Semiconductor Industry Concerned About Wall Street Financial Crisis
eWeek - RSS Feeds — ... banking industries to the wider economy. The latest rumblings on Wall Street began in September, which means the next SIA report might offer a better picture of how Wall Street’s failures will impact the IT industry. The plea by SIA to the U.S. Congress for the proposed bailout plan also shows how important sales of consumer electronics, compared to traditional IT sales involving desktops PCs and server systems, have become for the semiconductor industry. That point was echoed on the GigaOM blog. “The continued consumerization of technology – from moms keeping their schedules ...

A broken link economy? Then fix it
CNET News.com - Business Tech — Just as many of you settled into your seats to watch Thursday evening's debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin, Allen Stern of CenterNetworks was attracting his own crowd on Twitter after raising a question that strikes at heart of the blogosphere. "It's clear the link economy is broken," he wrote, pointing to a write-up CNET News published on Friendster's support for Facebook applications. The piece contained nine links, six of which pointed to previous CNET posts. Not long after, Matthew Ingram piled on with a post dinging us for attempting "to prove how ...

A broken link economy? Then fix it
CNET News.com — Just as many of you settled into your seats to watch Thursday evening's debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin, Allen Stern of CenterNetworks was attracting his own crowd on Twitter after raising a question that strikes at heart of the blogosphere. "It's clear the link economy is broken," he wrote, pointing to a write-up CNET News published on Friendster's support for Facebook applications. The piece contained nine links, six of which pointed to previous CNET posts. Not long after, Matthew Ingram piled on with a post dinging us for attempting "to prove how ...

GigaOm's tech blogs pull in $4.5 million
The Social — Giga Omni Media, the blog network that encompasses flagship GigaOm and six others (including NewTeeVee and Earth2Tech), has raised $4.5 million in a round led by Alloy Ventures. ...

$4.5 million for GigaOM's tech blogs
CNET News.com — ... ), has raised $4.5 million in a round led by Alloy Ventures. "The shift of audiences and ad dollars to online media from more traditional mediums has been significant on many levels, not least of which has been how it's created opportunities for new models such as ours," founder Om Malik wrote in a blog post announcing the funding . "What hasn't changed is a desire on the part of business and technology audiences for in-depth, insightful coverage, which is what we are committed to providing." Raising money now is also a ...

Tech news network Giga Omni Media grabs another $4.5M
VentureBeat — ... and its related sites, announced today that it has raised $4.5 million in additional funding. ...

How will professional bloggers survive the recession?
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... Not the most optimistic statement for an already rocky week. But some news today calls into question the idea that all blogs are bound to suffer. Today, Giga Omni Media announced it had raised $4.5 million to continue to expand its tech-related blog network, which includes the likes of ...

VC Tells Startups to Tighten Belts, It's Going to Be a Bumpy Ride
eWeek - RSS Feeds — ... both startups and established companies in their portfolios to trim expenses, cut ancillary jobs and contractors and tighten budget belts. Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, known for backing IT megahits such as Google, Apple and YouTube, Oct. 9 became one of the first VC firms to issue a strict advisory warning to both startups and established companies in their portfolios to trim expenses, cut ancillary jobs and contractors and tighten budget belts. Web 2.0 blogster Om Malik reported that Sequoia started a board meeting Oct. 8 by showing an image of a gravestone and ...

Obama is doing in-game advertising on the XBox360. Check it out on http://www.gigaom.com scroll down
Politweets — Loader Twitter.com Profile_bird Hey there! digitalvision is using Twitter. Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people using the web, your phone, or IM. Join today to start receiving digitalvision's updates. Already using Twitter via SMS or IM? Finish signing up . [image] digitalvision Obama is doing in-game advertising on the XBox360. Check it out on http://www.gigaom.com scroll down 3 minutes ago from twitterrific @ Scobleizer You've found where the valuable community intersects the masses. See Merlin Mann's ...

Confirmed: Obama Is Campaigning on Xbox 360! (Wagner James Au/GigaOM)
memeorandum — Wagner James Au / GigaOM: Confirmed: Obama Is Campaigning on Xbox 360!  —  Last week we noted unconfirmed sightings of an “Obama for President” billboard in the Xbox 360 racing game Burnout Paradise.  Today we're able to report that it is, in fact, an official advertisement placed by the senator's campaign team.

GigaOM gets a 13-inch MacBook
jkOnTheRun — ... Our buddies at GigaOM got a 13-inch MacBook and they've taken some nice photos of the unboxing.  Take a look at these photos and you'll see why we are so excited about this new MacBook.  How excited?  We may have some hands-on video of one here at jkOnTheRun pretty soon.  :)  For now enjoy: ...

Initial Reviews of Android-based G1 Phone: It Does Not Look Good but It Does Not Matter
Profy — ... was basically about it until yesterday when embargo lifted and bloggers that received the G1 phones from T-Mobile to review started to publish their opinions. Now that those T-Mobile customers who have preordered the phone are even more eager since they will probably receive their phones as soon as on Friday, these reviews are definitely worth reading for everyone contemplating the purchase. So a number of bloggers and reporters (from Engadget, Gizmodo, GigaOM, Los Angeles Times, and other media outlets) received the pre-release review gadgets ...

What's Up With All the Guest Posts?
louisgray.com — Warning: Some Internal Navel Gazing Ahead Over the last three months, regular visitors to the site may have noticed a good number of posts to the blog that weren't from me. In fact, starting on July 8th, of the 175 new stories posted to the site, 34 have been from guest posters, representing approximately one of every five new entries, with me covering the other eighty percent. These 34 items have been submitted by a number of diverse writers, each of whom brings their own background and expertise to the table. So what's going on? Given the proximity of the first guest post, ...

20 Dumb Things About Web 2.0
WatchMojo.com Business & Technology — In absolutely no order, because in Web 2.0 we didn’t believe in accountability and numbers aren’t kewl! 21- Is No Barrier To Entry A Good Thing? There is a saying that states: “greed is a permanent, fear is temporary”.  In greedy times, VCs and buyers pay whatever it took to close the deal.  In fear times, that isn’t the case. Much the same way that loose money and easy credit created the real estate and housing bubble, open source software and cheap hardware created an environment of over-supply of me-too products that have absolutely ...

Software Makers Get an iPhone Bump
MacBytes.com — ... It has been widely reported that iPhone owners use data connections to surf the Internet more often than people with smartphones that have built-in browsers. Indeed, flat-rate data plans, a bigger screen, and a near-desktop quality Web browser along with the ability to connect to multiple networks (3G and Wi-Fi) are all contributing to the heavy Internet usage on the part of iPhone owners . Now the very same dynamics are working their magic on all those applications that were made available at the iTunes App Store ...

