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- From Web services to Web 2.0 -- same name, new game
- This week's announcement that Google had acquired GrandCentral Communications reflects one brand's evolution from Web services intermediary to Web 2.0 innovator.Up until a couple of years ago, we in the Web services/SOA world knew Grand Central as a kind of an integration-on-demand provider before the concept hit the mainstream.Now, GrandCentral...
- Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch
- Blog posts 2007-07-03
- Grand Central turning to Swivel
- After co-founding and leading CNET from which this blog issues forth from obscurity to Web stardom, Halsey Minor started 12 Entrepreneuring, raising over $130 million to incubate Web services companies before flaming out during the 2001 bubble bursting. One of the few incubated companies to survive 12 Entrepreneuring's dissolution was...
- Tags: Grand Central, Halsey Minor
- Blog posts 2005-11-28
- From Minor to major...
- We've entered the "practical phase" of Web services, says Halsey Minor, CEO of Grand Central in a recent interview with Business Week. "The first phase was a bunch of people designing a whole bunch of standards -- primarily those were a bunch of computer scientists. Now people are getting practical...
- Tags: Minor, Grand Central, Halsey Minor
- Blog posts 2005-02-16
- Grand Central services model leaves station
- Halsey Minor: "Services will replace software."Halsey Minor, CEO of Grand Central Communications and founder and former chairman of CNET Networks, sits down with ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber in a Face to Face interview and explains how his company acts as a central hub for integration services, offering customers...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Halsey Minor
- Videos 2004-08-11
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- 5 years of insights and lessons as a professional "journalist - blogger"
- It was about five years ago that I left my job as a reporter and columnist for the Financial Times in the San Francisco bureau. And it's been a tremendous journey. I didn't realize at the time that I would become the first reporter to leave a...
- Tags: Newspaper, Blogger, Blogging, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Swivel launches a YouTube for data and charts
- Swivel doesnt mention the term "data visualization" in explaining what it does. Instead the company speaks about "exploring all the worlds data and making it fun and insightful for everyone." As an example, Swivel announced that The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD is making its 2007 OECD...
- Tags: Web Technology, Web 2.0 Expo, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- DNS for the Web 2.0 age
- The current coverage for Swivel is a boost for Minor Ventures, the investment fund set up by CNET founder Halsey Minor. Ive recently become a fan of another Minor-backed startup, OpenDNS. A few weeks ago, I was on the verge of buying a new broadband router. I had been...
- Tags: OpenDNS, Venture capital, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-12-07
- DemoFall 2006: VoIP upstarts
- Jahah launched a Web service that makes most phone calls free about six months ago, and today at DemoFall 2006 the company introduced a version of its service that lives on cell phones. Jahah Mobile currently supports Java-based and Symbian TM S60 version 7.x or 8.x phones. Phone...
- Tags: telephone, Jahah Mobile
- Blog posts 2006-09-27
- Is AT&T-SBC tiff with SF newspaper really about fear of Google?
- Even though I think Internet entrepreneur and savant John Battelle has way, way overhyped a Web 2.0 that doesn't exist as an embodied, sensient force, I have a tendency to regard his observations and reportage with the utmost credibility.That's why my head turned when I read John's latest Searchblog...
- Tags: Google Inc., SBC
- Blog posts 2006-02-07
- What to expect from Web 3.0
- Any veteran of the software industry will tell you that version 2.0 of any product tends to be a shortlived staging post on the way to 3.0, which is where it finally hits the mark. Windows was a classic example. 1.0 was so buggy it...
- Tags: Web, Web 3.0
- Blog posts 2005-11-29
- Grand Central/Swivel test drive
- Yesterday I wrote about the Grand Central/Swivel makeover, and a via PaidContent.org reference about my post was directed to Byrne Reese's blog. He worked at Grand Central Communications from September 2000 to August 2004. His last job at the company was director of product management. He's now manager of platform...
- Tags: Byrne Reese, Grand Central/Swivel, Swivel, Grand
- Blog posts 2005-11-29
- Salesforce.com leads the way at software as a service conference
- Industry experts, executives, and entrepreneurs gathered in Santa Clara for SDForum's full-day "Software as a Service" event. The sold out conference kicked off with a panel, which included CNET founder Halsey Minor, talking about the practical considerations of the burgeoning model. (The CIO weblog, also covering the event, has...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, software-as-a-service
- Blog posts 2005-03-22
- Metaphor Watch
- As Joenoted in a previous post, one of the most significant challenges hampering theadvance of Web Services today is the opaque and abstruseway we speakof it.We are still very focused on tech talk and standards concerns; we have yet to really paint a vision that will grab the attention of...
- Tags: LEGO Co.
- Blog posts 2004-11-04
- Grand Central's service model leaves the station
- Grand Central CEO Halsey Minor also founder and former chairman of CNET Networks likes to talk about how his company is similar to salesforce.com he was the first investors in that company, which is leading the first wave of business software as a service. After interviewing Halsey, it seems that...
- Tags: Grand Central
- Blog posts 2004-08-11
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