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| Jun 6, 2009 | Ouch | So.
The Gillmor Gang was today. We started things off with a nice talk about Rajeev Motwani and his contributions to the community. That was nice.
Then Leo Laporte started talking about the Palm Pre, which launches today. That part of the s... |
| Apr 19, 2009 | The Swarms of Silence | I like talking about Twitter. I have no problem with Oprah getting hip to Twitter. I have no problem with being left off the Suggested List. I have no problem with Twitter having dropped Track and slowed the micromessaging era until it beca... |
| Mar 31, 2009 | The Twitting Point | Bill O’Reilly has the last word on Twitter for today. He thinks the Twitterati is crushing talk radio, by sucking up all our listener time. He thinks that’s bad; I hope he’s right and it drives Rush out of business. It won’t drive The View ... |
| Mar 14, 2009 | Scoble's New Thing: Building 43 | A week ago we reported that blogger Robert Scoble is leaving his current job running FastCompany TV. Now he’s going to start talking about his new project – a new content and social networking community called Building 43, which he’s buildi... |
| Mar 9, 2009 | How Time Flys | As the Kindle/iPhone platform builds out, the possibility of pulling free content back from the abyss has sent tremors of hope through the media business community. Boxee’s continued struggle with Hulu suggests the content cartel has decide... |
| Feb 8, 2009 | Gut Check | No matter what we say or think we’re doing, we’re looking for a Grand Unification Theory or GUT: A way of viewing any random piece of news or gossip without our entire world view cracking and spilling out all over the ground around us. Thus... |
| Feb 1, 2009 | Twitter comes clean | Twitter developer manager Alex Payne has updated the Twitter FAQ with the actual, real, honest story on the return of Track to its users. First, the relevant text:
When will the firehose be ready?
By late January, early February 2009. For a... |
| Dec 13, 2008 | Joie De Vivre: The Europeans Are Out To Lunch | I write this from a hotel room at Newark airport in New Jersey. I’m half way home from a wonderful week in Paris at the Le Web conference where I mingled with 1,700 or so attendees. My mood: jetlagged, sated and cranky.
My week was spent in... |
| Nov 23, 2008 | The Free Store | It’s not the famous Web 3.0 the semantic crowd has been lobbying for for years. It’s not the next big thing or even the next little thing, or whatever the Times touted when it went nuts for micromessaging today. It’s Web 2.2, and it stands ... |
| Nov 10, 2008 | Friendfeed's Bret Taylor talks XMPP on Gillmor Gang | Friendfeed co-founder Bret Taylor joined the Gillmor Gang this afternoon to discuss Friendfeed’s XMPP stream of its Home and Friends List feeds. I sat with Taylor at the Friendfeed offices and Marc Canter joined intermittently by phone. Can... |
| Oct 17, 2008 | FriendFeed to add Realtime APIs next week | Standard Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Twitter appears to have an unassailable lead in users and their resultant Follow clouds. Though Track is dead and IM is postponed indefinitely, the service has added a political track pa... |
| Oct 6, 2008 | Hey kids – get off of my lawn | Back at the end of July, Microsoftee Dare Obasanjo attacked the Open Web Foundation for being a bunch of kids fresh out of college who hadn’t heard of IETF or other standards bodies. I dashed off a post calling on Dare to revert to his prev... |
| Sep 5, 2008 | Gillmor Gang talks Google Chrome | The Gillmor Gang talked with Google Chrome’s Group Product Manager Brian Rakowski and Tech Lead Ben Goodger. The conversation focused mostly on the open source fundamentals of the new browser project. Rakowski and Goodger have both been wit... |
| Aug 26, 2008 | Free Internet Radio? | Last week on The Gillmor Gang and this weekend on TWiT, the subject of the sorry state of the music business came up and in particular the notion of “Free Internet Radio.” Part of the discussion was triggered by a threat (plea?) by the foun... |
| Aug 15, 2008 | The Bearhug | Dave Winer used the bearhug to wrap his arms around Netscape’s version of RSS and not let go until a merged RSS was born. With Twitter’s announcement of “a minor change to the API that should have a major impact on the Twitter community” th... |
| Aug 11, 2008 | MeshMail | Just because IT hasn’t gotten the memo, doesn’t mean they should kid themselves into thinking cloud computing hasn’t arrived. Two simultaneous events – the launch of substantive online coverage of the Olympics and the massive Gmail outage –... |
| Aug 4, 2008 | Twitter and Identi.ca – State of the Union | Over the past weekend I recorded a special Gillmor Gang edition with Dustin Sallings, the inventor and chief proprietor of the famed TwitterSpy hack around Twitter’s late great Track feature. With Track over XMPP still disabled, a small but... |
| Aug 2, 2008 | Water found on Yahoo! | Ever since Microsoft’s failed bid for Yahoo, we’ve all been waiting for some sign of water on the dead planet. For months an away team led by Carl Icahn has kept alive the possibility that the second most popular search company and most agg... |
| Jul 16, 2008 | Is Facebook Ready To Face The Music? | On today’s Gillmor Gang recording, Marc Canter frequently alluded to a Facebook announcement next Wednesday, July 23rd at its F8 platform conference in San Francisco, about their new thinking on the privacy of user-contributed data. While C... |
