SV Angel Partner Brian Pokorny Now CEO Of Dailybooth
SV Angel , the angel fund founded by super-angel Ron Conway , is losing one of its general partners to a portfolio company. Brian Pokorny is now the CEO of fast-growing Silicon Valley-based Dailybooth .
Dailybooth, the runner up in the "best social app" and winner of the "time sink" categories at this year's Crunchies Awards, is "your life in pictures." Some 6 million monthly visitors ...
Google's Chief Economist: "Newspapers Have Never Made Much Money From News"
Earlier today, Google chief economist gave a presentation to an FTC workshop on the changing economics of the newspaper industry. We all know that newspaper ad revenues have been falling off a cliff for years. Many media companies blame Google and are trying to put the genie back in the bottle with partial metered models for online news.
Google is understandably on the defensive, tro...
Tweetie 2 Gaining Native Foursquare Support
While Loren Brichter may be hard at work on Tweetie Two for the Mac , he hasn't given on his baby: Tweetie 2 for the iPhone. While the app hasn't been updated since late November, a new build is due shortly with one big addition: native Foursquare support.
What this means is that anytime someone in your tweet stream sends out a tweet from Foursquare (which, to the annoyance of some users, h...
Chomp Closes In On 300,000 Users, Launches App Review Site And Chomp Connect
When Chomp launched eight weeks ago in the iTunes store, it launched as an app for reviewing other iPhone apps . The app shows you a stream of realtime reviews, which you can filter by everyone or just your Facebook freinds. The app is showing some traction and should hit 300,000 active monthly users sometime tomorrow, according to founder Ben Keighran.
While it started out as an app, ...
Embrace Your Inner Geek At The New Linux Store
The Linux Foundation, the non-profit that supports the growth of the Linux kernel, has launched a merchandise store where people can purchase a newly launched line of original T-shirts, hats, mugs and other items that reflect "geek culture."
According a release sent out by the Foundation, merchandise available in the Linux.com store is "designed to reflect the unique and varied culture asso...
PANIC! Study Finds That Students are Addicted To Their iPhones!
200 students surveyed in a Stanford study were found to be "addicted" to their iPhones. "When asked to rank their dependence on the iPhone on a scale of one to five – five being addicted and one being not at all addicted – 10 percent of the students acknowledged full addiction to the device, 34 percent ranked themselves as a four on the scale, and only 6 percent said they weren't addicted a...
NYT: Facebook Location Features Coming Next Month
Facebook is finally going to enter the location game at this April's f8 conference , according to a report this morning on the NYT's Bits blog. And they're looking to take Google head on.
We've been hearing rumors about Facebook's location features for a long time, but the buzz has picked up in the last few months. Those rumors got legs in October, when we noticed that the site had adde...
Just In Time For The Location Wars, Twitter Turns On Geolocation On Its Website
When I said that location would be this year's Twitter at SXSW, I also meant that Twitter's geolocation would be this year's Twitter at SXSW. The service has just turned on geolocation on its website today for the first time.
While Twitter's geolocation feature has been live through its API since late last year, there was no sign of integration into the main twitter.com site until now.
It's Official: We're No Longer Updating Our Twitter Accounts, We're Tweeting
Twitter has quietly changed the wording on the button users need to press to update their statuses on the Twitter.com website. It took them 10 billion (or so) tweets to realize we don't 'Update', we 'Tweet'.
A lot of people are noticing the change , although I have to say I had to hit the refresh button of my browser a couple of times before I saw it too.
Team Europe Ventures Starts €6m Fund For Early Stage Startups
Team Europe Ventures , the Berlin-based VC firm, has launched a new €6 million fund for early stage startups in the Internet and mobile Internet space. The fund is mainly targeting companies in Germany and Europe, but also in the USA, and the focus will be on the seed stage, with 4-5 startups being invested in per-year for a maximum of €500K per company.
This is bound to be good news for s...
Autoquake Gets Another £6m Investment From Its Backers
Autoquake , an online used car retailer in the UK, has raised another £6 million round of venture capital and venture debt financing from existing investors Accel Partners and Highland Capital Partners. The debt is being provided by Kreos Capital. This is after raising £4m from Accel and Highland only last year. That takes its total funding so far to £20 million. The money will be used to ex...
Allmyapps Updates Its iTunes-for-apps, Get Some Beta Invites
I first learned of Allmyapps at Le Web '09 when the company's CEO Thibauld Favre , and co-Founder Aranaud Coulondre , grabbed my attention and enticed me into a demo. I nearly missed my flight. Allmyapps, a small but ambitious startup based in France, aims to become the "iTunes for software applications" as Thibauld puts it, bringing simple 1 click multi-application install to end-users.
Platogo Lets Developers Make Their Casual Games Facebook Ready
Platogo , the social games platform , has released its Platogo Wrapper that enables casual games developers to easily integrate their games with Facebook by inserting a few lines of code.
Essentially, it lets any casual game take advantages of the basic social features offered through Facebook, such as the ability for a user to invite and play with friends in their social graph and see how th...
MyNines Launches As The Kayak For Private Sales
Online private sales is a growing business model that is rapidly becoming a staple of online shopping. Ideeli, Gilt Groupe, Vente-Privee, HauteLook and others are quickly gaining millions of users each and attracting significant amounts of venture funding. But the one issue I find with these sites is that it's annoying to have to check each site every day for sales. I subscribe to a...
