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I recently met with Omer Shaikh, one of the co-founders of Friction.TV, a British company launching the U.S. Mr. Shaikh used to head Saatchi and Saatchi Interactive and he says he founded Friction.TV to encourage debate. The site has quickly [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: Friction.TV, Omer Shaikh, Saatchi and Saatchi
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Tom Foremski speaks with Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL, the second-largest open source company, about Silicon Valley and the challenge of managing teams of programmers spread across the world. [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: Marten Mickos, MySQL, Open Source, Silicon Valley, Tom Foremski
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I spent Saturday afternoon crammed into a room in Palo Alto with a couple of hundred people listening to presentations from young developers creating Facebook apps. The enthusiasm was great and there was a sense of being at the start [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: Coté, Facebook apps, Liquid Labs, Zane Rockenbaugh
Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: Alex Kim, Josh Hallett, Larry Magid, Open Source, Silicon Valley Watcher, social media, Solution Set, Voce Communications
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I ran into Anurag Nigam, CEO and co-founder of IncSync recently, and got a quick demo of their 411Sync service. It’s a really easy and quick way to move any kind of information onto your cell phone without requiring any [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: 411sync, Anurag Nigam, IncSync, Silicon Valley Watcher
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Tom Foremski talks with David Thompson, CEO of Genius, an on demand software company with a unique technology that enables sales people to track leads. Genius also announces its first conference, Sales 2.0, in San Francisco at the end [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: David Thompson, Genius, on-demand, Sales 2.0, Tom Foremski
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Dan’l Lewin, corporate vice president at Microsoft, heads up its strategic and emerging business initiatives. This means that he and his team work with startups in Silicon Valley and beyond, and with large companies partnering with Microsoft. Mr. Lewin is [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Technology, TechOne Tags: AlwaysOn, Dan'l Lewin, Larry Magid, Microsoft, Silicon Valley, Tom Foremski, Tony Perkins
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Motorola is aggressively adopting mobile linux as the key operating system for its cell phones. It is launching its first North American cell phone with Linux, the new Razr V8. Tom Foremski talks with Christy Wyatt, VP Ecosystem and Market [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: Access, Aron Pruiett, Christy Wyatt, Didier Diaz, Kim Polese, mobile linux, Motorola, Razr V8, SpikeSource, Tom Foremski
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Tom Foremski speaks with Kim Polese, CEO of SpikeSource about the company’s packaged application suites. Spikesource takes dozens of open source components and combines them into sophisticated enterprise applications. Each suite is tested, and then retested when upgrades and patches [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: application suites, Kim Polese, Open Source, SpikeSource, Tom Foremski
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Sun Microsystems says it has the world’s fastest server microprocessor, the UltraSPARC T2. And it is the first Sun microprocessor that will be available to other companies. What does this mean for Sun? Tom Foremski talks to analysts Nathan Brookwood [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, TechOne Tags: Clay Ryder, Insight64, Nathan Brookwood, Sageza Group, Sun Microsystems, UltraSPARC
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At MashUp Camp 4 at the Computer History Museum, Plaxo showed its Pulse application, which looks very much like FaceBook, with similar features. Are we heading into a mashup world where everything shares addresses, photos, movies, etc? Does FaceBook [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher Tags: Facebook, Mashup Camp, Plaxo
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Irving Wladawsky-Berger is one of IBM’s top strategists. He has been the key open-source evangelist within Big Blue, persuading the company to standardize on Linux as one of its core business strategies.
Linux and the entire open-source movement would have [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher Tags: IBM, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Linux, Open Source, strategist
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Al Saracevic is the deputy business editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. I caught up Mr. Saracevic at a recent conference on innovation journalism at Stanford university. In this segment, he is on a panel and talks about the Silicon [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher Tags: Al Saracevic, innovation journalism, San Francisco Chronicle, Silicon Valley, Stanford
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Fabrik is an interesting Web 2.0 company because of its business strategy: it has combined a Web 2.0 consumer/small business service called MyFabrik, which organizes and stores digital media online — with physical storage such as hard drives and flash [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher Tags: digital media, Fabrik, Mike Cordano, MyFabrik, storage, Web 2.0
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Susie Wee has a great job — she’s the director of the HP Labs Mobile and Media Systems Lab, which means she works on gaming and entertainment systems. I spoke with Ms. Wee in San Francisco, at an HP Gaming [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher Tags: Gaming, HP, HPE, Susie Wee
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Renat Khasanshyn is CEO and co-founder of Apatar, a leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market. Apatar brings data integration to the companies who previously found proprietary solutions expensive and difficult to implement. Apatar’s goal [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0 Tags: Apatar, Renat Khasanshyn