Liz Gannes, Editor, NewTeeVee, a site that was launched in December 2006 as a dedicated outlet for the online video industry coverage. She is also a staff writer at GigaOM.com. She has built NewTeeVee to be the must-read chronicle of the web video revolution, developing a community of readers for events such as the NewTeeVee Pier Screenings and now NewTeeVee Live. She speaks often about video at conferences such as Web 2.0, the Web Video Summit, and Streaming Media West. Prior to GigaOM, she wrote for Red Herring.
While pop stars’ fortunes these days are heavily dependent on building an online fan base, the reverse is even more true. Social media sites are tripping over themselves to score the one celebrity who will shower them with rabid fans.
I’m surprised to see how often the words “The Jonas Brothers” show up in my [...]
We’re live in San Francisco today at Structure 08, GigaOM’s cloud computing conference. GigaOM old-timers Katie Fehrenbacher and Liz Gannes have prime seats to give you photo, video and blog updates throughout the day. If you want to pretend like you’re here with us, check out our live-streaming video, which will feature all the main [...]
The mid-market is the last great business application opportunity, says Zach Nelson, president and CEO of the recently IPOed NetSuite. (That’s his market, but he promises his presentation will not be too self-serving. We shall see!) The cloud makes it economical to reach the Fortune 5,000,000.
The cloud does not solve the problem of application integration, [...]
Jim Crowe, president and CEO of Level 3, is sick with the flu, so Buddy Miller, vice chairman, is stepping in.
Going through a little history: Company hoping to make a profit soon. In ’90s you could raise money but turmoil when the bubble burst. Level 3 was funded enough to last and see industry change.
Not [...]
OK, so this is the sexy panel. We have tech people from some of the biggest web sites out there telling us about how they scale their sites.
Jeremiah Robison, Slide
Sandy Jen, Meebo
Jonathan Heiliger, Facebook
Akash Garg, hi5 Networks
Raj Patel, Yahoo!
James Barrese, eBay
Alistair: How much of scalability is architecture, and how much is throwing servers at [...]
Now we have a panel, The Race to the Next Database: Overclocking and Analytics Augment Your Data Layer. Our friend Nitin Borwankar is moderating.
Panelists (pictured in reverse order):
Mayank Bawa, Aster Data Systems
Doug Judd, Zvents
Luke Lonergan, Greenplum
Damian Black, SQLstream
Dave Schrader, Teradata
Scott Wiener, Cloud9 Analytics
To start off each panelist is explaining his company:
Bawa, Aster: We are a [...]
“I’m the systems administrator for a small book shop in Seattle.”
“Remember this is just a very small snapshot at the beginning of a movement.”
Shows slideshow by Animoto of people at the Next Web conference in Europe (company analyzes music for mood changes and sets slideshow to that timing). What’s so special about Animoto? They have [...]
Jonathan Yarmis, VP Advanced, Emerging and Disruptive Technologies at AMR Research is giving us a mini-note to open up the day.
He says:
“The world is about to change, and change in profoundly interesting ways.”
“The enterprise itself hasn’t figured out how to embrace cloud computing; users are figuring it out very quickly.”
