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What Is Twitter – A Platform for Broadcast or for Conversation – A Twitter Conversation on Facebook
{Update: I’m including a link to a Time report on this – How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live by Steven Johnson. I like the Angle from Steven. Average people (the typical consumer – the mainstream user) want to know what’s the deal with Twitter. Steven’s story helps as well as my “inside baseball ...
Industry VPs Talking Infrastructure 2.0
Enjoy this fascinating discussion by three of my friends on this panel: Greg Ness (a SA contributor), Doug Gourlay (Vice President Cisco), and Richard Kagen (Vice President InfoBlox). Other industry experts on the panel and soon to be friends include: Erik Giesa (Vice President F5), Mark Thiele (Vice President, VMWare). If you’ve been reading my ...
The Google Wave – Is It Hello or GoodBye? The Video of Google Wave Launch at Google I/O
Google Wave Developer Preview presentation at the Day 2 Keynote of Google I/O. Here is the video from Google’s spectacular new product launch – Google Wave. There were many “Angles” to cover from Google I/O and this new product Wave. Look for those over the next few weeks. Meanwhile there is great coverage that is ...
About Twitter – Evan Williams and Biz Stone Q&A at D7
At All Things D conference D7, Kara, Walt, and team have some amazing content coming out of there. Here is the Q&A with Twitter founders Ev and Biz. Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone. A year ago their “micromessaging” platform was unknown outside of a small circle of digerati. Now the service has broken ...
Search 2.0 is about Discovery; Conversation Spaces, Not Name Spaces
The Web, they say, is leaving the era of search and entering one of discovery….Discovery is when something wonderful that you didn’t know existed, or didn’t know how to ask for, finds you…… But there is no go-to discovery engine – yet. Building a personalized discovery mechanism will mean tapping into all the manners of ...
Term Sheet Reality – Call Us If You’re Confused
The Wall Street Journal has a good post on Term Sheets for entrepreneurs. I really enjoyed how it has “red markup” in there. Classic. Here is the example they use: As an example, longtime angel investor Michael Cann brings up a story about a first-time entrepreneur who early last year shopped around a term sheet ...
Lost in Translation – Not With Google – Example of Cloud Computing Scale Advantages
Google Labs is announcing today that it is breaking down the language barrier by instantly translating Gmail messages that are not in the correct language according to Jeff Chin, Google Translate product manager. Here is how it works: If you receive a message in a language you don’t understand, Gmail will translate it into your ...
The Internet Identity Workshop and Vendor Relationship Mgt – Very Relevant
Today and tomorrow the leading minds will gather to talk about Identity at the Internet Identity Workshop. Last week at the Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) conference I ran into Kaliya Hamlin and Doc Searls who reminded me of the Internet Identity Workshop. There is some very important work going on in a few areas and ...
Social Media is Hot – $25 Billion in Social Media M&A in Past 2 Years
Social Media is the Web 2.0 version of “interactive”. I’ve been saying for some time that social media is taking the same path that the early interactive (web site) took in 1995. Confirmation comes in the form of this report. This is very relevant. Hope to see more of this kind of data. A revealing ...
Google Trivia: Win A Free Passes To Google Developer Event – Google I/O
Get free access to Google Developer Conference – Google I/O next week May 27-28 A big thanks to Google for the support of SiliconAngle group blog. As most know I’ve been collaborating with Google for a few years now and they just called up and offered me 10 free passes to the SiliconAngle group for ...
