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- Video: Is it time to throw away your servers?
- Last November, I wrote a post with the title Amazon’s Jeff Bezos: Honey, I just shrunk the server hosting business. In that post, I did some simple math to show how a small business like the one I run with Doug Gold (Mass Events Labs, where we host two servers...
- Tags: Servers, video, server, EC2, hosting service
- Blog posts 2007-03-22
- Amazon answers Yahoo: Askville launches
- “Ask a question, get real answers from real people,” Amazon touts at its new Askville, “a better place for you to ask, answer, meet, and play!”Beta launched last month, Amazon’s Askville is a new competitive entrant to Yahoo Answers, which celebrated its one year anniversary last month (see “Yahoo Answers,...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon&rsquo, s Askville, Askville, Social Media, Social Networking, Television, Amateur Content, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Culture, Search, Web 2.0, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- The new age of platforms and ecosystems
- I caught up with Salesforce.com Marc Benioff at the Web 2.0 Summit, where he gave a presentation of enterprise mashups. In the video I asked Benioff about the shift from focusing on individual applications to platforms with diverse ecosystems and utility-like infrastructure services, such as his company’s Apex platform and...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Hardware Infrastructure, Web Technology, web2con
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- Amazon to Google: Hands off our trade secrets
- In "Google to Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon: Hand over confidential, competitive info,” I present Google’s underhanded, hypocritical move to snare direct competitors into revealing confidential, proprietary details of competitive operations to the “do no evil” Google: Google will apparently do anything to ensure its $122 billion market cap free-content by Google's...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-24
- Google's Napoleonic Complex
- What is wrong at the world’s search darling? Is the ghost of Napoleon walking the corridors of the Googleplex?A string of pedestrian products continues to belch out of the Googleplex. The latest unnecessary, ill-conceived, and poorly delivered service is the new Google Finance. I’m not going to...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-03-22
- The Lord taketh and giveth away...even for Steve Jobs
- Could the hardware, operating system and desktop model of computing be finished?As usually happens in the accelerating and madcap world of technology, while there’s one giant publicly feted leap forward for mankind, something else occurs that is going to make the big deal almost irrelevant. Could Bill G. actually be...
- Tags: operating system, desktop
- Blog posts 2006-03-16
- Chess master Kasparov takes on tech execs...and Putin
- At the Disruptions 2005 technology conference put on by Deloitte in San Francisco today, world renowned chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov gave a brief speech and then simultaneously played against about 20 of the executives attending the conference. I talked to Udi Manber, CEO of Amazon’s A9 search engine, who proudly...
- Tags: Garry Kasparov
- Blog posts 2005-09-16
- Where 2.0 preview
- Tim O'Reilly and Where 2.0 conference co-chair Nat Torkington held a conference call last week for journalists looking to get a leg up on what to expect from the new event when it opens in San Francisco on June 29. The "2.0" refers to the electronic generation of mapping and...
- Tags: O&rsquo, Reilly, GPS
- Blog posts 2005-06-06
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