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Regardless of where any of these informational breadcrumbs may originate, each of us needs to think of ourselves as the center of our respective social map universes. In other words, the social map — in order for it to be considered a map – needs to systematically connect the dots between me, my content and my network. A map-lication of sorts. Continue Reading.

The launch of Google’s Application Engine is a watershed moment in the software development industry. The days of building and hosting your own servers, save for specialized applications, are officially over. Meanwhile, companies that offer similar services will be forced to take a hard look at what they offer and what they need to do to improve it.

Written by Martin Stiksel, co-founder of Last.fm.
I recently got to thinking about how I engage with the web, and how much more compelling the experience would be if the web engaged more actively with me.
The way it works with so many of the sites, networks and applications that Om and Seesmic founder Loic Le [...]

Written by Dan Rayburn, EVP for StreamingMedia.com, who also has his own blog at BusinessOfVideo.com.
Over the past few weeks, an ongoing patent dispute has meant most of the focus in the content delivery market has been on Akamai and Limelight. In the meantime, however, Level 3 has been quietly expanding its CDN services, adding [...]

Written by Geva Perry, chief marketing officer at GigaSpace Technologies.
We are witnessing a seismic shift in information technology — the kind that comes around every decade or so. It is so massive that it affects not only business models, but the underlying architecture of how we develop, deploy, run and deliver applications. This shift has [...]

Every day, venture capitalists like me see the chilling effect that employer non-compete agreements have on innovation. Employer non-compete agreements are literally handcuffs, and we need to ask whether their impediments to innovation serve a greater good by protecting employers’ legitimate rights.