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Top Startups from Israel – The Israel Web Tour Silicon Valley April 20-23
Shuly Galili and Brian Solis (friends of ours) want us to spread the word on this year’s IsraelWebTour and was wondering if you could help us spread the word about the event and also if you can attend. The tour is coming up from April 20-23 with a semi-public showcase in Palo Alto on April ...
Skype Founders Making a Run To Take Back Skype?
Are the founders of Skype trying to take private the company that they founded from eBay? The NY Times is reporting that according to sources close to the discussions, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis have approached several private equity firms and are pooling their own substantial resources to make a bid for the Internet calling ...
Inside the Big War Between Google and Associated Press
I have a big opinion on the AP war against online content, but will hold off on presenting My Angle for now. Instead as a teaser, I want to point to a great post by Kara Swisher at AllThingsD.com who decoded the Google memo response to the AP. Kara provides a clever and funny (and ...
Cisco’s John Chamber and Intel’s Sean Maloney on Broadband Stimulus
These quotes from the USA Today’s story by Jon Swartz speak volumes.. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime deal,” says Sean Maloney, chief sales and marketing officer at Intel, which is working on broadband projects with governments in the U.S., Japan, Vietnam and others. “This dwarfs the Marshall Plan and the New Deal. It is unimaginably large, ...
Google Campfire One Event at GooglePlex – SDC and Java Give AppEngine More Power – All Standards Based
Google campfire event was last night and I was honored to be invited to such a exclusive event called Campfire One. It was the first anniversary of App Engine and Google poured out the announcements. Cnet’s Stephen Shankland has a good post on the event with some great photos. (Nice job Stephen). I have more ...
Twitter > NYTimes = Amazing
Twitter is now bigger than the New York Times according to Compete.com. Compete says that this month Twitter passed the August numbers of the NYTimes.com as measured by numbers of unique visitors. From David Weir blog post: Yes, Twitter grew by 76.8 percent in March, attracting 14,031,985 people, to break into the Top 100 sites, ...
Google Container Data Center Tour Video
This is a great video and inside look at Google’s first container datacenter. Enjoy.
Bring Back Old School R&D – We Need More Invention Less Talk
Stephen D. Crocker writes for the NY Times a great story that needs to be read by all young entrepreneurs and university officials. 40 years ago I was just a young toddler running around when the Internet was concieved. My Angle: this story can shed some light on the innovations that can occur on basic ...
Brand Owners Beware of the New Social Web: Sharing = Stealing
The social web is changing and so are the way stealing is going on. I’ve been saying recently that the real-time web is changing things big time from brand owners to artists. Recently Jon Engle got ripped off then sued. What has been going on that no one is talking about is the stealing going ...
Top 25 Apple Apps Downloaded – Games and Play Dominate
The Apple App store is amazing. Having an app on the iPhone is like owning a consumer. It’s a brand managers dream. I think that iPhone apps are far more valuable than Facebook apps. Comscore just released the top 25 Apple Apps. A review of the top 25 most heavily penetrated apps illustrates the importance ...
