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AOL has agreed to buy the second most popular news website in the U.S., The Huffington Post, for US$315 million, it said in a statement Monday.

Five years after dropping almost $600 million on a Web site few outside the Internet community had ever heard of, Rupert Murdoch is breaking up with MySpace.

For some reason people assume that implementation methodologies are different according to the type of software and newer technologies such as enterprise social software are somehow unusual. From an implementation perspective, I don't believe that there is a lot of difference between rolling out an enterprise social software solution compared to another collaborative application. In fact, most of it is based on common sense. I would argue, however, that there are 3 unique characteristics about enterprise social software that inherently make it unlike other technology decisions and implementations.

Nearly a year into their tenure as co-CEOs of SAP, Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe are saying all the right things and getting good marks from industry analysts--proving that a dual-CEO model is not a recipe for disaster. But the duo still faces significant challenges.

Full disclosure: I was a card-carrying marketing guy for 20 years. So when I see the effects of reality distortion in my clients' purchase decisions, I know whereof I speak.

With the many business and government organizations that now use open source software such as Linux, it's becoming increasingly clear that price is not the only advantage such software holds. If it were, companies that adopted it during the Great Recession would surely have switched back to the expensive proprietary stuff as soon as conditions began to ease, and that's clearly not the case.

Between Hulu and Apple, are the days of over-the-air and cable TV numbered?

Microsoft has a deep, dark secret: Bill Gates has almost nothing to do with the company anymore.

What's the new healthcare bill mean to developers generally resident in the US, not-unionized, often with multiple revenue streams, but subject to project cancellation without notice? The subject's far too big for anyone to be conclusive already, but there's starting to be plenty of information to be had. To start, experts advise to be alert, but calm.

The OSI has been one of those organizations that seemed to fall short of its true potential, which is always a source of frustration; you want them to succeed, and don't understand when things go awry. It's particularly difficult to stand by and watch it happen to people whom you genuinely respect.

Despite the upcoming release of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), it appears that Microsoft is still losing market share to its competitors at Apple and Mozilla. (Source: computerworld.com)