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- Who is the open source candidate?
- A blog called Vanduska made the argument yesterday that Barack Obama is the candidate for open source. (To the right, the candidate and his mother circa 1964.) Vanduska recalls Obama's Google interview, where the gentleman from Illinois supported all the open source buzzwords -- network neutrality, Internet freedom,...
- Tags: Valley, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- Changing the user expectation by freeing applications from the browser
- Disclosure: Last week I announced that I'm working for Adobe. While I haven't officially started, consider me an Adobe employee for all intents and purposes. I have the disclosure statement at the bottom of the page, but I'll probably run this for a while just to make sure there isn't...
- Tags: Silverlight, Flash, Apollo, Ajax
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- LinkSViewer.com: follow the money around Silicon valley
- The New York Times recently argued that, when it comes to creating innovative technology, geography matters -- and that Silicon Valley is still the place to be for anybody with start-up ambitions.Give birth to an information-technology idea in Silicon Valley and the chances of success seem vastly higher than when...
- Tags: Facebook, Friendster, LinkedIn, Social Networks
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
- Full moon in the valley? SalesForce and TypePad both down.
- Full moon in the Valley? SalesForce and TypePad both down.Scheduled MaintenanceDavid -Both services were running scheduled maintenance.Salesforce was upgrading the rest of their servers to the Winter '07 release.Typepad info here: http://status.typepad.com-- MarkSalesforceWatch.comScheduled maintenance?Both sites were "up" enough for a request to their home page to respond with something....
- Tags: Sales force management, TypePad, Salesforce.com Inc., Scheduled Maintenance, Full Moon, Valley
- Discussion threads 2007-01-13
- In Search of the valley
- In Search of the ValleyMaybe he left something out?Jobs and Wozniak did some amazing, inspiring things. I have a particular affinity for Wozniak. I've listened to the story of the technological lessons he learned that ultimately led to the creation of the first Apple computer. It's amazing.However, when it comes...
- Tags: Desktops, Xerox PARC, Apple Macintosh, Valley
- Discussion threads 2007-01-04
- In Search of the valley
- Worth watching: During the holiday I had the pleasure of watching "In Search of the Valley," a film written, directed and edited by fellow ZDNet blogger Steve OHear. The polished film, shot in September 2004, documents the month long journey of Steve and friends to explore the soul of Silicon...
- Tags: Valley, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, General
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- Utopia awaits moment of truth
- Utopia awaits moment of truthGovernments should not be mixed with business.Sorry but it is not the role of governments to be in business. Especially when theyre are competitive alternatives being offered.I would also question how smart it is to be burying more fiber/wire in the ground when true high...
- Tags: WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Network technology, investment, Customer Choice, valley, wireless, fiber, IEEE 802.16, cable, SHARED BANDWIDTH, UTOPIA
- Discussion threads 2004-04-13
Additional Resources
- ABC called looking for an "All American" bachelor...
- I got a call from one of the producers of The Bachelor looking for a new crop. Did I know any bachelors? I said I did. They said they should be tall, the women are asking for at least 6 foot tall, they should be charming, handsome, and have...
- Tags: Look, ABC Inc., Women, Gender And Diversity, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Human Resources, Internet, Marketing, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly?
- Comcast has acquired Plaxo in a move that aims to make the cable giant's interactive portfolio more social and potentially bring a little Web 2.0 to your set-top box. Financial terms weren't disclosed, but TechCrunch puts the deal at about $150 million to $170 million. Comcast has...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Network, Comcast Corp., Game Plan, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Social Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move
- In a move that surprises few people, Plaxo is being acquired. The surprise - at least for some - is that it is Comcast and not one of the usual suspects of Facebook or Google. Comcast is Plaxo's biggest partner and provides hosting for all Comcast email subscriber address books....
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Comcast Corp., Advertising & Promotion, E-mail, Marketing, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Using satellite imagery to explore ancient Mexico
- An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology RIT is using satellite imagery to peer into the ancient Mexican past. Bill Middleton, an archeologist, is teaming up with computer scientists to build the most detailed landscape map of the southern state of Oaxaca in order to learn...
- Tags: NASA, Scientist, Satellite, Satellite Imagery, Bill Middleton, ScienceDaily, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Facebook is the new Google as exodus of top xooglers continues
- The latest high-level executive to leave Google for Facebook is Elliott Schrage, who headed the corporate communications team. When the top person responsible for Google's messaging across all products and for its international policy leaves this points to a serious change within the company. Facebook has been...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Public Relations, Business Ethics, Recruitment & Selection, Team Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Diggnation for enterprise?
- The cool kids in Silicon Valley think they have all the fun? Check this out: Diggnation for Enterprise featuring SAP's Bill McDermott, Henning Kagermann and Leo Apotheker at SAPPHIRE08 in Orlando. In contrast to Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht, this is an altogether...
- Tags: Leo Apotheker, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- iTunes announces same day movie releases as DVD
- iTunes announces same day movie releases as DVDJobs one Awesome NegotiatorAs Silicon Valley Insider said "Steve Jobs Gets His Mega Studio Deal".Steve Jobs sees to be an incredible negotiator and seemingly has a magic touch in bending very tough managers from very different industries to his will.Examples: signing all those...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, movie, digital-rights management, Apple iTunes, DVD, Steve Jobs
- Discussion threads 2008-05-01
- Tibco Software And Silicon valley. . .
- I rarely get to write about Tibco Software, one of the oldest Silicon Valley companies, and one of my favorite companies. The reason I rarely write about Tibco is that Tibco has been my most loyal supporter and sponsor for what I've been doing the last three plus years, publishing...
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Financial Accounting, Pricing, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software, Finance, Marketing, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- The machines for making TVs
- Not everything gets made overseas. CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos tours the Silicon Valley facilities of Applied Materials, where they make equipment for producing televisions and solar panels.
- Tags: News, Michael Kanellos, solar, solar panels, TV's, Applied Materials, Silicon Valley, plasma, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Videos 2008-04-30
- Forget the paperless office dream, but how about a paperless living room?
- Like several high tech innovations Zinio began as a digital service aimed at B2B. But it worked, so it's inevitably grown to become a global, consumer-oriented service as well. If it works at work, just think how you can use it at home. And then...
- Tags: Magazine, Zinio, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- VC Supports Next, Greener Generation of Biotech
- Using, not losing, all the carbon. Courtesy Zeachem and Mohr Davidow. Click on diagram for full view. We've had several blogs here recently reflecting the building political anxiety around the current generation of biofuels, esp. those based on using food products. You...
- Tags: Food, Biofuel, Biodiesel, Clean Technology, Zeahcem, OPX, Genomatica, Biotechnology, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Want Intel's newest chip? Buy an iMac
- In a comment left yesterday by Davewrite under my story about the new, speedier iMacs noted that the Intel Core Duo Extreme processor found in the new iMacs is not yet available in any PC. In fact, the chip isn't officially rolled out by Intel yet. According...
- Tags: Apple iMac, Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Chip, Montevina, Processors, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Components, Networking, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- News to know: Psystar; IT Dojo; Microsoft moral; SQL Injection attacks; Ubuntu
- Notable headlines: David Morgenstern: Is Psystar Mac clone using the Kalyway boot hack? IT Dojo: Create your own bootable USB flash drive for Windows XP Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft internal memo details Windows 7-Windows Live ties Another reason...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, Yahoo! Inc., SQL, Microsoft Corp., SQL Injection, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Strategy, Software, Management
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
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