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“San Francisco (InfoWorld) – Netli on Monday rolled out a new service designed to speed the delivery of Web-services traffic over the Internet.
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NetLightning for Web Services is an application-specific optimization service that uses specialized protocols to avoid network latency and stop performance degradation of machine-to-machine communications. The Netli protocols include techniques for bandwidth management and loss and congestion control.”

>> We anticipate a lot of products in the Web Services space in the next few years. This space has been a confusing buzzword area, but it is maturing and impacting people’s day to day desktop lives …even though they often don’t know what’s happening behind the scenes.

- Michael

How does a b-blog differ from a bulletin board or chat room? A b-blog will typically have an individual who acts as monitor and uses the blog as a way to communicate knowledge to colleagues, customers, partners, and other interested parties.

http://www.clickz.com/experts/em_mkt/enl_strat/article.php/1579091

In any commercial enterprise, Web sites exist for one of two reasons: to help the organization save money, or to help it make money. In both cases, the user experience can make the difference between a successful site and a failure.

http://www.newarchitectmag.com/documents/s=2452/na0303c/index.html

Small businesses have big dreams. Fair enough, there’s nothing wrong with ambition. But slavishly copying the big guys is pure folly

Smart businesses realize that they can take advantage of the Web to run certain distributed aspects of their operations much more efficiently.

Think of what some of the best bloggers could do if they were financially able to do focused, full-time blogging? Pick a topic you’re interested in, now imagine someone had 40 hours per week to cover everything related to that topic, and you get the idea.

Ask online marketing experts whether it is possible to build a brand strictly by using the Web; most of them will say it is.

Nobody seems to know quite what to do with these blogs, but almost everybody agrees that unfettered growth of blogs is probably a good thing. Some people want to use blogs as an advertising vehicle. Some people want to use blogs to drive traffic to traditional media outlets. But what about the relationship between blogs and Wall Street research departments?

Unfortunately, while companies have been quick to use the Web to automate, most assume that making genuine, personal connections with customers on the Web would be a labor-intensive proposition. Companies figure they can’t afford to hire 100,000 support people to chat online with the millions of customers who wear their shoes or use their dish soap. So they don’t even attempt to tap in to the Web’s power to connect.

What distinguishes blogs from other websites is the frequency with which they are updated – often several times a day – and their intimacy. Blogs read like a conversation between the author and his or her readers, and some say they have started a quiet online revolution.