Eran Kampf
No Hope for Traditional Media Companies?
The Internet is a media platform based on content from traditional media companies (Times Magazine, etc.) as well as content produced by its users – blogs, forums and other social communication platforms. This vast new world of content is taking the lead from traditional media. Newspapers, Magazines and TV Channels are all loosing their audience [...]
Creating an Attractive Internet Company – It's All About Emotions
How do you create an internet company\product that can get the attention of more than 100 million unique viewers a month? That’s the tough question that Yossi Vardi’s was trying to find an answer to on his panel at this year’s DLD conference – 100,000 Million Uniques (video) – together with Glam’s co-founder Samir Arora, [...]
Is Windows Live Still Alive?
About a month ago, Microsoft rolled out its previously announced 3rd wave of Windows Live Services refresh. The purpose of the release was to position the Live Services as the central hub for everything you do online – the new Live Home shows input from your various services (Hotmail, SkyDrive, etc.) as well as an [...]
Microsoft Updates Its Windows Live Services
Microsoft announced today its rollout plans for the 3rd wave of Windows Live services. The goal of this latest release wave, according to company officials, is to simplify the use of the offered services and unify the user’s entire online experience into the Windows Live interface. Microsoft is planning to rollout the new services, currently [...]
Office Web Applications
This year’s Microsoft Professional Developers Conference is full of announcements and surprises. The next big announcement besides Windows Azure (and Windows 7?) is the new “Office Web Applications” live service. The Office team will be delivering the five most popular Office applications as light weight browser based versions that include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and [...]
Microsoft calls OpenID a De Facto Login Standard
Windows Live™Microsoft’s Windows Live ID team just announced their support for OpenID calling it a “de facto standard Web protocol for user authentication.” Beginning today, Windows Live™ ID is publicly committing to support the OpenID digital identity framework with the announcement of the public availability of a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Windows Live [...]
PDC 2008 Keynotes – Live Streams
If you didn’t get a chance to attend PDC, Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, it doesn’t mean you won’t get a chance to watch the convention’s keynotes. Keynote – Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson Monday, October 27 8:30-10:30am 100 kbps 300 kbps 750 kbps Keynote – Ray Ozzie, Steven [...]
Google Chrome is a Failure… Surprised?
Last month Google released its Chrome browser to the public and as usual it made a lot of PR noise (and a comic book) and got lots of favorable reviews When combined with Gears, which allows for offline access, Chrome is nothing less than a full on desktop operating system that will compete head on [...]
Microsoft’s Next Killer OS is… SharePoint?
Reading Mary Jo Foley’s Microsoft 2.0 it suddenly struck me: Could Microsoft’s next killer OS be SharePoint? Instead of being quite so blatant, Microsoft has taken a quieter back route to achieving the same ends via two related technologies: Baking SharePoint reliance into more and more of its products Requiring users to buy pricey client-access [...]
Amazon S3 Storing 29 Billion Objects
Jeff Barr from Amazon Web Service reports that Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is now storing more than 29 billion objects, an increase of 7 billion from the previous quarter: As one of the S3 engineers told me last week, that's over 4 objects for every person now on Earth! Our customers are keeping S3 [...]
Cloud Envy
Cloud Computing is the latest, hottest new buzzword in today’s information technology world. However, and much like other buzzwords such as Web x.0, it seems to be losing whatever meaning it once had as an increasing number of companies, not wanting to miss out on the latest hype, are starting to use it for their [...]