| Jul 2, 2008 | Gillmor Gang 07.02.08 | Steve Gillmor chats with Chris Messina about GNIP and the politics of micro-objects with Doc Searls and Robert W. Anderson. Listen to the podcast over at the Gillmor Gang site >> |
| Jun 23, 2008 | TechCrunching The Enterprise: TechCrunchIT | We just launched TechCrunchIT, our newest property, with editors Steve Gillmor and Nik Cubrilovic. The site is focused on the enterprise tech space – all the software, technologies, standards, platforms, etc. that help companies do their th... |
| Jun 23, 2008 | Gillmor Gang 06.23.08 | A conversation with Dan Farber of Cnet about this mornings Salesforce event and new Google integration. Posts from Dan on Salesforce + Google are here and here. Listen to the podcast over at the Gillmor Gang site >> |
| Jun 10, 2008 | I Am A Member Of The Cult Of iPhone | I’ve been to enough Steve Jobs keynotes now to know that the man is able to take a crowd and bend it to his will. Every time, I’ve been a willing subject – sometimes (but not every time) to find myself in a hangover-like state a day later w... |
| Jun 9, 2008 | Butcher's Bunch, the tech Podcast from Europe | After being exhorted to do so by a number of people, I’ve decided to start doing a regular podcast about the tech, startup and social media scene here in the UK and the rest of Europe. How regular it is we’ll have to see, but I’m hoping to ... |
| Jun 7, 2008 | The Mouse That Roared | Our visit the other day to the GooglePlex was extraordinary on a number of levels. At its simplest, the Gmail group opened its kimono to bloggers and what’s left of the mainstream media – full stop. We were asked not to live video the annou... |
| Jun 5, 2008 | The New CrunchBar, Upcoming Conferences, and Thanks to TechCrunch Sponsors | The New CrunchBar
We are pleased to announce a new TechCrunch sponsor.
Conduit has deployed a new TechCrunch community toolbar (dubbed the “CrunchBar”) that includes:
A newsreader with RSS feeds for every TechCrunch network website to stay ... |
| Jun 1, 2008 | Plan B | In the past, you could measure Microsoft’s success by others’ weakness. This time it’s different. Google rolls out a five-pronged disruption to the smart phone, the Visual Studio developer base, social media, offline storage, and Webtone pr... |
| May 23, 2008 | Danny Sullivan Debates The Rest Of Us On Microsoft Cashback | Search guru Danny Sullivan joined the Gillmor Gang yesterday for a long debate on Microsoft’s new search initiative, Live Search Cashback. After seeing the product launch at Microsoft earlier this week and testing it driectly I took a mostl... |
| May 16, 2008 | Battle Over Data Ownership on Gillmor Gang | Epic Gillmor Gang today. Everyone went in with guns blazing over the data portability/ownership debate that has spilled out over the Facebook/Google scuffle. DataPortability founder Chris Saad was also on the call, but failed to take a lead... |
| May 15, 2008 | Blaine Cook Joins Today's Gillmor Gang, Talks Twitter | He was pretty careful about what he would and wouldn’t talk about, but former Twitter Chief Architect Blaine Cook bravely faced the Gillmor Gang today to talk about the challenges facing Twitter, the feasibility of a decentralized Twitter c... |
| May 14, 2008 | Gillmor Gang Digests Comcast/Plaxo Deal | A subset of the Gillmor Gang met via telephone this afternoon to debate the $150 – $170 million Comcast acquisition of Plaxo. Listen to Steve Gillmor, Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Jason Calacanis and me talk about whether this was a smart mov... |
| May 14, 2008 | Confirmed: Comcast Bought Plaxo, Deal Closed Today | The rumors were accurate: Comcast will announce their acquisition of social contact list Plaxo today. Financial terms are not being disclosed, but the purchase price is between $150 and $170 million. Plaxo, which was founded in 2002, has ra... |
| May 11, 2008 | The Blood Brain Barrier | Most of my time these days is spent crossing the blood-brain barrier between Twitter and the rest of the cloud. Twitter stands on one side, a coursing stream of social data emanating from an ad-hoc framework of asynchronous follows and vani... |
| May 3, 2008 | Microsoft/Yahoo: Summary Of Today's News & Bonus Gillmor Gang | Summary Of Today’s News: Negotiations between Yahoo and Microsoft, widely expected to result in a negotiated deal by Monday, fell apart today. There were a number of statements, all summarized below. Steve Gillmor also convened a special se... |
| May 3, 2008 | Trackonomics | Standard Podcast [95:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Week Three of The Gillmor Gang on TechCrunch went as well as could be expected. After the reunion cattle call and last week’s Mesh interrogation of David Treadwell, the apparent... |
| Apr 27, 2008 | Microsoft Says Yes With Mesh | Back in the good old days, big software companies did big things. Little companies tiptoed around in the shadow of the platform makers, gaining enough speed to liftoff and attract enough attention to survive long enough to be acquired. Like... |
| Apr 18, 2008 | Gillmor Gang Now Part Of TechCrunch Network | Journalist Steve Gillmor was a podcasting pioneer – In 2004 he began recording conversations with leading tech pundits about the issues of the day and posting them on IT Conversations. The show, which he called the Gillmor Gang, was picked ... |