Advertising already generates billions of dollars for Facebook and Twitter, but the market for tools that enable advertisers to target social audiences is still nascent.

Some years ago, several conference organizers considered organizing discussion practices comparing west coast/east coast data center operations and practices.

I have been digesting the latest vicious assault that Greenpeace has made on the data-centre industry - with their naming and shaming of the social-network operators and their, so called, ‘dirty data’.

There’s a part of me that understands and applauds Facebook’s purchase of Instagram. Instagram is cool! No doubt about it.

In the Citizens United decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations and unions retained First Amendment speech rights on behalf of their shareholders and members.

Analysts to explore changing attitudes to social media at the Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit 2012, March 12-13 in London.

New ‘Zend Developer Pulse’ surveys developers on technology and career perspectives for 2012—looks at social, mobile, cloud topics and more.

One key finding is the reliance on data centers make them too big to fail.

About a month ago, I read an article about Instagram (http://instagr.am/) a great mobile app that has attracted a lot of attention of late (OK, I must be a little slow on the uptake based on when the app was originally released).