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Yahoo, Please Put Up A Fight
via GigaOM by Guest Column on January 22, 2008
Written by Sramana MitraYahoo has lost about $20 billion in market cap over the last two years. The fight that it was supposed to put up against Google has been full of Brownian Motion, generating no real momentum.Yahoo has a staggering 500 million users. However, it
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Prying Open the Social Graph
via GigaOM by Stacey Higginbotham on May 13, 2008
Technology buzzwords come and go…virtualization, green, SaaS…and after sitting through the Google Friend Connect announcement, reading about Facebook’s Connect service and writing about last week’s MySpace Data Availability launch, “open” appears to be just the latest. But open is one of those words whose definition can be spun into a variety of meanings.While Facebook isn’t yet...
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Social Networks, from the 80s to the 00s
via GigaOM by Guest Column on January 20, 2008
Written by Brian McConnellAs Facebook enjoys its moment in the sun, we should take a moment to step back and look at the history of computers and social communication. Some historical perspective is in order, both to assess the real value of social networks as businesses, and t
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WordPress.com Creator Raises $29.5M
via GigaOM by Om Malik on January 23, 2008
Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic and creator of open-source blogging system WordPress, stopped by my apartment earlier this week. Matt, who is one of my closest friends, brought his Texan sense of humor and all-around good cheer, both of which were much needed following my
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Google Takes on the Social Graph
via GigaOM by Stacey Higginbotham on February 01, 2008
Google on Friday unveiled a new way to help you connect with your friends: its new social graph API for developers. Programmers using the API can build in features to services that allow a user to quickly add existing friends without a lot of back and forth, reducing one of the biggest barriers to entry for using a new social service.The Google API can grab data from popular services and...
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Rethinking the Spreadsheet: Google Forms and Live Data
via GigaOM by Alistair Croll on February 14, 2008
Google recently announced a new feature: forms. By combining spreadsheets with bulk e-mail, the new function (which was revealed on the Google Docs blog) lets a spreadsheet author send out a mail with fields for recipients to fill in. As they do, the spreadsheet gets completed. It’s a real-time survey that pumps data straight into a spreadsheet.It’s also another example of the difference...
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Amazon S3 Storage Service Goes Down, Still Not Up
via GigaOM by Om Malik on February 15, 2008
Amazon’s S3 cloud-based storage service went down earlier this morning, according to numerous tips we’ve received. The service has impacted many companies, including folks like Twitter. According to our tipsters, the service went down around 4:30 a.m., and is showing a 500 Internal Server Error message. Amazon Web Services forums are full of people chatting about the outage. One poster on the...
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How Cloud & Utility Computing Are Different
via GigaOM by Guest Column on February 29, 2008
Written by Geva Perry, chief marketing officer at GigaSpace Technologies.We are witnessing a seismic shift in information technology — the kind that comes around every decade or so. It is so massive that it affects not only business models, but the underlying architecture of how we develop, deploy, run and deliver applications. This shift has given a new relevance to ideas such as cloud...
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Google Drives Microsoft’s Hostile Bid for Yahoo
via GigaOM by Stacey Higginbotham on February 01, 2008
This morning, Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion in a cash and stock deal. While not entirely hostile as Yahoo’s board is considering the deal, it’s not exactly friendly either. Steve Ballmer said on a conference call that the two companies have been talking about this for the last 18 months, but Yahoo management always deferred. Last night Ballmer decided the time was right,...
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