Scoble Sucks (10)
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Whoa, the hate mail has been flowing fast and furious tonight. Pat Phelan, founder of MaxRoam, says that today my shine came off. Loic Le Meur, founder of Seesmic, says that it’s easy to knock startups when I’ve never started one. I’ve never been the top dog, but the store I helped manage in the 1980s was a startup. Fawcette Technical Publications was only eight when I was hired and grew to about 200. Winnov ...
Roundup: Fannie & Freddie Bailout (7)
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Last evening, we asked what are the costs and consequences, as well as the market reaction to, the imminent bailout of Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE). Your responses were inspired and informative. (For a brief history of the GSEs, see this earlier commentary). This morning, its page one news. Here's what the major papers are suggesting is the likely outcome: • Conservatorship: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be brought under government control; ...
Evolving My Work Life [GigaOM] (5)
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Earlier this week, when I announced the promotion of Paul Walborsky to CEO of Giga Omni Media, the company I started in 2006, it was part of a plan that was hatched long before I returned to work after my health scare. That plan was to make the company less reliant on any one person — notably myself. At the same time that I hired Paul to run the business side of things back in ...
Where Is the Chrome in Your Strategy? - Umair Haque (25)
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Imagine what would happen if GM and Ford collaborated to invest in the components and architecture of a better public transport network -- and then licensed it for free to cities, states, and countries. Imagine what would happen if pharma players directly invested in better hospitals and clinics -- instead of in trying to own the relationship with doctors, and furiously outspending one another when marketing blockbusters. Imagine what would happen if Wal-Mart invested in ...
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Clay said:
I think that this is apples and organges. There is a huge cost, relative to open-source software development, to building public infrastructure such as roads and squares. Further, the benefits to Wal-Mart and P&G from such investments are questionable at best. Cars run on roads, and people like public squares, but the analogy doesn't hold for this new browser because it is enabling fundamentally new capabilities for GOOG. That is, control of its own destiny for web-based apps like GMAIL, GCAL, etc and the basis to compete with MSFT in the OS layer. Many future developers are going to skip the Windows layer and develop apps directly for the web on the back of Chrome and efforts like it.
The Art of Raising Venture Capital (41)
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These videos are my recent attempt to explain the art of raising venture capital. They are part of the Montgomery & Hansen online learning site and conference. For example, to learn about financing agreements and the term-sheet process, click here. Click on these links for up-to-date information about venture capital, startups, and pitching.
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Rick Umali said:
Amazingly, this is the first time I've ever heard Guy speak. Not sure why I haven't before. This is just a splendid set of videos. He's inspiring and great!
The Long Tale (6)
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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 ...
One For Slush Pile Hopfefuls: HarperCollins Launching Its Own Book Social Net Authonomy (2)
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HarperCollins, the book publishing company owned by News Corp (NYSE: NWS). is launching its books social networking site called Authonomy (finally, a great name for a relevant social network), with the intent of using it to discover new and unpublished authors, and hoping the community will vet these manuscripts and ideas. The site is launching in UK for now, after three months of private testing...it was announced late last year. While HarperCollins is not promising ...
For Just The Cost Of A (Starbucks) Coffee A Day, You Could Save A Pay Phone Booth... (2)
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It's been nearly a decade or so since the rise of mobile phones began to impact the payphone industry -- and we've seen all sorts of creative attempts to save payphone booths in one form or another -- from turning them into music download stations or WiFi hotspots. Then, there's the idea of simply changing phone booths into places for mobile phone callers to go, so they're not quite so annoying, talking on the phone ...
Chrome is Not a Windows-Killer (28)
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I’ve been reading all sorts of starry eyed accounts as to how the new browser from Google dubbed Chrome is going to kill Windows. As someone who is absolutely dazzled by Chrome, I’m here to tell you that it isn’t the case. Certainly, we may be looking at one of the best browsers to date, particularly for the Windows platform. It’s sleek not just in appearance, but load times and memory usage. That said, it’s ...
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Simon said:
One point missed here is that via Prism, users could already have webs on the desktop
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Haltse said:
finally some sanity. I really like it and so far It has made some really slow apps I have to use run spritely
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Jeffrey said:
so-so read
A Network That Builds Itself (2)
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What Happened To The 4GL? (3)
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On today, this day of endless blogging / talking (and hopefully downloading) of Google Chrome, I thought I'd go retro and write about my renewed hunt for the 4GL. But first, a little context on how this came about. This summer I spent some time playing around with Google AppEngine to try and understand it better. It didn't take long before I realized I needed to really understand how to program in Python to do ...
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Rick Umali said:
Fascinating comments to this post.
The real reason your iPhone 3G’s battery sucks (5)
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The mid-day charge. It’s a term that iPhone 3G owners are getting to know all too well. You unplug the device in the morning then set out on your day, only to find that sometime in the afternoon you need to recharge the battery again. Many complain about this annoyance and wonder why Apple made a device with such a limitation. But let’s be honest. The real reason that the iPhone 3G’s battery drains so ...
Walt Mossberg Pees On Google "Chrome": Worse Than Microsoft IE8 (21)
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Walt Mossberg has been playing with Google's "Chrome" browser for a week longer than you have. What does he think? Chrome's not as good as IE8 but way better than Apple's crappy Safari. And neither Chrome nor IE8 can hold a candle to the awesome Firefox 3. (Did Walt actually say that? Of course not. He has relationships to protect. But that's the impression we got after reading his review): Chrome is a smart, innovative ...
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bhc3 said:
"Walt Mossberg has been playing with Google's "Chrome" browser for a week longer than you. What does he think? Chrome's not as good as IE8 but way better than Safari. And neither Chrome nor IE8 can hold a candle to Firefox 3."
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Coop said:
Ouch! Back to the drawing board for Google.
Firefox 3.1 & Google Chrome: Javascript Wins, Flash/Silverlight Lose (4)
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We work closely with Google Gears and other open source teams in Google. On multiple occasions, I have joked with them “Web apps like us need a really good Javascript engine, I hope you guys are working on it”. Well, now I know they had been working on it :) Being heavily invested in web standards and Javascript, we love the recent announcement of a new JIT based Javascript VM in Firefox 3.1, and today’s ...
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Scott said:
Strong words against Silverlight.
The Chrome Stupidity Continues (3)
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The Google Chrome hype train is chugging along at full speed. Although I’ve ditched Yahoo Finance because it sucks, a reader of The Drama 2.0 Show this morning sent me an email imploring me to look at tech|ticker commentator Henry Blodget’s discussion of Chrome. Like TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington, Blodget thinks Chrome is big. Real big. Certainly it’s a [...]
Chrome Hype: When Non-Techies Blog About Technology (2)
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One of the things that has amused me about the technology blogosphere is the fact that some of its most popular A-listers and B-listers aren’t even legitimate “techies.” From the misuse of terminology to downright mischaracterizations and misinterpretations, the technology blogosphere has no shortage of technology enthusiasts masquerading as technology experts. TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington is the perfect [...]
Thinking Long Term: Google’s New Browser ‘Chrome’ (18)
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With nearly every tech blogger pontificating on the cartoon, firefox vs IE vs chrome, or expressing love for the ‘cloud’, only a few folks are thinking about the long term implications to Google’s new browser called ‘Chrome’. Harry McCracken does some forward thinking and raises 10 questions that need to be answered, mainly around conversion and partnerships. I’ve got to add a few more ideas that I’m not seeing asked by others, Google’s new browser ...
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Haripako said:
Cosas a tener en mente sobre Chrome... que ya lo dicen en la nota de prensa comic, pero como dice ningún blogger comenta...
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