Archive for June 26, 2008
P2P is inefficient, unfair, and hogging our bandwidth, according to Lawrence Roberts, founder of Anagran and one of the chief architects of the foundations of the Internet.
Roberts gave a talk at our Structure 08 conference Wednesday, and said that P2P sharing takes … Read More »
Brand display ads will be “the primary driver of monetization for video,” YouTube CEO Chad Hurley said tonight at an tech startup dinner in Palo Alto, but he went onto lay out an argument that there’s also a growing opportunity to make money from direct … Read More »
In 2005, Matt Harding had no idea that dancing silly on camera would help him become a corporate-sponsored world traveler. But when Stride Gum took notice of the first Where the Hell is Matt? short, they signed him up to continue jigging across … Read More »
Feds Say Automakers Gets No Extra Time in Cali Regs: The US District Court for the Eastern District of California ruled that automakers shouldn’t get an extension to comply with California’s emission standards. Assuming the EPA grants California it’s waiver, of course – Green Car … Read More »
If you’re involved with a blog or an online site and care about its design and interface, there are a number of free tools you can turn to for experimenting with various versions, until you arrive at a design you like. In this post, I’ll cover … Read More »
Yahoo and its destiny has become fodder for headlines and cheap shots. What hasn’t been discussed is the crumbling culture within the company, thanks to layers of management, and resultant state of masterful inactivity masked as consensus. The only organization more dysfunctional than Yahoo? The … Read More »
California introduced an ambitious energy road map today to achieve the state’s goal of cutting emissions by 28 percent. The policy mandates that a third of the state’s energy should come from renewable sources, and also boosts the efficiency of appliances, buildings and automobiles. Facilitating … Read More »
Iminlikewithyou, a New York-based dating game start-up has raised $1.5 million in Series B round of funding from Spark Capital, and a bunch of influential angels including Marc Andreessen. Baseline Ventures and Betaworks, also had previously invested in the company joined this round of capital. … Read More »
I just heard from the Opera folks who have finally said that the Opera Mobile 9.5 beta 1 will be available on July 15th. You can get full details from the Opera Mobile blog but from what I’ve seen I would jump on this … Read More »
Perhaps the easiest way to describe EveryScape‘s business plan is “Google Street View, only more so.” When you visit one of their sites, such as their Boston page, you can drive around and see the city in a 360-degree … Read More »
After today’s launch of Microsoft’s server virtualization hypervisor, Citrix, which bought virtualization company XenSource last year, may be asking itself some hard questions. Microsoft’s Hyper-V will compete directly with Citrix’s XenSource products for the data center as well as with products from VMware and startup Read More »
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Nomo, a long-time reader and frequent commenter here, forwarded me a note from Fujitsu just last night. Looks like the "end of XP" for sale with new computers … Read More »
This week we learned of the existence of 12seconds, a startup that isn’t afraid to call itself a “video Twitter.” The idea is simple: video status updates. From the about page: “Why only 12 seconds? Because anything longer is boring.”
The site is … Read More »
By Om Malik
Jun. 26, 2008, 11:46am PT
Yesterday, at our Structure08 conference we launched our newest effort, GigaOM Briefings. We launch with our first briefing on Cloud Computing, which has been written by Alistair Croll, whose work you know from our site.
So what are our Briefings? Briefings are downloadable digital … Read More »
As the lines between notebooks and mini-notebooks blur due to increased screen size and price, there’s a big camp that is all excited about the 10-inch screened notebooks. The MSI … Read More »
By Mike Gunderloy
Jun. 26, 2008, 11:00am PT
MySpace. Facebook. Twitter. BrightKite. LinkedIn. The list of social networks is huge – and gets bigger every day. Last year about this time there was some rumbling about “social network fatigue,” but that doesn’t seem to have slowed the growth of networking at all.
