John Furrier
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What is: “Cloud Ready?”
One of the biggest issues that we’ve been tracking is the idea of cloud scalability. Last week, I wrote about scaling with my exclusive interview with Facebook’s VP of Engineering Mike Schroepher on how he scales Facebook’s Platform as a Service. So it was interesting yesterday when Amazon announced its Relational Database Service (RDS) MySQL ...
The Next Big Thing – User Generated Games
I remember when YouTube started to go viral. It was the time when the two-way web was beginning. It fast became called User Generated Content. I am seeing the same dynamics happening now, and I think that it’s worthy of calling it the Next Big Thing – User Generated Games. Flash games are the one ...
Facebook’s Murph Talks Sales for Facebook
I noticed yesterday a posted interview over at Inside Facebook by Justin Smith of Facebook’s VP of Global Sales, Mike Murphy. Mike Murphy is sitting on gold at the end of the Facebook rainbow. Sales must be rolling in since Facebook has achieved critical mass and now turning on more engagement ads. It seems that ...
Exclusive: Mike Schroepfer on Cloud Collision and Scaling Facebook [Interview]
Mike Schroepfer spoke today at the Web 2.0 Summit, and dropped the now headlined factoid that the site’s 300 million users spend a collective 8 billion minutes on the site each day. Other key stats he highlighted in his keynote: – 1.2 million photos are served on Facebook each second. – 15,000 sites that have ...
Bing Wins Big with Twitter Partnership
For coverage of this announcement there are a few great resources that I endorse: Danny Sullivan and Kara Swisher. Between the two you will get the news and expert analysis Angle. Kara Swisher breaks the news (here, here and here). Danny Sullivan weighs in with expert analysis: Of course here is the Bing blog post ...
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Claims That Business has Stabilized
Yahoo announced it’s earnings today. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has declared that their major businesses have stabilized. “With revenue coming in above our guidance and flat sequentially, we had a solid third quarter that signals our major businesses have stabilized,” said Yahoo! chief executive officer Carol Bartz. “With new products like Yahoo! homepage, our brand ...
Google To Provide Free WiFi Virgin America For The Holiday
Today, Google announced a partnership with Virgin Air to provide free WiFi on the plane. Free WiFi on the plan. Yes. Google is doing it’s best to make sure more people are searching and using web apps. This makes total sense. Except there is a fatal flaw to mass adoption. It’s a short term promotion ...
Apple Fourth Quarter Earnings – Profit Driven By IPhone and MAC Sales
Apple’s fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose 47% to $1.67 billion, on revenue of $9.87 billion. Sales of Macs and iPods shot up in the company’s fiscal Q4, which ended September 26. In the meantime here are super numbers: 3.05 million Macs and 7.4 million iPhones sold. iPod sales down 7 percent. Looking ahead to the first ...
Exclusive: Facebook’s VP of Engineering Michael Schroepfer
Last month, I sat down for an exclusive interview with Facebook’s Vice President of Engineering Michael Schroepfer to talk about Facebook and his engineering organization. This is Part I of a multi-part series. Michael Schroepfer is the key executive in charge of the growth as the VP of Engineering. He works directly with Mark Zuckerberg ...
The siliconANGLE Weekly: Top Posts for the Week – Readers Choice
Editors Note: We’ve been getting great feedback on our content and want to introduce siliconANGLE Weekly (SA Weekly) to help the busy reader get a summary of what’s happening here and around the world. We are continuing to work on the site and would love to hear feedback on what you’d like to see. Thanks ...