WordPress Outage Temporarily Cures Blogorrhea
Silicon Alley Insider — ... Blogging service WordPress was out for at least some of its VIP clients during parts of this morning. Among the suddenly silenced -- whose owners are supposed to pay a $600 setup fee and $500 per month, per blog hosting fee -- included those in Om Malik's empire, such as GigaOm and ...

Turbocharged WiFi: E-books could benefit from FCC decision
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — ... The bottom line would be easier shopping without downloading hassles—direct transmission to e-readers or smartphones, for example. And the phones themselves could use the WiFi for voice-over-Internet arrangements. Also, this could be a boon to networked books and others that thrive on always-on connections. I wonder of any NB-related Android apps could be coming in time. Related: Cheers from Google’s Larry Page—plus Google wins big at FCC today, in Gigaom (source of ...

NewTeeVee Live, a conference for online video — get $200 off
VentureBeat — Our friends at GigaOm are throwing their second NewTeeVee Live conference next week, on Thursday, November 13. This will be all about the future of media, online video, and how to make money from it all. Who’s going? The creators and producers of “Heroes” and “CSI”, the CEOs of Hulu and Netflix, the VPs of Digital Media for ABC, FOX and Lucasfilm, to name a few. It’s at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. Full conference schedule here. VentureBeat readers get a special $200 discount using code ...

GigaOm: Another place to find me
mathewingram.com/work — ... Eagle-eyed readers looking closely at this blog post at GigaOm about Chris Anderson’s Long Tail theory might notice that it has my name on it. That’s because my friend Om Malik, the genius behind the ever-expanding ...

Obama to Put Weekly Address on YouTube http://u.gigaom.com/1cn
Politweets — ... Videos http://u.gigaom.com/1bs 1:32 PM Nov 12th from web Gartner Sees $1.5B for Web Studio Video by 2012 http://u.gigaom.com/1bq 1:32 PM Nov 12th from web MySpace Launches PrimeTime App http://u.gigaom.com/1bo 11:27 AM Nov 12th from web Me.dium changes it name, game http://u.gigaom.com/1bm 11:23 AM Nov 12th from web Zazzle Opens UK Storefront 11:19 AM Nov 12th from web Older » RSS Name GigaOM Web http://gigaom.com/ 7 Following 1,939 Followers 7,134 ...

Announcing The Second Annual "Crunchies!"
Silicon Alley Insider — We're pleased to be a media sponsor of the Crunchies, TechCrunch's start-up Oscars show in San Francisco in January. We watched jealously from the other coast last year as everyone walked the red carpet. This year, happily, we'll be a part of it. We'll have more on this in the next few weeks, but for now here's the official write up. Start nominating companies today! Announcing The Second Annual Crunchies Awards ...

Malik does some fact checking: Forbes denies Russian connection
The Next Web — ... The famous tech blogger used to work at Forbes and sent a line to an old Forbes connection yesterday: ...

Breaking: Google News doesn’t break tech news
VentureBeat — ... , for example, have syndication deals with The Washington Post, whereby the Post republishes these sites’ articles on its own site. The republished articles are far more likely to appear on Google News than the original articles. Same goes for GigaOm and VentureBeat and our syndication deals with The New York Times. The republished versions of our articles seem more likely to appear on Google News. ...

Henry Blodget: Financial-Industry Scapegoat Reinvents Himself as Financial Reporter
Wired Top Stories — ... Blodget is also trying things that no mainstream-journalism-trained blogger like Swisher or GigaOm's Om Malik would ever dare. He makes serious-sounding offers to buy companies that he wants to demonstrate are significantly undervalued. It's pure showmanship, but with Blodget's background in finance and his ties to folks up and down Wall Street, no one knows just how far he will take the joke. ...

Last Call For Those Crunchies Nominations
TechCrunch — ... will be held on Jan. 9, 2009, 7:30 pm at the Herbst Theater across the street from City Hall in San Francisco. The reception will follow and tickets will be released in December. Here are photos from last year, when we introduced the noble-yet-noticeable Crunchies gorilla statuette. This year, they will be even more apropos as we celebrate the survival of the fittest. We are lucky once again to be partnering with some of the leading tech blogs on the Web: GigaOm, Silicon Alley Insider, and VentureBeat. They will be co-hosting the event with ...

This week at Mobile Tech Manor #20- how's your memory?
jkOnTheRun — ... schedule even though I work at home.  It gives me a better mental attitude and keeps me disciplined for working at home.  This is why I think many home workers have trouble maintaining a consistent work schedule which I find easy to do if I handle working at home with a "real" work schedule.  No working in PJs and robe if you will. My work day proceeds from that point doing online research and writing articles for the site.  I also contribute to GigaOM and WebWorkerDaily occasionally so there is never a shortage of things to do.  ...

Does Google Really Want Net Neutrality?
ReadWriteWeb — ... , who has contacted Google in an attempt to get more information, suggests that Google would essentially put the majority of its content closer to the service providers' infrastructure. ...

The tale of 20 likes and its impact on news
Scobleizer — ... 14.  GigaOm - GigaOM GigaOM Cheat Sheet for National Broadband Plans ...

Where are the good webdesigners in Israel?
OurielOhayon — Israel might have tones of startups there is one thing i am always disappointed by: the quality of the web design of a site. I am not even referring to the local pre historical internet sites, not even optimized mostly for firefox and most of the time purely ugly. I am referring to startups turning to international consumers facing competition from startups all over the world Each time the subject comes in a conversation and that i am asked for an advice who to work with i can't think of a name i could recommand (actually there is one in Israel but he s just been hired...). So i am ...

2009 Will Be The Year of the Uber Blog
The Inquisitr » Technology — As we end 2008, the year ahead offers the biggest challenge ever in the history of blogging. Although blogging dates back to the beginning of the first dot com boom, it truly came of age as the second bubble grew. From the rise of the political bloggers in 2004, blogging became mainstream, ...

2009: Predictions Across the Web
ReadWriteWeb — ... make a corporate blog, go real or go home. There is no point in ghost-written or PR-written blogs. In my view, corporate blogs shouldn't exist. If you want a corporate blog, go find a few corporate bloggers instead. Encourage those bloggers to write openly and honestly about your industry. Let them ramble off-topic once in a while. You might discover something. Om Malik: Tip'd Could Be a Daily Destination Cautiously optimistic, Om sees great potential in the online community Tip'd, the site that brings together the ...

Crunchies 2008 voting begins!
VentureBeat — Voting for the 2008 Crunchies winners is now open. This is the second year of the tech-start-up awards ceremony. It’s where the 15 best start-ups, founders and executives are awarded by the community based on outstanding performance in. While the ceremony — to be held January 9 at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco — does focus mainly on start-ups, we’ve also allowed nominations for larger companies for particularly innovative projects that impact technology in a significant way. If you are a startup or individual in the finals, you can get a ...

