Hadoop-Focused Startup Cloudera Raises $5 MillionMonday, March 16, 2009Source: GigaOM | Category: Media Cloudera, a Burlingame, Calif-based company offering services around the open source software framework Hadoop, has raised $5 million in Series A funding led by Accel Partners. It has also attracted funding from seasoned infrastructure executive and Web veterans such as Caterina Fake (co-founder, Flickr), Dr. Qi Lu (president of the Online Services Group, Microsoft), Marten [...] Read more |
Yahoo Video Strategy Take Two: Finding Audiences First, Programming SecondSunday, March 15, 2009Source: paidContent | Category: Media pimg src="http://paidcontent.org/images/uploads/video_logov1.gif" alt="image" align="right" width="159" height="43" border=0" /Yahoo (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=YHOO" class="ticker" title="YHOO"NSDQ: YHOO/a) has been winding down the "experiments" in online video over the past few years and is now ready for another try. On Monday, the portal company will unveil the details of its current video strategy, which execs tell NYT will be focused on building programs for specific audiences instead trying to gather viewers after the fact. [...] Read more |
Tech Startups Don’t Need the Valley Unless They Need VCSunday, March 15, 2009Source: GigaOM | Category: Media At South by Southwest Interactive today, panelists from the Bay Area; Madison, Wisc.; Beijing; and Austin, Texas, debated the value of building your startup in the Valley, and the corrupting influence of venture capital on technology startups. The panel came to the conclusion that, if you want to build big and build fast, then you [...] Read more |
With a New Server, Cisco Pushes “Comm-puting” StrategySunday, March 15, 2009Source: GigaOM | Category: Media In a matter of hours, Cisco Systems will announce its much awaited lineup of server products, furthering its theme of unified computing. The move is part of an ongoing effort at Cisco to find new revenue opportunities that go beyond switches, routers and wireless devices. Read more |
Tweeting Works: ATT Boosts SXSW NetworkSunday, March 15, 2009Source: GigaOM | Category: Media The tweets, blog posts and constant complaining about AT&T’s shoddy network coverage at South by Southwest has not fallen on deaf ears. Seth Bloom a spokesman at AT&T, emailed me ten minutes ago to say that the carrier is adding capacity to the downtown Austin network, and attendees should see their iPhone (or other AT&T [...] Read more |
Forget the Fail Whale: Twitter Jumps the SharkSunday, March 15, 2009Source: GigaOM | Category: Media Twitter has jumped the shark for the digerati attending South by Southwest here in Austin. Daniel Terdiman at C|Net points out what everyone trying to follow the #sxsw tweets have discovered –there are just too many of them. It seems that while Twitter’s hardware can scale for the many millions of people who have joined [...] Read more |
At SXSW Smartphones Rule, Notebooks DroolSaturday, March 14, 2009Source: GigaOM | Category: Media After a day spent roaming the halls of the Austin Convention Center at South by Southwest listening in on other peoples’ conversations and tracking trends, I am somewhat surprised by the relative scarcity of notebooks. In years past the halls were lined with people glued to the walls, power cords linking their laptops (usually Macs) [...] Read more |
Facebook Friends the iPhone, Apps Will Now ConnectSaturday, March 14, 2009Source: GigaOM | Category: Media Facebook today announced that your iPhone apps can be friends with Facebook at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas –something Om had written about nine months ago. David Morin, with Facebook, told the audience that now that they can play games or tie their iPhone apps to their Facebook friends anywhere — [...] Read more |
Variable Pricing Coming to Mobile Broadband?Friday, March 13, 2009Source: GigaOM | Category: Media As people start taking advantage of always-on access to mobile broadband, and new fourth generation cellular networks are deployed, carriers are considering how to protect their data services revenue. They don’t want to make the mistakes made in the broadband wireless world that led to ISPs becoming dumb pipes. They also have to consider how [...] Read more |
At SXSW, Location Awareness Is The New BlackFriday, March 13, 2009Source: GigaOM | Category: Media The annual SXSW Festival is on, and this year I am surprised by the number of location-aware mobile services being launched in Austin, Texas, many of them for Apple’s iPhone. SocialBomb launched its Paparazzi game, which allows you to click and share photos of your friends and having them mapped to location. I love this little [...] Read more |
