John Furrier
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Last month Google bought AdMob for a whopping $750 million. Now information is swirling around about the Apple Tablet. How will Apple deal with publishers and advertisers? The answer according to multiple industry sources is to buy Quattro Wireless for this months …
My Short List From Past 10 Years
Top Macro Trends of 2000s 1. Demand for online, Internet, and web 2. Proliferation of wireless capability 3. Social media –old way: one way broadcast web – email; new way: two way web – consumer generated media – blogs, podcasting, video, social …
Happy New Year
2009 was the year SiliconANGLE was born. What a great year. In our first 10 month of existence we managed to produce over 1100 posts reaching over 600,000+ unique users. What’s more exciting is the engaged group of contributors. At the beginning …
Rackspace Takes Page Out of the Old Microsoft’s Playbook – Partner Don’t Kill Ecosystem Players
Rackspace is partnering with FathomDB, a relational database-as-a-service (DaaS) company. FathomDB is a service that will make the day-to-day operations of running a database much simpler, allowing you to focus on higher end tasks of your application. This partnership is an extension …
Techcrunch as the Content Strip-Mall
Mike Arrington has a good op ed about the future of machine based blogs and content theft. Bottom line: it’s a speed game and fast food content is being served up all over the place. I agree with Mike (and Steven Hodson, …
2009 Mobile Advertising Revenue & Market Share Leaders
IDC’s Karsten Weide just released revised estimates the annual gross U. S. advertising revenue of the major mobile players. What’s interesting is that the Millennial Media was the clear leader in both revenues and in market share. The top spot is now …
Steve Jobs and Woz Trained at HP – Then Build Apple – Great Interview: Chuck House at HP
Hewlett-Packard back in the day was a special company that shaped the computing industry by motivating Steve Jobs and Woz to build Apple Computer. KQED Forum has this great interview with Chuck House who was a leading figure at Hewlett-Packard, a company …
Clean vs. Dirty Data: Data as the New Developer Kit [Twitter and Facebook]
Facebook is racing to open up their privacy settings. Why? Their $15 billion dollar valuation and future depend on it. The faster Facebook opens up the data the faster a few things happen. First, Facebook can starting implementing and then scale a …
Twitter’s Firehose Myth – What You Need To Know About the Twitter Firehose and APIs
Today’s big news: Twitter is developer focused and is expanding it’s policy for access to their data. The Twitter firehose is opening up in 2010. I wanted to share my perspective on the Twitter APIs and interfaces for developers. Drinking from the …
Google Tried Last Minute to Steal LaLa from Apple – Now It’s Real Time Innovation – Relevance and Mobile
While everyone is Twitter crazy they are missing a big battle between Google and Apple. Google throwing the kitchen sink at Apple in the fight to gain leadership in all things web and all things mobile. According to a source just last …