Archive for 2007

Year-End Folly: Pin the Tail on the Stocks

Kevin Kelleher, Monday, December 31, 2007 at 8:00 PM PT Comments (4)

I’ve taken seven of the more interesting stocks of 2007 — all stocks that inspired a good deal of passionate discussion and, for the most part, a good deal of capital gains — and ranked them according to how I think they’ll perform in 2008. Take a look.

GigaOM’s Top Posts of 2007

Liz Gannes, Monday, December 31, 2007 at 4:05 PM PT Comments (5)

What do we know about GigaOM readers in 2007?
You like Firefox to a degree that far exceeds the general Internet population. According to Google Analytics, 47 percent of our visits this year were made through Firefox, while 40.1 percent were made through Internet Explorer. As for the rest, 8.32 percent of our visits came [...]

Thought for the New Year

Carleen Hawn, Monday, December 31, 2007 at 9:37 AM PT Comments (0)

“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, 19th century American poet, and physician.

Found|READers: Here’s to thinking BIG and wide with your ideas in 2008! Happy New Year!

Paul Allen, Long-Time Wireless Fan

Katie Fehrenbacher, Monday, December 31, 2007 at 12:00 AM PT Comments (6)

There’s been a lot of interest in Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s application to bid in the upcoming U.S. auction for wireless spectrum. When speculating as to what he might do, it’s important to remember that this is far from Allen’s first involvement in wireless auctions.

Om’s Q&A with VMWare cofounder, Rosenblum

Carleen Hawn, Friday, December 28, 2007 at 12:34 PM PT Comments (0)

Shortly before Christmas, Om sat down with VMWare cofounder, Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, also the virtualization software company’s chief scientist. Diane Greene, whom we wrote about earlier, is VMWare’s current CEO, and the person largely responsible for driving the 9-year-old company to its blockbuster IPO in August.

Greene wouldn’t have had any company to take public if […]

Om’s Q&A with VMWare cofounder, Rosenblum

Carleen Hawn, Friday, December 28, 2007 at 12:34 PM PT Comments (0)

Shortly before Christmas, Om sat down with VMWare cofounder, Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, also the virtualization software company’s chief scientist. Diane Greene, whom we wrote about earlier, is VMWare’s current CEO, and the person largely responsible for driving the 9-year-old company to its blockbuster IPO in August.

Greene wouldn’t have had any company to take public if […]

On Dec. 27th, My Link Love Gave to Me…

Carleen Hawn, Friday, December 28, 2007 at 11:41 AM PT Comments (0)

… 8 Tips for Coding,
… 5 Hints for Building,
… 11 PR Handouts,
… 7 Conference Call-outs,
AND … 5 steps to form an LLC!

There is no limit, it seems, to the number of tips that founders can share with one another. Read/WriteWeb published another great index of resources yesterday, called “36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to […]

Here Comes Trouble: The Thin Edge of SIP

Daniel Berninger, Friday, December 28, 2007 at 3:30 AM PT Comments (20)

Increasingly, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is the common denominator interconnecting diverse communication devices and networks. Like it or love it, the rapid adoption of SIP makes it impossible to ignore.

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