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Google has received significant public reprimand for their "a little more Google for everyone" Google+ powered Search Plus Your World. Twitter was outraged. Facebook was disappointed. Microsoft was…wait, why isn’t Microsoft saying anything?

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Only a few days after killing off ten mobile apps, Yahoo unveiled an Apps search tab.

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In November of last year, Adobe did a pretty serious restructure, making the decision to focus on Digital Marketing and Digital Media. More than a few people might have wondered what exactly was going on. But when you take the time to consider what Adobe did, you realize they were following their own advice: focus on the customer.

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It’s the morning after. Regardless of who you were cheering for in last night’s Super Bowl or what you think about the commercials shown during the game, it’s clear that media is changing how advertisers are marketing and to whom they market. 

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Apple has had a change of heart from its “we own your iBook content henceforth and forever and you’re going to like it” policy. Shortly after Apple published its iBooks Author EULA, a legion of technical journalists and copyright analysts digitally chastised the software giant as evil for locking authors into an agreement that would restrict them to selling content created with iBooks Author in Apple’s iBookstore.

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CRM is nothing really unless it can adapt to business users’ changing marketplace. Microsoft, since the release of Dynamics CRM online last year, committed itself to providing agile CRM and preparing companies for the release by flagging changes 90 days in advance. It has now flagged that it is making Dynamics CRM mobile.

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Have I mentioned recently how much I truly hate the term "social business"?

Maybe hate is a bit strong, and it’s really not the term, but the way it is used. However, as I was struggling to finalize my contribution to this month’s Social Business theme, I was saved by a fellow author’s article: Knowledge Management in 2012: Probably Dead by Roan Young (@roanyoung).

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At CES this year, one major trend is the shifting tablet scope toward pen computing. This term once sent shudders down the spine of any product development team, as "Pen Computing" was equated with handwriting recognition and that was spelled doom for early products such as the Apple Newton that used a pen, not touch, as the primary input. Now iPad Apps software maker Readdle wants to move back to the pen with its release of the new Remarks software that targets handwriting capture, note taking and PDF annotation.

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Drupalcon 2012 in Denver goes beyond open source to focus on the them of Collaboration for Every Device. Here’s what to expect at this year’s event:

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Ask ten people what Social Business means to them, and you will come back with ten different answers. But if you look closer, you will soon find the common denominator: it’s about putting people back in business.

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Windows 8 will do away with that long-standing cornerstone of its PC desktop experience - the Start Button, as news about the impending public beta sneaks out.

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Acquisition news abounded this week: SDL finalized its Alterian deal, IBM added more analytics and mobile power via Emptoris and Worklight, and Infragistics took on mobile SharePoint with SouthLabs.

If new product releases are more your cup o’tea then dig into the Alfresco Enterprise 4.0 release, Salesforce’s new Desk.com, and eXo Portal as a service.

Our February editorial theme is Social Business — Back to Basics. Check out Driving Adoption in Social Business: Resistance is Futile! by Kevin Conroy.

Most Popular

• Is There A Business Case For Using SharePoint as an Enterprise CMS?
• When Social Meets Business: Andrew McAfee Insights
• Knowledge Management in 2012? Probably Dead
• Wrapping Your Head Around the SharePoint Beast
• Taxonomy Building: Tackling the Challenges

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Editor’s Picks

• CXM Perspectives: How OpenText Approaches Customer Experience
• Alfresco Enterprise 4: Social, Collaborative, Mobile, Cloud Connected Content Management
• A Common Misconception about Customer Experience Management
• SDL’s Acquisition of Alterian: Get the Details
• IBM Adds Two Companies, Expands Analytics Reach, Builds Mobile Software Portfolio

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• Culture Eats Strategy For Lunch
• Social CRM for Customer Support – Peer Power.
• Ten Things To Think About When Designing Your iPad App
• Can You Outsource Customer Experience?
• Web Strategy of the Future

Featured Events (all events | post your event)

• Feb 22, 2012 — Intelligent Content Palm Springs
• Feb 26, 2012 — SPTechCon - SharePoint Conference San Francisco
• Mar 06, 2012 — Get Social with Microsoft & Telligent in Dallas
• Mar 19, 2012 — DrupalCon Denver
• Mar 20, 2012 — Adobe Digital Marketing Summit in Salt Lake City

Featured Jobs (all jobs | post your job)

• Content Manager in Berkshire at Amazon
• CMS Architect at Sapient Corporation
• Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager in San Diego at MindTouch
• Technical Architect in Bellevue at Moxie Software
• Senior Business Solutions Analyst in San Jose at Adobe

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The Smartsheet project management tool now integrates with Box, the popular content sharing and collaboration service.

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As we wrapped up January’s focus on Customer Experience Management and turned to Social Business for February, our experts offered some great advice on how to keep your pesky taxonomies neat and tidy, shared insights from thought leaders in the Social Business and Risk Management fields and had a moment of silence for Knowledge Management.

Read on for more great counsel from the experts: resistance is futile!

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Sage N. America’s top ERP partner, Laguna Hills, CA based Blytheco LLC, announced this week it has has partnered with SugarCRM, "…delivering to its clients the ability to effectively boost sales and retain customers, while saving money," the company said.

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Future Francis Ford Coppolas have a new option for producing movies on the go. Avid has released its home non-linear video editing software, Avid Studio, for the iPad. Will iMovie users be enticed to try it?

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The heyday surrounding Carrier IQ broke in November when one researcher went on a tirade letting everyone in the world know they were being watched. Because people get into enough trouble on their own with smartphones, the possibility of secret spies tracking text messages and emails not only felt very Big Brother, but also posed greater threat for expose. While the company denied a majority of claims, it got hit with several major lawsuits, and in a new bill announced this week, deemed the Mobile Device Privacy Act, the government has taken further action.

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With all the news of Facebook’s IPO this week, Google’s still-fledgling social service marched over another user milestone as the improvements and other changes in the Google ecosystem keep on coming.

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The next OS for Windows Phone, code-named "Apollo," will integrate the Windows 8 kernel, potentially bringing all that Microsoft offers into a unified family of devices, across PC, tablet and phone. With new hardware features offering multi-core, likely HD resolutions and SD card support, expect a rash of new phones later in 2012.

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Not sure if you heard, but Facebook went public yesterday. The news, while no surprise to most, quickly became the subject of widespread debate, with everyone from Wall Street analysts to Silicon Valley Porsche dealers considering the financial impact of the decision. Will it be the investment of a lifetime or one to pass over, and furthermore, how much are those fortunate little staff members going to inherit from the trade?

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