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Friday, November 26, 2010
Comment on Why iPad 2 Is Coming and What to Expect by Scott
It may very well happen and I expect it will only because Apple needs to stay ahead of the rest. I just played with a Samsung galaxy tab and it's already better then an Ipad. The original ipad needs a camera and much more to stem the huge tides of new tablets about to hit.
Twitter CEO: We Still Don't Know What Twitter Is For
In an interview with The Telegraph newspaper this morning, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo admitted that he's still trying to figure out Twitter's "long-term purpose."
Costolo, who took over for Evan Williams last month, said that he's "currently trying to define" what Twitter is going to become, and noted that users have come up with a lot of past innovations like the hashtag.
Sources say that despite its fast user growth and the introduction of new revenue sources like sponsored tweets and selling access to data, Twitter still isn't booking a lot of revenue. On stage at Web 2.0, Williams didn't offer any revenue numbers for what he called the "promoted suite," saying only that demand was outstripping supply.
But that's a little bit misleading, as the Promoted Products Platform isn't open to general advertisers through a self-service platform (like Google's AdWords, for instance). Instead, Twitter's still selling it only to a select group of test advertisers, and everybody else is supposed to fill out a form for more information. It's easy for demand to outstrip supply when supply is artificially constrained.
Costolo is supposed to help navigate this transition, but it's a hard one: if Twitter sells too many ads, the signal-to-noise ratio will drop and users will abandon the service. He told The Telegraph that he'll have more information to share about Twitter's long-term plans in the "near future."
In addition to defining how Twitter's supposed to make money, Costolo is also dealing with growing pains. He noted that the company now has 325 people and is trying to figure out how to grow without creating crippling bureaucracy, and that it has a "scalability problem" that will soon require more data centers, particularly in Japan.
Apologies: this article originally miscredited the source. It's The Telegraph.
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- Twitter Is Secretly Calculating A "Reputation Score" For Every User
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- If Twitter Raises Another Round, It Won't Be Because It's Figured Out How To Make Money
Twitter CEO: We Still Don't Know What Twitter Is For
Homeland Security Is Seizing Internet Domains Left And Right
The Department of Homeland Security's ICE has launched a major crackdown on websites enabling copyright infringement or selling counterfeits of trademarked goods. In just the past few days ICE has seized at least 12 domains, TorrentFreak reports.
All of these domains now display the image shown here.
The sites fall into two categories: torrent sites that enable the download of copyrighted music, and sites selling knockoffs of trademarked goods like designer handbags.
A controversial bill that would allow the Attorney General to shut down domains on similar grounds was recently derailed (temporarily) by Oregon Senator Ron Wyden.
The owner of an affected site told TorrentFreak that his domain was taken over without any prior complaints or notification from the court.
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Homeland Security Is Seizing Internet Domains Left And Right
Comment on Commercializing Big Data by Why Is Storage So Hot? Cisco Provides a Clue.: Cloud «
[...] on storage is only beginning to rear its head. Deployments of large-scale, big-data solutions are still formative, and cloud storage options abound. Until they lock their blueprints firmly into place, the [...]
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Backlink: http://gigaom.com/2010/05/31/commercializing-big-data/#comment-524606
"Target bought the "Black Friday" trend on Twitter; Wal-Mart is trending nationwide for free." -- tweet from WSJ's Z...
"Target bought the "Black Friday" trend on Twitter; Wal-Mart is trending nationwide for free." -- tweet from WSJ's Zach Seward
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Thursday, November 25, 2010
Comment on CA Delivers on Cloud Investment With Service-Measurement Suite by Why Cloud Computing Sells and NoSQL Is Fading: Cloud «
[...] Cassatt was ahead of its time in selling cloud-like capabilities, but because cloud hadn’t yet caught fire as a marketing tool, the company was left trying to sell its Cross-Virtualization Manager. Companies didn’t really get why they should care about dynamic resource allocation, full-scale automation and intelligent power management. By the time Cassatt began marketing itself as a cloud computing vendor, it was too late. Faced with bankruptcy, the company sold its assets to CA Technologies in May 2009, and is now an integral part of CA’s cloud portfolio. [...]
Comment on Appistry Opens the Cloud to (Almost) All Apps by Why Cloud Computing Sells and NoSQL Is Fading: Cloud «
[...] which experimented with terms like “hive computing” and “application fabric” before settling into its cloud groove, or Cloud.com, which wasn’t getting nearly the attention it deserves under its previous VMOps [...]
Backlink: http://gigaom.com/2009/03/09/appistry-opens-the-cloud-to-almost-all-apps/#comment-523929
Comment on Cloud Storage: Two Days, Three Startups, $30 Million by Why Cloud Computing Sells and NoSQL Is Fading: Cloud «
[...] by themselves, and during a two-week stretch in November, four cloud-storage startups – Zetta, Nirvanix, Gluster and Scale Computing — combined to close $47 [...]
Backlink: http://gigaom.com/cloud/cloud-storage-two-days-three-startups-30-million/#comment-523928
Comment on Mo' Money: Life Is Good for Cloud Vendors by Why Cloud Computing Sells and NoSQL Is Fading: Cloud «
[...] like “hive computing” and “application fabric” before settling into its cloud groove, or Cloud.com, which wasn’t getting nearly the attention it deserves under its previous VMOps moniker. You’ll [...]
Backlink: http://gigaom.com/2010/05/09/mo-money-life-is-good-for-cloud-vendors/#comment-523927
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
First impression, based on three minutes of use: Windows Phone 7 is a lot faster and prettier than I had imagined. -...
First impression, based on three minutes of use: Windows Phone 7 is a lot faster and prettier than I had imagined. -- Dan Frommer
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Suddenly, Every Commercial Is An Apple Copycat (AAPL)
Whether you are an Apple fan or not, there's no denying the company's advertising style.
The now-dead "Get a Mac" campaign has been parodied everywhere. And before that came the "Switch" series of commercials.
It shouldn't come as a surprise that along with the parodies came serious ad campaigns attempting to copy Apple's style: the white background, schlubby competitor, folksy-hip music (think Feist), and sleek product demos.
Apple shouldn't feel too threatened. Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery after all.
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- Google's TV Ad Platform Will Reach Almost One Third Of Americans By Early 2011
- Apple's iAd Has Signed On "Over Half Of The Top 25" U.S. Advertisers
- 10 Things We Love And Hate About Apple's New MacBook Air
Suddenly, Every Commercial Is An Apple Copycat (AAPL)
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