Choosing an Open Source CMS -- Planning, Playing, and Page Views [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — ... on a purely aesthetic level) with relatively little programming knowledge. That's where it's easy to go off-track. The curb appeal of your site is important, and open source solutions are great for making your site stand out, even if you are using fairly standard design templates. What your site looks like is somewhat CMS dependent (for instance, OStatic uses Drupal, which presents a bit differently -- color schemes aside -- than GigaOM's WordPress installation), but it's almost always negotiable, and even very ...

Choosing an Open Source CMS -- Planning, Playing, and Page Views
OStatic blogs — ... simple to customize (at least on a purely aesthetic level) with relatively little programming knowledge. That's where it's easy to go off-track. The curb appeal of your site is important, and open source solutions are great for making your site stand out, even if you are using fairly standard design templates. What your site looks like is somewhat CMS dependent (for instance, OStatic uses Drupal, which presents a bit differently -- color schemes aside -- than GigaOM's WordPress installation), but it's almost always negotiable, and even very ...

The Most Hard Working Bloggers in the World
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog — Meet the hardest working people from the tech blogging world. The list is based on the number of blog posts written by any particular author blogger (in English) over a period of time. The Lifehacker editors take the top positions followed by Arrington of TechCrunch and Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing. This data is sourced from rssmeme and may not be 100% accurate (Om Malik, Allen Stern, Brad Linder of Download Squad and Inquisitr are missing) but still good enough to help us acknowledge the ...

The Semi-Human Techmeme: A Month Later
CenterNetworks — ... 13 Bits 13 same 14 Boy Genius Report 21 -7 15 GigaOM 16 -1 16 Ars Technica 11 ...

Live Mesh Awarded Best Technology Innovation/Achievement Crunchie
Angus Logan's Blog — I’m in San Francisco at the 2008 Crunchie Awards and after ~ 350k votes were cast Ray Ozzie and David Treadwell accepted the award for Best Technology Innovation/Achievement on behalf of the Live Mesh team. The Crunchies are an annual competition co-hosted by GigaOm, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, and TechCrunch which culminates in an award the most compelling startup, internet and technology innovations. If you are a Live Mesh user, thanks for all of your feedback ...

Live Mesh Wins Best Technology Innovation/Achievement at Crunchies 2008
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life — ... I’m in San Francisco at the 2008 Crunchie Awards and after ~ 350k votes were cast Ray Ozzie and David Treadwell accepted the award for Best Technology Innovation/Achievement on behalf of the Live Mesh team. The Crunchies are an annual competition co-hosted by GigaOm, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider ...

Microsoft's Live Mesh top innovation at the Crunchies
Outside the Lines — Last night I attended the Crunchies award ceremony, where Facebook took top honors as the best overall start-up (See the full list of Crunchies award winners). The awards are based on a popularity contest via votes cast through the Crunchies Web site and with input from the Crunchies Committee, consisting of co-hosts GigaOm, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and advisors. The most surprising winner for the evening was in the Microsoft's Live Mesh, which won in the category best technology innovation/achievement. The competition ...

Microsoft's Live Mesh top innovation at the Crunchies
Webware.com — Last night I attended the Crunchies award ceremony, where Facebook took top honors as the best overall start-up (See the full list of Crunchies award winners). The awards are based on a popularity contest via votes cast through the Crunchies Web site and with input from the Crunchies Committee, consisting of co-hosts GigaOm, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and advisors. The most surprising winner for the evening was in the Microsoft's Live Mesh, which won in the category best technology innovation/achievement. The competition ...

The Best of Technology Innovations in 2008
SolSie.com — The 2008 Crunchies, an annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. The Crunchies is co-hosted by GigaOm, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, and TechCrunch. Best of all, the internet community is invited to choose who wins. This is a great opportunity to discover some great services that we have tried. The winners are: Best Application Or Service Get Satisfaction ...

Motorola podría abandonar a Windows Mobile
Celularis — ... Como bien dice Om Malik, Nokia, Samsung y LG (más SonyEricsson y HTC) serán los más beneficiados de una caída de Motorola. Incluso PhoneScoop confirma que Motorola no tendrá su clásico stand en la próxima CTIA en Las Vegas en el mes de abril de 2009, lo que confirma que la decisión de recortes es grave. ...

Working in San Francisco [jkOnTheRun]
GigaOM Network — ... coverage on Monday of this week and on Wednesday we both headed out to San Francisco for a meeting with the GigaOM team. ...

Why In the World Can't I Customize Apple's Time Machine?
louisgray.com — In March of 2007, when writing for The Apple Blog, now part of the GigaOM network, I openly speculated that Apple would debut a wireless network storage device, combining their expertise in Airport wireless devices with an external hard drive and give users a simple way to back up all their files. Sure enough, Cupertino rolled out the combination of Time Machine software and the Time Capsule backup device to do just that. And while I'm one of those Apple customers backing up my data through the air, you have to color me unimpressed with the ...

Thoughts from the road
jkOnTheRun — ... The team at GigaOM absolutely rocks!  I have never seen such a talented bunch of people working toward a common goal and it is exhilarating to be a part of it.  These folks are the rock stars of tech blogging no doubt (myself excluded, of course). ...

This week at Mobile Tech Manor #24- back home again
jkOnTheRun — ... went well and the visit to the GigaOM office in San Francisco was nice.  These trips gave me a good opportunity to fine-tune my strategy for mobile working and I found that simple is better.  I only took the MacBook, Verizon EV-DO modem and iPhone with me and those worked very well for my needs.  The Verizon EV-DO service worked impeccably everywhere I went and kept me in fast 3G the entire time.  I jump on hotspots whenever they are available but the high speed 3G is more than enough for the rest of the time.  I didn’t even pay for hotel WiFi in Vegas this year and ...

Google is not your sugar daddy
mathewingram.com/work — ... with a very large payment, that information is not free. This leads to an obvious, critical question: Why aren’t newspapers and news magazines demanding payment for use of their stories on Google and other search engines? Why are they not getting a significant slice of the advertising revenues generated by use of their stories via Google?” This argument is so full of holes that it’s difficult to know where to begin. (read the rest of this post at GigaOm) ...

Om Malik Dumps His iPhone For T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve 8900
RIMarkable — ... Om Plans to use his BlackBerry Curve 8900 primarily for SMS and Text.  He also got a Verizon mobile phone just for voice.   Om’s crew over at GigaOm have often referred to the iPhone as the superphone.  A weak network, however, reduces the superphone to an expensive iPod touch. Welcome back to the BlackBerry Om.   Maybe you should write a post about how Verizon should come out with a new BlackBerry with a full QWERTY keyboard sooner rather than later. [Via GigaOm]

Smashwords: Vanity Publishing or Innovative Content Delivery? [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... and Om Malik come to mind. They are dealing primarily in the medium of the blog, however. The stigma associated with self-publishing doesn’t seem to have entirely disappeared when it comes to books. ...

