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This year's Persuasive Technology conference in Copenhagen — a conference dedicated to new insights, research and practice into how technology may change and influence our behavior, thoughts, and feelings — has extended their deadline for paper submissions to February 19th. 

The conference takes place June 7-10, and is expected to gather any and all interested in networking, presenting, discussing and reflecting on themes associated with persuasive design and technology. 

Some of the themes to be covered include: 

• Motivational technology and design
• Mobile persuasion
• Motivational information behavior
• Social and organizational issues
• e-Interventions for addictions
• Persuasive Technologies in inclusive ICT
• Persuasive Technologies in Library and Information Science.

For more information, including formats and previous submissions, head over here. For information on other events in your area, check out our events list. 

In a continued effort to extol the virtues of the upcoming SharePoint 2010 (news, site) platform, Microsoft created a special competition for seven startups in their BizSpark program. The competition? In one week create an Enterprise 2.0 solution on the SharePoint 2010 platform. Here are the results.

Three years ago Google acquired Postini providing email security and archiving services. Now they take those services a step further with their new Message Log Search. Here's what it does.

The whole analytics thing is making a huge statement this year, not only on the Web, but on mobile devices as well. A mobile analytics firm called Flurry is one example—the company just landed US$ 7 million in a Series B round of financing. Let's check them out:

If you’ve been waiting to get your hands on Google Apps Script, now you can. Previously only available in Education and Premiere Editions, Google recently opened up the functionality to Standard users.

"You know that feeling of never quite being caught up? That's called work.”

These are the words of Justin Yuen, the president of FMYI (news, site). His company, which offers a Facebook-like collaboration platform for the enterprise and, strangely enough, adamantly rallies against work, saw some mighty fine numbers in 2009.

In recent times the Bitrix (news, site) intranet portal has seen action of the collaborative variety, as well as some drag and drop business process design. Now, thanks to the company's latest addition of mobile instant messaging, users of the portal can enjoy its benefits from any location.

Business processes are at the heart of every organization and the ability to design and deploy them quickly is always in demand. Enter Salesforce.com (news, site) with their new Visual Process Manager for Force.com. Let's take a look.

How would you feel if you knew Facebook and Twitter usage at the workplace was costing your economy upwards of 2 billion dollars per year in lost productivity?

Yammer (news, site) is attracting plenty of attention and new users. Now it has attracted further investment, as it picks up a fresh stock of capital.

With the release of SharePoint 2010 (news, site) getting closer, people are getting either a) excited, b) nervous or c) all of the above. Whatever your mindset, here are 5 changes coming with SharePoint 2010 which you should take note of.

Webtrends (news, site) made a double-whammy announcement at this year’s Engage 2010 conference. The Web analytics solution provider released both advanced targeting capabilities and Webtrends Mobile Analytics. Heads up marketers, this one’s for you.

Wouldn't it be nice if analytics were easier to understand? Quantivo thinks so, and their missing-link type solution – Quantivo 4 – attempts to achieve this by reducing data down to child’s play. 

If you swear allegiance to both Internet Explorer and Google Apps, as of March 1st you may find yourself in an uncomfortable predicament, and frankly speaking, we're rather happy about all this. Google's recent decision will effect apps ranging from GMail to Google Docs. Enterprise folks, pay attention.

It’s no secret that the new managed metadata service in SharePoint 2010 (news, site) will be a welcomed addition to the product. What may not be apparent is exactly how this service will benefit your end-users. It will. Here's how.

It’s raining cloud solutions, folks. LTech’s (news, site) latest baby is a tool called LTech CloudMove, which automates moving SharePoint documents to the cloud.

Lucid Imagination (news, site) has survived their first year of business with flying colors. That is, the enterprise search company reported that they more than tripled in size over the last 12 months.

Excited to try out SharePoint 2010 (news, site) but not exactly sure how to get started? Microsoft is helping with the release of a free 2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine (Beta).

Are your skies a little too cloudy? Cloudkick is here to help. The application visually unifies the deployment of seven different providers, including EC2 and Rackspace.

We continue our weekly SMB Tech Rollup this time with the news that many SMBs are getting worried about IT security, but are happily embracing the cloud.

In addition, Microsoft and Intuit are getting together in the cloud, HP and Cisco could be helping SMBs with new pricing arrangements, and Spigit is focusing on better collaboration tools.