Please Rob Me: The Sky is Falling
If you’re active at all on the location based status update sites like BrightKite or Foursquare, then you’ve more than likely heard about the Please Rob Me website. A good friend let me know…
Slideshare Founders Talk About Entrepreneurship
By John Furrier
Jonathan Boutelle and Rashmi Sinha, founders of the presentation-sharing site SlideShare, describe the entrepreneurial process as a series of pivots. Boutelle explains it’s not just a jump, but an evolving growth of stages that…
The Cautionary Tale of IKON Office Solutions – Sound Familar?
Sometimes the ‘golden handcuffs’ tarnish the other hands in the company… Thirteen years ago I worked at a small technology consulting firm, headquartered out of Columbia South Carolina, named The Computer Group. TCG was…
Make No Mistake: Internet Content Subscription Models will come!
By Len Grace
Why do Internet users continually resist paid content on a systematic basis? Keep in mind that many current Internet business models were built on the premise, (create the content and they will come).
Is Microsoft Attempting to Escalate a Hot War with Google?
By Tom Foremski
Google today said that it had received a notice from the European Commission that it had received complaints from three European companies about its business practices. Julia Holtz, Senior Competition Counsel at Google, wrote:…
EngineYard Chooses TerreMark: What Does this Mean for Enterprises?
The recent announcement between Terremark and Engine Yard got me to thinking this past week, just what this means for enterprises. Terremark has been quite aggressive in providing its Enterprise Cloud to the market.…
Carpathia Hosting Announces Second Generation of their Cloud Service
By Nate D'Amico
We are entering a period in Information Technology where the cloud computing and Infrastructure 2.0 movements are evolving beyond just buzzwords to become action items to evolve operations and processes. This year is shaping…
Scoop: Millennial Media Re-Asserts Its Independence with TapMetrics Acquisition
Millennial Media today is going to announce an acquisition today of real time analytics firm TapMetrics. A source today sent us an advance copy of the press release due to hit the wires this…
Why the (My) Damn Channel Deal Matters
Remember when I talked about international opportunities in TV earlier this year in the New Media Minute? Now we’re seeing even more evidence of that trend because the popular Web series "Break a Leg"…
Can Netbooks Save Clear’s 4G?
There’s a mobile battle brewing out there. The iPad, smartphones with big screens, netbooks and Kindle-like devices are all vying for our attention. Thanks to the iPhone, people are viewing the internet while mobile…