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Analyzing Twitter with Excel, Part 3
For the last two weeks I've been considering how to analyze Twitter messages using Excel 2003. Having been thwarted by the deficiencies of Excel and Twitter (turns out that Twitter Search returns malformed HTML and Excel won't tolerate that) I have a new plan: Let's use cURL to retrieve the raw XML returned by Twitter search and then haul that data into Excel for the analysis.

First look: Exchange 2010 beta shines
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Can IT manage the cloud? These CTOs can
Brian Corrigan used to run datacenters for major casinos, so he knows not to gamble with mission-critical apps. Now, he works in the other gaming industry -- the one with joysticks and lots of shooting -- building communities for online gamers and collecting information about game usage for their publishers. As CTO at Agora Games, he needs to quickly ramp up and then cut his computing capabilities as new games come on the market, become all the rage, and eventually fade into so-so status. So it's little surprise that he's joined the growing ranks of companies buying computing, storage, and networking power as they need it from the cloud.

Exchange 2010: Better administrator control
While Exchange 2007 introduced a plethora of reliability and scalability features, Exchange 2010 helps to clean up what was really a confusing set of options. E-mail managers looking for guidance on building distributed Exchange networks will be pleased to see what has been pushed into Exchange 2010. (We weren't able to test most of these features, so our analysis is based on using the management GUI and reading the reviewers' guide provided by Microsoft.)

Exchange 2010: Webmail features are solid
End-users accustomed to Web-based access to their personal e-mail through free Internet services such as Google's Gmail, expect the same power and access through a browser for their business e-mail. Exchange 2010 stands up very well to these high expectations.

Exchange 2010 beta sneak peek-test
The first public beta of Microsoft's next version of Exchange, due out in the second half of this year, hits the streets Wednesday. Microsoft gave us early access and we had 10 days to put it through its paces in a VMware environment.

UC security: When the shoe won't fit, compress the foot
If your security model is location-centric and depends on keeping things separate, how do you respond to a disruptive technology like unified communications? This is a pattern that keeps repeating in many different areas: the security paradigm looked good until a technology comes along, changes the assumptions and reveals the inadequacy of the model.

Ten Lessons Learned From Using E-mail Lists
Last week's column showed you three different choices that you can use to create and manage your own e-mail list server. This week I want to talk about the "softer" side of things: how to run your lists and choose what you write about, what you send out, how you send it out, and why you bother doing it.

Does Twitter really fit into business and IT?
There have probably been more words written about Twitter than there are Twitter users. While it is considered the newest, most popular form of social networking, fitting into the category of microblogging, it is in fact used by far fewer people than Facebook, for example.

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