Replicating the Web: Will Google Dominate Mobile Search?
SearchEngineWatch Experts — ... by 2012 (driven largely by the onset of video transmitted over the mobile Web). If you think about what this means, the online Web sent about that much data in 2004, writes GigaOM , which was 30 years after the first e-mail was sent. If Cisco is correct, the mobile Web will reach this point 18 years after the first text message was sent. Mobile behavior is quickly evolving, so it's hard to say what standards will emerge. But if trends continue, Google could be positioned well with AdSense for mobile. Generally speaking, it could be positioned well for search overall. As ...

How Does WordPress Make Money?
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog — ... a company like Automattic make money if they are giving away all their products (including WordPress) for free? Someone asked this question to WordPress founder Matt at WordCamp India and he surprised, at least some of us, by saying that Automattic is profitable. Here’s how WordPress makes money according to the creator himself: 1. Blog Hosting - WordPress offers blog hosting services at $500 per month to big publishers like Om Malik, All Things D and CNN’s Political Ticker among others. They use ...

LG debe retirar 30.000 equipos por fallas de conexión al 911
Celularis — Según info exclusiva de José Fermoso, que escribe para el blog de Om Malik, una comisión de seguridad ha decidido hacerle retirar del mercado unos 30.000 equipos a LG, debido a errores graves de software por lo que los equipos tienen serios problemas de conexión cuando se intenta realizar una llamada de emergencias el 911. Los 30.000 equipos de los modelos T83LGV03 y T83LGV04 fueron vendidos en nueve estados norteamericanos y el plan de rescate y reposición ...

GrandCentral renace como Google Voice, la VoIP de Google
Celularis — ... Según la info de Om Malik que lo pudo probar y relata la experiencia en su blog ...

Dear Jimmy Fallon: so when you going to have jkOnTheRun on your little show? [jkOnTheRun]
GigaOM Network — ... Make no mistake, Kevin and I are geeks all right, the exact sort you are already using to build up your geek meme on Late Night. But we’re not ordinary geeks, no sir, we are PROFESSIONAL geeks who do this for a living. We don’t sit around drinking beer and pretending to play on laptops. Nope we do this geek thing FULL TIME. We are a part of the most respected tech network on the Internet, GigaOM. You’ve heard of them, I’m sure. You need that if you are ever going to be taken seriously as the true geek of late night. Trust me ...

Skype y el gusto de los consumidores
Celularis — ... en el segmento de las aplicaciones VoIP (con otros clientes como Fring, o Nimbuzz por citar solo a un par, mordiendole los talones) todas las acciones que sumen a la estrategia de Skype no están de mas. El tip que falta en la encuesta: Mostrar cual es el perfil de usuario de skype, y darle herramientas a los operadores para que Skype les resulte atractivo de alguna forma, porque al menos en el mundo de hoy nadie puede ir en contra del dueño del caño ;) Via ...

Weekly App Store Picks: March 28, 2009 [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network — Welcome one and all to the weekend, a time for rest, relaxation and fresh pickings from the App Store. Before checking out this week’s apps, we’ve got seven days worth of Apple happenings to run through. First up, the week kicked off with a scathing review of the ...

Sometimes a TV Should Just Be a TV [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Upon reading a blog post about thefuture of widgets (tiny Internet apps) on the television, Stacey Higginbotham quipped: “Caller ID through my cable co, Twitter, weather widgets, Facebook, my actual TV program…I’m going to have to spring for an upgrade.” I think this is what she was referring to: ...

Webware Radar: Google adds third-party ad widgets to DoubleClick
Webware.com — ... , a company that provides social communication for the enterprise, announced Tuesday that it has secured $1.4 million in a Series A round of funding. The round was led by True Ventures. Well-known blogger, Om Malik, founder of the GigaOm blog network and partner at True Ventures, will join Socialcast's board of directors. ...

WordPress Introduces Web Hosting for bbPress Forums - TalkPress
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog — TalkPress is a new forum hosting service from Automattic, the developers of WordPress blogging software. It uses the technical infrastructure of WordPress.com VIP hosting that already powers high-traffic sites like WSJ’s All Things D or Om Malik’s GigaOm network of blogs. If you are new to world of bbPress, let’s spend a minute understanding these terms: WordPress.org is a free blogging software that anyone can install on PHP/MySQL server. WordPress.com is blog hosting service that provides the same blogging software ...

Thanks to Our GigaOM Sponsors! [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — GigaOM [image] GigaOM Earth2Tech jkOnTheRun NewTeeVee OStatic TheAppleBlog WebWorkerDaily Jobs Live Events About Contact [image] All Posts Web Broadband Infrastructure Mobile Voice Briefings Archives Advertisement Thanks to Our GigaOM Sponsors! We’d like to thank this week’s GigaOM sponsors: PEER 1 : Fully Scalable Hosting Solutions RackSpace : Experience fanatical support Mozy : Back up your photos, music, and ...

iPhone boosts location-based services
Top iPhone News — A location-based service (LBS) is an information and entertainment service, accessible with mobile devices and can can be used in a variety of contexts, such as health, work, personal life, etc. Om Malik wrote an insightful article on how iPhone is boosting demand for LBS services and took Boston-based Skyhook Wireless as a case study The writer highlights: Last year, there were only a few dozen apps that incorporated location-based data. This year that number has grown to 2,000 apps. There are ...

iPhone boosts location-based services
iPhone Buzz — A location-based service (LBS) is an information and entertainment service, accessible with mobile devices and can can be used in a variety of contexts, such as health, work, personal life, etc. Om Malik wrote an insightful article on how iPhone is boosting demand for LBS services and took Boston-based Skyhook Wireless as a case study The writer highlights: Last year, there were only a few dozen apps that incorporated location-based data. This year that number has grown to 2,000 apps. There are ...

What to read on the GigaOM network [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — GigaOM [image] GigaOM Earth2Tech jkOnTheRun NewTeeVee OStatic TheAppleBlog WebWorkerDaily Jobs Live Events About Contact [image] All Posts Web Broadband Infrastructure Mobile Voice Briefings Archives What to read on the GigaOM network Edit Staff | Thursday, April 30, 2009 | 11:16 AM PT | 0 comments It’s official: Disney is joining Hulu (NewTeeVee) App review: NYT Crosswords Daily 2009 (TheAppleBlog) ...

