that the Internet has made it easier than ever for marketers at software companies to directly communicate with consumers and target audiences, it?s imperative that they dramatically alter their PR and marketing strategy to maximize the effectiveness of the direct consumer-communication channel. On the Web, the old rules don?t apply. Learn how to leverage the potential that Web-based communication offers software companies. A step-by-step action plan for harnessing the power of the new rules of marketing and PR will be provided, showing how to identify audiences, create compelling messages, get those messages to the most consumers possible, and lead those consumers directly into the buying process. Told with many case studies and real-world examples, this a practical discussion about the new reality of PR and marketing.

Enquisite's Dan Robbins
Dan Robbins is Vice President of Marketing at Enquisite, a search analytics company that follows customers from search to conversion. He joins Practical eCommerce Publisher Kerry Murdock to discuss Enquisite and how it can supplement a merchant's other analytics programs.

ECF 2.0 - Some New Features
This demo shows some of the new features in ECF 2.0: screen sharing, url sharing, real-time shared editing, dynamic service discovery and asynchronous file download are covered.

WTP 3.0 Java EE 5 and Web Services Features
This demo presents an introduction to the new Java EE 5 features and the new Web services features that come with the Ganymede release of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) project.

GTR: Quitting Our Paper Addiction with Esker
Host Sean Daily talks about conserving paper and document management as strategies for combating paper addiction in the office with Renee Thomas, Director of Americas Field Marketing for Esker.

Intrusion Prevention Systems: A Real World Case Study
In this presentation, we'll explore a real world analysis of Intrusion Prevention Systems live in action at Los Alamos National Laboratory. SANS' Director of Research Alan Paller interviews Los Alamos Security Analyst Paul Criscuolo about their nearly year-old deployment of Intrusion Prevention Systems and how the technology is working.

Java library for support of text mining and retrieval
Text categorization , Accuracy measures , Document vector, k-Nearest neighbors , Reduction techniques, Feature selection

Cost Per Touch

Episode 127 | Karachi Dreams Big, String Theory
Karachi Dreams Big String Theory

Tooling Around: Where Do Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Workshop Go From Here?
Duncan Mills, Senior Product Management Director for Developer Tools, and Greg Stachnick, Senior Product Management Director for Workshop products, explain the future of Oracle Fusion Middleware tooling and Oracle's JDeveloper/Eclipse strategy.

Posen Says U.S. Security Assurance Helps Bolster Dollar
Posen Says U.S. Security Assurance Helps Bolster Dollar

GTR: What to Look for in Energy-Efficient PCs with Dell
Sean Daily, Green Living Ideas' Editor-In-Chief, discusses green computing and what to look for in energy-efficient PCs with Mark Newton, Environmental Policy Manager for Dell.

Keirsun Scott, Social Media Director For OneUpWeb
Keirsun Scott is Social Media Director for OneUpWeb, an online marketing consulting company. He joins Practical eCommerce Publisher Kerry Murdock to discuss the benefits of social media for ecommerce merchants, citing examples of companies who make use of social media.

Downside of Technology ? Desktop Publishing Crimes
Downside of Technology ? Desktop Publishing Crimes

GTR: The Zero Carbon Car with Author William Kemp
Sean GreenTalk Radio Host Sean Daily discusses the zero carbon car, high fuel efficiency vehicles, and alternative fuel technologies with William Kemp, Author of the The Zero Carbon Car and other books about alternative fuels and renewable energy.

Puryear Sees No Sign of U.S. Housing Inventory Decline
Puryear Sees No Sign of U.S. Housing Inventory Decline

The Ecommerce Checkout Report
Do you want to see which checkout tactics are most used by successful online retailers? How does your conversion rate stack up to those who employ similar tactics? Does a shorter checkout process really decrease shopping cart abandonment? Should you use an order confirmation screen? Does live chat improve conversions? These are a few of the 23 tactics we evaluated as we studied the checkout process of the Internet's Top 100 Online Retailers.

Harvard's Glaeser Says Home Prices Need to Fall Further
Harvard's Glaeser Says Home Prices Need to Fall Further

Shepherdson Predicts U.S. Unemployment Above 7% in 2009
Shepherdson Predicts U.S. Unemployment Above 7% in 2009

Brocade: Gunning for Cisco
Ian Whiting, Vice President and General Manager, Data Center Infrastructure at Brocade, talks about taking on Cisco in the data center in the wake of Brocade's $3B purchase of Foundry Networks.