StatusNet Signs Up ABC News And Sh*t My Dad Says For Hosted Microblogging
Does the world need more than one Twitter? How about 10,000 of them? That is how many sites are running on the hosted version of StatusNet, which went into private beta at our Realtime CrunchUp last November. Today, StatusNet is opening up its hosted service to all comers in a public beta.
You can think about StatusNet as the WordPress of microblogging . StatusNet is open-source softw...
StatusNet Signs Up ABC News And Sh*t My Dad Says For Hosted Microblogging (Public Beta)
Does the world need more than one Twitter? How about 10,000 of them? That is how many sites are running on the hosted version of StatusNet, which went into private beta at our Realtime CrunchUp last November. Today, StatusNet is opening up its hosted service to all comers in a public beta.
You can think about StatusNet as the WordPress of microblogging . StatusNet is open-source softw...
StatusNet Signs Sh*t My Dad Says For Hosted Microblogging (Public Beta)
Does the world need more than one Twitter? How about 10,000 of them? That is how many sites are running on the hosted version of StatusNet, which went into private beta at our Realtime CrunchUp last November. Today, StatusNet is opening up its hosted service to all comers in a public beta.
You can think about StatusNet as the WordPress of microblogging . StatusNet is open-source softw...
Go Tribal Wants To Help Women Coordinate Social Plans
We've written about Plancast , a "Foursquare For The Future," that essentially broadcasts your plans to your online social circle. We're big fans of the startup, which just raised seed funding from an impressive group of investors. Startup Go Tribal is rolling out a different take on the social planning application, launching a site for a more targeted audience: women.
Go Tribal has si...
Sony Reminds Us Of The High-Cost Of First Generation 3D TV
3D TVs are coming whether we want them to or not. TV makers and content providers aren't testing the water - they're jumping head-first and pulling consumers in, too. But like high definition a few years back, early adaptors will be forced to pay a high premium and suffer through a format war of sort before it really catches on.
Take a look at Sony's just-announced 3D lineup: The company annou...
Sobees Streamlines Native Twitter Client For Windows, Integrates Realtime Search
We've written about Twitter client Sobees, which is working to create the best social media client on the market, competing with both TweetDeck and Seesmic. Today Sobees is releasing a new version of its Windows native desktop app built in .NET, complete with realtime search, a redesign and more.
The new client includes support for Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, FriendFeed and LinkedIn (wh...
There is No Perfect VP of Sales and Marketing
Sales and marketing are not the same thing. It's true they both deal with relationship management and it's true that neither of these job descriptions require hardcore engineering, but just because they're both in the realm of words over code does not mean that they are the same. At the risk of muddling your mind with HR jargon, the core competencies of a marketer are very different from those ...
Put.io Turns Torrents Into Streams [Invites]
It's services like Put.io that are behind why Google executives argue desktops will be irrelevant in three years, why Steve Ballmer says Microsoft is betting the bank on the cloud, and why storage stats for the newest gadget are becoming less and less important.Everything is going to the cloud.
Does it often feel like a waste of time to download something just to watch it once and then del...
Stickybits: Portal to Another Dimension or Graffiti for Nerds?
Seth Goldstein comes up with a lot of ideas. Some of them work and some of them don't. He was one of the original backers of Del.icio.us (bought by Yahoo), Etherpad (bought by Google) and Bit.ly (huge via Twitter). He was also President of the short-lived Attention Trust and built a browser plug-in that allowed people to track, manage and sell on the Chicago Board of Trade futures in their b...
For European Startups, New €6 Million Seed Fund Is A Step In the Right Direction
Early stage startups in Europe will be the primary beneficiaries of a new €6 million seed fund just announced by Berlin-based Team Europe Ventures . In the past we've talked about Europe's entrepreneurial woes, most notably a dearth of seed funding due to having a culture largely averse to taking risks financially . This new fund is a good step towards changing that trend and keeping more...
Network as a Service: Open Source Enables Efficient Cloud Hosting
To keep up with the growth of cloud computing and virtualization, networks keep evolving. But unlike Twitter's Trending Topics, IT budgets don't scale up. In fact one of the major initiatives in many IT shops is creatively reduce their own expense.
To get to a scalable cloud infrastructure where costs are contained, it sounds like the network industry is going to see a time where a "Linu...
Report: Location Sharing Is Coming to Facebook
Soon, you will be able to share your location with your Facebook friends. According to the New York Times' Nick Bilton, Facebook plans to reveal this new feature during its f8 developer conference at the end of April. As Bilton notes, Facebook updated its privacy policy last year to incorporate language about location sharing. Facebook, according to this report, has been working on this fea...
International Blackberry Outage Goes Into Day 2
The Blackberry outage that RIM does not want to talk about continues to affect people on both sides of the Atlantic with outages reported in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Some people have not been without service for more than 24 hours.
The outage is a peculiar one, Data Outage News reports:
"Again, this is affecting devices on all North American carriers, BIS and BES...
Cisco in the Core: Preparing for the Next Generation Internet
Today, Cisco announced the CSR-3 product a game-changing system to managing the network core. But for CEO John Chambers, the news is about market transition forces and being ready for the next generation of the Internet.
Cisco's said its goal with the product was to lay the foundation of the Internet. Both preparing for video and the cloud and VPN in a single box and adding intelligence...
Japan's Largest Telco Goes OpenID
NTT docomo , the telephone provider patronized by approximately half the population of Japan, today linked its mobile identity layer with a general web identity for users through OpenID, according to the OpenID Foundation . NTT docomo users will now be able to quickly and easily log-in to any OpenID supporting website online with the same account credentials they already use in the country's ...