What to read on the GigaOM network [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — GigaOM [image] GigaOM Earth2Tech jkOnTheRun NewTeeVee OStatic TheAppleBlog WebWorkerDaily Jobs Live Events About Contact [image] All Posts Web Broadband Infrastructure Mobile Voice Briefings Archives What to read on the GigaOM network Edit Staff | Friday, May 1, 2009 | 9:26 AM PT | 0 comments Get swine flu updates via text message (jkOnTheRun) Apple’s new iPhone rumored to include iMovie app ...

Thanks to Our GigaOM Sponsors! [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — GigaOM [image] GigaOM Earth2Tech jkOnTheRun NewTeeVee OStatic TheAppleBlog WebWorkerDaily Jobs Live Events About Contact [image] All Posts Web Broadband Infrastructure Mobile Voice Briefings Archives Advertisement Thanks to Our GigaOM Sponsors! We’d like to say thanks to this week’s sponsors: PEER 1 : Fully scalable hosting solutions RackSpace : Experience fanatical support StrataScale : It’s your infrastructure ...

150+ of the most popular blogs and news sites about the WorldWideWeb [The OPML files]
The Next Web — ... CenterNetworks   http://www.centernetworks.com/rss.xml CNN.com - Technology  http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_tech.rss Consumerist  http://consumerist.com/index.xml Crenk  http://feeds.feedburner.com/crenk/feed Digital Buzzard  http://digitalbuzzard.com/feed/ DVICE Atom Feed  http://dvice.com/atom.xml GigaOM  http://gigaom.com/feed/ Gizmodo   http://gizmodo.com/index.xml Googling Google   ...

Salesforce stacks the cloud to ease operations [video]
Between the Lines —

How to Build a Business by Working for Free
Quick Sprout — Well, let’s not be silly. Of course you have to make money to build a business, but it doesn’t mean you have to charge everyone. Some people have large followings and when they speak thousands listen to what they have to say. These people are known as influencers. By helping out influencers for free they will tell thousands of people about you and your company. Not only is this good for sales, but it is great for branding. For example, when I had my Internet marketing agency I was trying to figure out how I could get more clients. One thing that came to my mind was ...

Paid content comes to the Ompire
VentureBeat — Our friends over at GigaOm are launching a new subscription service within their blog network. Called GigaOm Pro, it gives readers year-long access to a wide range of in-depth analyses on technology trends and issues for $79. The service intends to compliment existing research reports published by the likes of Forrester and Gartner, but cost hundreds of dollars less. It’s an effort to explain day-to-day blog stories but in a more comprehensive format, and with enough features that users will be enticed to pay. The reports are put together by the blog network’s editorial ...

GigaOM Seeks a Non-Ad Revenue
Bits — ... . Om Malik, the founder of GigaOM Network, plans to sell in-depth research reports on technology sectors and shorter, timely reports on companies and news in those sectors to technology and business executive. Subscriptions to the service, which GigaOM is unveiling Thursday, will cost $79 a year at first and more down the road, said Mr. Malik, in an interview. (Read Mr. Malik’s blog post on GigaOM Pro here .) GigaOM is the latest example of a Web company that once relied solely on advertising for revenue ...

Paid content comes to the Ompire
VentureBeat — Our friends over at GigaOm are launching a new subscription service within their blog network. Called GigaOm Pro, it gives readers year-long access to a wide range of in-depth analyses on technology trends and issues for $79. The service intends to compliment existing research reports published by the likes of Forrester and Gartner, but cost hundreds of dollars less. It’s an effort to explain more than a blog can day-to-day. Topics, for now, cover mobile infrastructure, green information technology and digital consumer issues. More are also slated to launch in the ...

Blogs & Premium Content: GigaOM Launches Subscription Service
ReadWriteWeb — ... . In an era of the Web where separating signal from noise is difficult, there seems to be a market for in-depth commercial content that goes beyond the daily free news cycle. Our friends at GigaOM launched a new product today that is worth checking out, as it aims to offer premium content for an annual subscription. Could we be seeing a return to 'paid content' in online media? It wasn't so long ago that the Wall St Journal was ridiculed for its refusal to close its paywall. Now it seems it's ok again. ...

Introducing GigaOM Pro: Accessible Market Research, Including Green IT, Smart Grid
Earth2Tech — ... , you’ve been watching radical changes take place in media, among them the rise of blogs. To that end, two years ago we launched Earth2Tech as part of the GigaOM network. Here on Earth2Tech we focus on the cleantech industry by applying our traditional journalistic skills (fact-checking, smart analysis) to the new, fast-paced blogging medium. But our company is constantly evolving, too. ...

Digg Nabs Federated Media’s Chief Revenue Officer, Chas Edwards
TechCrunch — High profile advertising network Federated Media’s Chief Revenue Officer Chas Edwards has resigned, we’ve confirmed, and will shortly be taking a job at Digg with the same title. Thomas Shin, who Digg stole from Yahoo earlier this year, will report to Edwards. This is a big blow for Federated Media. Founder and CEO John Battelle recently announced that he’ll be looking for a replacement to run the company, although he’ll remain active with the business. Federated Media raised a big round of financing last year that ...

Sponsored Post: Structure 09: The GigaOM Cloud Computing conference — VentureBeat Readers get a discount!
VentureBeat — ... Co-Founder, Aspera Lloyd Taylor – VP Technical Operations, LinkedIn Michael Crandell – CEO and Founder, RightScale Jason Hoffman – CTO and Founder, Joyent Click here to see the full speaker list. Register now and get a special discount for VentureBeat readers. If you have more questions, contact me at structure@gigaom.com. I look forwarding to seeing you at the show! Best Regards, Om Malik ...

HP goes for high performance computing
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Intel displays its Achilles' Heel
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Party time at Sun as $50 million golden parachute is prepped
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Millionth English word is announced
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Digital cameras go wireless with the Eye-Fi Pro
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Adobe Flash player to get GPU acceleration
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T-Mobile disputes controversial hacking claims
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Apple iPhone 3G S to feature embedded ARM processor
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Who’s Running the American Economy Now?
Cato @ Liberty — ... blog author Matt Marshall and GigaOm author Om Malik, two well-known technology bloggers. Washington hasn’t been a frequent stop for them in the past. ...

Structure 09: Sustainable Cloud Computing
Earth2Tech — ... Last year, our parent company, the GigaOM Network, held its first Structure conference looking at the future of cloud computing and how on-demand computing infrastructure will change web businesses. This month, ...

Structure Conference, on Cloud Computing: Watch Today's Live Stream [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — ... , the conference is focused on the fast-growing cloud computing arena, and features a number of top movers and shakers. Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com and Paul Sagan, CEO of Akamai, are speakers at the event, among many other notables. GigaOm is live streaming the presentations from the conference on its site today, You can tune in for free here, and the schedule is ...

