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In my October 2, 2008 blog entry, I shared the unfortunate news of Web 2.0's
demise. This news is now hitting Silicon Valley and Silicon alleys around the
world.
Soon all Web 2.0 events will either be "cancelled," or their organizers will
make a last-minute attempt to pull together a last show, but throw in the
towel after that, IMHO.
If they buck all business logic, and go ahead with their final scheduled Web
2.0 events, they'll lose millions of dollars and find out after their last
show that Web 2.0 was DOA (as a software business model) anyway. Industry
participation is a key indicator to determine the viability of technology
trends. And what is better an indicator than the success or failure of an
industry event on a particular subject matter.
This week a WSJ blog entry (advertorial) written by Jeremy Liew entitled,
"Will the Rece... (more)
Happy July 4th everybody! In celebration of our Day of Independence,
Gathering Clouds thought we would explore what it takes to gain vendor
freedom in the cloud context.
Vendor lock-in is a much discussed issue in the cloud. But on some level, the
choices your company makes can determine the degree of lock-in you either
exist in or feel on a day-to-day basis.
Freedom in the cloud has some costs associated with it, though different
costs than freedom overall...
There’s a strategic imperative around be agile in your cloud vendor
relationships. Lock-in can be detrimental, especially when you reach the
point that you do need to transition out of a certain cloud, due to scale or
other requirements.
Perhaps your company has reached the scale where buying hardware and
depreciating the costs are a smarter decision compared to continuing to rent
infrastructure through AWS. ... (more)
Michael Sheehan's Blog
Adopting Cloud Computing as a primary technology strategy will be one of the
main catalysts for technology-savvy business to not only stay in business,
but also be successful in the long run. If the Global Recession truly hits as
it seems that it will, items that directly and positively impact the bottom
line of companies will naturally rise to the top.
This week, Gartner, Inc released their list of the top 10 Strategic
Technologies for 2009. This information stems from research performed within
the Technology sector and factors in their client and research feedback. This
list, released at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo, is considered to be
potentially “disruptive to your environment or market in some way,” says
Gartner analyst David Cearley.
While I sometimes find some of Gartner’s commentary on trends in technology
a bit conservative and missin... (more)
A recent Sprint commercial about the “Now Network” noted that 26% of
viewers had no idea what “twittering on Twitter” means. Yet, it’s clear
that Twitter awareness is growing by leaps and bounds. Of course, this
doesn’t mean opinions about Twitter are all positive.
Many still hold the view expressed in this Twouble with Twitters video. As
well, as Steven Johnson stated in his favorable Time magazine piece, “The
one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible
first impression… It's not as if we were all… saying, ‘If only there
were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends,
alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal.’" In
fact, when I first started using Twitter, I wondered, to borrow words from
Andy Warhol, if Twitter was not just a way to become more “deeply
superficial.”
All that is chang... (more)
Michael Sheehan's GoGrid Blog
The Cloud just got another potential injection of PR from Apple as well with
their announcement of MobileMe. Apple has brought a new technology term, the
'Cloud' - previously reserved for developers, IT managers and the like - to
the main-stream public. We all know that the term 'Cloud Computing' is
relatively new to the Technology buzz. But just how new is it?
I spent some time analyzing search trends of different computing keywords to
try to put everything in perspective. Google trends is a nice too that gives
insight into broad search patterns.
We all know that the term “Cloud Computing” is relatively new to the
Technology buzz. But just how new is it? For starters, I ran a quick
comparison of “Cloud Computing,” “Grid Computing” and “Utility
Computing”.
The term Grid Computing has been around for a while (even before Google
Trends... (more)
I've got about one and a half weeks before I start the roadtrip to Denver,
and in that time I want to do some prep, if there's interest, with other
bloggers who will be there, or people who are covering the convention
remotely, or are just interested in what's happening there.
I have a great toolkit, code that can connect all the blogging and
micro-blogging environments, Twitter, Identi.ca, FriendFeed and RSS of
course, and probably most other kinds of connections you can think of.
I want to do photos, audio and video.
