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| Apr 6, 2009 | Facebook Completes Rollout Of Haystack To Stem Losses From Massive Photo Uploads | One nugget of information Facebook leaked out to press last week during the Gideon Yu fiasco: the company has been EBITDA profitable for five quarters, but doesn’t expect to generate positive cash flow until 2010. Why the discrepancy? There... |
| Mar 30, 2009 | Facebook almost broke even last year — expect more of the same | As a web startup with a massive $15 billion valuation and balloon-like growth to 200 million users, Facebook is in the middle of Silicon Valley’s second internet bubble. And perhaps it’s just a bubble — Facebook may be having trouble even p... |
| Sep 4, 2008 | Roundup: Intel launching six-core chip, Miasole raising big round, the making of Google’s Chrome and more | Here’s the latest action:
Intel to launch six-core microprocessor — A chip code-named Dunnington is expected to debut on Sept. 15. Intel will put six cores, or computing brains, on a single chip. But this is really no big deal. I’ve got a 6... |
| Jan 29, 2008 | Digg Joins DataPortability Working Group (Plus Related Resources) | Digg made a post to the company’s blog this morning announcing that they are officially joining the DataPortability.org Working Group. Digg follows Facebook, Google, Microsoft and many other companies in getting on board to discuss protocol... |
| Jan 9, 2008 | Google Processing 20,000 Terabytes A Day, And Growing | A recent white paper by some Google engineers puts some numbers around the massive amount of computation that Google does every day to index the Web, process search results, and serve up ads, among other things. As oflast September, Google ... |
| Oct 11, 2007 | Mobile 2.0 Conference – Launch Pad Companies Announced | Next week I’ll be in San Francisco for the Web 2.0 Summit. I’m also attending the Mobile 2.0 Conference on Monday 15 October, and will pop my head into the Widget Summit event being held by Niall Kennedy on the same day.
Today Read/WriteWeb... |
| Aug 15, 2007 | Roundup: Twickr, Yappd, EggNetwork, My iTunes, iMovie, Classmates & more | Here’s the latest action, about 80 percent of it in Silicon Valley:
Introducing Twickr — This is Flickr photos on Twitter, the messaging service that lets you send one-liners to your friends. Web guru Dave Winer came up with it , and Twitte... |
| Aug 11, 2007 | Apple Gets Into Social Music Scene with My iTunes | Apple isn’t just sitting on the sidelines as startups like iLike and MOG and others try to tackle the social music space. Many of these services gather user music preferences via an iTunes plugin. You are then able to tell the world what mu... |
| Jun 28, 2007 | Google Seeks to Jump-start Gadget Industry with Grants | In an attempt to invigorate developers large and small around Google's XML-based runtime Desktop platform, it announced this morning it will give $5,000 grants to individuals, and invest as much as $100,000 in companies, willing to produce ... |
| May 30, 2007 | StartupSearch gives you data on start-ups | Updated
StartupSearch is a new site that gives you quick statistics and other data on Web 2.0 start-ups. It is built by Niall Kennedy, a former Technorati and Microsoft employee.
Kennedy wants to make it easier for people to find out more a... |
| May 7, 2007 | Tumri gives you more control over ad widgets | Tumri, an online ad network, today releases a service called Tumri Publisher to give publishers more control over ads displayed on their site.
Tumri Publisher allows users to create custom, branded ads called AdPods based on product categor... |
| Dec 14, 2006 | Bill Gates On The Future Of DRM | Microsoft convened a small group of bloggers today at their Redmond headquarters to discuss the upcoming Mix Conference in Las Vegas. Highlights of the day included:
The receipt of a Zune as a gift (the third I’ve received from Microsoft – ... |
| Nov 29, 2006 | Snipperoo focus' on Widgetisation | Last week I was in Manchester at NW StartUp 2.0, co-presenting with Ivan Pope from Snipperoo whose company I have been tracking for sometime now. Ivan spoke about how he sees widgets changing the way we interact with the web and about how h... |
| Nov 24, 2006 | Roundup: Digg’s crisis, Odeo, Amidzad’s touch, Mobio’s movies, HAVA for Christmas | Happy Thanksgiving weekend, folks. Here’s a roundup of the latest.