Structure Conference, on Cloud Computing: Watch Today's Live Stream
OStatic blogs — ... , the conference is focused on the fast-growing cloud computing arena, and features a number of top movers and shakers. Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com and Paul Sagan, CEO of Akamai, are speakers at the event, among many other notables. GigaOm is live streaming the presentations from the conference on its site today, You can tune in for free here, and the schedule is ...

Open Source Cloud Computing Epiphanies and the Structure 09 Conference
OStatic blogs — ... Yesterday, GigaOM's Structure 09 conference took place in San Francisco, focused on cloud computing. At GigaOm.com, you can find a number of good posts on what everyone from venture capitalists to Salesforce.com CEO Mark Benioff had to say about cloud computing. Notably, more than a few of the speakers at the conference expressed caution toward the cloud, and, as ...

Open Source Cloud Computing Epiphanies and the Structure 09 Conference [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — ... Yesterday, GigaOM's Structure 09 conference took place in San Francisco, focused on cloud computing. At GigaOm.com, you can find a number of good posts on what everyone from venture capitalists to Salesforce.com CEO Mark Benioff had to say about cloud computing. Notably, more than a few of the speakers at the conference expressed caution toward the cloud, and, as ...

What to read on the GigaOM network [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — GigaOM [image] GigaOM Earth2Tech jkOnTheRun NewTeeVee OStatic TheAppleBlog WebWorkerDaily GigaOM Pro Live Events About Contact [image] All Posts Web Broadband Infrastructure Mobile Voice Archives What to read on the GigaOM network Edit Staff | Tuesday, June 30, 2009 | 10:02 AM PT | 0 comments 5 ways to catch the Tour de France away from the TV (jkOnTheRun) BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay is being acquired ...

Invitation to the TWS2009 - Ineternt, Communication and Media Conference 2009
GO2WEB20 Blog — ... such as Brian Solis, Rafe Needleman, Ron Conway, Stowe Boyd, Dave Sifry, Deborah Schultz, Marc Goldberg, Saul Klein, and more, chose the 10 winning startups. TWS2009 is a great way to meet the most innovative startups, hottest ideas and latest trends. As well as to network with leading VCs, investors, young entrepreneurs and web lovers in general. We're happy to join the media sponsors which include this great blogs: Techcrunch, Read Write Web, GigaOM and The next web. You may apply for discount tickets (40% off, 199nis) here: ...

Hello Again, from Earth2Tech [Earth2Tech]
GigaOM Network — ... , as part of the GigaOM Network. That was back when the clean technology sector was still in the midst of a massive upswing ( ...

iPhone switchers: Blodget in, Arrington out
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 — ... This has been busy season for celebrity iPhone switching — and I’m not talking about Britney, Ashton or Branjelina. No, these are tech celebrities, the kind of people who tend to dominate Techmeme’s list of the most-influential pundits and bloggers. Om Malik, the New Delhi-born founder and executive editor of GigaOm (No. 17 on the Techmeme Leaderboard), kicked things off back in February when he announced that he was quitting his beloved iPhone for a T-Mobile Blackberry Curve 8900. It wasn’t Apple’s (AAPL) ...

What to read on the GigaOM network [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — GigaOM Network: Cleantech | Gadget Gurus | Online Video | Open Source | Mac Love | Web Life | Live Events | About | Contact GigaOM [image] Mobilize The premier mobile event GigaOM Pro Industry research and analysis Follow Us: [image] [image] [image] [image] All Posts Web Broadband Infrastructure Mobile Voice Om's Posts Stacey's Posts What to read on the GigaOM network Edit Staff | Friday, July 31, ...

The Press Loves a Good Social Media Meltdown [VIDEO]
Mashable! — Twitter already gets plenty of press attention, but when it went down yesterday due to a DDoS attack, the news seemed to have unprecedented reach, serving as top story on a number of mainstream news sites for a good part of the day. Why was this such huge news? The cynical onlooker might say that because old media wants to highlight when things go wrong in new media. However, the more realistic answer is that because of how massive sites like Facebook, Twitter, and even LiveJournal and other impacted services have become, when they go down, it’s a story that impacts ...

Requests for Start-ups; Marketing for Free
Inc.com — ... , a blog on the GigaOm network, has the latest numbers from Black Duck Software, which covers trends in open source usage. Black Duck's data shows that static programming languages like C, C++, and Java are being used less frequently in open source projects, while dynamic languages like JavaScript and PHP are becoming more common. Also on the rise: SQL and Ruby. OStatic's Sam Dean says this is consistent with the findings from the Future of Open Source survey, which found that web applications and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)--that require ...

Want to Manage Twitter in Your CRM System? Try CureCRM [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... Within CureCRM, businesses can track tweets and mentions from potential customers, as well as respond to tweets and assign others to do so. This Twitter-tracking capability is similar to CoTweet, a social CRM app that’s aimed at helping businesses manage multiple Twitter accounts and counts Whole Foods and Microsoft as clients. However, while CoTweet is very much focused on Twitter usage and lets businesses manage up to six corporate Twitter accounts, CureCRM is a ...

CONTEST: Motorola Android Event Tickets, Mobilize 2!
Android Phone Fans — ... folks about the Motorola Sholes, the comments erupted with Android Fans wanting to know how they could get tickets to the September 10th event in San Francisco. Often times these events are by Media Invitition only… BUT NOT THIS ONE! The Motorola Android Announcement is taking place at a much larger - and awesome - event. It is called Mobilize 2009 and its an industry leading conference about the future of Mobile Web put on by the popular tech website GigaOM. The speaker lineup is absolutely FILLED with execs from the top companies ...

Motorola Live: The Android Handsets
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily — Coming up in a few minutes: Motorola (MOT) C0-CEO Sanjay Jha will unveil the company’s much-anticipated Android-based smartphones at the Mobilize conference in San Francisco. I’ll live blog the event, with additional coverage of a second session that will also include Google (GOOG) VP-Engineering Andy Rubin. Refresh this post periodically for continuing updates from the event. 10:14 The event should start in about 10 minutes. Interesting that, in contrast with yesterday’s ...

Motorola’s Android Phone Shown
dailywireless.org — ... Motorola has unveiled the Cliq, their Andoid-based smartphone, to be sold through T-Mobile. The phone was shown at ...

From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.
TechCrunch — This guest post was written by Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg. It is the first in a series of posts he’s writing about the decisions a young entrepreneur needs to make when she/he is first starting a business. The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. We’ll update this post with links to his further installments. I was one of those kids who just couldn’t stop trying to start a company. I think I just really feared working for the Man. Problem was, I seemed to suck at the ...

Total Tweets Tweeted Nearing 5 Billion
The Next Web — ... (no affiliation with GigaOm) tracks the total number of tweets tweeted, in real time. It also aggregates tweets per hour in millions, and gives a few months of historical data. Guess the total number of tweets? It seems that 4.88 billion tweets have been written. ...