Run Your Own Twitter Clone: Status.net Launches Public Beta
StatusNet , the open-source microblogging service that serves as the foundation for identi.ca , just announced the launch of the public beta of its StatusNet Cloud Service. Thanks to this, you can now easily host your own Twitter-like community for your blog, club or company. The StatusNet Cloud Service also supports OStatus , a new standard that allows users on different social networks to...
New State Law Bumps Colorado Off Amazon's Affiliate Map
Online retailer Amazon has ended all Colorado-based affiliate accounts after a new law passed by the state's legislature would have forced them to collect and pay state sales taxes. The law, HB 10-1193 , states that any affiliate marketer making more than $10,000 for a retailer is declared a legal agent, and a state presence, of that company. Rather than be forced to pay the state taxes, Ama...
Miso: A Foursquare-Like App for Homebodies
If your Foursquare check-ins could be limited to backyard outings and trips to the mailbox, you may be interested in a new mobile application called Miso . With this service, a startup from Bazaar Labs, also the makers of a social network called Flixup! for movie chatter, you can perform Foursquare-like "check-ins" when watching a particular TV show or movie. Homebodies, this app is for you....
Facebook To Sell Tickets With Eventbrite
Facebook looks to be partnering with event marketplace Eventbrite , a move that looks to be foreshadowed by recent design changes on the site. The announcement of a partnership was first noticed by a Facebook user who sent in a screenshot to TechCrunch this morning.
Facebook's recent redesign has showed a much more public events page, a feature that would go along with selling tickets to...
Springpad Takes on Evernote with Semantic Technology, Barcode Scanner
Springpad , a rival to Evernote's popular cross-platform note-taking service, has just bumped the competition up a notch with a new release that integrates semantic technology to automatically enhance the notes you save with relevant info. What this means is that if you save a movie, Springpad is smart enough to know it's a movie and it will offer you showtimes. If you save a product, Sprin...
CheapTweet Wades Through the Sea of Tweet Deals
Whether a website sells off your email address or forces you to install some pop-up plagued toolbar just to get 10% off your next online purchase, searching for online coupons can involve treading in dangerous waters. Enter CheapTweet , which uses both algorithms and crowdsourcing to verify its content, and suddenly looking for the best deals online isn't quite so scary.
The self-described ...
FourWhere Mashes Up Foursquare and Google Maps
Sooner or later, every popular web service with an API spawns a Google Maps mashup. FourWhere , which launches today, combines data from the increasingly popular location-based social network Foursquare with a Google Maps-based interface. Thanks to this, you can now easily find Foursquare venues around your current location or a location you plan to visit. The site was developed by social medi...
Weekly Poll: Is There A Place For Open-Source in the Data Center?
This week's poll is inspired our friends at CloudAve . Krishnan Subramanian wrote a post today about open-sourcing data center design .
It's about time, isn't it? Subramanian best point comes down to what is happening right now in the cloud computing world. The enthusiasm for cloud computing is such that there is no time to waste.
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Digital Activism: An Interview with Mary Joyce
Digital activism is defined by the newly launched Meta-Activism Project as "the practice of using digital technology for political and social change." One of the leaders in the field of digital activism is Mary Joyce , the founder and executive director of the Meta-Activism Project. Joyce is among the most knowledgeable and experienced digital activists in the world. She also founded Digi...
Chris Pirillo Debuts E-Book: 140 Twitter Tips
One of our favorite geeks has just released an e-book on best practices for Twitter use.
Chris Pirillo's 140 Twitter Tips, a 14-page PDF, is a concise compendium of useful guidelines and helpful hints for every kind of Twitter user, from doing-it-wrong noobs to social media addicts. From the best time of day to get retweets to how to process public criticism, the e-book also covers a broad r...
Location Privacy Goes to Washington
Testifying before a congressional hearing in late February, Mike Altschul with the Wireless Association was blunt : Federal mobile phone privacy policy is undefined and the privacy guidelines for location-based services written in 2008 are obsolete.
The hearing on consumer privacy was the fifth in a series that seeks to evaluate and eventually legislate location-based privacy issues. It c...
Webciety and Enterprise 2.0: A snapshot of today's social computing conversations
Though smaller than in year's past, Germany's CeBIT trade show in Hanover this week remains one of the giants of the industry and is a must-attend event for much of Europe's technology leaders. For the last two years, I have been participating in Webciety, a show within a show that explores the emerging 21st century digital lifestyle.
Here is a breakdown of how Europe is looking at Enterprise...
The Facebook imperative for enterprise software
Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, the well-known CRM and cloud computing company (and now soon-to-be social software vendor) wrote a guest post on TechCrunch late last week making the case for "why enterprise software should take its cues from Facebook and become more social."
What then does this mean for the future of IT and what impacts will social computing ultimately have on the enter...
Making government more open and social
Can social tools and community-based approaches truly help our governments function better and operate more efficiently? Will open access to government data create important new opportunities for citizens and increase transparency? As we'll see, these two questions are currently top-of-mind in many public sector policy discussions this year. The questions also herald underlying forces at work...
Ten emerging Enterprise 2.0 technologies to watch
Two significant and closely related trends in enterprise computing this year are the growth of Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and social computing. By most accounts, both are gaining ground fairly rapidly while still not being used for core business functions or mission critical applications in most large firms, at least not yet.
Here's a breakdown of what Enterprise 2.0 technologies and product...
First impressions of Google Buzz: Smart, useful, long road ahead
>Earlier this afternoon Google Buzz went live after a comprehensive launch event streamed live over YouTube. Buzz is a brand-new social tool that helps users to share updates, links, photos, videos, and more with the online world at large. Aimed at consumers and eventually enterprises, Buzz is Google's most serious Social Web play yet. Find out why with my detailed breakdown and analysis.
