Daily Archives: February 2, 2012

Convergence is Alive & Well in 2012

February 2, 2012
Convergence is Alive & Well in 2012

Convergence. Remember that word from the dot com era? Well, it’s back and this time it actually has substance. Convergence in the 90s meant combining old media with new media, a.k.a. the Internet. The 2000 merger of AOL and Time Warner was a failed $200 billion attempt at convergence. But fast forward to 2012...

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Facebook Tests Photo Viewer That Encourages Comments, Google+ Comparisons

February 2, 2012
Facebook Tests Photo Viewer That Encourages Comments, Google+ Comparisons

Facebook is testing a new photo viewer layout that mounts engagement buttons and comments to the right rather than beneath images. See, Facebook doesn’t want you to just view comments, it wants you to start a conversation. Apparently the company doesn’t care about being accused of copying Google+, since the viewer’s layout is very...

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Oracle-HP: How things got this bad

February 2, 2012
Oracle-HP: How things got this bad

For many years, Oracle and HP co-existed quite happily. They collaborated on the first Exadata in 2008, for example. Former HP CEOs Carly Fiorina, then Mark Hurd, keynoted at Oracle OpenWorld. HP appeared to have supplanted Sun Microsystems as Oracle’s hardware BFF for a while. Everything was copacetic. Now the two companies are arch-rivals and are...

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Congressman Jared Polis on SOPA/PIPA, the Facebook IPO, and his Favorite Subreddit

February 2, 2012

Team Poison Publish Details of 26,000 Israeli Credit Card Holders TNW Middle East • Nancy Messieh • February 2, 2012 According to Haaretz, international hacking team known as Team Poison has launched a new round of cyber attacks, this time targeting Israeli sites. Launched under the banner, #OpFreePalestine, the hackers… Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/3mCW41Ad4YE/

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The Revolution May Or May Not Be Branded

February 2, 2012
The Revolution May Or May Not Be Branded

The Occupy movement, or rallying cry, or whatever you want to call it, is by its nature decentralized. By refusing to come together under one banner other than the word “Occupy,” they’ve both diluted their message and allowed it to spread more quickly. You don’t need an Occupy license to occupy a bank’s lobby...

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The Ups and Downs of the "America-Proof" Cloud: CloudSigma

February 2, 2012
The Ups and Downs of the "America-Proof" Cloud: CloudSigma

“I think it’s largely a theoretical risk. I don’t believe the U.S. Government is rampantly going around, getting data off of U.S. subsidiary-operated clouds,” admits Robert Jenkins, CloudSigma’s chief technology officer, in an interview with ReadWriteWeb. “But also, I think people do have a genuine concern, because the penalties are quite strict.” Disconnect There’s...

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Why Zuckerberg Should "Share" the Facebook Kingdom

February 2, 2012
Why Zuckerberg Should "Share" the Facebook Kingdom

Facebook is worth $75-$100 billion. If we broke that down by user, it would mean that each individual is worth $118.34. Or, if we’re looking at it in terms of revenue from 2011 – $3.71 billion – each user is worth $4.39 in revenue per user per year. Yet Zuckerberg owns 28.4% of Facebook,...

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How Marc Andreessen makes Silicon Valley magic

February 2, 2012
How Marc Andreessen makes Silicon Valley magic

Marc Andreessen There’s no question that Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capital firm headed up by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, has become a major force since it was founded back in 2009. The young VC firm has funded some of the best and brightest companies in the tech industry: Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, Groupon, Airbnb,...

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Daily Wrap: CTOs Should Avoid These Patterns and More

February 2, 2012
Daily Wrap: CTOs Should Avoid These Patterns and More

Anti-Patterns for Technical Leaders Joe Brockmeier, reporting from the Monki Gras conference in London, shared management learnings gleaned from Joyent technical leaders, Jason Hoffman, CTO, and Bryan Cantrill, Vice President of Engineering. Of particular interest were their tech leadership anti-patterns. If you’ve worked for a tech enterprise, you’ll probably recognize at least a few...

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Yammer Time: In 2011 “Pretty Much Everything Tripled”

February 2, 2012
Yammer Time: In 2011 “Pretty Much Everything Tripled”

Yammer grew like crazy last year. How crazy? Product VP Jim Patterson just tweeted out the Yammer 2011 Year in Review infographic below with the comment: “Pretty much everything tripled.” Paid seats went from 300,000 to 800,000, total users went from 1.6 million to 4 million (2.5X growth), and employees went from 80 to...

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