Still, the … Read More »
NBC to Release Show-Specific Streaming Stats through Nielsen; Peacock will become the first broadcast network to offer such data; first stats to be released in July. (AdWeek)
Hitwise: YouTube, PBS Up; new numbers show that YouTube has 75 percent of the online video visits, though visits … Read More »
By Om Malik
Jun. 26, 2008, 10:30am PT
By Craig Rubens
Jun. 26, 2008, 10:29am PT
Yesterday our parent site GigaOM held an awesome conference, Structure08, which had some of the top minds in IT discussing and debating cloud computing. The big takeaway for Earth2Tech readers is that as the demand for Internet services keeps on growing, it’s requiring a … Read More »
Big props to JKK for shooting me the link to Sumopaint this morning. This free beta service is an online photo-editing application which could fit in nicely to my … Read More »
By Edit Staff
Jun. 26, 2008, 9:29am PT
A smarter network doesn’t necessarily mean a safer network, or so goes the thinking when it comes to the new intelligent power grid. It is seen as an increased security risk. It has been rumored that Chinese paramilitary hackers have taken tried toRead More »
People will spend as much time consuming video-based entertainment as they do sleeping by 2013, according to a new study (PDF) from Solutions Research Group. But, the bells continue to toll for oldteevee as its share of that time will shrink.
SRG reports that currently … Read More »
The moving process is slowly but surely getting closer to the physical act of hauling all of our stuff from the old house to the new one. It’s a big process and one of the biggest tasks in planning the move is deciding how to arrange … Read More »
By Opal Tribble
Jun. 26, 2008, 8:30am PT
Electronic Arts is releasing a special version of the much anticipated game called Spore Galactic Edition. Currently it’s still in
development.
I’m looking forward to Spore. Although I don’t always purchase the Special edition copies, I will be purchasing this edition. Spore Galactic Edition … Read More »
By Craig Rubens
Jun. 26, 2008, 8:21am PT
The Sunshine State could soon capitalize on its namesake and become one of the largest producers of solar energy in the country, if Florida utility FPL follows through on its plan to build three new solar power plants. FPL announced yesterday that it … Read More »
By Om Malik
Jun. 26, 2008, 8:19am PT
By Jenny Kortina
Jun. 26, 2008, 8:00am PT
I was reformatting a Powerbook the other day and after a fresh Leopard install I went to use the two finger scroll function to scroll down a page…but it wasn’t there. I have been using intel based laptops for so long that I just take … Read More »
By Mike Gunderloy
Jun. 26, 2008, 8:00am PT
Online application vendor Zoho has rolled out a batch of small but useful updates to their presentation package, Zoho Show. These aren’t earth-shattering, but they do continue its march to be one of the best alternatives for … Read More »
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I could very well be in the minority here, but I don’t think sales of dedicated eBook readers are slow because the devices don’t simulate the reading experience well enough. The key issues in my mind have always been DRM challenges, lack of content and … Read More »
By Celine Roque
Jun. 26, 2008, 7:00am PT
Many business deals depend so much on networking. This may sound unfair, but sometimes our success in business is more about who you know than how good you really are. It also usually follows that the more varied your contacts are, the more insights and opportunities … Read More »
By Judi Sohn
Jun. 26, 2008, 6:15am PT
When I was invited to have a video chat on my MacBook Pro with SightSpeed CEO Peter Csathy to discuss today’s announcement that their software would now be bundled with Dell computers, I was skeptical. I expected to be making apologies for my poor home … Read More »
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Jun. 26, 2008, 5:00am PT
eSolar is one of a dozen startups that are looking to build solar thermal plants in the deserts of California. While the company says it’s using the lessons of infotech — computing and algorithms — to make low cost modular solar, we were wondering … Read More »
This summer’s TV season has barely started, but net-savvy TV fans are already downloading pilots of shows slated to premiere this fall. A whole bunch of pilots have found their way onto torrent sites in recent days, and file sharers are having heated debates about … Read More »
By Wagner James Au
Jun. 26, 2008, 12:01am PT
By Craig Rubens
Jun. 26, 2008, 12:00am PT
Science fiction writers speculate that robots will eventually take over our networks, but conspiracy theorists say our current grid is under attack from foreign hackers—conspiracy theorists and high-level intelligence officials that is, according to the cover of the National Journal. The article alleges that Chinese … Read More »
Viral videos from giant corporations are a bit like a middle-aged vinyl salesman with a comb-over unsuccessfully trying to pick up 20-something babes at the club — then angrily denying that he’s embarrassed himself, even as they scatter.
The Wall Street Journal has a nice post-mortem … Read More »
