The cloud's Chrome lining (25)
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Google's release today of a test version of its new open-source web browser, Chrome, marks an important moment in the ongoing shift of personal computing from the PC hard drive to the Internet "cloud." I distinctly remember when, back in 1988, Apple Computer added MultiFinder to its Macintosh operating system, allowing my beloved Mac Plus to run more than one application at a time. That was, for us Mac users, anyway, a very big deal....
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pmuellr said:
"To Google, the browser has become a weak link in the cloud system". Yup. Wonder why more people don't get this.
Artificial Scarcity For Entrepreneurs, Not Just Economists (1)
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Ryan Freitas @ Plinky pointed me to Aaron Schwartz’s riff on 37signals’ advice on how entrepreneurs should launch startups using the “Holywood method” (teaser, preview, launch). Aaron makes a solid point that web sites are not movies. Movies are fixed content. They are what they are. All the tweaking has been done prior to launch during editing (after test screenings and other ways to gather feedback). Movies are also easy to grasp–a couple of hours ...
What Apple Knows That Facebook Doesn't - Umair Haque (39)
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The understanding that platforms are markets is one of the most vital differences between revolutionaries and laggards across today's strategyscape. Who else knows that platforms are really markets? Google, of course. Who's blind to it, and still plays by yesterday's rules? Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo. But that's just a start: the most interesting examples come from players outside tech industries altogether: Ford, the Gap, and Bear Stearns, to name just a few players trapped by platform ...
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Dev said:
Note to self: 'use markets to alter the basis of competition, topple incumbents with domino effects, and atomize the value chain'.
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subbu said:
wow - i realized this, but never to this level of detail. well written.
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Paul Roberts said:
mobile value-chain atomised - or is that iAtomised
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Adrian said:
interesting view on platforms.
What Apple Knows That Facebook Doesn't (29)
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Today, platform wars ain't what they used to be. On the one hand, there's Facebook - playing a textbook game of platform strategy, but slowly suffocating the utility of its own network. On the other, there's Apple - ignoring many of the rules of platform strategy, but radically redesigning the long-suffering mobile value chain with the iPhone App Store. How do we make sense of this? Why do Facebook's elaborate games of platform strategy seem ...
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Adrian said:
interesting view on platforms.
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Robert Scoble said:
Facebook has done some negative things to retard its usefulness as a business utility. I chalk those up to being a young company run by young people who haven't had to work in huge enterprises very much. It'll be interesting to see how Facebook grows up as it gets more adult supervision.
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Abhishek said:
"when will today's crop of startups start making serious cash? The answer: when they shift from platform logic to market logic.""Ultimately, Apple is playing a textbook game of next-gen strategy: using markets to alter the basis of competition, topple incumbents with domino effects, and atomize the value chain"
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Mario Sundar said:
A terrific platform strategy piece comparing FB and Apple by the guys who do that best - HBS! A must-read.
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Paul Roberts said:
mobile value-chain atomised - or is that iAtomised
Amazon invests in cloud deployment venture as Elastra raises another $12 million (1)
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Elastra Corp., a cloud computing startup with a focus on ease of deployment, today announced a second round of funding, including participation from Amazon, which continues its investment ramp-up in cloud-based ventures. The Series B funding for the San Francisco, Calif.-based Elastra, totals $12 million. Other participants were Bay Partners and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, which took part in the first round of funding last year. The cloud topic continues to heat up, with today’s ...
Cast Iron rolls out updated appliance to ease SaaS-to-enterprise integration (2)
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No one has said that the road to software as a service (SaaS) was going to be smooth, but Cast Iron Systems is trying to soften some of the bigger bumps with the latest offering in its “configuration not coding approach” to integration. The Mountain View, Calif. company last week announced the Cast Iron iA4000 series, an appliance designed to expedite integrating on-demand services with other on-demand services or with on-premise applications. Capabilities include data ...
StrikeIron adds data delivery punch to Serena Software’s mashup exchange (1)
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In what could be described as a win-win situation, StrikeIron, which provides solutions for delivering data over the Internet, has joined the Serena Mashup Exchange, an online marketplace for businesses and their partners to connect through mashups. The move will allow StrikeIron, based in Cary, N.C., to make its Web services available to a wider audience. At the same time, it will help Redwood City, Calif.-based Serena Software extend its mashup footprint. The combined forces ...
