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Crowdsourcing, collaboration, support groups. Oh my.

Berkonomics

How do you use the new tools for collaboration to enable people and computers to be connected so that collectively they act more intelligently than any individual? Help from your peers. First, realize that no individual in your organization, including yourself, is as effective alone as with collaborative help from peers.

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Create and nurture your collective intelligence.

Berkonomics

How do you use the new tools for collaboration to enable people and computers to be connected so that collectively they act more intelligently than any individual? Email readers, continue here.] You can do the same. MIT has come a long way in identifying tools and techniques. Test the system.

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Grocery startup Mercato spilled years of data, but didn’t tell its customers

TechCrunch LA

A person with knowledge of the incident told TechCrunch that the incident happened in January after one of the company’s cloud storage buckets, hosted on Amazon’s cloud, was left open and unprotected. Mercato raises $26M Series A to help smaller grocers compete online.

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6 Information Surges Raise Huge Startup Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud. Many companies are already seeing their computing costs drop by thirty percent as they move in this direction, providing new startup opportunities with the Everything as a Service (EaaS) trend.

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Top 5 Benefits of a Virtualized IT Department

Tech Zulu Event

The age of technology has helped itself out. Now, cloud computing makes it possible to virtualize IT departments. Benefit #1 Cloud Space. Cloud computing is a huge benefit for every company that deals with passing documents and orders between departments. Cloud computing brings everyone together virtually.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

Or would you like me to sell you a story on how cloud computing is green because these large datacenters are more energy efficient than the same number of computers run in ad-hoc ways? Let me answer ‘why computing needs RightScale.’ Computing is going the way of the electric grid.

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6 Technology Trends Will Spawn Countless New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud. Many companies are already seeing their computing costs drop by thirty percent as they move in this direction, providing new startup opportunities with the Everything as a Service (EaaS) trend.