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Hulu’s New Embed Policy Can Only Hurt It

GigaOm  Nov 23 09

Two-year-old Hulu, which has quickly become Americans’ preferred method of consuming TV online, is now blocking startups from embedding its video library. But while Hulu is now (mostly) unfriendly to startup video aggregators, it’s still sharing its videos with its corporate parents’ friends: the big web portals and MSOs. Put together, the retroactive [...] Full story...

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Virtualization Is the Trojan Horse to Take the iPad Beyond Apple’s OS

GigaOm  3 hours ago

Citrix's announcement that its Receiver software will allow iPad users to run Windows 7 sessions via virtualization has caused predictions that the iPad may have much promise as a business tool.

Google Launches a Serious Case of Facebook Envy

GigaOm  4 hours ago

I was totally on board with Google Buzz, the company’s late entry into the modern-day social web launching today, until it became dramatically evident how freaked out Google is by Facebook.

Startup Nasuni Targets Primary Storage in the Cloud

GigaOm  5 hours ago

Cloud storage startup Nasuni entered public beta today, bringing with it a new, but familiar, approach to storing primary data: It sells software that looks and acts like a traditional file system but stores data in cloud offerings from Amazon, Rackspace, Nirvanix and Iron Mountain.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Location

GigaOm  5 hours ago

It's clear that location is an opportunity ready for its time, but making technology smarter by knowing where we are is by necessarily a part of a platform, not an end unto itself.

TweepML Shows Risks of a Twitter-based Startup

GigaOm  6 hours ago

TweepML, which launched a Twitter-based service offering list management just a couple of months before Twitter launched something almost identical, is now up for sale.

10 Questions for Greentech Investor David Gelbaum

GigaOm  7 hours ago

The famously private investor David Gelbaum, founder of The Quercus Trust, who by his own estimates has between 40 and 50 cleantech investments, as a rule hasn't done interviews for years.

Bubbly: A Voice Twitter for the Billions Who Don’t Have Internet

GigaOm  7 hours ago

With more than 4 billion mobile phone users and some 1.7 billion Internet users, there's a market opportunity to provide web-style services for people who aren't online.

Flickr Co-founder’s New Startup Finds a Glitch

GigaOm  8 hours ago

Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield's new startup, Tiny Speck, has announced its first product, a massively multiplayer online game called Glitch.

With SMS, Twilio Continues to Shake Up Communications

GigaOm  9 hours ago

Twilio is launching an SMS service that allows web app developers to add SMS-based functionality into their web apps for about 3 cents a message.

Foursquare Teams With Zagat to Make Yelp Squeal

GigaOm  9 hours ago

Foursquare is working with Zagat, HBO and other high-profile media brands to get a leg up on competitors like Gowalla and Yelp.



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