SAP's 12Sprints joins the social enterprise bandwagon
I spent some time this morning working with SAP's new 12Sprints collaboration service, which was announced earlier this week. Available free in open beta immediately, it's a cloud-based service that's a cross between Basecamp and Google Wave and is ostensibly designed for team collaboration. Not incidentally, 12Sprints is also clearly a social application and it includes viral invitation, ext...
Social CRM: Ground zero for Enterprise 2.0 in 2010
There's been some debate recently on whether Social CRM is part of the broader Enterprise 2.0 story. I try to answer the question and explore some of the latest thinking on social business and how it can help transform the customer relationship for real competitive advantage.
The app store: The new "must-have" digital business model
Amazon announced today that it was opening up its Kindle reader device to 3rd party applications to be distributed later this year in the Kindle Store.
This news was just one more in a string of announcements from platform vendors large and small that they're getting the message: The app store model that Apple has proved so successfully with the iPhone is becoming the next frontier when it com...
The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch
The emergence of Facebook, Twitter, and the rest of the social Web as a global force in the last several years has done a great deal to highlight their potential to fundamentally alter the way we communicate and collaborate both at home and in business. However, despite move of social computing into our daily lives we are all clearly on a journey as the technologies themselves emerge from infa...
Fixing IT in the cloud computing era
The reality of cloud computing as it exists today already offers significant potential to IT departments that want to cut costs, lighten their infrastructure footprint, and adopt agile new technologies. Whether it's private clouds or public ones, all signs point towards it being one of the top new models for enterprise IT for 2010. This is coming right at a time when traditional enterprise mod...
ZDNet's Enterprise Web 2.0: The top 10 posts of 2009
As we get ready to enter the final year of the decade, here's a round-up of what you found interesting here on Enterprise Web 2.0 based on actual readership. We'll see what the new year brings us but 2009 was full of notable developments that will have a lasting impact to way we using technology in business.
This year was a significant one for next-generation IT and business, particularly wit...
Enterprise 2.0: The 2009 year in review
It's that time of year again, when we look back at the year that was while making next year's technology and business predictions. 2009 was an exciting year across the board for all things Web 2.0 in the enterprise and related topics. I often find that it's when we take time to look back at the big picture that we get the best sense for what's actually happening in the marketplace today.
I'm...
What will power next-generation businesses?
The ongoing and seemingly inexorable decline of traditional media continues to be the canonical example of what happens when the ground rules get changed in an industry that is fundamentally unable to adapt to new market conditions. A great analysis recently posted by Umair Haque at Harvard Business underscores the point: The so-called new normal is starting to seem more and more foreign the de...
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The cloud computing battleground takes shape. Will it be winner-take-all?
This year has been one of relatively grand alliances between emerging cloud computing vendors as they fill holes in their capabilities and try to create appealing one-stop enterprise cloud services.
We've seen major announcements so far from IBM and Juniper, Cisco/EMC/VMware, and most recently BMC and Salesforce. There are many other smaller initiatives that have formed as well and all of thes...
Salesforce's Chatter: Social operating systems emerge on the IT stage
The next big shift: Intranets, portals, and software suites that are integrating force of the social fabric of the organization. This morning's announcement from Salesforce of Chatter, an enterprise-class realization of Facebook and Twitter, is further evidence of the industry's push for social Web capabilities for business activities.
Early indications are that Chatter will drive conversation ...
Salesforce Chatter: Social operating systems emerge on the IT stage
The next big shift: Intranets, portals, and software suites that are integrating force of the social fabric of the organization. This morning's announcement here at Dreamforce today from Salesforce of Chatter, an enterprise-class realization of Facebook and Twitter, is further evidence of the industry's push for social Web capabilities for business activities.
Early indications are that [...]
Enterprise 2.0: What do we know today about moving our organizations into the 21st century?
This week in Frankfurt at the Enterprise 2.0 SUMMIT and last week at the inaugural Enterprise 2.0 Conference West in San Francisco has been an good microcosm of the state of the industry. It does appear that we're entering a new stage in the maturity of enterprise social computing. The good news: Most of the lessons learned are good ones, yet as we'll see, some challenges remain.
Are the iPhone and social networks making the classic Web and intranet obsolete?
There's been an important and relatively sudden change taking place over the last couple of years in the way that we interact with the Web. While direct access or search activity has been (and still is) the most common way that we access the content and applications of the Web, new ways have been rapidly growing and competing with how we work online, both at home and at work. These new models...
Twenty-two power laws of the emerging social economy
I take a look at twenty-two power laws that will drive forward your organization this year as we look at what will make business and IT successful in the 21st century. A detailed and descriptive dive into next-generation enterprises for the technical and business-oriented alike.
Is Hadoop Champion Cloudera the Next Red Hat?
Cloudera, a startup based in Burlingame, Calif., today announced the release of its first commercial product, Cloudera Desktop. It's a graphical interface for managing Hadoop, the open-source framework that is catalyzing the data mining renaissance. Cloudera's Hadoop now works on almost all major cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services, Rackspace and soon, VMware's vCloud.
In light [...]
Exclusive: IBM's Test Cloud Opens to Public Beta
IBM tomorrow is expected to open its test and development cloud to a public beta after serving about 600 customers in a private beta. Some in the cloud community were disappointed when Big Blue announced plans for the test and development cloud in June but provided no time table for the public beta and [...]