The crisis at Digg — Digg, the San Francisco company that lets users rank news, is facing a credibility test. A fake story about Sony recalling its PlayStation 3 stayed on t... |
| Nov 22, 2006 | Why big high tech companies are losing the talent war | [Disclosure: Auren works at Rapleaf, a startup, and is thus biased towards startups.]
Big companies are losing their “A” players and they’re struggling to attract “B” players. In an industry where everything is about people, large tech comp... |
| Oct 10, 2006 | 2007 Will Be A Big Year For RSS | With Microsoft’s IE7 just around the
corner and the other big Internet companies upgrading key information management
products, 2007 is going to be the ‘make it or break it’ year for RSS. Fergus Burns noted
these 4 key platforms, which are ... |
| Sep 28, 2006 | Google Reader steps it up with new version | The Google Reader team unveiled a revamped version of their online feed reader today and no one can say it’s not a real RSS reader anymore. They even took Robert Scoble’s advice and made a demonstration video!
Changes include a whole new lo... |
| Sep 9, 2006 | Microsoft Launches Desktop Feed Reader | Microsoft has added a desktop feed reader to its Max photo viewing and sharing software.
To use Max you must be on a Windows machine running the new Windows .NET Framework 3.0 RC1 (it will self install if you are on a previous version). Add... |
| Aug 28, 2006 | Spotback news site gets even better | Israeli personalized news site Spotback released upgrades to its interface and a couple of new features. If you missed our initial review back in May, this is a good time to check out the site.
As a personalized news page, Spotback learns f... |
| Aug 15, 2006 | Web Email Market: An Overview | Webmail.us has just released the fourth generation
of its Web Email platform, replacing its legacy software with an AJAX framework. They’re
promising their users “a markedly faster, better performing experience” with its new Ajax
version. W... |
| Jul 17, 2006 | Google’s office architecture: A competitive advantage? | The LA-based architects of Google’s new headquarters designed 13 different “zones” and arranged them from “hot” (clubhouse, pool table and lounge area) to “cold” (closed workrooms), using different color, lighting and space depending on the... |
| Jun 16, 2006 | The Buzz: Microsoft After BillG | On Thursday, Microsoft chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates made the surprise announcement that he was passing on the reins to Ray Ozzie in 2008. While Gates will stay on board as chairman, his new focus would be on philanthropi... |
| May 26, 2006 | Friday round-up of Silicon Valley action | Enron verdict
Enron couldn’t happen in Silicon Valley — …”because we’re too honest,” encouraged to be that way by all the people looking over our shoulder and the whispers that would morph into screams if we pulled a scam. Our colleague Mik... |
| Apr 26, 2006 | Facebook Goes Beyond College, High School Markets | Facebook, which is rumored to be generating about $1m per week in revenue, is now allowing new users from corporate networks to join their social network (based on email address) in addition to high school and college students. Niall Kenned... |
| Feb 24, 2006 | Catching up on Silicon Valley tech stuff | Here’s a list of recent stories, and we’ll probably have more next week!
Bill Newsome
If he’s not already a mad scientist, perhaps he will be? — Stanford neuroscientist Bill Newsome wants to implant an electrode in his brain to better under... |
| Jan 30, 2006 | Bookmarks integrated into Google Toolbar | Google added bookmarks to version 4 of its Internet Explorer Toolbar (note that this is not available for their Firefox Toolbar). Google Bookmarks have been available since October on the Google site, but were not integrated into the toolba... |
| Jan 5, 2006 | Mac small business dinner during MWSF | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Dec 14, 2005 | Technorati Explore Smells Like Memeorandum | Whoa. Niall Kennedy nonchalantly wrote earlier today about Technorati’s version of Google Labs, called Technorati Kitchen. It’s where Technorati is putting it’s not-fully-baked beta products.
There’s only one project there now, and it’s cal... |
| Nov 21, 2005 | Riya sold to Google for $40M? | Lots of buzz out there that Google has aquired Riya, the start-up that uses facial recognition technology to allow you to tag your pictures more efficiently.
The rumor is $40 million, but this is still in the rumor category, because Riya ch... |
| Nov 17, 2005 | The Riya-Google Rumor | Rumors are flying this morning that Riya (a killer photo facial recognition startup) has been or is being acquired by Google in the $40 million range. See Om Malik, Niall Kennedy and Paul Kedrosky.
