Daily Archives: September 22, 2011

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek On How The New Facebook Music Integration Will Work

September 22, 2011
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek On How The New Facebook Music Integration Will Work

Before I lost my voice earlier today (yes, that’s me up there asking all those questions, NOT Marge Simpson), I sat down with Spotify CEO Daniel Ek at F8. Ek and I spoke about today’s “launch” of Facebook Music, which wasn’t a music console built on top of Facebook like some had conceived, but rather a...

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Video: Causes Founder Joe Green On The Impact Of f8

September 22, 2011
Video: Causes Founder Joe Green On The Impact Of f8

As you may have heard, today Facebook held its fourth f8 developer conference, showcasing an array of new features that represent what Facebook says are the biggest changes to its Platform since it launched in 2007. The changes include a completely redesigned profile and a new Open Graph API that gives third-party applications and...

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Facebook Timeline Wrap-Up: Everything Today Was About Sharing Content

September 22, 2011
Facebook Timeline Wrap-Up: Everything Today Was About Sharing Content

So, what just happened at F8, the Facebook developer’s conference? In a word, Facebook has promised a re-imagined content and personalization platform for the Web. If you believe the F8 conference hype, on Sept. 29 when Timeline opens to the public, Facebook is the place where every single inch of your life can be...

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iOS Health & Fitness Apps Will Grow to 13K by 2012

September 22, 2011
iOS Health & Fitness Apps Will Grow to 13K by 2012

The iTunes app store will contain just over 13,000 healthcare-related apps by 2012, a sign that the caring and treatment for the sick – or even those fearing they are sick – is moving to the mobile device. Analysts also say that these apps are increasing in price during a period of rising healthcare...

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Big Question (Answered): "Facebook Timeline: Creepy or Awesome?"

September 22, 2011
Big Question (Answered): "Facebook Timeline: Creepy or Awesome?"

f8 garnered many reactions today. Even before we began our liveblog of f8, we saw hundreds of passionate reactions to the recent Facebook changes. Once f8 really got underway, and Timeline was announced, we knew the social web would be screaming their love or hate of the new Facebook. Being the inquisitive bunch that...

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Armed with a Win8 Tablet, YoYo Games Marches Toward HTML5

September 22, 2011
Armed with a Win8 Tablet, YoYo Games Marches Toward HTML5

Last week in Anaheim, in amongst the crowd of developers at Microsoft’s Build 2011 conference assimilating the news about Windows 8, was a team from a London, U.K.-based company called YoYo Games. In 2000, that company released an interesting entry-level game development and distribution platform called, quite simply, GameMaker. Following in the hallowed footsteps...

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Online Video Ads Now Reach 50 Percent Of The U.S. Population

September 22, 2011
Online Video Ads Now Reach 50 Percent Of The U.S. Population

ComScore’s August web video rankings are in, and this is for sure: Americans watch an enormous amount of online video content, with most of that taking place on — you guessed it — YouTube. Of course, last month, Facebook, already the largest photo site on the Web, became the third largest video site on...

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I wonder how other music services are feeling today

September 22, 2011
I wonder how other music services are feeling today

For the past few days I have been reading about various music services such as MOG, Rhapsody and others being part of the big Facebook re-launch. They were, except they ended up being an afterthought. Somewhat predictably, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg brought Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify, on stage. Spotify got the big billing...

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Is Meg Whitman The Right Person To Lead HP? (TCTV)

September 22, 2011
Is Meg Whitman The Right Person To Lead HP? (TCTV)

Meg Whitman is back in the corner office. Earlier today, she was officially named CEO of HP, taking over from Leo Apotheker, who lasted less than a year. In the video interview above, I talk to Forrester analyst Frank Gillett about whether Whitman is the best person for the job or the best one...

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Facebook gets a big infrastructure boost for Timeline

September 22, 2011
Facebook gets a big infrastructure boost for Timeline

Facebook is going to be putting its already immense infrastructure through a stress test like nothing before, according to Mike Schroepfer, vice president of engineering at the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company. Introduced Thursday, Timeline is essentially a new view into your news feed that takes multiple data inputs — from your status updates to...

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