About Alex Williams
Alex Williams is an Editor for ReadWriteWeb. He manages ReadWriteEnterprise and ReadWriteCloud. Alex is old enough to have started his career with a daily newspaper, working a one-man bureau in rural Georgia back in 1989. He has worked as a writer and editor for daily newspapers, magazines and did a year in broadcast as a business anchor. He caught the technology bug back in 1994 and has been obsessed about its implications ever since. Past work includes RWW Winterfest in 2004 and Podcast Hotel, the event he produced that explored the intersection of art and commerce and how digital media affects independent culture. Alex lives in Portland, Or. You can reach Alex via email: alexw@readwriteweb.com or on Twitter: @alexwilliams.
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07/21/10: Weekly Poll: What is the Buzz at OSCON and Online About the Open Cloud? (0)
07/20/10: Terracotta: A Picture of the Changing Database Market (1)
07/20/10: Now Comes the Hard Part for Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft (3)
07/19/10: Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff Uses His Twitter and Facebook Page to Test Ads (6)
07/19/10: Google Doubles Spending for Cloud Infrastructure... But Where? (2)
07/18/10: OpenStack: Rackspace and NASA Nebula Join Forces for Open Cloud Ecosystem (4)
07/16/10: How Steve Ballmer Ruined the Cloud and the World Cup (11)
07/16/10: 3 Deadly Mistakes made by SaaS Providers (5)
07/16/10: Joyent Buys Another Company to Help Customers Build Private Clouds (1)
07/15/10: Smith Micro: When You Just Want To Send a File (4)
07/15/10: CloudCamp at OSCON: 5 Topics We'd Like to Discuss (0)
07/14/10: A Business Intelligence Tool for Those Who Want More Than a Spreadsheet (0)
07/14/10: Validation of the Social Enterprise: Atlassian Raises $60 Million (1)
07/13/10: Exploring Curation to Transform the Mundane into the Strategic (4)
07/13/10: Weekly Poll: Will Private Clouds Prevail Or Do Platforms Represent the Future? (5)
07/13/10: VMware: Drops Prices by Half for Small Business Market (0)
07/12/10: For Partners: The 12 Benefits and Risks of Windows Azure (2)
07/12/10: Microsoft Private Cloud: It's Right for eBay but is it Right for You? (1)
07/10/10: Twitter: Comparing its Velocity, not Downtime (1)
07/ 9/10: As the Internet Loses its Way - the Cloud Will Carry the Most Importance (11)
07/ 9/10: Microsoft Readies For War with New Small Business Division For Cloud Push (4)
07/ 9/10: Skeptical? Cloud Study: Small Business to Lose 200,000 Jobs (9)
07/ 8/10: Batter Up! Enterprise Giants and the Games They Play (0)
07/ 7/10: iPad Gains in the Enterprise, But Security Still an Issue (4)
07/ 7/10: 12 Questions To Ask a Provider About Cloud Security (4)
07/ 6/10: Drinking Its Own Champagne - Amazon Moves Its Own Enterprise to the Cloud (2)
07/ 6/10: EMC Buys Greenplum and Analytics is the New Hot Trend (0)
07/ 5/10: An ISP Offers A Cloud for India - More Like AOL, Less Like the Open Web (5)
07/ 5/10: Hewlett-Packard Banks on Alliances as Web 2.0 Meets the World of Unified Communications (0)
07/ 5/10: The Economics of Behavior - A Way To Examine Failure in the Enterprise (1)
07/ 3/10: An Apps Driven Government? White House CIO Vivek Kundra and His Beliefs About the Cloud (1)
07/ 1/10: Make That 11 - IBM Buys Another Security Company (0)
07/ 1/10: The Cloud Can Save Us Billions...But Can We Afford it? (2)
06/30/10: Apigee Adds Awesome Bar, Tools for the Facebook Citizen Developer (0)
06/29/10: Yahoo Open Sources Security and Workflow Products For Hadoop (0)
06/29/10: Alcatel-Lucent Acquires Programmable Web - Well-Known Source For APIs (1)
06/28/10: How to Connect an Office Building to an Activity Stream (3)
06/25/10: David Boies Beat Microsoft Once - Can He Do it Again For Salesforce.com? (2)
06/24/10: Oxygen: A Desktop Network Connected to the Cloud (2)
06/24/10: Study: Open-Source Making Significant Traction in the Enterprise (4)
06/23/10: Shrek Needs a Network to Live in the Castle (3)
06/23/10: Google Apps Now Supports Multiple Domains (9)
06/22/10: Weekly Poll: Is Salesforce.com Chatter Really That Unique? Does it Matter? (4)