Huawei's Grand Ambitions Made Clear With BT CTO Hire
Huawei Technologies said today it's brought on telecom industry veteran Matt Bross as its chief technology officer, a position that up until now he'd held at British Telecom. With this move, it's even more clear that Huawei wants to shed its image as an upstart Chinese maker of cheap telecom equipment rip-offs. And that's not [...]
Metered Broadband Is the Future: Verizon CTO
Verizon Chief Technology Officer Dick Lynch said today that in the coming years, wired broadband will likely be sold in packages based on the amount of data a person wants to consume, much like wireless broadband is sold today. In comments made to press at the 2009 Fiber to the Home Conference Expo in Houston, [...]
The Importance of Living Life
The circle of life sculpture in Vigeland Park, OsloYesterday brought me a simple memo: live life.
It didn't came on a piece of paper. It was more like a series of disjointed scenes from a movie reel lying on the floor, waiting to be clipped together. It didn't come as a revelation; instead it came as [...]
AT&T to Google: So You Wanna Be a Phone Company?
A few months, ago when covering the launch of Google Voice, I wrote a post entitled: Meet Google, Your Phone Company. That headline sums up why Google's voice service has drawn the ire of everyone from AT&T to Apple Today, Ma Bell asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate Google Voice on the grounds that [...]
Will AT&T's Network Hold Up Under the MMS Strain?
Will the AT&T network collapse under the weight of photo-happy iPhone users sending MMS messages? That's the crucial question behind today's launch of picture messaging capability on the AT&T network, which has been dogged by criticism since the first iPhone launch. Despite the explanatory video offered up earlier this month by "Seth the Blogger Guy," [...]
Not Everything Is a Cloud
Cloud computing may be the most overhyped information technology term in recent memory, surpassed only by the ubiquitous Web 2.0 moniker. As a venture capitalist focused on investing in the infrastructure and platform-as-a-service segments of the cloud, this hype has prompted a slew of startups to flood my inbox, all claiming to be the revenue-generating equivalent [...]
The GigaOM Guide to the Net Neutrality Debate
Senate Republicans last night backed off a plan aimed at popping the net neutrality balloon floated by the FCC on Monday, according to the Washington Post. This is smart thinking, as there's still much to learn and a lot less to fear about the proposed regulatory rules than naysayers would have the average person believe. We're [...]
What Is It About e-Readers?
If I were to bet on a device that would benefit most from wireless access, it wouldn't be a digital book reader, not in a nation where roughly half the people don't read novels. A personal navigation device, an MP3 player on which one can download songs, even a handheld gaming unit all seem to be more popular with consumers — and offer better opportunities to show off wireless access. So why ...
How Skype Plans to Dominate Business Telephony
Skype, a division of eBay, is likely to announce tomorrow that the beta version of its Skype for SIP offering will interoperate with Cisco Systems' Unified Communications 500 system. This follows closely on the heels of similar arrangements struck by Skype with Shoretel and SIPfoundry's sipXecs platform. In addition, the company is said to be [...]
FCC Outlines Its Net Neutrality Proposal
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, today outlined a framework aimed at ensuring that both wireline and wireless carriers don't discriminate against traffic traversing their networks based on the type of traffic or the application. We speculated on Friday that he would outline formal net neutrality principles today to augment the informal [...]
ZuneHD May Have More Features Than the iPod, But Are They the Right Ones?
Microsoft, after months of anticipation, today launched its latest digital audio player, the ZuneHD. It's a complete revamp of the device's previous versions — it utilizes a bright OLED touchscreen, adds a web browser and HD radio tuner, and runs on a new Tegra processor from Nvidia. But while Microsoft hopes to "out-iPod" the [...]
Zune HD May Have More Features Than the iPod, But Are They the Right Ones?
Microsoft, after months of anticipation, today launched its latest digital audio player, the Zune HD. It's a complete revamp of the device's previous versions — it utilizes a bright OLED touchscreen, adds a web browser and HD radio tuner, and runs on a new Tegra processor from Nvidia. But while Microsoft hopes to "out-iPod" [...]
The Return of the Optical Startup — Cyan Optics Launches
This big societal move to a more connected life is causing carriers to spend a lot of money upgrading (or building) new networks, even the smallest cable companies in the farthest corners of America. And for Mike Hatfield, that is great news. Today he announced that his 3-year-old company, Cyan Optics, has signed up nearly 20 carriers and has raised at least $27 million in three rounds of funding.
Comcast Should Buy Sprint
Shares of Sprint got a boost this morning after the Sunday Telegraph reported T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom AG may acquire the carrier and merge it with its own T-Mobile USA. But a tie-up with Comcast would be a better fit for the beleaguered carrier.
Just a week after Deutsche Telekom announced plans to merge T-Mobile [...]
Why Comcast Not T-Mobile Should Buy Sprint
Shares of Sprint got a boost this morning after the Sunday Telegraph reported T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom AG may acquire the carrier and merge it with its own T-Mobile USA. But a tie-up with Comcast would be a better fit for the beleaguered carrier.
Just a week after Deutsche Telekom announced plans to merge T-Mobile [...]
Why Comcast & Not T-Mobile Should Buy Sprint
Shares of Sprint got a boost this morning after the Sunday Telegraph reported T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom AG may acquire the carrier and merge it with its own T-Mobile USA. But a tie-up with Comcast would be a better fit for the beleaguered carrier.
Just a week after Deutsche Telekom announced plans to merge T-Mobile [...]
