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The least surprising thing about Google’s Chrome browser announcement was the reaction from most of the media that this was an attack on Microsoft. Google founders Sergey and Larry were both present at the press event, with Page apparently the more engaged on a regular basis with the project for the last two years. But Brin took most of the strategic questions and painted a different picture from the notion that the browser was a ...
Steve Gillmor: Why Twitter is winning (17)
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Twitter is winning and most of its competitors remain in denial. In spite of almost 5 months of unavailability of its most viral service, Twitter remains the platform of choice for most users. FriendFeed remains a hybrid of conversations and semi-realtime aggregator, capturing most of the energy of Google Reader as a citation engine but stubbornly refusing to allow its metadata to flow back into Twitter and other real time engines. Facebook has freshened up ...
Qik Finds New Investors, Moving to the iPhone (5)
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Qik has announced that Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have joined their growing list of investors, and taken seats on the board of advisors along with previous investors Marc Benioff, George Garrick, Arjun Gupta, Andreessen, and Horowitz. Qik is a mobile video casting service that sees competition from Kyte, Flixwagon, and Livecast. To get a feel for the services we ran a test here at TechCrunch comparing Qik, Kyte, and Flixwagon, ignoring Livecast because we ...
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Qik has announced that Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have joined their growing list of investors, and taken seats on the board of advisors along with previous investors Marc Benioff, George Garrick, Arjun Gupta, Andreessen, and Horowitz. Qik is a mobile video casting service that sees competition from Kyte, Flixwagon, and Livecast. To get a feel for the services we ran a test here at TechCrunch comparing Qik, Kyte, and Flixwagon, ignoring Livecast because we ...
Facebook and Dell meet in the clouds (1)
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Dell tossed its hat into the cloud computing ring last night, or more precisely declared its having done so about 2 years ago with a group providing optimized storage, server, and data center solutions for its top 50 customers. At a press briefing high above San Francisco on the 52nd floor, Dell officials suggested they are moving to the cloud and places in the technology stack where customers are pulling them. For a company that ...
Facebook and Dell meet in the clouds (2)
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Dell tossed its hat into the cloud computing ring last night, or more precisely declared its having done so about 2 years ago with a group providing optimized storage, server, and data center solutions for its top 50 customers. At a press briefing high above San Francisco on the 52nd floor, Dell officials suggested they are moving to the cloud and places in the technology stack where customers are pulling them. For a company that ...
TechCrunchIT » Blog Archive » Free Internet Radio? (4)
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As I suggested on the Gang, a better idea would be to adopt a strategy of hitting the cartel where it hurts, by establishing a Free Radio tip jar. Building on an idea Doc Searls has envisioned in his role at Harvard’s Berkman Law, create a fund to accept contributions from listeners of whatever source - brodcast, sattelite, Internet radio, BitTorrent, whatever - to recognize music. It’s similar to the public radio and television pitch ...
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Jag har lyssnat på SteveG i ett par olika sammanhang den senaste veckan, när han uttryckt ovan. Då fattade jag inte. Nu gör jag det. Dags för exempelvs SR att börja spela lite obunden, ej STIM-avräknad musik och betala direkt till artisterna som vågar ta detta steg, att gå vid sidan av den gamla trasiga modellen.
Free Internet Radio? (3)
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Last week on The Gillmor Gang and this weekend on TWiT, the subject of the sorry state of the music business came up and in particular the notion of “Free Internet Radio.” Part of the discussion was triggered by a threat (plea?) by the founder of the Pandora music service to shut down. Pandora employs an ingenuous strategy based on something called the Music Genome Project, which breaks down recordings into some 400 individual characteristics, ...
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Jag har lyssnat på SteveG i ett par olika sammanhang den senaste veckan, när han uttryckt ovan. Då fattade jag inte. Nu gör jag det. Dags för exempelvs SR att börja spela lite obunden, ej STIM-avräknad musik och betala direkt till artisterna som vågar ta detta steg, att gå vid sidan av den gamla trasiga modellen.