Will the Smart Grid Be Made of Dumb Pipes?
Earth2Tech — ... When it comes to the smart grid, utility executives seem willing to embrace the dumb pipe status that their cousins in the telecommunications world are so leery of. That’s because the history of heavy regulation — and near-monopoly — has created an environment where competition and innovation aren’t commonly baked into the utility business model. At a panel discussion held at the ...

GigaOM Special Event: What Comes Next for the Web? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... We will be streaming the event live on GigaOM.com — we hope you’ll join us online. The streaming starts at 9:30 am and will end at 12:30 pm PT. ...

Blog Stars
A VC — ... that niche communities are the future of the Internet. And he believes that niche communities are led by "blog stars". So I asked him to name 10 "blog stars". And this is what he said: 1. fred wilson 2. heather armstrong (dooce.com) 3. kottke 4. jdawg (gotta admit it....you know i don't run from the truth boss) 5. mike masnick 6. dave winer 7. kanye west 8. richard macmanus 9. om malik 10. mike shedlock (globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com) and ...

Geeks Are Losers
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Nominate your favorite companies for the Crunchies Awards
VentureBeat — Now that the end of the 2009 is in sight, it’s time for you to start thinking about the year’s coolest companies and products, and to tell us about them — because we’re opening nominations for the third annual Crunchies Awards. Just like the last two years, VentureBeat will be co-hosting the awards with TechCrunch and GigaOm. You can submit your nominations here; we’ve added categories like “Best VC firm” and “Best PR” to established categories like “Founder of the Year,” “CEO of the Year,” ...

Say Hello to the New New GigaOM [GigaOM]
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Tesla IPO: A Test for VC Model in the Auto Biz [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... and billionaires of its two co-founders in a wildly successful IPO) have already started to fade for some in the sector. Stephan Dolezalek, managing director of VantagePoint Venture Partners, which has invested in Tesla, told ...

What Our Compute Demand Looks Like [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Some companies build them in their own data centers but others host them in co-location facilities. Sun’s cloud is based in ...

EU Closes the Books on Qualcomm Probe [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... The move follows July’s decision by South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission to fine Qualcomm $208 million for anti-competitive behavior. The European investigation was launched after Broadcom, Ericsson, NEC, Nokia, Panasonic, and Texas Instruments alleged that Qualcomm’s licensing fees were excessive and its tactics anti-competitive. But Nokia last year agreed to pay more than $2.5 billion to use Qualcomm’s technology — settling its dispute with the company in the process — and ...

Former Facebookers Get $9M for Workforce Telepathy [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... We’ve been tracking the growing problem of information overload for a while now, including during the recent GigaOM Bunker Series Event, The New Web. It will become even more acute as the work forces of tomorrow become even more geographically distributed and are forced to use online tools to interact with each other. Asana proposes to fix some of those problems. ...

Kindle Gets Battery Boost, PDF Support [GigaOM]
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Will the iPhone Save eBay? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... That still pales in comparison to eBay’s total sales; the site had $45.6 billion in gross marketplace merchandise volume in the last four quarters combined. It does make us wonder about revenue from Amazon’s iPhone app, which includes one-click payments and the nifty feature of matching the site’s products to pictures you upload from your phone. ...

Why I Love Foursquare [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Foursquare, which has received $1.35 million in funding from Union Square Ventures (and others), ...

How the Nook Nicked B&N’s Q2 Numbers [GigaOM]
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Will Spotify Turn Out Like Joost? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... As Om wrote this past summer, Joost had everything going for it less than three years ago: tens of millions of dollars in funding, serial entrepreneurs as founders, a hype machine, proven technology and big media partners eager to take equity. But the hype turned into backlash, media partners ...

Dropbox Raises $7.25M, Crosses 3M Users [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... . Simply put, people — including my GigaOM coworkers and I — ...

WindStream Buying Time With Acquisitions [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... — $261 million in cash and $269 million in stock. In addition, it will take on about $598 million in debt. This is Windstream’s fourth acquisition in the past few months: It also bought D&E Communications ($169 million), Lexcom ($141 million) and NuVox ($463 million). Windstream is trying to become the consolidator of the smaller, rural telecoms, especially after two of its biggest rivals — CenturyTel and Embarq — merged their operations a year ago. ...

Can Google Push Mobile Coupons Into the Mainstream? [GigaOM]
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Microsoft’s Wall of Fear Over Chrome OS? Not [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... In the wake of Google’s big announcement last week on Chrome OS, its netbook-focused ...

Have You Seen Prof & Net Researcher Phil Agre? [GigaOM]
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Sponsor post: Sponsor post: Add-on-Con: The Future of the Browser [GigaOM]
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What to Read on The GigaOM Network [GigaOM]
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How to Shop on the Go This Holiday Season [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... 19 percent of U.S. consumers plan to use their phone as a shopping tool to find store locations, research prices and access discounts. One-fourth of those polled said they actually planned to make a purchase on their handsets. Of all the mobile sites and apps designed to help users spend their money starting on Black Friday, here are a few of the more notable ones: ...

FCC Solicits Applications for White Space Database Administrators [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... from those looking to become administrators for TV band database managers, moving one step closer toward making white space broadband available on the unused airwaves that exist between digital TV channels. ...

Like Facebook, Data Robotics Dreams of an IPO [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Other examples of this trend in the storage space include Dropbox. Elsewhere, Skype is fast becoming part of the corporate terra firma and even giant corporations are tapping into Facebook’s social networking abilities to connect their organizations. ...

7 Fun App Ideas for the Weekend Tinkerer [GigaOM]
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iCurrent Wants to Personalize News for the Masses [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... While I have no doubt that iCurrent’s algorithms and editors are super smart, the site exists mostly outside of the emerging world of socially filtered information — where sites like Facebook and Twitter surface interesting links from our friends and networks. “Social is particularly good at filtering quality and alerting you rapidly on trending things, but no matter how many times someone else clicks it doesn’t make it interesting to you,” said Rao. ...

Qualcomm’s Mobile Payment Strategy: Fix the “Costanza Wallet” [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Firethorn faces stiff competition from Obopay and a host of other startups; meanwhile ...

All I Want For Christmas Is My Web [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Both of these examples show off a key tenant of this new web vision: I don’t need to go to the web on my computer — it comes to me on my phone, my navigation device, television or that fancy photo frame. It’s my web, delivering the information that it thinks I want, based on my preferences, friends and eventually location. And I think that by Christmas 2010 everyone will be well on their way to having a “my web” of their own. ...

Ahead of Black Friday, HDTVs Lead the Way: Survey [GigaOM]
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LogMeIn Express: Simple, On-demand Screen Sharing [GigaOM]
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Samsung’s bada Mobile Platform Due Dec. 8th [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Samsung, after unveiling its open mobile platform for touch screen-based mobile phones, bada, earlier this month, and ...

