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With any startup, fast growth requires investment, starting first and foremost with good people. With that in mind, I’d like to welcome the newest member of the GigaOM Pro family, David Card, who will serve as the research director of GigaOM Pro Read more »

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One of the interesting aspects of GigaOM’s Structure conference last week was the discussion of what some participants called the “Big Data” problem. This issue affects virtually every other aspect of the infrastructure industry, both the hardware side and the software side, and it stems from ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »

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While Amazon certainly has its competitive work cut out for it, the competitor that most ought to be worried about the implications of the iPad is Google. Not just because Google has substantial e-book ambitions of its own, but because the iPad presages a new model ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »

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In the fourth quarter, the giants and the social supersites hooked up — Twitter’s real-time firehose went to Google and Microsoft, Facebook Connect scored Yahoo — while startups set the stage for what’s next — for instance OneRiot providing real-time ads to Digsby. Read more »

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The corporate social-networking and microblogging scene is evolving at a staggering rate, spurred on by the massive growth in consumer-oriented tools like Facebook and Twitter. Here at WebWorkerDaily we’ve covered many of the apps in this space, like Socialtext, present.ly and Yammer, but if you want […] Read more »

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Our subscription research service GigaOM Pro has just published its list of NewNet winners and losers for 2009. I contributed two selections to the list of winners: Twitter and Foursquare. Twitter has had an outstanding year, so including it in the list was a no-brainer. My […] Read more »

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Programmers can compete with journalists if they like, but they’d be wise to instead arm journalists with the power of their programming. Reporters and editors shouldn’t need to know how to code web apps any more than they should know how to create word processing apps ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »

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Monday’s GigaOM Bunker Event looked at where the web is headed. As Jennifer Martinez reported at GigaOM, “A group of technologists explored how the next generation of the web will use location, sensors built into devices such as our mobile phones, and other context clues to […] Read more »

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Social networking and the real-time web are changing how information on the Internet is consumed, as the ability to disperse and share information through social platforms and do it using real-time tools is shifting the focus of content from “historical” news to real-time events. Such a […] Read more »

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You can vote once per day until Saturday for the Audience Choice prize at the first-annual Streamy Awards, to be held that night in Los Angeles. Listen to Obama Girl, she has a knack for spotting stuff right before it gets huge. Obama Girl Has a […] Read more »

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