November 4th, 2009
11:30 AM ET

I took a recent trip "into the cloud" of the Internet for CNN.com. The goal was to find some or all of the photos, blog posts, status updates and documents I save to the Internet instead of on my laptop or work computer.

Part of the way through my adventure, after visiting an IBM cloud computing center (shown above), I learned the IT industry has a name for people like me who want to find the real locations of their digital data.
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Posted by: John Sutter - CNN.com writer/producer
Filed under: Content • Technology


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October 27th, 2009
11:54 AM ET

It’s difficult to write a profile of someone who you’ve never met in person - much less someone who lives on the other side of the world, on a continent you've never visited. With the help of technology, though, it’s getting easier.

In today's CNN.com profile of Jens and Lars Rasmussen, the brothers behind a new Web product called Google Wave, I used some tech tools to get a sense of the brothers’ personalities, their relationship and their creative process without traveling to their office in Sydney, Australia, for a face-to-face interview.
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Posted by: John Sutter - CNN.com writer/producer
Filed under: Content • Features • Technology


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October 23rd, 2009
12:59 PM ET

In the next 24 hours, you will see a new CNN.com.

What's coming?

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Posted by: Meredith Artley - Managing Editor, CNN.com
Filed under: Content • Features • Technology


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April 17th, 2009
04:03 PM ET

First of all, kudos to Ashton and all those in the @aplusk camp. Now more than ever, the consumer is in the driver's seat and we couldn't be more gratified than to be part of this historic social media milestone. We'd like to thank every one of our followers for helping CNN reach the one million mark, and we are delighted to raise our donation to 10,000 bed nets for World Malaria Day in recognition of them.
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Posted by: Dermot Waters - Head of Product Development
Filed under: Technology


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January 9th, 2009
10:02 AM ET

We've learned that a spam message alleging to be from CNN and containing a link to a fake news page began circulating on the Internet yesterday. We decided to blog about this to alert those of you who hadn't yet received it to be on the lookout for it; and also to assure those of you who did receive it that the message is NOT, in fact, from CNN.
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Posted by: Rena Golden, CNN.com Exec. Producer - renagolden
Filed under: Technology


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August 18th, 2008
06:55 AM ET

At CNN.com, we’re always working to enhance and improve the video experience for YOU, our consumers. We are very happy to announce our latest move in that effort with the introduction of the CNN.com embeddable video player, a stand-alone video player that can be virally distributed by using a code snippet to embed on almost any site or blog that you choose. For the time being, the player is limited to a single clip and available in the player size, 384×216. We've also added a share feature to allow you to share videos on your favorite social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.
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Posted by: Sandy Malcolm - Executive Producer Video
Filed under: Features • Technology • Video


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August 8th, 2008
07:45 PM ET

Earlier this week, a spam message purporting to be from CNN began circulating the Internet. We decided to blog about this to alert those of you who hadn’t yet received it to be on the lookout for it; and also to assure those of you who did receive it that the message was NOT, in fact, from CNN.
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Posted by: CNN Public Relations - CNN Public Relations
Filed under: Marketing • Technology


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July 31st, 2007
10:40 AM ET

...oh, everything. Topic pages, one of my favorite features introduced in the relaunch, can be found at the top of every page of CNN.com and sprinkled contextually throughout the site. Compiling as many as 100 news stories on a particular topic, we now have more than 100,000 of them and counting. Topic pages allow the editors and staff at CNN.com to package and present more of the daily coverage that we produce, on more topics of interest to more of our users. RSS feeds are available for each, too, whether you're following Michael Vick's dogfighting charges, the shocking revelations at NASA or Lindsay Lohan.
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Posted by: Jennifer Pangyanszki, Supervising Producer - jpangyanszki
Filed under: Content • Technology • Topics


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July 12th, 2007
11:59 AM ET

As many of you have noted through our feedback forms, we also overhauled our weather system. One thing you told us loud and clear in our research for this project was that weather was important to everyone (in one way or another). We wanted to make sure that we were able to provide you with the most useful and meaningful weather experience possible.
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Posted by: Dermot Waters - Head of Product Development
Filed under: Content • Feedback • Technology • Weather


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June 15th, 2007
02:47 PM ET

If I were to describe all the intricate technical details behind the new CNN.com, you'd probably fall asleep before you could hit the back button. Of course, those of us working at CNN.com would be jealous, because most of us have gotten very little sleep in recent months.
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Posted by: Simit Shah, Director of Web Operations - sshah1
Filed under: Beta • Feedback • Technology


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