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 [...]
News Corp Saber Rattling Threatens to Sue Google and Yahoo and Looks to Reevaluate the Kindle
I do not run News Corp, I do not make any decisions for them, I do not know what their balance sheets look like, but what is important is that according to reports on the Inquistr and on CNN, it looks like Rupert Murdoch is seriously thinking about how to squeeze the last amount of [...]
Yahoo! Releases Its Own Hadoop Distribution
Yahoo! is releasing its own distribution of Hadoop: Hadoop is a distributed file system and parallel execution environment that enables its users to process massive amounts of data. In response to frequent requests from the Hadoop community, Yahoo! is opening up its investment in Hadoop quality engineering to benefit the larger ecosystem and to increase [...]
Yahoo Embraces Cloud Storage
I have documented Yahoo Inc.’s Cloud Computing efforts in this space many times already. They are doing some classy work on projects like Hadoop, etc.. What about their own use of Cloud Computing internally? There was not much info about it till recently. Now, the company has announced how they are tapping into a Cloud [...]
Gmail Migration Tools Attack Inertia
A few years ago a software recruiter told me how he deleted job applications sent from a Hotmail account: after all, how could an applicant claim to be technology-savvy and still be using hotmail? Seriously. While Yahoo was by far not as bad as Hotmail, there was a stigma attached to using the free webmail [...]
Yahoo Thrusts Itself Further Into Cloud Computing Research
Image by Yodel Anecdotal via Flickr Yahoo has been pretty active on Cloud Computing research. They are the biggest contributors to Hadoop, which is fast becoming a significant player as an enabler of Cloud Computing. They have played a significant role in the development of Pig, a high level language for Hadoop. Apart from these development efforts, [...]
Webstock – Tom Coates – Incrementing Your Life
Tom Coates is a product designer who has worked for UpMyStreet and the BBC and now works for Yahoo. He’s currently working on fire eagle. a location capturing, managing and sharing service. Fire eagle has two initiatives – giving people tools to use, and giving people the control over the information that those tools develops. [...]
Resistance is Futile: Google is Unstoppable
Two seemingly unrelated items: Today Hitwise reported on how Google Maps is catching up on Mapquest, which once was the king of online mapping. Perhaps more important than just the numbers is the source of traffic: 61% of Google Maps traffic comes from links placed in organic Google Search results. Contrast that to Mapquest, [...]
Yahoo Takes Another Step In Promoting Cloud Computing
Image via Wikipedia Yahoo Inc, the battered internet giant, is helping institutions in India to modify their curriculum so that students are trained on cloud computing technologies. Even though the name Yahoo doesn’t usually come up in many discussions related to Cloud Computing, they are doing some really great work from behind. They are a big [...]
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, [...]