What's Wrong With Nokia, Part 1
I was swapping tweets yesterday with Michael Gartenberg, a respected gadget analyst who attended Nokia World, the Nokia-sponsored lovefest held this week in Stuttgart, Germany, and it was clear he was feeling underwhelmed. Understandably so. I didn't have to fly to Germany to figure out that Nokia is on a slippery, muddy slope with the [...]
Will Google or Cisco Determine Our Future Broadband Networks?
At the FCC broadband workshop held this morning, researchers argued for a new Internet architecture built upon infrastructure currently used in large data centers that would be capable of adapting itself to deliver each individual application. Meanwhile, those associated with think tanks and the broadband industry argued that the most significant Internet-related innovation is already [...]
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1time time tracking
1time is a web-based time and expense tracking application that allows you to easily keep track of real time project costs.
1time will reduce non billable time in your company. Each employee gets their own login and reminders so you don't have to micro manage recording timesheets. Reviews for 1time time tracking
(sxp) SocialXperience
(sxp) SocialXperience takes a new approach to the Social Networking / Web 2.0 blog by inviting the teams behind the companies to be the editors. The companies create an (sxp) account, which gives them the ability to post company news or industry insights from an insider perspective. We offer a unique customizable user interface, and a number of widgets that can be arranged around the main blo...
ActiveCiti
ActiveCiti is an extremely simple, easy to use, no-nonsense event management application which lets people create, plan, organize and manage events with the utmost ease.
ActiveCiti provides features required to address the major pain points while organizing any event.
From sending out invitations, tracking guests, sending automatic event updates to them to allowing the event owner to add more ...
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7tasks is a lightweight super easy to use web based to do app.
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1time
What is 1time?
1time is a web-based time and expense tracking application that allows you to easily keep track of real time project costs.
How can 1time help us?
1time will reduce non billable time in your company. Each employee gets their own login and reminders so you don't have to micro manage recording timesheets.
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123brand.it
I'd like to let you know that we have just launched the English version of 123brand.it, one of the very few sites in the user generated marketing space (we believe the one with the widest appeal).
WHAT IT IS:
Thanks to 123brand.it -as easy as one, two, three- companies can ask to the community for opinions (Surveys) or for suggestions (Requests) on marketing and communication subjects.
Two ...
$haring Paid Easy
Billhighway is a virtual collection basket that letÂ’s you gather and track money from friends, family, teammates, colleagues for any type of social event or group expense.
Notify others of group expenses and collect money online (no PayPal account required.) Reviews for $haring Paid Easy
PriceFad
See alexa-style price charts for products and category. Know whether today's deal is really a deal Reviews for PriceFad
openpuzzle
At openpuzzle we are growing the biggest jigsaw puzzle of portraits of people from all over the world. We're putting a visible face to the internet! Join free of charge and place yourself among friends. Make use of the numerous options:
Keep track with PuzzleMarks Save interesting parts of the jigsaw puzzle and show the world who belongs together. For example, group up your highschool classmat...
Novlet
Novlet is a web application designed to support collaborative writing of non-linear stories in any language. With Novlet you will be able to read stories written by other users, create your own ones, and choose the plot you like most from several alternatives.
Novlet stories are divided in passages, text sections usually made of a few paragraphs: users can continue stories or add alternative s...
MojiKan
Imagine a world where you could create your own virtual pet. A pet created by you that doesnÂ’t just look like you but also matches and learns from your personality and characteristics.
Then imagine that your pet can understand what you say on your blogs or in an instant messenger and can communicate its thoughts and feelings to you. Imagine also that your pet can interact and play with your ...
GnarstarTV
Videosharing platform dedicated to the art of skateboarding. Launched in May 2007, GnarstarTV has a lot going for itself: Talent, great clips straight from the streets and a killer url. Reviews for GnarstarTV
Motortopia
Share your passion for cars, bikes, boats and planes. Reviews for Motortopia
mkmap
mkmap a web 2.0 type of website based on the Google map API and it allows you to do a couple of things with maps: explore, create, share and collaborate. Reviews for mkmap
MeetYourBand
MeetYourBand is a new, free musician's networking site, utilizing profiles to find local musicians instead of traditional classified ads. Bands can also get hired through the site. Features include audio and video playlists, as well as profile widgets, which are portable mini-profiles that can be placed on other websites such as MySpace and personal and band blogs. Reviews for MeetYourBand
Crusher
Crusher, an independent consortium of digital designers-developers, proudly announces the launch of crush3r.com [beta], a free online service that empowers creative individuals to easily plan, personalize, and document their events. Reviews for Crusher
eBacchus
Wine tasting notes, information, education, reviews, & ratings. Reviews for eBacchus
Ultimate Mobile Setup
If you find yourself on the road as often as I do (every other week) and most of your traveling is done abroad (Japan, Korea, Philippines last week), you will want to optimize your mobile setup for portability, connectivity, and affordability. I tried quite a few combinations of countless devices, and I learned a few things along the way. Here is the setup that I am quickly converging toward.
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VAIO X + iPad > MacBook Air
As a frequent traveler (300,000 miles last year), I am always looking for ways to shave some pounds off the gear I am carrying, without sacrificing convenience or performance. That's the reason why I recently switched from a MacBook Pro 13" (4.5 pounds) to a MacBook Air (3.0 pounds). But with the iPad (1.5 pounds) around the corner, I am starting to reconsider my options. Granted, the i...
The Tablet I Want
Apple is set to release its much anticipated tablet in half an hour. While I am waiting for it like everybody else, here are my thoughts for what this device should be. A couple of years ago, I described its form in much details. Today, I am much more interested by its function. In a nutshell, I want this tablet to give me access to any media ever created, anytime, anywhere. I want access to ...
