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About Steven Walling

Steven Walling is a Writer for ReadWriteWeb based in Portland, Oregon. Having joined the team in June 2009, he's also a consultant for tech startups like AboutUs, Inc. and has written film and performing arts criticism in the past. In his spare time, he's an active volunteer for the free culture projects of the Wikimedia Foundation. You can contact Steven at steven@readwriteweb.com.

Recent Articles by Steven Walling

  • Alfresco Wants Enterprise Content Management in the Cloud

    Alfresco, the open source enterprise content management company, has unveiled a developer program for those looking to host both the community and enterprise versions of its software on the Amazon EC2 cloud computing platform. Alfresco is a leading open source alternative for document and Web content management, competing strongly with ECM giants like Open Text,...


  • Microsoft Previews Free Web-based Version of Office 2010

    Back in July Microsoft launched the technical preview of Office 2010. But despite reports to the contrary, that technical preview didn't include the highly-anticipated online version of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Starting today Microsoft is making a limited preview of Office Web Apps available to partners, and has officially said that a more widely-available beta...


  • Adobe Acquires Omniture: It's All About the Revenue Model

    Adobe is looking to stall falling sales and profit by entering into a new market: analytics. But rather looking to R&D, Adobe is instead coughing up $1.8 billion for analytics leader Omniture. This is the largest acquisition by Adobe since the purchase of Macromedia for $3 billion in 2005. The acquisition has puzzled many, since...


  • Apps.gov Gives Cloud Computing a Slice of the $75 Billion IT Pie

    The government cloud computing service rumored since late July is here, and companies are jumping at the chance to join Apps.gov, an "online storefront" for cloud services and applications pre-approved for use by federal agencies. According to the post by U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra, Apps.gov will move at the same cautious pace Data.gov has, and...


  • Socialwok is a FriendFeed for Google Apps

    Google Apps is an impressive productivity suite. But however good Docs and Gmail are, organizations using Apps are left without the kinds of social software they're used to having outside of work. Singapore-based startup Socialwok is attempting to fix that by offering a social app that lives on top of Google Apps. Socialwok resembles FriendFeed...


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