Building a $10,000 Home Production Studio
Marc Ostrick and I continue our adventure into emerging tech with a return trip to Vegas for the 2010 International Consumer Electronic Show. We’re on a mission to take the lessons learned from our…
YouTube and Prop 8: When the Government Backs a Horse in the Online Video Game…
By Jeff Nolan
There has been quite a bit of commentary about the decision by a Federal judge to allow video of the ongoing Prop 8 constitutionality trial to be posted on YouTube, a decision that has…
How To: Craft Your Killer Pitch [PR 2.0]
By Tom Foremski
I’m often asked by PR people about the best type of pitches. There is a widespread belief in the PR community that there is a way to make the perfect pitch about a client…
Google vs China Update: Chinese Targeted Internal Spy System
By Tom Foremski
Computerworld has a very interesting story about the Google/China flap. Reporter Robert McMillan quotes an unnamed source: …they [hackers] apparently were able to access a system used to help Google comply with search warrants…
HP Microsoft Poney Up $230 Million & Team Up To Drive Cloud Adoption
By John Furrier
According to new reports Microsoft and HP are expanding their 25 year partnership. According to the briefing (which we were not part of) over the next three years, the two companies will invest $250…
So We’re All Supposed to Believe Google Finally Developed a Conscience? [The Dissenting Opinion]
Ryan Tate at Valleywag wrote an uncharacteristically positive opening line to a post today: “Google is putting its profits and growth on the line to stand up to China’s [sic] authoritartian practices.” Are they…
Google is Right: China is Not a Developing Country
By Jeff Nolan
Larry wrote this today and I think it pretty much sums up the situation for Google in China. Reading all of this laid out in a blog post can be summed up in one…
Google Pulls a Conan O’Brien, Would Rather Close Down Search than Censor
By Tom Foremski
Yesterday I wrote that when it comes to China, "Google’s backbone is as flexible as that of a Chinese circus contortionist." Because Google is quick to bend over backwards and appease the Chinese authorities…
War Against The West – Google China Situation
By John Furrier
Here is a round up of some of the facts being reported around the web. Obviously to me this is a war against the west. Google has gone above and beyond the call of…
Fear Not Google, A Cloud Challenger Will Appear
Today I want to talk about possibilities. In reading John Furrier‘s great post about Google’s impending dominance in the world of cloud computing, at SiliconANGLE and its network this story has sparked interest, questions,…