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The week in video: Web 2.0 economy, marc andreessen; Yahoo; Live Mesh: Here's a look at Web 2.0 Expo's greatest hits. Is the Web 2.0 economy in limbo? Marc Andreessen talks past and present Yahoo CTO talks up Open Strategy ...; Tags: Web, Marc Andreessen, Yahoo! Inc., Video, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-25
marc andreessen, past and present: Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and co-author of Mosaic, sits down with John Battelle, founder and chairman of Federated Media publishing at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Andreessen talks about his current social-networking site Ning, and the impact of Facebook apps and Google’s OpenSocial.; Tags: Marc Andreessen, Ning, OpenSocial, Facebook, Browser, Google, Social Networks, Web 2.0 Expo; Videos 2008-04-24
Enterprise SaaS and the cloud: ISVs today have three choices when setting out to build a SaaS application: A. Build the application on your own infrastructure, which you'll have to assemble from scratch using open source and commodity components. B. Build it on a packaged platform from an established application infrastructure...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Andreessen, Software-as-a-service, Platform, ISV, Computing, Force.com, Riskonnect, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Force Management, Service Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-01-17
Salesforce.com ascends to the cloud: Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff opened his "Tour de Force" presentation in San Francisco touting the prowess of the Force.com platform and his company--1 million subscribers, on track for more than $1 billion in its fiscal year (starting Feb. 1), 24 billion API calls to date, 130 million transactions daily, 210...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Andreessen, Marc Benioff, Platform, Internet, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-01-17
Is Facebook the next Netscape?: Marc Andreessen's Ning team has put together a screencast and screenshots of OpenSocial in action. He notes that the examples are a little light on social functionality at this point, but they are working on getting user's friends information and activities feeds into the applications. For...; Tags: Facebook, Marc Andreessen, Netscape Communications Corp., Microsoft Corp., Channel Management, Web Browsers, Marketing, Internet, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-11-01

The Facebook Platform according to marc andreessen: The Facebook Platform according to Marc AndreessenMarc isn't the only oneMarc Andreeson isn't the only one to recognize the power of Facebook. Check out what Rupert Murdoch said: http://www.mathoda.com/archives/165; Tags: Facebook, Marc Andreessen, Marc; Discussion threads 2007-06-12
The Facebook Platform according to marc andreessen: Marc Andreessen discovered blogging recently and is becoming a blogging sensation faster than he became the poster child for Web 1.0 with Netscape. In his most recent blog, Andreessen analyzes the Facebook phenomenon, looking at the pros and cons of the new platform, with some comparison to the social networking...; Tags: Web Technology, Social networking; Blog posts 2007-06-12
marc andreessen's cheat sheets: Here's a last minute project for your programming, IT, and web design classes: pick Marc Andreessen's brain. The founder of Netscape and one of the original authors of the Mozilla browser has his own blog of course and just released a list of his favorite websites for quickly and...; Tags: Education Technology; Blog posts 2007-06-11
Netscape founder stumps for Sun: Marc Andreessen also talks about community buildingCompany President Jonathan Schwartz introduced Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and Ning, at Sun's analyst conference. Andreessen plugged Sun's server products, but also asked members of Ning, a community-building site, to stay out of the office.; Tags: Ning, Sun Microsystems Inc., Marc Andreessen; Videos 2006-02-02
Photo: Andreessen looks forward: Marc Andreessen tells his audience that PHP is picking up where Java is leaving off.; Tags: Marc Andreessen, PHP, Java, photograph; Image galleries 2005-10-19
Photo: Andreessen looks forward: Marc Andreessen tells his audience that PHP is picking up where Java is leaving off.; Tags: Marc Andreessen, PHP, Java, photograph; Image galleries 2005-10-19

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Run by Wall Street? A Cause or a Company?: Guest post: Anshu Sharma is author of Anshu's blog, which focuses on Software as a Service and the emerging SaaS Ecosystem. He is an Enterprise Irregular. In light of the Yahoo! - Microsoft fiasco, fellow bloggers Larry Dignan and Vinnie Mirchandani have been asking the question whether...; Tags: Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Vision, Wall, Management Team, Software As A Service (SaaS), Financial Accounting, Construction, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Management, Anshu Sharma; Blog posts 2008-05-16
25-year-old BSD bug found--and fixed: 25-year-old BSD bug found--and fixedSteve is the evil twin...The good Balmer twin, Marc, is out there doing productive things for society! ;); Tags: UNIX, BSD; Discussion threads 2008-05-13
CODA2Go and the economics of PaaS: I had the opportunity to talk money last week with Jeremy Roche, CEO of CODA, the venerable UK-based business software vendor that has become the poster child for Salesforce.com's platform ambitions after the release at DreamForce Europe of its new on-demand financials application, built and delivered entirely on Force.com. Why...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Roche Holding AG, PaaS, On-demand, CODA2Go, Force.com, Coda, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-13
The Obama Party and the Googlization of politics: Barack Obama is the Google of modern American politics. MyBarackObama and Google share strengths and, perhaps, weaknesses. I just described Google's problem with the ASP loophole. By supporting the loophole Google maintains its proprietary advantage but risks losing friends in the open source community....; Tags: Movement, Google Inc., Barack Obama, Stoller, Open Source, Blogging, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-09
News to know: AMD; Oil and telecommuting; Verizon's EV-DO modem; Linux: Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: Review: Verizon UM150 USB EV-DO modem Gallery right. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun News.com: AMD revises server road map Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How long can AMD...; Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Oil, Telecommuting, Sun Microsystems Inc., EVDO, Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Modems, WiMAX, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Federal Government, 64-Bit, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Components, Wireless, Government, Processors, Semiconductors; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce Europe: Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce EuropeFrom all indicationsEverybody is searching still for Web 2.0. And they're trying to trot out Web 3.0 already?HDTV, Vista, and now Web 3.0. What will they think of next? Flying Monkeymobiles?; Tags: Channel management, Web 3.0, Web, Dreamforce Europe, Marc Benioff; Discussion threads 2008-05-07
Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce Europe: Salesforce.com has come to London today for its first DreamForce Europe event. There have been European customer and partner events in previous years, but this is the first event at true DreamForce scale â€” 2,500 attendees at the Barbican conference center in the heart of the City, London's financial district....; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Marc Benioff, Web 3.0, PaaS, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Channel Management, Sales, Marketing, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-07
News to know: Vista troubleshooting, RIM, XP SP3, Apple, SAP: Notable headlines: XP SP3: Now on Windows Update Ed Bott: Fixing Windows Vista, Part 3: Top Troubleshooting Tools [See Gallery] David Morgenstern: Is Mac OS X Leopard, Safari 3.x too dark? Larry Dignan: Cisco third...; Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Microsoft Windows Update, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Windows Vista, SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-07
Who uses Java SE 6 for Mac? (updated): Apple recently released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 (which adds Java SE 6 to your Mac) after receiving much criticism for omitting it when Leopard shipped: Discussion threads began to appear in Apple's support forum following the release of OS X Leopard on 26 October, and...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, JDK, Apple Inc., Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-05-05