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Sorry World, But Funny Goat Videos Aren’t Creative Democratization

December 18, 2013

Business

Andy Warhol, Business Insider, Carlson, Henry Blodget, PandoDaily, Rugnetta, yahoo, YouTube

Recently PandoDaily ran an excellent opinion piece by Hamish Mackenzie that took a look at an emerging trend in online media. Mackenzie told the interesting story of Nicholas Carr of the Business Insider website, who created a 75-page slideshow…

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Metacloud Raises $10M for FullService OpenStack

June 26, 2013

Business

cloud computing, Metacloud, Open source, OpenStack, rackspace, Ticketmaster, VMware, yahoo

The cloud service provider announcements are coming thick and fast and today it’s the turn of OpenStack SP Metacloud to join the fray. Metacloud deploys and, more importantly, supports OpenStack based clouds. The product is delivered as a service…

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SaaS Applications, Integration and Business Process

June 25, 2013

Business

Business, cloud computing, Customer relationship management, EchoSign, Jason Lemkin, Software as a Service, venturebeat, yahoo

Recently VentureBeat wrote a post that discussed fragmentation between SaaS solutions and the impact that has on organizations using different services. It is a topic that I’m interested in, not least of all because one of the businesses I’m…

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Infer Raises $10 Million; Helps Companies Use Data to Win More Customers

April 23, 2013

Business

Big data, Business, google, Microsoft, Redpoint Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, Vik Singh, yahoo

Every time we hear about a new company harvesting big data to deliver valuable insights a kitten somewhere dies. Big data, and its related buzzwords, are apparent at every turn. But beyond the over-hyping, there is some real value…

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Temboo Eases App Development–API Shortcuts

August 10, 2012

Business

Application programming interface, Java, PHP, Pipes, Python, Ruby, Temboo, yahoo

The life of developers is arguably more exciting than ever before – with so many different services only an API call, it is possible for developers to deliver upon what were only dreams a few short years ago. But…

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YouSendIt and Yahoo Mail–Offloading Attachments

February 3, 2011

Business

Application programming interface, gmail, yahoo, Yahoo Mail, YouSendIt

I remember a time when webmail had limits of only a few megabytes for email boxes – those were back in the days when email traffic was a few a week and attachments were something you had to your…

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Scobleizer on MS/Yahoo/Facebook

May 20, 2008

IT, Strategy

data portability, Facebook, google, Microsoft, yahoo

Robert Scoble has an interesting take on the on again/off again MS/Yahoo deal and how it relates to MS’s rumoured overtures to Facebook. Scoble sees this as potentially the battle supreme between an open web and a closed web.…

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This Microsoft Yahoo thing is causing damage all round….

April 10, 2008

IT, Strategy

aol, Microsoft, yahoo

New today that Yahoo is beginning a limited trial utilising Google adsense ads on Yahoo search, this after Microsoft gave Yahoo a three week deadline which Yahoo starkly rebuked. It’s kind of an entertaining cat fight but I can’t…

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