06/22/10: Salesforce.com Heralds The Activity Stream - Chatter Comes out of Beta (3)
06/21/10: Hadoop and Oracle Hook Up Through Cloudera and Quest Software (0)
06/18/10: Did the Enterprise 2.0 Conference Have Too Much Vendor Messaging? (5)
06/17/10: Socialtext Brings the Twitter Annotations Spec into the Enterprise (0)
06/15/10: Cisco Gets Presence - Video Crucial To Collaboration Play (6)
06/15/10: Enterprise Video Search Down To The Spoken Word (0)
06/14/10: Jive Bets on the Twitter Firehose and the Data Intensified Social Enterprise (6)
06/11/10: Enterprise 2.0 Conference: What Services are Companies Using and Why? (2)
06/10/10: Investors Validate Social Business Intelligence Market: Crowdcast Raises $6 Million (4)
06/ 9/10: What the Bankers Say About the Cloud (1)
06/ 8/10: Web Apps Are One Thing But What About Security on the Smart Grid? (2)
06/ 7/10: Has IBM Just Launched A Cloud Currency? (10)
06/ 7/10: IBM: A World with 1 Trillion Connected Devices (0)
06/ 4/10: Real-Time Information and Its Role in the Emerging Social Supply Chain (3)
06/ 3/10: Library of Congress Takes Steps To Preserve Digital Maps (2)
06/ 3/10: The New Networking Reality - Welcome to the Age of the Zettabyte (3)
06/ 2/10: Weekly Poll: Why Are Open APIs So Hot? (0)
06/ 1/10: HP and 3Com: The Cloud, China and $1 Billion for the New Enterprise (0)
06/ 1/10: Zoho Goes Beyond Google Apps With Unified Search (0)
05/28/10: A Future GeoCity in the Cloud: Washington D.C. (6)
05/27/10: 4 of 10 iPhones Sold to Enterprise Users (7)
05/27/10: 3 Companies That Tackle Complexity in the Cloud (4)
05/27/10: Apigee Provides Heroku Add-On for Twitter Gateway (0)
05/26/10: Open API Madness: The Party Has Just Begun for Cloud Developers (2)
05/26/10: BroadVision: A 1990s Leader Making its Way in a New World (3)
05/25/10: Google Wave Has Come a Long Way - Graduates to Google Apps (5)
05/24/10: Cloud Computing Brings New Dimensions To Geospatial Business Intelligence (3)
05/24/10: IBM Buys Sterling Commerce For $1.4 Billion (6)
05/21/10: ProtoShare: Helping Make The Move From Waterfall To Agile Development (7)
05/21/10: How Does the Cloud Affect Podcasting? (0)
05/20/10: New Google Cloud Storage Service Points To Vendor Lock-In Problems (3)
05/20/10: 5 Services That Leverage Google Wave (3)
05/19/10: Business ByDesign: SAP Delivers a Quality SaaS Service (2)
05/18/10: Jive Names New CEO - Moves Headquarters from Portland to Palo Alto (6)
05/18/10: SAP: Experimenting And That's a Good Thing (1)
05/17/10: SAP StreamWork Integrates With Google Wave (3)
05/17/10: SAP Sapphire Now: A New Energy and the Changing Roles That Come With Sybase (2)
05/15/10: MP3tunes Makes An Offer to Lala Customers (7)
05/14/10: Managing the Costs and Complexities of a Cloud-Based Infrastructure (0)
05/14/10: Is IT Showing Insecurities in the Distrust of End Users? (6)
05/13/10: Pitney Bowes: Business Giant Taps The Cloud in Shift From Software (0)
05/12/10: Is Sharepoint 2010 Cloud Ready? (2)
05/11/10: Sharepoint 2010 Launch: A Chance To Make Some Comparisons (9)
05/10/10: IBM Uses Emoticons, Social Media for Predictive Analytics (0)
05/10/10: SuccessFactors: Another SaaS Player With the Wind at its Back (1)
05/10/10: How Darwin's Finches and API's Are Connected in the Post 20th Century Economy (2)
05/ 7/10: Heroku: Ruby Platform Sees 50 Percent Increase in Apps Since November (8)
05/ 6/10: All Google Services To Be Available on Google Apps Later This Year (2)
05/ 6/10: VMware Acquires Gemstone in Deal To Fortify New Java Platform with Salesforce.com (5)
05/ 5/10: Yahoo! Looks Into its Future and Sees Hadoop (3)
05/ 5/10: Blockbuster Video Launches API to Open the Web, Mobile, Set Top Boxes and More (9)
05/ 4/10: Central Desktop: No Need to Upgrade to Office 2010? (1)
05/ 3/10: SuccessFactors Buys CubeTree in $50 Million Stock Deal (0)
05/ 3/10: Disruptions in the Enterprise: A Golden Opportunity for IBM and the Vendor Market (0)
05/ 1/10: Amazon Pursues The Feds and the Potential Billions in Cloud Computing Services (2)
04/30/10: Microsoft Support for HTML 5 Helps Break A Logjam But Does It Matter? (6)
04/29/10: Messenger Connect: A New API Strategy for Microsoft to Build its Own Social Graph (3)