Is a Post-x86 World “Preposterous”?Friday, March 13, 2009Source: GigaOM | Category: Media Over at CNET, Peter N. Glaskowsky, a technology analyst for The Envisioneering Group, is calling my post, Can Intel Thrive In a Post x86 World?, “preposterous.” He argues that Intel can thrive, and that my idea that we are entering a post-x86 world is wrong. Perhaps “post x86″ isn’t the most elegant way of summing [...] Read more |
Hybrid Computers Will Hide in the CloudFriday, March 13, 2009Source: GigaOM | Category: Media Heterogeneous computing, where hardware vendors mix a variety of processors (graphics processors, CPUs, embedded chips or DSPs) on a server to increase energy efficiency and processing speed, will become a reality in the data center in the next decade, says an IBM executive. Such arrangements increase complexity and can cause headaches for developers and customers, [...] Read more |
SaaS Grows Up and Validates the CloudFriday, March 13, 2009Source: GigaOM | Category: Media The next generation of highly successful software as a service (SaaS) companies will likely focus on delivering collaboration and IT management, according to a report out today from Forrester Research. The report takes a look at the SaaS infrastructure and lays out the case for continued SaaS adoption among certain groups of applications (see chart). What [...] Read more |
Dot Eco: Does the World Need A Green Top-Level Domain?Friday, March 13, 2009Source: GigaOM | Category: Media Whether you like it or not, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) — the nonprofit Internet naming registry that controls all the top-level domains like dot com — will likely be accepting new ones within the next 12 months. If the entrepreneurs behind Dot Eco get their way, the environmentally focused top-level [...] Read more |
With New CEO Spin Out Ahead For AOLFriday, March 13, 2009Source: GigaOM | Category: Media Tim Armstrong, till recently senior V.P. of sales at Google will become the new chairman and chief executive of AOL, the troubled division of Time Warner, replacing much un-loved Randy Falco. Sure AOL is big, but so is General Motors. So why is he taking on this mission impossible? To put it simply, Armstrong wants [...] Read more |
With New CEO, Spin Out Ahead For AOLFriday, March 13, 2009Source: GigaOM | Category: Media Tim Armstrong, until recently senior VP of sales at Google, will become the new chairman and chief executive of AOL, the troubled division of Time Warner, replacing the much un-loved Randy Falco. Sure AOL is big, but so is General Motors. So, why is he taking on this mission impossible? To put it simply, Armstrong [...] Read more |
Radio’s Right to Free Tunes Is on the RocksThursday, March 12, 2009Source: GigaOM | Category: Media There are hearings this week in Congress on whether non-satellite radio stations should pay a performance royalty for the music they play. They have not had to do so, unlike the radio industries in other parts of the world, for historical reasons. The music industry has been lobbying to right this decades-long wrong, and its [...] Read more |
O’Reilly: Why Tech Business Should Support ObamaThursday, March 12, 2009Source: GigaOM | Category: Media Tim O’Reilly had a simple message for the tech community earlier this week at the Emerging Technology conference: Support Obama! Wait, isn’t the campaign over? It may be, but the next presidential contest is already around the corner, and O’Reilly believes that there’s only a short window of opportunity to actually innovate in Washington. That’s [...] Read more |
How Is Cloud Computing Like Space Travel?Thursday, March 12, 2009Source: GigaOM | Category: Media I was thinking about reliability in the cloud when I saw this news item about the International Space System experiencing a close call with some space debris. The threat of the debris hitting the station forced the astronauts to hang out in their escape capsule to wait out the potential hit. Scary stuff, but then [...] Read more |
Can Intel Thrive in a Post x86 World?Thursday, March 12, 2009Source: GigaOM | Category: Media The way we use computers is changing, as device makers and users emphasize mobility and incredible graphics. I’ve argued that these trends signal the end of x86 computing, but what I’ve ignored is Intel’s drive to bring its brand of x86 computing to these markets, which are traditionally based on other instruction sets. If it [...] Read more |
