GigaOM

By Robert Young
With nearly 60 million registered users, 15 billion page views per month, and more than 150,000 new users signing up every day, MySpace is that rare social networking contagion that keeps spreading and growing. Can this beast be stopped? Is there anyone out there that can challenge the leadership of MySpace? [...]

Wall Street is quite excited about triple-play. In a move that hopes to capture their enthusiasm, Occam Networks, which makes Ethernet- and IP-based loop carrier equipment, decided to do a one-for-forty reverse split of its common stock. “We recently achieved our first profitable quarter and believe that reverse splitting our shares will not only enhance [...]

My podcasting partner Niall Kennedy is organizing SF Tech Sessions, and the debut event is tonight. It is a straight-up shoot out between the new groupware applications - Joyent, Zimbra and Kerio.
The event will bring together journalists, bloggers, small businesses, and other interested users to learn more about groupware and underlying technologies such as Ajax, [...]

Restaurants and cafes represent the fastest growing segment of public Wi-Fi, according to JiWire. They estimate that 34,544 eating establishments currently offer Wi-Fi access, which is up from 16,277 a year ago. Tokyo (1,037) has the most restaurants and cafes with Wi-Fi access, followed by London (578) and Singapore (410). Within the United States, New [...]

Earthlink is playing a high stakes game of poker. At stake - beleaguered Atlanta-based ISP’s future. Its two big bets - cellular MVNO and muni wireless networks. Both are costly mega-million dollar investments. It has already carved out one (Helio) and raised outside capital from SK Telecom. Could its muni networks division be next, with [...]

After reading my rant about Starbucks and some of the comments on that post, Jackson sent in this guest column about how many are using indi-cafes in San Francisco as mobile office space. (Ritual is my favorite…) If you are not in San Francisco and have names of entrepreneur friendly locations you want others to [...]