Even though everyone is blogging about it,... |
| Nov 15, 2005 | Pissed at Google | Updated
We seem to be hearing from more people that Google doesn’t do that great a job outside of its core focus, search. So again, when Google decided to make its Web analytics software free yesterday, some people weren’t happy with how th... |
| Nov 3, 2005 | Technorati Extends Search Functionality | Niall Kennedy at Technorati has just informed me that they have quietly updated their tag search engine with full boolean search functionality.
In August, Technorati added the OR function to tag search. On a search for “apple OR microsoft”,... |
| Nov 2, 2005 | Microsoft Livens Up Web 2.0 | Summary: My Day 1 impressions of Windows/Office Live are positive and I think Microsoft is taking
up the challenge of an increasingly Web-based software world, while at the same time
sticking to their desktop software knitting. I’m particul... |
| Oct 7, 2005 | OPML Experiment – Version 2.0 | Our OPML experiment with Dave Winer (listen to Dave’s podcast here too) has captured the attention of a bunch of people, and new applications to leverage directories of blogs are being created by some really smart people.
Here’s what we hav... |
| Aug 19, 2005 | Event – Bar Camp (Day 1) | Today I drove over 300 miles (Los Angeles to Palo Alto) to get to Bar Camp. I believe that was the farthest distance anyone traveled, although I haven’t fact-checked that yet. In fact, I haven’t fact checked anything below, so if there are ... |
| Jul 25, 2005 | Microsoft Erases Apple Headquarters? Or Is Just A Bit Obsolete? | Microsoft, who once saved Apple’s hide with a big investment, apparently would prefer you didn’t know where their not-so-secret headquarters are. With the launch of Microsoft’s Virtual Earth, it appears a few people have noticed that Apple’... |
| Jul 20, 2005 | Web 2.0 Sampler | – There are 1.12 million feeds in Bloglines that “matter”, says Ask Jeeves Blog (meaning at least 1 person subscribes to it. nb: SEW and Niall
both point out that some blogs have multiple feeds)
– Feedburner begins
to expand into “major med... |
| Jul 8, 2005 | Web 2.0 This Week (July 3 – 9) | This week we saw a number of interesting web 2.0 developments. Far outstripping everything else, however, was the terrorist attack on London on July 7. Blogs and the Internet played a big role in getting information out to people, as televi... |
| Jun 26, 2005 | Photos: Longhorn, IE7 and RSS | Friday, at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle, Microsoft announced platform level support for Really Simple Syndication (RSS) in Longhorn designed to make it easier to discover RSS feeds and support for simple list extensions. Technorati's ... |
| Jun 16, 2005 | Profile: Del.icio.us | Company: Deli.cio.us
Launched: early 2004
Funding: Seed funding in early April, 2005 (rumored $2 millionish) by Union Square Ventures, Amazon.com, Marc Andreessen, BV Capital, Esther Dyson, Seth Goldstein, Josh Kopelman, Howard Morgan, Tim ... |
| Jun 6, 2005 | Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 30 May – 5 June 2005 | sponsored by:
This week: RSS Ripoff Merchants summary, Web 2.0 for teachers, Open Source
Radio talks about Web 2.0, EPIC II, search engines with RSS output. RSS Ripoff Merchants summary
Well my follow-up post about
RSS Ripoff Merchants cert... |
| May 8, 2005 | Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 2-8 May 2005 | sponsored by:
This week: business folk getting interested in Web 2.0, Adam Curry podcasting
from 2.0 perspective, cool Web 2.0 ‘mini-apps’, wrap-up of the adverts in RSS debate,
Bosworth’s Web of Data. From MBA to Master of Web 2.0?
I get a... |
| Apr 12, 2005 | Become.Com, AP vs Google News, del.icio.us | Here’s a new feature I’m trialing on Read/Write Web. It’ll be a daily
shot of Web 2.0 news. Each item will have a main link, one or two lines of commentary
from me, and views of the story from other bloggers (if I have time).
It’ll take a w... |
| Mar 7, 2005 | From lemons to lemonade | Weeks ago, you might have thought that Mark Jen’s tech career was in peril. He’s the guy who was fired from Google after blogging about some of his experiences there. He wasn’t on the streets for long. Jen has joined Plaxo as part of the co... |