Let’s take some of the pressure off by taking an introductory look at two of the basic tools of the trade. Save the Planet » Register at $295 / $495 regular » Hear Microsoft, IBM, Dell and Cisco execs at GigaOM’s Green:Net. Written by Darrell Etherington. Blogs. Take your time and build competence first. Twitter. MORE >>

My focus is on what people DO with these tools, and very often I’ve seen people struggle with SharePoint. In SharePoint 2007: Gateway Drug to Enterprise Social Tools :: Personal InfoCloud , Tom quotes one of his informants: “We went from 5 silos in our organization to hundreds in a month after deploying SharePoint”. Or years now. MORE >>

Quite a few product announcements (from Microsoft, Google and Amazon). Enjoy: Systems Internet Trends in depth - Mary Meeker's annual update at the 2009 Web 2.0 Strategy and social computing - interview with Microsoft's Lili Cheng 12 new cities built from scratch - interesting how our future is time-locked to the current. MORE >>

Metadata vs data - why treating them as separate entities creates technological challenges Technology Why social networks need to be decentralised - RSS never blocks you or goes down A computing future from Microsoft - large and cheap displays TechCrunch interview with Steve Ballmer - products, competition and the road ahead. Enjoy! MORE >>

However, many web workers stick with the same small handful of SEO tools. There are quite a lot of them available online for free, and testing keywords and looking at analytics across multiple tools can make a lot of sense, especially since optimizing them is an inexact science. Written by Samuel Dean. MORE >>