DNSSEC: A key component of FISMA
The DNS system has served us well for over 20 years. It is the first element used in almost every Internet transaction. However today when a user accesses a web site they simply hope they are getting to the right location. When a user sends email they simply hope the mail will be delivered to the right destination. As more and more governmental, military, defense and critical national infrastructure is Internet based, when more and more citizens interact with their government over the Internet, hope is no longer enough. Fortunately, modern DNS security standards (DNSSEC) are available to secure this essential infrastructure component.

Building Service-Oriented Security
Amit Jasuja, Oracles vice president of development for identity management products, talks to Kay Keppler, Oracle Magazine features editor, about the concept of service-oriented security. Find out what it is, the development processes involved, and how your company can get there.

JPMorgan's Feroli Says Inflation Signs Are `Worrying'
JPMorgan's Feroli Says Inflation Signs Are `Worrying'

SEO Secrets for Online Retailers
It has become increasingly important to have top natural search engine listings as the cost of paid ads have continued to creep skyward. Learn the keys to effective search engine optimization.

Inside Business: Mortgage Mess
The government has bailed out two of the nation's biggest mortgage companies, and that's good. But many problems remain.

ASE Live: Episode 2
We?re back with another episode of ASE (Alt Search Engines Live.) On this episode, Charles Knight (editor of AltSearchEngines) interviews two founders from alternative search engine who both started in the health vertical - Kosmix & OrganizedWisdom. (Although Kosmix has branched out into other verticals.) The two engines are an interesting example of two different approaches popular in vertical search today - human powered vs. algorithmic or as Charles put it ?man versus machine?. Hope you enjoy this episode of ASE Live!

Inside Business: FDA
Is the FDA doing its job? Geoff Colvin reports.

Inside Business: Martha Stewart
Will Martha Stewart ever come back from the bad PR surrounding her conviction for insider trading? Geoff Colvin reports.

Inside Business: Financial Woes
Who's really to blame for America's financial crisis? It's not who you'd think. Goeff Colvin reports.

SpeedInfo: Real Time Traffic Data Service
Live with Doug Finley (CEO) and Charls Armiger (VP of Sales) of SpeedInfo. A look into the growing need of accurate real time traffic data and how SpeedInfo is addressing this requirement in the US.

What?s New in LiveCycle ES Update 1
Delivering content-rich engagement applications faster, with a lower total cost of ownership, just got a lot easier with the recently announced LiveCycle ES Update 1 release. This session will provide an overview and demonstration of this more powerful and widely enhanced update of LiveCycle ES.

DSF-GDB Debugger
This demonstration presents the unique features of the GDB debugger integration developed by the Device Debugging project. This debugger uses DSF which is the next generation debugger framework for C/C++ debugging.

JavaScript Development Toolkit (JSDT) Features
Bradley Childs introduces the new JavaScript Development Toolkit in Webtools 3.0. This presentation covers the 7 JSDT features and preferences.

Managing Revenue Recognition in Concert with Oracle Financials
Revenue Management has slipped through the cracks of the financial infrastructure at nearly every company. According to research from RevenueRecognition.com and IDC, 92% of public companies still use spreadsheets for one or more critical revenue recognition tasks. Learn how you can enhance Oracle Financials with advanced revenue recognition capabilities. Support complex revenue management processes without slowing down your existing order-to-cash process. Fully implement, monitor, and manage your revenue recognition policy on an enterprise-wide basis Control all critical revenue processes including revenue allocation, scheduling, recognition, compliance, and reporting, and prevent badly-timed and misstated revenue Analyze and forecast revenue recognition more accurately to enhance strategic decisions

Optimal BI: Balancing Self-Service with Tailored Delivery to Achieve Widespread Adoption of BI
Most BI professionals embrace the notion of "self-service BI" as a way to liberate end-users from IT intermediaries and reporting backlogs. Self-service BI gives users direct access to data to create and format their own reports when and how they want. The only problem is that a majority of users don?t want this responsibility, and those who do usually create so many reports that performance, storage, and accessibility become serious issues. Today, savvy companies are balancing self-service BI with tailored delivery of reports to optimize user adoption. This Webinar will examine the myth of self-service BI and ways to remedy it.

Preview: What's New in SPSS Statistics 17.0
Announcing the latest release of SPSS Statistics! View a complimentary sneak preview of SPSS Statistics 17.0, recorded on Wednesday, July 23, 2007, at 11:00 a.m. CT.