What I Love About Intalio|Cloud, Part 2
Today, let's start with the beginning: Intalio|Cloud's home page. As with any web-based application, the home page is where most users spend the majority of their time, therefore making it user friendly is absolutely critical. While I learned over the years how to customize Salesforce.com's home page, I always found its customization tools difficult to use. I also found myself wishing that it m...
What I Love About Intalio|Cloud, Part 1
With this post, I am starting a new series of articles on Intalio|Cloud , focusing on practical use cases. As I am in the process of migrating my personal Salesforce.com instance to Intalio| CRM (powered by Intalio|Cloud ), I am discovering lots of features that I did not know about. Along the way, I am literally falling in love with this platform. Today, we'll take a closer look at Intali...
Defining Cloud Computing for Business Users
Like any new IT trend, Cloud Computing gets its fair share of hype, and with it comes a multitude of vendors that use the terms in ways it was never intended for, therefore making it devoid of any sense. When pushed to the extreme, a simple server connected to a network seems to qualify as a cloud, thereby allowing pundits such as Larry Ellison to deride the concept to no end. Yet Cloud Com...
I think there is a world market for maybe five clouds
In 1943, Thomas J. Watson, then President of International Business Machines ( IBM ), allegedly said "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Today, industry pundits make similar flawed predictions, claiming that all the market needs is maybe five clouds: Amazon Web Services, Force.com, Google AppEngine, Microsoft Azure, and whatever IBM comes up with. However you define ...
Meet Me There
If you want to learn more about Intalio's private cloud offering , meet me there:
Oct 26-27: Singapore, SG
Oct 28-30: Tokyo, JP
Nov 6: Seoul, KR
Nov 17-19: Portland, OR
Nov 22-24: Montreux, CH
Nov 25: Paris, FR
Nov 26: Frankfurt, DE
Dec 7-8: Singapore, SG
Dec 9-11: Tokyo, JP
Dec 14: Frankfurt, DE
Dec 15: London, UK
Dec 16: Paris, FR
Dec 17:...
Elastic Cloud? Not so Fast...
Earlier this week, I attended a very interesting CEO roundtable organized by VMware. Around 40 VMware customers and partners (including Intalio) sat down with Paul Maritz (VMware's CEO ) for an hour of discussions about virtualization and cloud computing. Listening to customers, I developed a better understanding of the challenges lying ahead for Private Cloud Computing, and the critical rol...
Looking for Data on Corporate IT
Intalio recently sold Intalio|Cloud (the Managed On-Premises version) to two major customers in Japan, and we're expecting a first deal in Singapore sometime in Q4 this year. We're now working on our go-to-market strategy for the U.S. and EMEA , and are developing various marketing materials to support it, using this presentation as baseline. As part of this effort, we need some third-pa...
When Technology Works
The problem with being an early adopter of new technologies is that leading edge can quickly turn into bleeding edge. In other words, brand new products are often buggy, and early adopters aren't much different form guinea pigs. Technology enthusiasts like to fancy themselves as explorers of new frontiers, not disposable lab animals. So when new technologies actually work, it's hard not to be e...
Mashups and Single Points of Failure
Mashups are great, but the more components are integrated into a single mashup, the more single points of failure are created along the way. I experienced this recently with the piping of my blog feeds to Twitter. Blogs were written using WordPress, syndicated through FeedBurner (now owned by Google), harvested by TwitterFeed, and re-syndicated to Twitter. Somewhere in the process, delays would...
Adopting Twitter
Over the past couple of weeks, I have started to use Twitter to push some updates on Intalio, my traveling, and some elements of my personal life. My Twitter feed is available at @ghalimi , and syndicates feeds for both IT |Redux (professional blog) and ghalimi.name (personal blog). This feed is also displayed on IT |Redux's right column. Moving forward, I will use IT |Redux for longer ...
Tips for the Modern Traveler in Japan
It's 8pm local time, I just came back from a delicious teppanyaki dinner in Ebisu , and I am sitting on my hotel room's balcony, on the 11th floor of the Sheraton Miyako Hotel Tokyo . From my MacBook Pro's speakers, Gábor Szabó is playing The Sorcerer, and I am enjoying the cool breeze of an early rainy season. It's my 16th trip to Japan, and over the years, I have learned a few things ...
Who Is This Cloud For?
Following Intalio's presentation in London yesterday, Aditya Tuli wrote a critical yet constructive post commenting on the announcements we made recently. I have to agree with most of Aditya's points, and would like to take advantage of this opportunity to clarify a couple of items. First, Intalio|Cloud is indeed targetted at larger organizations, especially the Managed On-Premises option, ...
First Cloud Customers
We just signed our first two Intalio|Cloud Managed On-Premises customers. More soon...
Process Table
We just released a screencast showing how to model and execute a process from a spreadsheet! This is what we call a Process Table, and it's part of the new release of Intalio| CRM to be available on June 2nd. Congratulations to Antoine and his team for this amazing piece of work, direct result of our Dogfood Project , and first creation of what will soon be called Intalio Labs.
JavaOne
Keep an eye on JavaOne , for we might announce something cool then...
Intalio|Cloud Appliance Model C1 Mark I
As many of my readers know, I love computers . At any given point in time I use a couple of desktops and three or four laptops. But I have a real fascination for larger systems, which is why I studied parallel computing in graduate school. Today, I fulfilled one my dreams: building a really large machine. We just published some more details about the Intalio|Cloud Appliance Model C1 Mark I , ...