Six BI Trends You Can’t Ignore (1)
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Toward the Intelligent Enterprise (0)
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Michael Corcoran, VP at IBI, has written a good article about trends in the BI space that one shouldn’t ignore. The gist of it suggests that more people are demanding information and delivering it to users in a way that is simple and mobile. Have a read for yourself. __________________ Business intelligence (BI) technology has had a tremendous impact on decision-making activities at most companies. In the last several years, it has become one of ...
Perl on App Engine? (1)
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NYTimes To Customize Headlines For LinkedIn Users (2)
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The NYTimes and LinkedIn are announcing a partnership this evening that will bring tailored headlines in the NYTimes Business and Technology sections to users based on some of their profile information. The example the NYTimes uses: LinkedIn members who work in the energy sector will see Times stories that cover the energy business. Users can also share stories with other LinkedIn users (this feature adds LinkedIn to the list of other bookmarking services like Facebook, ...
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John said:
Due to NYTimes recent coverage of the debt crisis and this latest move, I might start reading her again.
The cloud's not-so-silver lining (1)
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At Business Week, Sarah Lacy has a good article on the daunting challenges that software-as-a-service companies face as they try to build vibrant, profitable businesses. Some traditional software powerhouses, like SAP, are spending a lot to develop web versions of their applications, but they have little to show for the investments so far. Pursuing two radically different business models simultaneously, they're running a race with their legs tied together. Oracle, for its part, is deliberately ...
Five Web 2.0 dev lessons for enterprise IT (1)
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Yahoo's Flickr unit reported this afternoon that the latest update to the photo sharing Web site went live just before 5 p.m. with 9 changes made by three of its developers. The "deployment" was the 36th new release in a week where 627 changes were made by 21 developers.Such constant tweaking -- called a perpetual beta in the Web 2.0 world -- is common for companies like Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Flickr that build applications for a ...
White Paper on 'Cloud Architectures' and Best Practices of Amazon S3, EC2, SimpleDB, SQS (3)
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I am very happy to announce my white paper on Cloud Architectures is now ready. This is one incarnation of the Emerging Cloud Service Architectures that Jeff wrote about a few weeks ago. If you are new to the cloud, the first section of the paper will help you understand the benefits of building applications in-the-cloud. If you are using the cloud already, the second section of the paper will help you to use the ...
OLAP's Cube Is Crumbling Around The Edges (1)
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By James Kobielus BI is essentially a set of best practices for building models to answer business questions. However, today's BI best practices may be suboptimal for many enterprises' decision-support requirements. For most users, BI is a journey that's been modeled and mapped out in advance by others, following a well-marked path through vast data sets. Data models, which must often be pre-built by specialists, generate or shape the design of such key BI artifacts ...
The Mismatch Problem by Malcolm Gladwell (4)
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Check out this great video of Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point) discussing the shortcomings of today's hiring practices. He cites examples of professional sports that conduct "combines" where teams measure the performances of prospects in the hopes of drafting the future stars. Guess what: this method doesn't work. Jobs--of all types--are more complex, and the desire for certainty increases but is manifested in measuring the wrong things. Do you hire people based on the measuring ...
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David Daniels said:
Although Gladwell uses examples in pro sports to show that the criteria set to identify the success or failure of individuals is flawed, I'm convinced it applies everywhere. It applies to companies, products, everything. Recommend you check out the video.
Is Less Always More? (Simplify More, It’s Better) (1)
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The blogosphere is such an interesting place. Read one article and it casts you out into several others, each of which in turn may lead you to new treasures. Fred Wilson’s “Thinking About Groups” took me on such a journey. He is writing about whether the world needs any new products for the groups sector (e.g. Yahoo or Google Groups et al), but at a higher level, he’s endorsing the idea that Less is More. ...
How Digg Optimizes for Huge Traffic (1)
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How does the social media site Digg manage more than 26 million visitors a month? Site administrator Ron Gorodetzky talks to System Management News about the architecture Digg uses on its web site, with a focus on database management techniques. An excerpt:"The first pain point we hit was just... Read more at our web site
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