The Rise of the Mega Regional Accounting Firm
The Rise of the Mega Regional Accounting Firm

Kissinger Says Withdrawal Timeline Poses Danger to Iraq
Kissinger Says Withdrawal Timeline Poses Danger to Iraq

Increasing Productivity for Better, Faster Decision Making
Review this exclusive webcast for public sector users of SPSS and discover why you should run SPSS on a server. Product experts demonstrate SPSS Server software and answer questions about this powerful analytical solution. You'll hear how SPSS Server helps public sector organizations realize significant productivity gains, while enjoying capabilities not available on the desktop version. Learn how you can: Create predictive models using algorithms not available on the desktop version, Score new data without re-running the entire analysis, Streamline data access and increase productivity across your network and more Share this webcast with your colleagues, including other SPSS users and your IT staff. Your IT colleagues will especially want to hear how SPSS Server increases productivity throughout an organization?while keeping data secure.

Semantic Web Gang: Interfaces to the Semantic Web
In this edition of the Semantic Web Gang, regular members are joined by two guests to discuss developments in the display and navigation of Semantic Web data. With so much effort being devoted to the back-office manipulation and storage of semantic data, it is all too easy to forget the opportunities - and challenges - posed in inviting mainstream users to ?browse the graph? of semantic data. With expert contributions from MIT?s David Karger and the DBpedia team?s Christian Becker, the Gang sets about ensuring that the Interface is not forgotten. Gang regular Daniel Lewis was unavailable for this call, and OpenLink?s Ted Thibodeau participated on his behalf.

GTR: eBook Publishing and Greener Reading with EcoBrain
GreenTalk Radio Host Sean Daily discusses digital book technologies and eBooks focused on environmentalism with Angela Wieck and Staley Krause of EcoBrain.com.

Shaun Ryan, CEO Of SLI Systems
SLI Systems CEO Shaun Ryan discusses site search and SLI's hosted site search solution with Practical eCommerce Publisher Kerry Murdock.

Best Practices for Integrating EDA into Your Organization
Join CEP Thought Leaders, Dr. David Luckham and Dr. K. Mani Chandy, and SL?s VP of Products, Rodney Morrison, for an in-depth discussion on getting the most out of your EDA implementation. Discussion topics include best practices for integrating EDA into your organization, effectively analyzing and interpreting complex events, and key reasons BAM is critical to CEP.

Managing Security Vulnerabilities Based on What Matters Most
Determining which security vulnerabilities to address should be based on the importance of the information asset.

Customizing Fact Finding Reports in Auditor Pro 4.5
Ecora is offering a series of interactive training presentations hosted by an experienced member of our Professional Services team to ensure users of Auditor Professional have a proactive view of the IT infrastructure ensuring critical business services remain operationally effective, secure, and compliant with internal standards and external regulations. What you'll learn in this Tips & Tricks Webinar: How to edit and run pre-built report templates Generating a basic inventory report Using filters in report generation Building a cross-platform fact finding report

7 Simple Ways to Boost Your Holiday Conversion Rate
Your ecommerce bucket is about to be filled with tons of eager holiday shoppers, ready and to buy. Plugging your conversion leaks now will maximize your holiday success. We will show you 7 simple ways to lift your conversion rate that do not require a ton of effort to implement.

GTR: Current and Future Trends in the Solar Industry with SPG Solar
Sean Daily, Green Living Ideas' Editor-in-Chief, discusses current trends and future developments in the solar technology industry with Dan Thompson, Founder and CEO of SPG Solar.

Sustaining Bookings Growth through Marketing Automation
Join Starwood Vacation Ownership's Ron Lange, Director of Database & Campaign Management and Unica's Andrew Hally, Vice President of Segment Marketing, as they review the key challenges facing travel and hospitality marketers and how marketing technology can help overcome them. Learn how Starwood Vacation Ownership increased bookings rates 24% in less than 6 months with Affinium by: Leveraging loyalty and transactional data for improved customer insight and targeting; Integrating email, direct mail, and telemarketing for higher response rates; Continuously improving results through test-and-learn.

IBI2Go - The Talent Wars
Thanks to our Corporate Sponsor: ADP Sue Torgerson of CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business Whitepaper: www.CCHGroup.com/survey

What Contractors Can Do To Improve Their Bottom Line Right Now
What Contractors Can Do To Improve Their Bottom Line Right Now

Search Adversting
Pay-per-click and search advertising have been some of the biggest buzzwords in eCommerce over the past several years. Look at what they can do for your business and how to use them effectively with an eCommerce website.

