What goes hand-in-hand with gaudy lights, fake snow, and endless holiday music? Shopping lists, of course. Here are a few items I’m thinking about giving — and a few more I’d like to receive — this year. TiVo HD XL: I know TiVo’s subscriber numbers are […] Read more »
It may not be a list with many surprises, but the official top App Store downloads of 2008 still makes for interesting reading. Posted by Apple early this morning and available to view in iTunes, the list of chart-toppers is divided into most downloaded overall, and […] Read more »
Founders Gary Swart and Stephen Pieraldi presided over the Venture Capital and Seed Financing Workshop at GigaOM’s recent Structure 08 conference . This week, the pair sat down with Found|READ to share additional lessons from their careers in fundraising. Swart is CEO of oDesk, a staffing […] Read more »
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One of the questions that I really wanted to get answered at Structure 08 was what the chances of survival are for the myriad of startups out there building their businesses around Amazon’s Web Services. Companies such as RightScale, Hyperic and Soasta depend on both the […] Read more »
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 […] Read more »
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. […] Read more »
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 […] Read more »
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, […] Read more »
Over at Structure 08, the GigaOM conference about cloud computing (where Chris and I are, respectively, live-streaming and live-blogging all day), Drew Perkins, the CTO of optical transport equipment maker Infinera, tells us his company is having to rapidly scale its technology as the Internet grows. […] Read more »
Cloud computing isn’t as nebulous as its name implies. Thanks to virtualization, one can separate the storage from the servers and the servers from the software—but it’s also about bandwidth. The primary value will be more about moving data from the hardware to the end user. […] Read more »
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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 […] Read more »
“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 […] Read more »
VMware’s co-founder and chief scientist Mendel Rosenblum is on the couch, getting grilled by Om and Arnie Berman, chief technology strategist, Cowen and Company. Rosenblum says: Virtualization is a wide term. What we’re seeing is, at some level, decoupling software from hardware is a just a […] Read more »
It’s time to exhale: Our first Structure 08 conference, slated to be held on June 25th in San Francisco, is almost sold out. With a week to go we have just 25 tickets left, and I have to tell you that despite the long sleepless nights […] Read more »
We are inching close to ourStructure08 conference and are trying hard to round out the speaker list and the agenda. Our friends at Techcrunch wrote nice things about the upcoming conference on their blog today. I have been spending a lot of time researching the topics […] Read more »
We are inching close to Structure 08 and are trying hard to round out the speaker list and the agenda. Our friends at Techcrunch wrote nice things about the upcoming conference on their blog today. I have been spending a lot of time researching the topics […] Read more »
Today is the last day to get a super-saver discount on tickets for Structure 08, our upcoming conference dedicated to web infrastructure. In addition to keynotes from speakers including Jim Crowe, chairman and CEO of Level 3 Communications, the event will feature the first-ever workshop on […] Read more »
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. Read more »
While Second Life is frequently described as a 3D web browser, there’s a chance it may be remembered as the (late and lamented) Netscape Navigator of metaverse browsers. That thought occurred to me as I was attending the “Open Source Virtual Worlds” panel at last week’s […] Read more »
Google offers developers its kingdom the cloud with its new Application Engine product, risking its fat margins and plopping down on the turf of Jeff Bezos and the rest of the online storage and platform competition. Continue Reading Read more »
Early-bird tickets for our first official GigaOM conference, Structure 08, are only available until midnight tonite. Structure 08 will gather the most innovative and influential industry leaders together to explore the latest Internet infrastructure buildout. Among our scheduled keynote speakers are Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com, […] Read more »
Web businesses — From Google to Facebook to Hulu to MySpace, and everything in between — are seeing unprecedented growth, and the new web infrastructure buildout presents a huge opportunity, for both entrepreneurs and their backers. We will explore this buildout — the ideas, the technology and the money behind it all — at our Structure 08 conference on June 25. Read more »
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