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San Francisco took Obama's pledge of open and transparent government seriously, and launched datasf.org -- its attempt to give the city's data back to its citizens. Developers and users have embraced it, and the city's mayor is already looking ahead.

n the second part of our three-part video interview series with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, we talked about the role technology can play in the transformation of a city, including addressing the growing digital divide, progress on STEM & more.

InformationWeek talked with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom about open and transparent government in a series of interviews. In part 1, he talks about the success of datasf.org, the cities open data initiative.

In the final part of this three-part video interview series with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, we talked about the role of social networking, not just in winning a political race, but in ongoing government.

Jelli has created a user-generated radio experience, where users vote songs onto or off radio stations, join in chats, and create song blocks.

Raja Hammound, Group Product Manager at Adobe, at Enterprise 2.0 2009 giving a demo of Adobe LiveCycle ES2

James Hickman, Clearvale Enthusiast at BroadVision, giving a demo of BroadVisions enterprise social network called Clearvale at Enterprise 2.0 conference.

Ronald Leung, a software engineer at IBM showcases IBM Mashup Center.

A quick tour of SocialText Desktop

AOL's CEO Tim Armstrong talks about the company's growth strategy, saying that there is a laser focus building a "platform for content."

Path Intelligence installs sensors in high traffic areas. Those sensors detect cell phones and can use that data to examine traffic patterns and behavior, which can be viewed & analyzed in real time.

Atigeo is beta testing a service that will let you make your social profile both portable and more meaningful by giving the profile owner control over its contents and outcomes.

MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta talks about the future of MySpace, it's current partnerships, and the company's ability to monetize its business.

Windows 7 Includes a Photo Gallery application that is easy to use and connected to some of the photo sharing networks with a click of a button. Its Movie Maker application is also a compelling way to create quick movies easily.

The newly launched Windows 7 has a host of cool end user features, much of it focused around its redesigned Taskbar. We take a look at how it all works in this video demonstration.

SAP's Marge Breya provides a demonstration of the latest BusinessObjects Explorer On Demand, as well as two brand new products not even in beta yet: Kona (a cloud-based BI tool) and 12 Sprints (a collaborative decision making tool, also in the cloud)

Scaling applications is always a challenge. Now magnify that across a distributed network (the Internet) and add billions of data queries -- that's the challenge that Facebook has, and they discuss how they are dealing with it.

Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina, now running for Senate in California, provides her views on net neutrality and talks about her time at the helm of HP.

HP unveiled its MagCloud offering at Web 2.0 Summit this week. It's an impressive service that gives would-be publishers a cost-effective and cost-predictable way to easily publish content, all on-demand. We got a hands-on demonstration.

Lending CEO Renaud Laplanche demonstrates his company's compelling online system for financing -- it offers a place for borrowers and for investors.

PayPal President Scott Thompson announced at Web 2.0 that the company would open its platform to developers by opening up its APIs.

Web 2.0 Chair John Battelle tries to pin down Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter, on the company's potential revenue models.

WOWD debuted its search oriented product at Web 2.0 saying that it provides more "discovery" than "search," and demonstrating how it pulls the crowd into search results.

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts provides his view on the net neutrality debate, saying that he welcomes the dialog.

Fancast is Comcast's answer to Hulu -- it provides movie titles and TV shows for free to Comcast customers and uses customer entitlements (what they are subscribed to for their Comcast service) to deliver premium content.

Nokia shows off the new N900 device at Web 2.0 Summit 2009. This is the first tocuscreen mobile device (with phone capabilities) from Nokia that works on the Maemo operating system.

Heartland Payment Systems suffered a major security breach at the hands of Russian Hackers. It sent shockwaves through the industry. We talked to CSO Kris Herrin about the attack and what's being done at Heartland and across the industry.

EchoSign offers electronic signature creation and workflow in the cloud, starting with the creation of the document to be signed, the signing itself, and the tracking of the process through completion. Watch our hands-on demonstration.

Enteprise applications are the central nervous systems of global business. But many of them are still rooted in the 1990s-era technology models and business models of their birth, and customers are getting fed up. What will the future hold?

