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- ZDNet Author Biography
In May 2004, Tom Foremski became the first journalist to leave a major newspaper, the Financial Times, to make a living as a full-time journalist blogger. He writes the popular news blog Silicon Valley Watcher--reporting on the business of Silicon Valley.Tom arrived in San Francisco in 1984, and has covered...- more about Tom Foremski »
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- Will a fragmented media lead to a flowering of culture?
- Media is how society thinks and seeks to influence. What will a fragmented media do to society? by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Media, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-28
- The high carbon-cost of search . . .
- Search is really inefficient, there's a huge bandwidth cost as dozens of spiderbots create a search index. by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Tom Foremski, Index
- Blog posts 2009-11-27
- A single search index would speed up the entire Internet
- Spiderbots are huge drain on Internet resources. We could get an immediate speed boost if we had a single search index. by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Speed, Spiderbots, Internet, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-24
- What if the search-index was run by a non-profit? GOOG founders once supported that idea
- Google's founders once thought that search was so important it should be non-profit. Maybe now's a good time to do that. by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Google Inc., Founder, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- Tech Awards: Al Gore's a bore, "cash prizes" . . . and amazing laureates
- My review of the Tech Awards Gala which celebrated some amazing laureates doing wonderful work... by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Tom Foremski, Al Gore
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- Rewarding tech that benefits humanity
- Every year Silicon Valley puts on a grand gala to award five $50,000 prizes to tech used in the service of humanity... by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Tech, Humanity, Benefits, Human Resources, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- Techmeme's 6 editors signals potential trouble with Google PageRank
- The demise of linking has forced Techmeme to add human editors because its search algorithm is no longer reliable. A watershed moment. by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Google PageRank, Editor, TechMeme, Engineering, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- Wow! Top execs say they are influenced by social networks
- This is a big deal: A new study shows that social networks affect business decisions... by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Tibco: What's next? - moving beyond real-time IT
- Tibco describes an Enterprise 3.0 world where businesses can respond in real-time using predictive analytics... by Tom Foremski
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., Information Technology, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- GOOG could lose more than Murdoch
- Surely Google has more to lose from being blocked by the newspaper industry. It's index is key--it cares little if content is free... by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Google Inc., Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-16
- Rupert Murdoch's Google taunts are a bid to unite publishers - content will be king
- It looks like Rupert Murdoch is positioning himself as the saviour of the newspaper industry. He might very well succeed... by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Google Inc., Rupert Murdoch, Branding, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-16
- Public healthcare could spur Silicon Valley innovation and create jobs
- Public healthcare could reduce startup costs and increase the number of small innovative companies leading to lots of new jobs... by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Innovation, Job, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-13
- Rupert Murdoch and the dirty little secret about Google traffic...
- Google relies on new content and in return for indexing newspapers it offers lots of traffic. But can it continue that trade? by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Google Inc., Traffic, Rupert Murdoch, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
- Intel tries again with electronic products despite a very poor track record
- Intel intros a handy e-reader for the visually impaired. But can it succeed in making gadgets when it has failed so many times before? by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Intel Corp., Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- Is MySQL an "albatross" around the neck of Larry Ellison?
- Pressure is building on Larry Ellison to get rid of MySQL if he wants to close the acquisition of Sun... by Tom Foremski
- Tags: MySQL, Larry Ellison, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- SnapLogic snaps together different data flows and cuts integration costs
- I recently had a chance to catch up with one of my favorite Silicon Valley serial entrepreneurs Gauruv Dhillon. When I first met Mr Dhillon he was CEO of Informatica, one of the top software companies in Silicon Valley. These days he is founder,...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Developer, Consultant, Snap, SnapLogic, Cloud Computing, Web Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- Scary study on how lack of IPOs is harming US economy
- A new study proposes sweeping changes in stock market regulations to help drive new IPOs and catch up with Asian markets... by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Stock, Stock Market, IPO, Investment, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- AT&T shows new technologies including a "telesole" for shoes...
- AT&T shows of some of its labs projects which might become commercial ventures over the next couple of years... by Tom Foremski
- Tags: AT&T Corp., Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- Steve Jobs: Silicon Valley's Babe Ruth (and Fortune's CEO of the decade)
- Love or hate Apple but you have to give Steve Jobs his due -- he has an amazing track record of success, and he's not done yet... by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- GOOG Chief: Silicon Valley's secret is its weather
- Yes, the secret to Silicon Valley is its remarkable weather. The universities, the venture capital, the innovation are all secondary... by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Google Inc., Weather, Secret, Venture Capital, Leadership, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
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