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The Truth About The Biz of Casual Games

K. Thor Jensen, Friday, May 2, 2008 at 1:33 PM PT Comments (8)

The casual games market is booming, with over $2.25 billion in yearly revenue despite virtually no brick-and-mortar representation or advertising and marketing costs. But it’s also a market that is quickly becoming saturated, and like any content market, it’s dependent on a large number of unpredictable forces. Click To Read Full Story

The Social Map Is All About Me

Guest Column, Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 12:01 AM PT Comments (25)

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.

App Engine: Competition Is Good for Everyone

Guest Column, Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 12:06 PM PT Comments (21)

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.

FCC Handcuffs U.S. Mobile

Guest Column, Monday, April 7, 2008 at 12:00 AM PT Comments (9)

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said recently he was dismissing a petition from Skype that would force operators to connect any lawful device to the telephone network provided it doesn’t do harm to the network. The decision demonstrates nothing less than a failure on the part of a U.S. government agency to comprehend the available technology infrastructure. And it portends for a less competitive U.S.

How to Personalize the Web

Guest Column, Friday, April 4, 2008 at 7:00 PM PT Comments (16)

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 [...]

Level 3 Adds IBM’s CDN Patents to Its Portfolio

Guest Column, Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 1:00 PM PT Comments (12)

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 [...]

How Cloud & Utility Computing Are Different

Guest Column, Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 4:42 PM PT Comments (27)

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 [...]

When Did You Become Someone Else’s Intellectual Property?

Guest Column, Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 12:02 AM PT Comments (16)

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.

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