SpeedBit Is Still Speeding (Downloads) Along [GigaOM]
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Apple’s In-Store Black Friday Deals [GigaOM]
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Has Cyber Monday Been Time-Shifted? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Amazon is experiencing some slow response times this morning, and I imagine it’s because the site is getting hammered not only by reporters seeking Black Friday stories, but also millions of customers who asked themselves, “Why brave the cold for holiday deals when I can get whatever I need while sipping coffee in my pajamas?” Some marketing guru may have created the ...

FanSnap Launches SeatAlerts, Still Snapping Up Fans [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Thanks to the Thanksgiving holiday, this week I’ve been able to catch up with some of the companies I’ve written about in the past such as FanSnap. The company, which started out focusing on sports events, has since expanded to music concerts and Broadway shows, with its sales now evenly split between those related to sports and those not. FanSnap currently has 800 interactive maps that allow folks to pick and choose the live event tickets they want to buy. Yankees-Phillies ...

Black Friday, Red Ink: Big Discounts Will Kill Profits [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... sales figures. Or those of its fake, and widely mocked, online counterpart, Cyber Monday (which is far from the busiest shopping day on the web — online sales at Amazon, for example, typically peak in mid-December). ...

Why PC Makers Will Make Android King [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... to deliver their iPhone-inspired smartphones. So while fellow-computer maker Apple may be the inspiration (and a key enabler by getting the carriers to open up their networks and their application stores), ...

8 Timely Tips for the Netbook Buyer [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Don’t Settle for a Tiny Display. As Om has pointed out, netbook specifications continue to encroach on standard laptop specs, to the point that the real differences between them are blurring. And as The Register and market researchers at Canalys ...

Sponsor post: Sponsor post: Thanks to Our GigaOM Sponsors! [GigaOM]
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Give Gifts With Bytes, Not Gives That Bite [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Your Time Is The Most Valuable Gift of All: What’s so cool about many of today’s gadgets is that they allow us to personalize them. Think of the iPhone or the Droid. Over at T-Mobile, nearly half of ...

Android This Week: Ustream Appears; Google Maps Nav Hits 1.6 [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... More on Mobile Apps Why PC Makers Will Make Android King Tech Insider ...

eBay’s Holiday Wish: Affluent Shoppers [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... eBay built Fashion Vault around sellers who have established relationships with brands like Hugo Boss and Cole Haan. It has the potential to strengthen some of eBay’s weaknesses that emerged during its long and painful restructuring of the marketplace site. eBay’s recent focus on refurbished and second-hand goods gave it a low-rent feel, and its move away from online auctions drained away a lot of the thrill that belonged to the site’s early days. ...

Netbooks: The Disruptive Dual-OS Future [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... More on Netbooks 8 Timely Tips for the Netbook Buyer Tech Insider Why PC Makers Will ...

Weekend Video: The Sixth Sense of Computing [GigaOM]
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App Developers Not Happy With Android [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... polled 30 app developers and asked them about their experience with, and plans for, the Android platform. A survey of just 30 developers doesn’t have enough data for me to take this as gospel. That said, the results should be worrisome to Google and its hardware partners, because there seems to be a general dissatisfaction with the OS and, more importantly, its commercial potential. The results of the survey are also in sharp contrast to findings from other ...

Will Cyber Monday End With a Bang or a Whimper? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... On the heels of data showing high online shopping volume on both Black Friday and Sunday, I’m wondering what’s left for so-called Cyber Monday when everyone returns to work and supposedly hops online for deals. On Friday I asked if Cyber Monday had been time-shifted, because so many people can now shop so comfortably at home via their broadband connections. ...

Waterloo, Iowa, Will Soon Have Faster Internet Than You Do [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... I’m not sure what the terms of that franchise agreement are, but what caught my eye is that it might tie broadband service and cable TV service together. Back when time Warner Cable was set to trial a reviled tiered pricing plan, one of the problems local governments had when it came to halting or mitigating such a practice was that the local franchise agreements had nothing to do with broadband access, leaving local city councils no say in how such pricing plans might affect ...

Droid Nears Its Million-Device Target [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Broadpoint AmTech analyst Mark McKechnie estimated a few weeks ago that Motorola was going to sell 600,000 Droids. Looks like we have gone well past those estimates. McKechnie expected Motorola to sell about a million Android-based phones during the quarter. Demand for Droid might be stronger than previously indicated, Sue’s numbers show. ...

Site Offers Group Therapy & Humor for Spurned iPhone Developers [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... , which was also launched by a rebuffed iPhone developer. And we’re sure to see more of this kind of thing unless Apple addresses its ever-widening rift with developers. ...

Inspired by Twitter, Blip.fm Tunes Into Customized Stations [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Most music-tweeting services don’t do much for me, but ...

Open-Source Business Models Aren’t Dead-End Streets [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... More on The Cloud The State of Cloud: Startup Heroku Now Hosting 40,000+ Apps Tech Insider ...

SugarSync Rolls Out Android App, Cloud API [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... has long been recognized as one of the easiest-to-use synchronization and backup utilities around. Today it ...

As Facebook Hits 350M Mark, Growth Shows Signs of Slowing [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Of course, at some point Facebook’s growth has to slow down, unless the company scores a global maternity ward deal. The opportunities for the self-reported cash-flow positive Facebook to expand quickly and easily are petering out. There were only 444 million worldwide broadband subscribers in the second quarter of 2009, according to Point Topic. Hence the increasing value of more accessible products like Facebook’s mobile and “ ...

Alcatel-Lucent Assures Operators That Their Pipes Aren’t Dumb [GigaOM]
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Google & Twitter Friend Connect, Facebook Yawns [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... In the battle to become the ultimate identity broker on the web, Facebook with its Facebook Connect feature has a clear — and significant — lead. Google, on the other hand, is an also-ran here and its partnership with Twitter, announced last night, doesn’t really change anything, especially when you juxtapose it with the deal between Yahoo and Facebook. As Google explains on its ...

Sweden: A Model for the Broadband Future? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Sweden’s telecoms regulator recently issued a report detailing how openness in broadband infrastructure affects competition, and I thought it would be good to highlight since the FCC is embarking on a similar effort focused on the wireless industry. Sweden is a leader in broadband penetration, has some of the lowest average monthly high-speed Internet costs, and is boosting its fiber penetration, according to data from ...

Emerging Markets Still Key for 3G Growth [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... U.S. mobile carriers may be hard at work mapping out their 4G deployments, but there’s still plenty of room for growth in the worldwide 3G market, according to ...

IDC 2010 Forecast: Apple’s iPad Arrives & Frenetic Tech M&A [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... More on Mobile Apps Why I Love Foursquare Tech Insider iTunes App Store Has ...