Enterprise May Be Sexy, But….
On the very same day Salesforce.com acquires Exact Target in their largest ever transaction valued at $2.5B, TechMeme’s top news is crazy gamers dropped by even crazier gamers…
One Man’s Signal is Another Man’s Noise
After the weekend kerfuffle over AngelList I was reading Brad Feld’s post on Signal vs. Noise. It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. that it’s sometimes hard to know when to pay attention and when to keep your head down. Mostly during the [...]
The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery
It surprises me how many really smart people I meet still doubt the power of Twitter. It seems the urge to be a naysayer of Twitter is really strong for some. I think some of this stems from the early days of Twitter when it was presumed that it was a technology to tell people [...]
Is Enterprise RSS Dead or Not? Gotta Love TechMeme
Gotta love TechMeme – for bringing out great debates. Here’s how two reputable sources came to completely different conclusions regarding the same event, in this case NewsGator’s funding. R.I.P. Enterprise RSS –says ReadWriteWeb: The Market Doesn’t Look Good Newsgator, one of those three companies, announced today that it has closed another round of funding, unbelievably [...]
Sequential Programming is Dead. But it May Just Mean Job Security :-)
Do you have a screaming-fast Quad-core computer? Does it really feel that fast? If not, it’s probably because most applications were not programmed to take advantage of the new architecture. In fact, if you ask the Intel guys, not even the next generation of programmers is well prepared: All major manufactures of CPUs, GPUs and [...]
