Susan Kuchinskas

SAN FRANCISCO — Business has gotten the message: Pay attention to social media, and begin to figure it out. The Social Networking Conference, held Thursday and Friday this week in San Francisco, aims to help them figure out how to do it. As usual, conference speakers emphasized authenticity, empowering users and creating a good experience […]

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SAN FRANCISCO — Applications that let consumers share their content, like Yahoo’s Flickr, have made many a millionaire, and built a new generation of powerhouse companies. But with sharing come privacy concerns. Flickr has found it can increase usage on its photo-sharing site by providing just enough privacy. Flickr developer Kellan Elliott-McCrea presented the company’s […]

SAN FRANCISCO — When you do business on the Internet, redundancy is everything, according to Artur Bergman. But striving for “five-nines” uptime can be a waste of money. Bergman, director of engineering for Wikia, shared some straight talk about operations at the Web 2.0 Expo, held this week in San Francisco. While his remarks reflected […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The migration of video online — legally published or illegally posted — combined with the prevalence of personal video recorders that let viewers skip ads, has actually created an opportunity for NBC Universal. With a wealth of broadcast, cable and online properties, the media conglomerate sees Internet video as an opportunity for […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Online media organizations pondered the prospects for Internet advertising growth during a panel discussion. The consensus: cautious optimism. The best-case scenario put forth during the ad:tech conference here this week, was that interactive advertising would continue to suck dollars from traditional media. However, a lack of standards and measurability for newer online […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Being in the right place at the right time can power up the impact of an advertising message. Startups demonstrated innovative ways to ensure that happens by reaching consumers when they’re out and about — and ideally, receptive to marketing — here at this year’s ad:tech San Francisco interactive marketing conference. Radio […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Corporate blogging reached a tipping point in 2005, when one poll found that 55 percent of companies had blogging initiatives. Business blogs remain the cornerstone of companies’ social media efforts, according to panelists at the Ad-Tech Conference, held this week in San Francisco. But it’s getting competition from an unlikely and unglamorous […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The culture of participation fostered by Web 2.0 applications like blogs, wikis and widgets has turned end-users into content creators and developers. But when consumers come to the office, they need to leave their open mindset at the door. A peer-to-peer discussion led by Charles Renert, senior director of advanced content research […]

SAN FRANCISCO – This week’s annual RSA Conference here is, of course, all about the latest in security. But a company’s decision of which security strategies and products to pursue depends on more than popular trends or features. The regulatory environment and a company’s own business needs can also influence a security plan. While Sarb-Ox […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Telephone companies are sitting on a potential diamond mine of information. The Bush administration is locked in a struggle with Congress about the rules for mining the data. Once again, technology has leapfrogged regulation. And once again, the battle lines are drawn around ideological positions. A panel discussion at the RSA security […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Say a highly organized, international group of anti-globalization organizations coordinated a protest attack on the network infrastructure of the United States. Maybe disgruntled individuals and opportunistic hackers quickly launched their own attacks when they saw what was going on. If a systems glitch could black out the entire northwest in 2003, what […]