Each year, InformationWeek ranks the top business technology leaders. Here, we present the winners with their awards at the InformationWeek 500 conference.

Technology can be a funny thing. At the InformationWeek 500 Conference, Executive Editor Fritz Nelson takes a few shots at some of the industry's often-inane side.

American business leaders warn of dire consequences owing to a lack of native science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) skills. They call for deeper investments in STEM education and more open labor laws.

Werner Vogels, InformationWeeks 2008 Chief of the Year, talks about the job of the customer-facing technologist and how Amazon incorporates customer feedback into its technology architecture and cloud computing services.

Ulitimately, unified communications should make end users more productive. So how do you bring the rogue users into the plan, and how do you get the resisters to use it? These topics complete our Unified Communications whiteboard tutorial series.

In the 4th part of our Whiteboard Tutorial series on Unified Communication, Michael Healey, of Yeoman Technologies, discusses the importance of security and compliance, and how you need to think about this from day one with policies and training.

Join Trend Micro CEO Eva Chen, Pacific Northwest Labs' Jerry Johnson, RSA's Mischel Kwon, and Time Warner's Renee Guttman as they talk malware and cybercrime with InformationWeek.com editor-in-chief Alex Wolfe, from the InformationWeek 500 Conference

Michael Healey talks about the vital components in a unified communications infrastructure, including the need to have your voice, network, apps and security teams working together to ensure a quality of service that meets customer expectations.

Vivek Kundra, federal CIO talks about how he and the administration are transforming the role of technology in government -- away from spending on infrastructure, and toward spending on its customer, the American constituent.

3 CIOs (from Toromont Industries, Aviva, and Forbes) take the stage to present projects to a board of directors for approval, winner take all.

Meru CTO Vaduvur Bharghavan provides a tutorial on the crucial new capabilities of 802.11n (which was just recently ratified), and explains why wireless may now be primed to replace the wired edge.

Michael Healy talks about the tradeoffs of moving unified communications to the cloud vs keeping things internal -- namely, the cloud provides an economic benefit and scalable reach, but internal systems offer more predictable performance.

XP has had a good run, but its days are numbered. So what now? In this video, Mike Healey, author of InformationWeek Analytics guide to Win 7 adoption, discusses pitfalls and benefits of Microsofts newest desktop OS.

TrackerSuite's project management suite is a cloud-based service that offers collaboration, workflow and all of the elements included in on-premise project management software. We provide a hands-on look at this offering.

There are plenty of cloud services, but many rely on virtual processes running on shared systems. Stratascale's Ironscale lets you provision bare metal services. Mike Fratto provides a hands-on review of how it works and what you can do with it.

Most people think of just the cost savings associated with Unified Communications, but the real challenge is how to bring together voice, video, data and presence across phones, laptops and mobile devices, and get better information because of it.

Lieberman Software's President shows why it's important to manage identities meticulously.

SAP demonstrates BusinessObjects Explorer, its access-for-everyone BI tool, which presents non-power-users with an intuitive interface to access to charts and trend information via simple Google-like queries.

Thomson Reuters purchased a natural language processing engine from Clearforest two years and ago and is now making it available to publishers and developers via a web service API. The goal is to create better meta data that can be used by search.

Our hands-on evaluation of Sychron's virtual desktop management revealed a product that is adept at automating the rapid provisioning and the ongoing management of VMWare ESC and Microsoft Hyper-V environments.

Document management systems are moving into the cloud, enabling a greater collaboration, but also, as w/ Sharemethods, tying into on-demand application delivery platforms like Salesforce and Oracle. We take a deep dive w/ our Sharemethods ReviewCam.

See the new visual voicemail feature in action on a recently upgraded Blackberry Bold

Greenview Data demonstrates its e-mail spam filtering and archiving software-as-a-service based solution, showing how messages flow, how to set policies and how to take action on messages that it stores.

emwave's Heartmath is a great little program that lets you monitor your heartrate, and then it translates that into a coherence score. This score measures your physio-emotional state, and helps you get all of that in balance.

