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Celeste LeCompte

Bio:Celeste LeCompte has more than 5 years experience as researcher, journalist and editor. Before joining GigaOM, she was the editor of Sustainable Industries magazine, where she helped launch a portfolio of research-driven special publications, and an associate editor at the now-defunct utility news and analysis site NWCurrent.com. She continues to speak regularly about green business, technology and media. LeCompte is a graduate of Harvard College.

Latest Tweets

  • @dr_dresch are you trying to teach Ellie about Twitter again?
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My Focus

Intersection of technology and sustainability
Editorial strategy and content development
Semicolons and em-dashes

Recent Posts

This morning’s Video Rights Roundtable was, as we hoped, a rare opportunity for online video industry players to talk about their conflicts and collaborations in the wild — not in a courtroom or conference room.  In a (more than) two-hour discussion, the nearly 50 attendees shared… Read More »

As we saw at last week’s “What’s Next for the Web?” Bunker Series event, we’re pushing the boundaries of the web. The NewNet, as we call it, is blurring the lines between what’s online and what’s real life. From augmented reality apps to location-based services and… Read More »

Google’s announcement that it will launch Google Editions, its e-book publishing platform, next year, may have gotten a lot of attention among publishers and e-book enthusiasts, but it’s more than just a Kindle killer. While Google’s plan to offer readers access to 400,000-600,000 books on any… Read More »

Nike’s Shambhala initiative, which kicked off in 1999, aimed to transform Nike’s approach to social and environmental issues. A series of workshops brought together sustainability gurus, speakers and more than 50 managers from across Nike’s many divisions to discuss ways to push the envelope on internal… Read More »

While it may seem that everyone and their mother is moving to the cloud, the truth is that many enterprises are still wary about moving into public, shared infrastructures. But there are undeniable business benefits to cloud computing, and enterprises are beginning to ask: How can… Read More »

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., like many semiconductor companies, is on the lookout for new markets, and according to some reports, the company thinks it could generate more than $2 billion in revenue from opportunities that include solar and LEDs. The company’s not alone. The semiconductor business… Read More »

With both NetApp and EMC eager to acquire Data Domain, the leading storage-efficiency company appears certain to be facing a future in the arms of a larger firm. Om in a post last week <a href=”http://gigaom.com/2009/06/02/why-both-emc-netapp-want-data-domain/”">laid out some of the reasons why both companies are interested… Read More »

Sponsor post: Thanks to Our GigaOM Sponsors

We’d like to say thanks to this week’s GigaOM sponsors: PEER 1: Fully Scalable Hosting Solutions RackSpace: Experience fanatical support StrataScale: It’s your infrastructure – On Demand. Read More »

Cisco Cutting Itself a Piece of $100B Smart Grid Pie

Cisco this morning announced its official game plan for the smart grid market, which it believes represents a $20 billion-a-year opportunity as the systems are built out over the next five years. In typical Cisco fashion, the five-point plan hinges on new opportunities for its existing… Read More »

Cisco’s Latest Consumer Play: The Smart Grid

This week, Cisco made its first official move into the smart grid space as a partner in the $200 million Energy Smart Miami project. While the smart grid, which some have called the “Internet of energy,” might seem like a perfect opportunity for the networking giant… Read More »

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