You Got It!
When announcing a new product or a new strategy, some things usually get lost in translation, either because you did not get a chance to personally brief the journalist or analyst who wrote a piece on your announcement, or because the story just wasn't solid enough. To my surprise, none of that happened with the launch of Intalio| BPM , Intalio| CRM , and Intalio|Cloud last week. While we relea...
All Sonic, No Boom - Mach Plus travel is back
Sophisticated aerodynamic shaping muffles eardrum-blistering sonic booms, permitting the QSST to fly over land at supersonic speed. If you're ever lucky enough to fly a Quiet Supersonic Transport between New York and Los Angeles, you'll have just enough time to get through a movie—a short one. Instead of the usual six hours, it will be at 1100mph.
Nine Inch Nails Concept Album Builds Story With Websites From The Future
A set of websites have emerged in support of the new Nine Inch Nails album "Year Zero". The first of the sites was discovered by fans who noticed highlighted letters on the back of a nine inch nails shirt for a tour that kicked off this weekend. This led to the discovery of various IP addresses and an entire story of the future built through sites.
A detour into the strange world of quantum computing
A Vancouver startup promises to demo the first commercial quantum computer on Tuesday. Is this the dawn of a new age of computing? If not, what is it?
Top Gear James May's Response to the Alabama Hicks Who Stoned Him
"We'd been warned by some American modernists - i.e. Californians - that the southerners wouldn't take kindly to any of our light mockery of the things they hold dear - Bush, heterosexuality, NASCAR, Country and Western, short hair..."
The Ten Best Five O' Clock Shadows of All Time
Has there ever been a more versatile facial hair style than the five o' clock shadow? It's badass, yet lazy. Hardcore, yet jaded. For that reason, the Double Viking guys decided to rank the 10 best five o' clock shadows of all time. Number one will definitely surprise you.
How to regularly backup Windows XP to Ubuntu, using rsync
This blog covers one of the more exotic solutions - backup Windows XP to Ubuntu, using rsync
Yahoo Pipes: Search Stories Digged by a Specific User
On theit last update, Digg decided to get rid of the feature where you could search your own digged stories. Since I frequently used that, I decided to try to recreate it using Yahoo Pipes. This if my first attempt. Sadly, it only searches back your most recent diggs, but is a start. Feel free to copy and reuse this pipe if you want.
The 360's failure rates are bad enough; why terrible customer service?
The games a system plays are only half the story of why we buy and love this console over that one. The very act of owning a console is made up of many things: everything from how well the stock controller works to how the company deals with us if/when the system has an issue. When it comes to customer service, Microsoft is failing miserably.
Blockland - Play with Legos on Your Computer
Looking for a free game that's fun and lets you build with Legos? Then Blockland is the game for you!
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA to get a Fourth Season
SCI FI is confirming Tuesday... BSG will live on for a fourth season, 13 eps, starting jan 08
Number of pilots carrying guns rising as more sign up for federal training
Five years after the 9/11 attacks, a growing number of U.S. airline pilots are packing heat, prepared to use lethal force to protect the cockpit. Soon, they will carry badges, bringing them even closer to being bona fide law enforcement officers.
HD DVD and Blu-ray DRM Cracked
arnezami has found the "processing key" used to decrypt the DRM on all HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc films
What America could buy for $145 billion dollars (the 2007 Iraq war budget).
The Iraq war will cost Americans $145 billion dollars this year alone. That $145 billion could buy free tuition, room, and board for every student in a public university or college, and there would still be enough money left over to end hunger in America four times over. Digg this story and help spread the word on how our taxes are being spent.
Cheetahs Kill Zoo-Goer Who Entered Cage
An animal lover was mauled to death by cheetahs after entering their cage at a zoo in northern Belgium, authorities and zoo officials said Monday. Authorities believe Aerts, a regular visitor to the zoo, hid in the park late Sunday until it closed and managed to find the keys to the cheetah cage.
How To Survive a Horror Movie!
When it appears you have killed the monster, NEVER check to see if it's really dead... The first woman to either lose or remove her clothing is dead meat... Never back out of one room into another without looking. It's always behind you... Never run into a deserted graveyard at night... Never listen to strange voices on the telephone...
The Scarier Resident Evil 4 version
This is a video depicting levels in Resident Evil 4 that featured creepier and darker levels not available in the final version.
Depression: An Evolutionary Survival Trait?
A psychiatrist is treating depression as not simply a disease to be eliminated, but an evolutionary trait to elicit support from family and friends. It's a concept derived from evolutionary psychology, a burgeoning field that is starting to influence psychotherapy.
God of War II Rumor Busted: Not In 720p on PS3
Word that God of War 2 would be running at 720p on the PS3 was debunked when we contacted a SCEA rep. IGN's review originally stated that: "God of War II will not only be playable on the PlayStation 3, of course, but that it will run at a true HD resolution of 720p." 480p is the resolution God of War II will be available in.
One 'Bad Apple' Really Can Kill the Company
Whether it's an office bully, team slacker or a chronic pessimist, a single employee can seriously damage an entire company, according to William Felps and Terence Mitchell of the University of Washington Business School.
No DRM Could Mean Cheaper Music
Even if Steve Jobs' essay last week -- in which the Apple chief questioned the wisdom of continuing to sell music wrapped in digital rights management -- was a negotiating tactic designed to give Apple an advantage during impending license renewal negotiations, as some have suggested, Jobs' proposal is still spurring lots of discussion.
