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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 ...
Hey Developers Download Google Chrome OS – Chrome OS Download
If you’re a developer and you’re looking for Google Chrome operating system for download. Here it is. I’ve blogged in the past that we are seeing a massive developer boom and a growing entrepreneurial counter culture. Google is leading this counterculture. I like this approach by Google. You can find the source code here, and ...
I Was One Year Early on Google Chrome News – A Look Back At My Prediction Last Year
Google is hosting a small press gathering in Mountain View to give an update on their progress with Google Chrome OS. This is a technical announcement and set of demos featuring the Chrome OS team. Sundar Pichai, Vice President of Product Management will be speaking along with Matthew Papakipos, Engineering Director for Google Chrome OS. ...
Intel Leverages Cloud With Tools to Test Scalable Apps
Intel Corporation is announcing the launch of Intel® Parallel Universe Portal (http://paralleluniverse.intel.com), a new cloud-based application scalability testing service. The analysis offered by this service helps with scaling — a key programming challenge for multicore processors. This is important for developers in the development of scalable cloud ready apps. Intel Software Group has been outreaching ...
Executive Leadership Series: Lew Moorman President of Rackspace Cloud
Introducing the SiliconANGLE Executive Leadership Series. The SiliconANGLE Executive Leadership Series is a set of posts and podcasts that highlights industry leading figures innovating and changing the technology industry. The first installment is featuring Lew Moorman, senior vice president of strategy Rackspace and president of Rackspace Cloud. The Leadership Series will focus on the people ...