I'll have two computers with me, a 17-inch MacBook Pro, fully loaded; and an
Asus Eee PC.
I'll be driving to and fro, with stops Salt Lake and Boulder. I'm going to
try to stay on the grid the whole way, let's see if it works. Last time I
made this trip, in 2003, Sprint didn't have much coverage except in the
cities.
I'll be staying in downtown Denver, ve... (more)
Dmitry Sotnikov's Blog
Overall, very exciting times, and a great event put together by the folks at
SYS-CON! There was a lot of excitement and optimism throughout the event. As
someone put it: cloud computing is about 700 days old. That means that there
are a lot of arguments about definitions, and where things are going, and so
on. And that also gives a lot of vibe and a lot of fresh community spirit.
Below are my notes from all the sessions I attended at the last week’s
Cloud Computing Expo 2008 on:
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
A few general comments on the conference.
First and foremost, cloud computing is happening. There was a lot of
excitement and optimism throughout the event. And frankly this was quite
contrasting to the SOA keeping talking about whether SOA is getting anywhere,
how to justify SOA projects, whether it is a journey or a destination, and so
on.
This was... (more)
Ever get one of those random phone calls in the midst of your work day that
makes you think, huh -- interesting idea? Well earlier today I had one from a
guy looking to learn more about cloud computing platforms. Although it ended
up he wasn't specifically looking for an elastic computing platform, he did
ask a few very thought provoking questions.
What he asked was if there is a simple way to compare the performance,
security and quality of various cloud computing providers? He went on to say
that when comparing traditional hardware vendors it was easy for him to
understand the standardized specifications (GHZ, GB, etc) as well as
determine quality based on brand recognition, but in the cloud world there
was no easy way for him to compare "apples to apples". In his words, "there
is Amazon and then there is everyone else". Although overly simplified, he
was kind of ... (more)
Shrinking your Url’s is all the rage nowadays. If you are on Twitter,
then odds are you have used one. Despite CodingHorror’s distaste for them
in his recent blog post on Url Shorteners: Destroying the Web since 2002,
they are a fact of life when we live in a world of 140 character status
updates.
So what’s a URL shrinking service anyway? Well, to put it simply, you
supply them with a URL, they then supply you with a shorter URL containing a
lookup “key”. When future requests are made to this shorter URL,
connections are routed to that services website where they convert the short
URL to the original URL and issue a HTTP Redirect back to your browser to
send you off to the original long url website.
So, what’s a guy, or gal, to do if they want to set their status
programmatically on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, or the other gazillion
social networking sites ... (more)
Ok, so, here are my thoughts on Ulitzer...
As a blogger, I focus on traffic and I spend quite a lot of time optimizing
my SEO.
Since the target audience of my articles is much greater than the reach of my
blog, Ulitzer is actually helping me increase my content reach.
Moreover, Ulitzer does it in a very fair way since links back to my posts or
other locations are without the evil "nofollow" - providing a nice SEO boost.
It also gives me some good metrics that are very useful data points on the
effectiveness of my blog articles.
And last but not least, it allows my article to appears in the news listings
of the two major search engines, which is a very nice channel extension.
So, all of this means that, while Ulitzer might be seen as a competing
channel to bloggers, I think that bloggers should realize the tremendous
value it could bring to their blog.
I think to mater... (more)
Here is an interesting news item which claims that UK online ad spend
overtakes mainstream TV. The same news was corroborated by another post which
stated that spending on online advertising surpasses TV. The news was little
disconcerting because it did not seem to match with my ground level
experience.
So, I decided to probe a little deeper and unearthed more data on Internet ad
spend. What I uncovered was more in line with what I perceive to be the real
situation. These reports claimed that the Internet ad spend is less than 10%
of total ad spend which is only a fraction of ad spend on TV.
Ad Spend to Grow 6.7% in '08, Internet to Overtake Radio in '08 & Mags in '10
Share of Ad Spending by Medium - April 2008
How can both be true? Careful reading of all the reports resolved the
mystery. The first set of reports …
“… counts the money companies spend on their own we... (more)
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