Using SUSE Studio, you can create a custom Linux distribution using a Web interface. InformationWeek's Serdar Yegulalp demonstrates how to do this using a beta copy of the product.

In the fourth installment of our Fibre Channel over Ethernet Tutorial series, George Crump, lead analyst for Storage Switzerland walks us through the various scenarios that compel organizations to implement FCoE.

In our final Whiteboard tutorial on Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Storage Switzerland's George Crump walks us through what an actual implementation of FCoE would look like, including what the tangible benefits will be.

Kevin DeMers, Senior Manager of Unified Communications at CDW talks about the benefits of unified communications, some of the technology involved, the typical migration path, several advanced applications, and provides a customer example.

In this ReviewCam, we get an inside look at Magnify's video publishing system, including some of its fun bells and whistles, like its ability to auto-tweet, and the very cool capability to pull in videos from many sources around the web.

AdaptiveBlue's Glue lets your social networks follow you around as you traverse the Web. CEO & Founder Alex Iskolde takes InformationWeek through a tour of this technology, showing us how it works in real time.

To begin his Intel Core i7 quad-core PC build project, Alex unboxes the Thermaltake BigWater 760is liquid cooler.

OWLink makes technology that allows all of your home electronic equipment to be consolidated onto a fiber optic cable and then be displayed and controlled from the television.

In Part 3 of our Fibre Channel over Ethernet Whiteboard Tutorial series, analyst George Crump talks about the benefits & drivers behind FCoE, including simplified infrastructure, easier management, better performance, & guarantees for critical apps.

InformationWeek takes an in depth look at crowdSPRING, a 14-month old startup with an online marketplace for companies to solicit creative design help in an auction-oriented fashion. The buyer sets the price, the designers submit actual designs.

Learn about the latest and greatest smart solutions from ADTRAN, a leader in networking and telecommunications for small and medium enterprises. ADTRAN product leaders and ADTRAN customers talk about cost-effective, high-value solutions in switching

In our latest ReviewCam, we take a deeper look at the Video Hosting and Content Management System from Delve Networks. We examine its user interface, the creation & management of media, syndication and reporting.

EMC acquired Data Domain in early July. Director of InformationWeek Analytics discusses the implications of the acquisition and data deduplication, including some of the industries that the technology is most appropriate for.

Google announced a browser-based operating system (Chrome OS) that will run on Netbooks. InformationWeeks Alex Wolfe and Fritz Nelson discuss its impact and feasibility.

In part 2 of our FCoE Whiteboard series Storage Switzerland's George Crump discusses some of the elements of a fibre channel over ethernet infrastructure, covering both the converged network adapter and the switch.

Get more from your new iPhone; InformationWeek's Mitch Wagner showsyou how to master the keyboard, clipboard, Spotlight search, and morefeatures of the new iPhone 3.0 software.

InformationWeek executive editors Fritz Nelson and Mitch Wagner lookat the top stories of the day, including the availability of Firefox3.5, Microsoft setting pricing for Windows 7, and more.

Mitch Wagner gives us a first look at Firefox 3.5, inlcuding some of its new user interface features, privacy mode, its geolocation capability, and its new embedded video and audio functionality using HTML 5.

An Enterprise 2.0 tour about SAP's Business Intelligence deal with Jive Software, which lets you embed dynamic analytics BusinessObjects Crystal Reports widgets inside your ClearSpace blog posts.

In part 1 of our FCoE Whiteboard series Storage Switzerland's George Crump explains the benefits of FCoE, namely the reduction of cabling and network cards in servers, the subsequent costs savings & convergence of infrastructure management.

In Part 4 of our SSD Whiteboard Video Tutorial series, George Crump of Storage Switzerland, provides an in-depth, technical look at the cost ramifications for Solid State Disk, including a look at the tradeoffs in performance and capacity.

In Part 3 of our SSD Whiteboard Video Tutorial series, George Crump of Storage Switzerland, provides an in-depth, technical look at the various ways that Solid State Disk is being delivered: as a separate SSD box, a drive module, and as a PCIE card.

