June is San Francisco month
For real-world applications of Linked Data and the Semantic Web, the long-running Semantic Technology Conference is hard to beat. For getting a real handle on the Cloud Computing landscape, GigaOM‘s Structure Conference is also a leading light. Working across both areas as I do, these events tend to figure prominently in my calendar for the [...]
Curating a bit of the Cloud over at GigaOM Pro
Image via CrunchBase I’ve been a fan of Om Malik‘s boutique analyst site, GigaOM Pro, pretty much from the outset, and happily renew my subscription each year. The site covers a wide range of industry topics, and those Quarterly Wrap-ups are worth the fee all by themselves. I’ve written a few reports for them in [...]
Letting Enterprise Users Live In Harmon.ie
Yesterday at the GigaOm Net:work event, one of the Launchpad finalists was an interesting company called Harmon.ie (known as Mainsoft since 1993 and see Ben’s previous coverage here). The event itself was focussed on how collaboration happens today and how we will work in the future using the newer technologies that are pushing the envelope [...]
Mobilize 2010: Revisiting Web Apps – Native Apps Debate
Yesterday, at Mobilize 2010, a conference organized by GigaOm on mobile technologies, there was a panel discussion on “Apps Vs Web: The Fight For The Future”, moderated by Dr. Phil Hendricks. They had panelists from both sides of the debate and it was one of the interesting panels based on my interests. Basically, the panelists [...]
Mobile is the New Computer. Join us at the Mobilize Conference Tomorrow. Discount Inside.
Astute readers may have noticed we’ve been writing more and more abut mobility. No, we have not changed focus – it’s computing that has changed a lot. Cloud computing and mobility are more and more intertwined. We still won’t be reporting about iPhone games, the best video tools, the huge advertising potential in location / [...]
A tale of two conferences
A somewhat hectic June concluded with my second trip of the month to California. Whilst the first excursion led to Santa Clara and an interesting insight into attempts by Hitachi Data Systems to reinvent its relationship with the wider community, the second journey took me to San Francisco and a pair of events that lie [...]
Structure 2010: Public-Private Cloud Flareups
Last week GigaOm organized the third edition of their famous Structure conference. This is one of my favorite conferences because of their focus on Infrastructure topics. Unfortunately, I had to drop out in the last moment as I went down due to a viral attack. Still I managed to catch up with the sessions live [...]
Making Money In Open Source: Does It Matter?
Yesterday, I attended the GigaOm bunker series on Open Source and Cloud Computing. The event had two panels, one featuring Larry Augustin of SugarCRM and Jim Zemlin of Linux Foundation and the other with Joe Tobolsk, Rich Wolski, Shelton Shugar and Tom Hughes Croucher. There were some interesting discussions on both panels and an overall [...]
Is Google the Next Media Company?
Think about this for a moment, Google mail, YouTube, Google book search, soon to come Google Wave, and a plethora of other stuff, the only thing that Google is missing is a distribution contract with RIAA and the MPAA. With Google Checkout that might be one way to get the lagging payment system by Google [...]
Rage Against the Machine
Disclaimer – The following post includes strong opinions and strong language, It’ll also annoy a small, but ultra-powerful group of individuals. What the hell….. Recently I had the privilege to have a first hand glimpse of the fundraising woes of an internet start-up. Without giving details, it’ll suffice it to say that I spent some [...]
Morsels from the Crunchies, or Whatever Happened to Startups?
There were two Golden Globes ceremonies this weekend: one for movies, and one for Technology. The latter, the Crunchies took place in San Francisco, and despite the posh venues – Herbst Theatre and the City Hall – it was definitely less glitzy then her Hollywood sister. Here are some of the major fashion observations dedicated [...]