Inside Look at Elastic Path 6: New Features & Architecture
Elastic Path 6 will offer many new features to expand sales opportunities, increase CSR productivity and streamline store operations. These features include multi-store capabilities and an all-new CSR/management application on a new platform. Join our product marketing and development teams for a SNEAK PREVIEW of the new features and architecture.

To Start-Up or Not to Start-Up
"That is dumbest idea I have ever heard!" "Process sucks, we don't do that here!" "We don't play the MRD whisper game!" Have you ever thought about being a Product Manager at a startup? If so (or if you are currently at one), you often hear comments like these from the founder. Do you wonder how you're ever going to get it all done? Between Development building "cool technology," and Sales selling to ?anyone with money? for the deal-of-the-day, who has time for strategic thoughts or planning?

Episode 104: Plugin Architectures
In this episode we talk with Klaus Marquardt about building systems out of plugins. After briefly introducing the concept of a plugin in contrast to modules and related software engineering concepts, we discuss different views on plugins and different ways of working with plugins for developing.

Budget Model Improvements
How to improve the accuracy and reliability of your budget model.

Dig Deep Into Analyzing Financials Using Project Accounting Techniques
Jack Boyer, President of Boyer & Associates, highlights ways organizations can clearly identify what makes money and what does not. Using project accounting techniques, even in situations that are not typically considered a "project", impose a discipline that reveals more details about costs, resources, and progress.

Introduction to Domain Specific Languages
Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) are limited forms of computer language designed for a specific class of problems. In this JAOO conference talk, Martin Fowler introduces a simple example of DSL, bringing out the difference between external and internal DSLs, and talking through the trade-offs in using both forms. The talk is based on Martin's language workbench article on martinfowler.com.

The Role of the Enterprise Service Bus
Mark Richards tells us what an ESB is, its role, what capabilities it provides, and the various ways an ESB can be implemented. He takes a close look at the JBI specification (JSR-208) and explains what impact it will have with the ESB world. This will teach you how to determine your own specific requirements for an ESB and then match these requirements to the product space.

JRuby - Bringing Ruby to the JVM
In this presentation from InfoQ Day at Java One, Thomas Enebo and Charles Nutter show off the current state of the JRuby project, which has come a long way under their stewardship. The presentation shows compelling demonstrations of how the Ruby language and key Ruby applications can function well on the Java Virtual Machine.

AOP-Myths and Realities
This talk goes beyond myths surrounding AOP and shows the real deal. It examines many practical applications implemented with and without aspects, providing a context for scrutinizing AOP. It also discusses ways to adopt AOP in pragmatic, risk-managed ways allowing developers to try AOP in their own system and gain understanding at the experiential level without exposing them to undue risk.

Security Assertion Markup Language - SAML
The SAML has emerged as the gold standard for building Cross-Domain SSO solutions and is a key technology in the domain of federated identity management. The basic concepts of SAML as well as a technical synopsis will be presented. What are SAML assertions, attributes, artifacts, bindings and profiles? What problems does SAML solve, how does it all work out in real life...

Case Study: Zero Calories J2EE
A lightweight approach with a rich domain model used directly in web-tier can increase both quality and speed of development. This case study, recorded at Javapolis, looks at a Tapestry+Spring+Hibernate project by Nordija, how it was architected, how testability was introduced, and the level of simplicity achieved using the lightweight approach.

Java + .NET, Integration Strategies Presentation
We learn how Java and .NET can interoperate with one another. We'll talk about how to leverage the strengths of each, such as using Microsoft Office to act as a rich client to a Java middle-tier service, or building a Windows Presentation Foundation GUI on top of Java POJOs, or even how to execute Java Enterprise/J2EE functionality from within a Windows Workflow host.

How to Design a Good API & Why it Matters
A well-written API can be a great asset to the organization that wrote it and to all that use it. Given the importance of good API design, surprisingly little has been written on the subject. In this talk (recorded at Javapolis), Java library designer Joshua Bloch teaches how to design good APIs, with many examples of what good and bad APIs look like.