Take a guided tour inside EMCs newest storage system

In Part 2 of our Whiteboard Tutorial Series on SSD, George Crump of Storage Switzerland takes us through how SSD can affect performance. SSD has a price premium, and organizations must ensure that their apps can exploit the technology to the fullest.

In Part 1 of our SSD Whiteboard Video Tutorial series, George Crump of Storage Switzerland, provides an in-depth, technical history of drive technology, looking at cost, performance, reliability & the applications of storage solutions over the years.

Pelotonics founder Troy Malone shows InformationWeek's Mitch Wagner about the online project management solution's integration with Google Docs, Evernote, and other upcoming developments.

Mike Feinberg at EMC and Steven Caniano at AT&T discuss EMC Atmos onLine, which EMC announced at EMC World 2009. AT&T also announced a new storage service based on Atmos at the show as well.

Andrew Conry-Murray of InformationWeek sat down with Ben Matheson, the Senior Director of Global Partner Marketing at Vmware, to talk about Vsphere 4.

Mark Lewis, President, Content Management & Archiving Division at EMC and Andrew Conry-Murray, editor at InformationWeek discuss EMCs content management strategy, new product rollouts, and the role of search in content management.

Stefan Öberg, General Manager of Skype for Business, shares his insights on how IT executives and business managers are using Skypes internet voice, video and chat platform to communicate effectively.

Fritz Nelson spoke with Joe Kosco, the marketing Manager of Network Automation, about the release of their new AutoMate 7.

From the exhibit floor at Interop Las Vegas 2009, InformationWeek Global CIO editor Bob Evans explains the issues on attendees' agendas, including cloud computing, virtualization, unified communications, and reducing infrastructure costs.

Bill McDermott, president of Global Field Operations as SAP, chats with InformationWeek's Alex Wolfe about software as a service, mobile apps, multitenancy, Oracle, and business intelligence.

CAs Enterprise IT Management solutions enable Lean IT by visualizing, automating and optimizing the systems and processes that support It's value delivery to the business. The result is increased productivity and an improved customer experience.

Triumfant demonstrates technology that detects and remediates malware in real time. It does so by creating what it calls an "adaptive reference model," and constantly scanning for anomolies.

Webroot provides vulnerability and intrusion detection as a service, providing an in depth way to protect your network. We take a look at its web security and email protection service with a hands on demonstration.

Symantec's new CEO Enrique Salem talks with Dark Reading about Symantec's priorities, its recent acquisition of Mi5, the security as a service model, and some of his next moves.

Demo: The new Yahoo Mobile for Smart Phones, due out late Spring 2009, contains a host of new features, including search assist via voice commands, the ability to see all your social network status updates in one spot and much more.

Watch demos of Intel's webpad-based Health Guide for seniors, at the New York City launch of Intel's $250-million alliance with GE.

InformationWeek's Mitch Wagner demonstrates how to "get good" at Twitter.

Although Mindtouch CEO Aaron Fulkerson does a good job listing the major points that his company's namesake product (available as a service too) touches on in this reviewcam, it's also one of those products that's difficult to describe.

At Web 2.0 Expo, InformationWeek editor-at-large David Berlind reviecams BantamLive.com with Bantam Networks co-founder and director of product management Alex Turnbull.

From Web 2.0 Expo, InformationWeek editor-at-large sits down with Nitobi CEO & co-founder Andre Charland for a reviewcam of Nitobil's PhoneGap.

In this special "ReviewCam" edition of Interop Insider, InformationWeek editor-at-large David Berlind sits down with Splunk co-founder Michael Baum to get a demonstration of the company's namesake product.

From Web 2.0 Expo, InformationWeek editor-at-large David Berlind sits with ImageSpan strategic relations director Pam Fischer for a reviewcam of LicenseStream. LicenseStream is a tool for protecting and monetizing digital content.

At Web 2.0 Expo, Oneriot announced a new form of Twitter search that it hopes to leverage into its existing realtime Web indexing engine. Oneriot's self-proclaimed claim to fame is its ability to respond to search queries with realtime pulse readings

Enhancing any Web page with significant functionality (for example, an entire feedback engine) is as simple as adding a few lines of Javascript. And that's exactly how Uservoice's feedback collection service works. But...