As we prepare for our next RealTime CrunchUp on November 20th in San Francisco, we're seeing if anything an acceleration of the phenomenon known as RealTime. Startups, cloud platform vendors, the open standards community, and virtually every software and hardware category are being refreshed and reinvented in the new model. And while there are many familiar players talking and to some degree walking the RealTime walk, some have been busy for years building and deploying the fundamentals of this "overnight success." A few weeks ago, I traveled to Las Vegas to attend IBM's Information On Demand conference, and took the opportunity to sit down with Big Blue's Steve Mills, Senior Vice President and Group Executive of the IBM Software Group. Full story...
Let me say upfront: I have never been to TED, mostly because I have never been invited and I can’t imagine a world where I justify paying $6,000 for a conference.
"Busy people don’t want another social network, what they want is the convenience of aggregation.
Google officially unveiled Buzz, their major step into social statuses through Gmail today at an event held at 10 AM PT.
During the Q&A session today following the Google Buzz event, Google co-founder Sergey Brin revealed something both humorous and interesting.
Now that the Google event is over, the company has started turning on Buzz for Gmail users. Here are some quick screenshots of it in action.
See our live notes from today's Google Buzz event here.
Google has a problem. Despite having their hands in just about everything online, they've never been able to tackle what is a key part of the fabric of the web: social.
As location-based social networks gain serious traction, its inevitable that that these applications will become full-fledged platforms.
Google's Street View has gone to many strange places, even off-road. But in preparation for the Winter Olympics it equipped a snowmobile with 360-degree cameras and took it to the top of Whistler, the Canadian ski resort where the Games will take place.
This morning, Google is hosting an event at its Mountain View, CA headquarters to show off a new social product it has been working on.
DotNetNuke Corporation, the owner and maintainer of the open source web application framework that goes by the same name, has raised $8 Million Series B funding from new investor UV Partners and prior backers August Capital and Sierra Ventures.