The latest IT Tech Trends Survey is now open. We’re looking to hear what you feel are the major drivers and motivators in the tech industry right now. This year we’ve devoted a considerable chunk of the survey to investigating business analytics – its role…

Here at developerWorks , we get a lot of traffic from Twitter (and StumbleUpon via the su.pr URL shortener). We’re talking to the tune of at least 200,000 clicks per month. To get that kind of traffic through other channels, such as paid search, we would shell…

Have you ever struggled to find a parking spot in a big city? And whilst driving around in circles have you ever dreamt of a service that lets you know where the free parking spaces are? In this era where our smartphones can tell us when the next subway train…

Why is it so tough to find anything about hooking up other tools to Google+. Actually, somewhat ironically, it seems tough to find anything on Google+ via a search on, erm, Google. Would be nice to feed it from my WordPress blog. Also what if it could also setup the service to drop my public [...]

OK, so I dropped the spoiler in the title. Mind you, you could argue that this is hardly surprising given the importance of…

There’s a lot of talk these days in the enterprise space around mobile development. In a series of short interviews, watch the infectiously energetic Jerry Cuomo (WebSphere CTO) explain that for many customers mobile is not an option. They need to ha…

According to a recent article in Advertising Age , Google’s social strategy does not involve building social networks to compete with Facebook but rather it is focusing on using social data to build better applications: “As an example of the current…

Recommendation engines are all the rage. Whether it is in the realm of social commerce (see IBM Coremetrics Intelligent Offer ) or in location-based social applications like Foursquare . As the attention span of…