Social Media Gone Awry: When Mommybloggers Attack
I had intended, today, to focus solely on coding and site issues, as I have been doing for the last 36 hours (aside from a brief nap). I made the mistake at glancing at…
Morgan Stanley Says Apple May Have The Most Disruptive Technology Launch Ever
By Sean P. Aune
It seems that it is now official: Steve Jobs has delivered unto us the most important device ever built. Morgan Stanley released a 424-page study (PDF link) about how the mobile space is growing.…
Rackspace Takes Page Out of the Old Microsoft’s Playbook – Partner Don’t Kill Ecosystem Players
By John Furrier
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…
A New Opportunity for PR Flacks
By Robert Lee
I had originally started to post this as just another SNL clip about the ongoing slow-motion Tiger Woods soap opera. But then I preceded it with some observations on the whole situation. And I…
The FTC Alleges Intel Engaged in Systematic Anticompetitive Campaigns
The US Federal Trade Commission today finally issued a statement regarding their ongoing investigation of alleged anticompetitive practices over at Intel, on the claim that they are stifling innovation: The Federal Trade Commission today…
Analyst Reports are So 1.0
By Jeff Nolan
Mary Meeker (yep she’s still rowing that same boat) came out with the mother of all reports on the mobile market: We decided to create The Mobile Internet Report largely in PowerPoint and publish…
The Death of “Viral Widgets” [Finally]
By Alex Calic
Last month Joe Marchese, President of SocialVibe, authored a guest article on MediaPost entitled The Widget is Dead. Then earlier this month Clearspring announced that it was deprecating Launchpad, its original widget sharing platform…
Predictions 2010: Millennial Media’s List
The proverbial “Year of Mobile” came and went. There was no cataclysmic tipping point that shocked industry-watchers into acknowledging mobile as a highly effective and efficient advertising medium. While some were taking a…
Android Market hits 20,000 Apps Milestone
By Sean P. Aune
It appears that the Google Android operating system is growing into a real contender with the growth of its marketplace for apps having now broken through the 20,000 apps level. While Google does not…
Amazon’s Spot Instances: Innovation or Lock-in?
Yesterday, news came down from Amazon that they were going to an almost Google Adsense style auction model to their EC2 platform. Spot Instances allow you to specify the maximum hourly price that you…