John Furrier
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Happy New Year
2009 was the year SiliconANGLE was born. What a great year. In our first 10 month of existence we managed to produce over 1100 posts reaching over 600,000+ unique users. What’s more exciting is the engaged group of contributors. At the beginning I felt that a healthy goal was to have maybe 20 contributors in ...
Rackspace Takes Page Out of the Old Microsoft’s Playbook – Partner Don’t Kill Ecosystem Players
Rackspace is partnering with FathomDB, a relational database-as-a-service (DaaS) company. FathomDB is a service that will make the day-to-day operations of running a database much simpler, allowing you to focus on higher end tasks of your application. This partnership is an extension of Rackspace’s ecosystem buildout (under Cloud Tools site), and at the same time ...
Techcrunch as the Content Strip-Mall
Mike Arrington has a good op ed about the future of machine based blogs and content theft. Bottom line: it’s a speed game and fast food content is being served up all over the place. I agree with Mike (and Steven Hodson, who talked about this topic months ago over at the Inquisitr). I do ...
2009 Mobile Advertising Revenue & Market Share Leaders
IDC’s Karsten Weide just released revised estimates the annual gross U. S. advertising revenue of the major mobile players. What’s interesting is that the Millennial Media was the clear leader in both revenues and in market share. The top spot is now owned by Google thanks to Ad Mob. That leaves Millennial Media (the former ...
Steve Jobs and Woz Trained at HP – Then Build Apple – Great Interview: Chuck House at HP
Hewlett-Packard back in the day was a special company that shaped the computing industry by motivating Steve Jobs and Woz to build Apple Computer. KQED Forum has this great interview with Chuck House who was a leading figure at Hewlett-Packard, a company that I spend the first 9 years of my career. This is a ...
Clean vs. Dirty Data: Data as the New Developer Kit [Twitter and Facebook]
Facebook is racing to open up their privacy settings. Why? Their $15 billion dollar valuation and future depend on it. The faster Facebook opens up the data the faster a few things happen. First, Facebook can starting implementing and then scale a search offering. Second, Facebook can start rolling out new ad products for advertisers ...
Twitter’s Firehose Myth – What You Need To Know About the Twitter Firehose and APIs
Today’s big news: Twitter is developer focused and is expanding it’s policy for access to their data. The Twitter firehose is opening up in 2010. I wanted to share my perspective on the Twitter APIs and interfaces for developers. Drinking from the Firehose – Not Until 2010 There are a lot of places where people ...
Google Tried Last Minute to Steal LaLa from Apple – Now It’s Real Time Innovation – Relevance and Mobile
While everyone is Twitter crazy they are missing a big battle between Google and Apple. Google throwing the kitchen sink at Apple in the fight to gain leadership in all things web and all things mobile. According to a source just last month Google stole AdMob from Apple and then tried to do some late ...
Leadership Series: An Afternoon with Rightscale’s Michael Crandell
I recently had lunch at Max’s in Menlo Park with Michael Crandell, the CEO of Rightscale (the cloud services manager company), to talk about trends and observations in cloud computing. You can hear the background noise at Max’s (great desserts at Max’s). Here are my notes from the meeting: Rightscale has a unique perspective in ...
Google Chrome Cloud OS for Netbooks and Beyond – Google Chrome OS
According to Google a perfect storm of converging trends is the themes. The Netbook is really what Google is targeting. Chrome OS is for Netbooks for what Android is for SmartPhones. Best news is that it’s all open source. Here is Google’s blog post on the open sourcing of the effort. In their presentation and ...