When thinking about the rising price of oil, folks in cleantech tend to think in terms of transportation fuels and what can be done to replace them with renewable and clean sources of energy. And with good analysis from the likes of UCSD’s Tom Murphy showing ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Google received an ultimatum from the European Commission’s antitrust head the same week it re-invented its vertical shopping search site as a pay-to-play program for merchants. While it’s a mistake to characterize Google as a one-trick pony, it’s worth examining just how vulnerable Google may be ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Modern web-scale applications like Google, Twitter, Netflix, LinkedIn, and others are implemented as distributed systems as opposed to single monolithic codebases. Surprisingly, modern startups are generally built the same way. So what can startups learn from web apps? Read more »
Though sales of new games through brick-and-mortar retail channels are falling rapidly, game publishers, including the major console makers, have an incentive to prop them up as long as possible. No corner of the media content business has survived the transition from analog to digital distribution ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Media companies have collectively spent billions of dollars on content management systems. As they upgraded their offline businesses to the digital world, they turned to big enterprise systems to organize their content in an orderly digital database. And whether via internal systems or a purchased system, […] Read more at paidContent »
Google disses NoSQL, builds its own MySQL alternative Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Facebook is planning to release a branded smartphone within the next year or so, according to a recent story from The New York Times. But the rumor about Facebook acquiring Opera Software and offering its own mobile browser makes much more ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Yahoo has wisely abandoned any notions about being a technology platform provider. It is not using Axis as a package of APIs connected to Yahoo services upon which third-party developers build apps. Facebook is a another story ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
When thinking about cleantech, I tend to think in terms of resources and supply constraints, meaning that when we switch from a fossil fuel like coal to a renewable resource like wind, I consider what natural resources we’re newly dependent on (unfortunately it’s more than just ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Although the majority of API attention has centered on consumer Web services, an emerging cadre of startups are focused on infrastructure and business processes. Robin Vasan, managing director at the venture capital firm Mayfield Fund, gives an overview of the potential infrastructure categories and disruptive companies. Read more »
David Galbraith may get too much credit for developing RSS, but the one thing that he unashamedly claims to have invented is visual bookmarking. The creator of the visual bookmarking website Wists reflects on why Pinterest took off and Wists was left in the dust. Read more »
But hidden in the headlines about the JOBS Act is the creation of an entirely new class of capital that could be far more valuable to startups: customer capital. Instead of raising capital from VCs, entrepreneurs can reach out to customers directly. Read more »
The case for leveraging consumers’ existing investment in TV service through DVR technology remains as strong as ever for Apple.And with last week’s TiVo Stream announcement, Apple seems to be growing more open to incorporating recorded TV content into its own video ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Whatever you think of Ellen Pao and her sexual harassment lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins, there are a couple of things we know for sure. She has sparked a watershed moment for women’s rights in the 21st century. And she is sacrificing her entire career for it. Read more »
Watch out for the rise of bioinformatics, the gamification of everything and the acceleration of Moore’s Law, according to this panel of venture capitalists. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Set-top box shipments are growing, which means the device has a critical presence in the living room. Hardware manufacturers, semiconductor companies and traditional video service providers will all play a part in its future. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
The average web page is now more than 1 megabyte . This isn’t a case where bigger is better, it’s bad for site owners and for mobile users. We explore why pages keep growing and what it costs users and site owners. Read more »
Mobile network operators are increasingly complaining about the high cost of subsidizing the iPhone and other smartphones to make them cheaper for consumers. But those subsidies give operators tremendous control over the handsets that run on their ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
While good but not great growth has Wall Street punishing car sharing market leader Zipcar, which IPO’ed at $18 last year, zoomed to $28 and now sits at around ten bucks, the question on many people’s minds is: What about Hertz? The argument for Hertz successfully ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Right now, social commerce feels like a technology platform play rather than a retail business. According to our GigaOM Pro 1Q12 U.S. consumer survey, only 7 percent of social network users regularly shop on social networks. That’s a condition likely to continue for 24 to 36 ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
The IT hype machine has everyone jumping on the big data bandwagon. But before we start saving every scrap of data in the enterprise for fear that we will miss a nugget of insight, shouldn’t we focus on what we already have? Read more »
You’re a first-time CEO. You’ve built your team, hired kick-ass developers, brought on strong leaders, so…now what? You challenge those people to do extraordinary things. Andreessen Horowitz’s Scott Weiss developed this smart to-do list to help you do just that. Read more »
Difficult as it is for many publishers to accept, content has little intrinsic value on digital platforms, no matter how beautifully presented. It’s the user’s ability to do stuff with digital content that gives it value. That includes the ability to follow links to related content, ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
The PaaS market is on fire right now, with new providers coming out of the woodwork and existing cloud providers moving up the stack, all aiming to win the hearts and minds of developers. ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
New data from comScore indicates apps are driving traffic on the mobile Web far more than browsers. Despite claims that the mobile Web is dead, though, HTML5 is finally beginning to breathe life into Web-based mobile ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
