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…

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

You got those blogging blues? All that time and effort penning wonderfully erudite missives and no one can be arsed to show up and read the damn things? Just too many blogs crowding out your place in the sun on the mighty Google? Might be time to start looking…

Google has now officially rolled out the latest iteration of its social search which includes much tighter integration between social elements and what the big search giant is commonly known for uncovering: web pages. Google has been displaying results from…

So, looks like I managed to bookend social media week in San Francisco catching the PeopleBrowsr event on the first day, and today, one of the final sessions with headliner Shel Israel. I’m sure there’s no need for introduction, but just in case. An interesting takeaway for me was Shel’s statement that ‘social media is [...]

In a panel discussion today on social listening at the swanky new SF PeopleBrowsr office, the interest graph formed the basis of a lot of the discussion. I guess I’m out of touch with social media monitoring as this concept was new to me. First we had the social graph, of which I’m aware: a [...]

Even though I wasn’t at Lotusphere this year, I did get a sneak peak at Stacy Pschenica’s presentation on the value of the developerWorks community: to members, partners and thankfully (given …