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Every Friday we publish our “Follow Friday” series which features a few industry news articles we would like to share with you. We are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet. Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

This week’s Follow Friday articles include EFF fears of DRM inside HTML5 standard, what is SharePoint, no cloud is too big to fail, and more.

EFF fears DRM inside HTML5 standard - Tech Eye
By Nick Farrell

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is fighting a new move by Big Content to install DRM into the HTML5 web standard. The World Wide Web Consortium's HTML5 Working Group is looking at an idea to allow Encrypted Media Extensions, or EME into the core of web standards. While the Working Group claims that EME does not add DRM to the HTML5 specification the EFF claims that this is like saying "we're not vampires, but we are going to invite them into your house.”

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What is Sharepoint ... and why it's a thorny question - CloudPro
By Steve Cassidy

Sharepoint has caused problems for many system administrators, are we looking at the issue the wrong way? What is Sharepoint? This may seem like a simple question but when simple questions like this crop up in the Cloud Pro search queries, then there obviously people asking it.

Having said that, my first reaction is to say "two years in and people are still asking questions like this?" This, of course, the wrong reaction. The facts are very simple: businesses like the idea of Sharepoint, as it is presented by proponents both inside (SQL guys love it) and outside (so do cloud SaaS salesmen), and cloud technologies for SQL-based repositories are a hot technical topic too.

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• Maximum SharePoint Efficiency with Minimal Effort
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Google, LinkedIn, and Microsoft prove no cloud is too big to fail - InfoWorld

By Caroline Craig

Crashes are inevitable in the cloud. The trick to a successful cloud strategy is to design for the impending failure. Nothing is certain in this world except death and taxes -- and cloud outages. Lots and lots of cloud outages. The week started badly for Google Drive users as the cloud-based service for storing documents, videos, and Google Docs was down for several hours Monday. Users vented on social networks over their frustration, with one user tweeting, "Google Drive now back up like a limp horse struggling to move." Google moved quickly to acknowledge the issue on its Apps Status Dashboard but did not say what caused the problem or how many were affected.

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• [Video] How to Scan Documents, Photos, Receipts and More into Evernote

Read more to see the rest of this weeks Follow Friday articles, including SharePoint and barcode.

David Lavenda reports that according to Forrester Research, SharePoint is a vital part of the information technology infrastructure in almost 80% of the world’s largest organizations.  That’s why over 1,200 of the world’s most influential SharePoint experts in Europe came together in Copenhagen during the European SharePoint Conference (ESPC) February 4-7, 2013.

“ESPC was extremely well managed…a superb show! It was great to follow the conversation on Twitter at #ESPC13, meet Pete Hamilton with EuroSTAR Conferences, the folks at Enabled, Automated Intelligence and everyone else we got to meet during our short time in Copenhagen,” said Brandon Mount, Sales Engineer at Accusoft.

Read more about the building excitement at ESPC around document collaboration. 

Last week, five Accusoft employees joined over 10,000 other attendees at Microsoft’s 2012 SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.  The show focused on SharePoint and related technologies for four days filled with over 300 sessions.

Read more to find out what capability was the most in demand at the Accusoft booth!

This morning marks the start of this year’s Microsoft SharePoint Conference, a four-day event devoted to SharePoint and related technologies in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Accusoft’s five representatives are joining over 10,000 attendees and 175 exhibitors to watch keynote insights into SharePoint’s future.  Stop by Booth #248 to say hello and check out the latest and greatest in SharePoint-enabled viewing technology!

Read more to learn about a SharePoint feature set built right into your web browser.

Businesses large and small have adopted SharePoint so they can easily access the information they need to get their jobs done.  However, more and more companies are opting for 3^rd party add-ons to enhance functionality and reap the most business benefit. 

AIIM, recently conducted a survey of its community members. In July 2012, AIIM presented the findings of its survey, "The SharePoint Puzzle - adding the missing pieces."

In the report AIIM states that "nearly half of (their) respondents feel that compared to out-of-the-box SharePoint, they could be 50% more productive with enhanced workflow, search, information reporting, and automated document creation tools. Scanning and capture, case management and social system add-ons would all produce significant productivity improvements of 25% or more. Over half are using or planning to use third-party add-on products to enhance these functional areas."

Read more on how the explosive growth of 3rd party add-ons for Sharepoint may affect you.