The Invisible Social Revolution (3)
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With just the weekend between now and the start of the major party conventions, the amazing thing about the New Media is just how little it has impacted so far on the story. No major leaks about the vice presidential nominations, no blogger unmaskings of damaging revelations about the candidates at the top of the ticket, no shaky video of loose talk or surrogates jockeying for position. Is is possible that the campaigns have learned ...
The Invisible Social Revolution (4)
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With just the weekend between now and the start of the major party conventions, the amazing thing about the New Media is just how little it has impacted so far on the story. No major leaks about the vice presidential nominations, no blogger unmaskings of damaging revelations about the candidates at the top of the ticket, no shaky video of loose talk or surrogates jockeying for position. Is is possible that the campaigns have learned ...
TechCrunchIT » Blog Archive » You can’t get there from here (4)
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At its heart, the anger with Twitter is not over its wanting to monetize its invention but rather the violation of the contract we all signed on for, namely to establish relationships with our friends and most importantly friends we don’t yet know about
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You can’t get there from here (8)
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Today was the day that Leo Laporte jumped into the Tw*tter odyssey with both feet. He interviewed Identi.ca developer Evan Prodromou on one of his myriad non-stop podcasts that are also streamed live on his TwitTV channel. As have many of us, Leo has grown frustrated with Twitter’s troubles and seems to have stopped taking seriously the idea, as he put it with more than a touch of sarcasm, that Twitter “is working to restore ...
Amazon Launches EBS - Persistant Storage for EC2 (8)
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Amazon today launched a new web service - EBS, the Elastic Block Store (yes I also first read it as ‘Elastic Book Store’) for EC2. EBS provides persistent storage for EC2 computing instances, and the service is public today and available to all customers after a period of alpha testing with some users. Previously EC2 instances were able to access temporary storage as part of the compute instance, or persistent storage only on S3 - ...
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Amazon today launched a new web service - EBS, the Elastic Block Store (yes I also first read it as ‘Elastic Book Store’) for EC2. EBS provides persistent storage for EC2 computing instances, and the service is public today and available to all customers after a period of alpha testing with some users. Previously EC2 instances were able to access temporary storage as part of the compute instance, or persistent storage only on S3 - ...
SpikeSource Empowers Long Tail ISV’s (1)
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Today SpikeSource, an open source-focused software verification company, has announced that their software certification service has been gaining significant traction amongst independent software vendors (ISV’s). The company has been heavily funded by Intel , and is now powering the system that certifies ISV applications before they are made available in the Intel Business Exchange. The platform gives ISV’s the ability to develop applications on a custom stack, complete with a set of pre-tested components that ...
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Today SpikeSource, an open source-focused software verification company, has announced that their software certification service has been gaining significant traction amongst independent software vendors (ISV’s). The company has been heavily funded by Intel , and is now powering the system that certifies ISV applications before they are made available in the Intel Business Exchange. The platform gives ISV’s the ability to develop applications on a custom stack, complete with a set of pre-tested components that ...
In the Clouds (4)
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Silverlight seems to be doing pretty well according to most accounts in its Olympics launch, suffering digs only at the hands of John Dowdell of Adobe and those unhappy with the lack of full screen display (a function not of a limitation of Silverlight technology but NBC wanting to sell the HD version of the events and avoid pissing off the cable and satellite companies.) The numbers were big: 30 million uniques, 6.3 million shared ...
TechCrunchIT » Blog Archive » The Bearhug (6)
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Dave Winer used the bearhug to wrap his arms around Netscape’s version of RSS and not let go until a merged RSS was born. With Twitter’s announcement of “a minor change to the API that should have a major impact on the Twitter community” the time may be here to bearhug Twitter and unify the microblogging architecture. The tweak “allows API clients to specify which status a status to be posted is in reply to, ...
