Tis the season for mergers and acquisiti…
Tis the season for mergers and acquisitions, apparently: Sanyo has just been acquired by Panasonic for a staggering $4.6 billion for a 50.2% stake in the company, according to a post from TheStreet a…
The Inevitable Singularity and the Haunting Words of Bruce Schneier
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of noodling on the concept of convergence and singularity. Many years ago, I read Ray Kurzweil’s Age of Spiritual Machines, and it had such a re-wiring effect on…
Mastering the Art of Everyday Negotiations
By Tina Seelig
Most of our interactions with others are essentially a series of negotiations, and we do ourselves a huge disservice by not knowing the basic tenets. We negotiate with our friends about what to do…
Why Big Cable and Big Telecom Should Love Net Neutrality Regulations
Every time my friend Michael Sean Wright and I have recorded a conversation (for a podcast, testing purposes, or any other reason), he’s taken to tagging it out with “Go Net Neutrality,” as a…
Clean vs. Dirty Data: Data as the New Developer Kit [Twitter and Facebook]
By John Furrier
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,…
Twitter’s Firehose Myth – What You Need To Know About the Twitter Firehose and APIs
By John Furrier
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…
Privacy isn’t the Key Buzzword: It’s Social Search [Facebook]
Facebook today adjusted their privacy settings (and got rid of regional networks, a feature that most of us forgot was a part of the social network). The press release came across the wires this…
What Does a Successful Facebook Fan Page Look Like? [statistics]
In one of the first large-scale studies of Facebook pages ever conducted, Toronto-based Sysomos analyzed and investigated usage patterns in nearly 600,000. The results include information on various aspects including popularity, amount of content…
I Want My M(obile) TV!
By Jeff Nolan
This study falls under “stating the obvious” but it is interesting nonetheless for 2 reasons, the mobile component and broadband/TV convergence. Nearly half of Internet users would be interested in watching TV on their…
Groups is a Cloud App Now: Spam Control to Come Later?
Today, aside from LeWeb, one of the big news stories is that Google Groups is now a part of the Google Enterprise cloud suite of tools. If you’ve never used Groups, it was what…