Customer Centricity & Loyalty Marketing Featuring Steve Mayberry, Senior Manager, Best Buy
To find out how one of the most successful retailers maintains loyal customers, join us as we discuss loyalty marketing and how Unica?s Affinium� Campaign solved critical challenges for Best Buy?s relationship marketing strategy. Best Buy will share its success stories, vision, objectives and overall challenges. More specifically, this webinar will address how Best Buy solved the following business challenges: Bringing relevant marketing to customer base (your BEST bet) Targeting through timing, trends & triggers (your BEST move) Improving loyalty program (the BEST way)

Managing Landing Pages: Best Practices & Using a CMS

Episode 126 | Collaborative Contagion, Smarter Clothes
Collaborative Contagion Smarter Clothes

Internal Controls Not Just for Public Companies
Internal Controls Not Just for Public Companies

Leading Teams to do Great Things: How to Succeed When You Have All the Responsibility and No Authority!
If you?ve ever been in this situation, you?re certainly not alone! Product managers often feel the squeeze between the developers, marketing, sales ? and, of course, their boss. Sometimes it?s tough to get the players on the same page ? and keep them there. Everyone looks to you for the answers ? but working with people who don?t report to you is an art.

RWW Live: Episode 2
On this first episode, I?m joined by Richard MacManus from ReadWriteWeb. As well as, Steve O?Hear from Last 100 and Charles Knight from Alt Search Engines. We discuss a number of big events over the last week including: 3G iPhone, New Approaches by the Alternative Search Engines & a plug by Charles for his new favorite Alt Search Engine - Tag Galaxy and The Future of Yahoo! Hope you enjoy this episode of RWW Live!

Distributed Caching Essential Lessons
In this presentation, recorded at Javapolis, Cameron Purdy shows how to improve application performance & scalability via caching architectures to reduce load on the database tier and & clustered caching to provide transparent fail-over by reliably sharing live data among clustered JVMs.

XPM: Extreme Product Management: The Role of Product Management in an Agile Environment
Is your development organization moving to an agile or iterative form of developing products? Are Requirements Documents declared ?old-fashioned?? In today?s fast-paced technical environment, it is even more crucial to define which market segments to target, identifying what problems are worth solving, and bringing the resulting products and services to market.

Warding off wireless woes
This week's newsmaker Josh Wright, an instructor for the SANS Institute and senior security architect for Aruba Networks, pointed out several new vulnerabilities in 802.11n. He sheds some light on what these vulnerabilities mean for would-be hackers and how network managers can protect themselves against attacks.

Christophe Coenraets Discusses Flex 3, AIR, and BlazeDS
In this interview from QCon London 2008, Christophe Coenraets discusses Flex 3, Flex Builder, BlazeDS, BlazeDS, the move towards open source at Adobe, how to integrate Flex with existing applications, and the challenges of integrating Rich Internet Applications with search engines and built-in browser functionality.

JP Rangaswami on open source in the enterprise & the future of information
CIO JP Rangaswami explains how open source became a corporate IT strategy at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and why CIOs of major enterprises should open source for software development initiatives. JP also explains his vision of four pillars of the new world if information: Syndication, Search, Fulfillment, and Collaboration/Conversation.

Remote Access with TM 3.0 in Ganymede
This presentation shows how to get started working on Remote Resources with the Target Management Project in Ganymede. Some of the new TM 3.0 features are especially highlighted.

Chances You'll Be Audited and What To Do If You Are
Chances You'll Be Audited and What To Do If You Are

Why Are We Winning? Why Are We Losing?
Do you know why you win some deals and lose others? Is Sales conducting their own analysis of wins and losses? Learn why product management should be conducting win/loss for an organization. Learn several practical techniques for performing win/loss analysis including how to conduct a proper win/loss interview.

Semantic Web Gang: Semantic Web Conferences for Business People
On this episode of the Semantic Web Gang, the members discuss their impressions of two recent conferences that set out to explore semantic technologies in the context of business applications - specifically The Semantic Technology Conference & the Linked Data Planet Conference. The call also closes with discussion of news from Hakia, which had just announced the imminent availability of a new API. Gang regular Tom Heath was unavailable for this call, and Talis CTO Ian Davis participated on his behalf.

Dali JPA Tools 2.0 Highlights
This presentation covers some of the new features available with Dali 2.0. Topics include: Persistence XML editor EclipseLink Support "New" wizards JPA project conversion Enhanced XML mapping support

M2T JET ? Simple Code Generators in Eclipse
This presentation introduces JET, a template language component of the Eclipse Model-to-Text (M2T) Project. It touches on some of the key aspects of JET-based code generators: templates, transformations, models and launching.

New Security Features in Ganymede
This presentation will demonstrate the new and noteworthy features in Ganymede related to security. We will first cover the new Secure Storage feature, which allows for the protection of sensitive data such as user passwords. Next we will cover Trusted Bundles, a mechanism for doing authorization of bundles based on the code signer. Finally we will look at the Login Framework, an integration of the Java Authentication and Authorization Service into the Eclipse platform.