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In the
next few weeks, the ReadWriteWeb events guide will take you from New York City, to San Francisco,
to Portland, Oregon. Along the way you'll find a conference on search engine strategies, a
showcase for startups, an in-depth look at the freemium business model, and a day filled with of
social media case studies.
How do you like your events calendar? As a
world map? As an
iCal (and Google Calendar-importable) file? You can also import individual events using the
link beside each entry. Know of something cool taking place that should appear here? Let us know
in the comments below or contact us.
Go beyond search at Search Engine
Strategies New York. Learn the newest trends, strategic action plans, and technology that
industry leaders are employing today. Our experts will trace the natural evolution of search
exploring topics such as: digital asset optimization, mobile application development, transition
from search to discovery and more.Book your pass today. Enter RWW15 to save 15% off the
registration. Sessions include:
After a long winter's hiatus, S.F. Beta is back, for its forth year straight! Join
hundreds of founders, investors, developers, and technologists for a lively evening of demos,
drinks, conversation, and new connections. Early bird
tickets are available, and they're going fast. Register now for discounted admission. As
always, we feature startup demos all night. This time around, the theme is Search &
Discovery. If you're building the next Google (or the next Google acquisition), we want you here!
Email cperry@sfbeta.com for more info.
The first Freemium Summit is a one day
event focused on exploring what it takes to succeed under the freemium business model. Across all
segments of the media landscape, entrepreneurs and executives are pioneering models that combine
a free offering with a premium, paid offering. This hybrid business model is one of the most
exciting areas of business model innovation impacting the world of media and the Freemium Summit
will explore the most important topics on the minds of leading practitioners.
Confirmed Speakers: Toni Schneider, Automattic (WordPress); Matt Brezina, Xobni; Aaron Levie,
Box.net; Phil Libin, Evernote; Tom Conrad, Pandora; Drew Houston, Dropbox; Ranjith Kumaran,
YouSendIt; Ben Chestnut, Mailchimp; Lance Walley, Chargify; Isaac Hall, Recurly; and Lincoln
Murphy, Sixteen Ventures.
The social media conference for marketers, Social Fresh is not about concept, but focused purely on
case studies from the front lines. Learn what social media can really do for business bottom
lines. Over the course of the day, you'll hear from 35 speakers from companies like Intel, Ford,
Comcast, Nike and many more, as well as keynote Peter Shankman. Register now and use coupon code RWW15 for 15% off.
4 April 2010: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
TEDx CMU is an independently
organized TEDx event that will be held on April 4th, 2010 at Carnegie Mellon University and will
feature a full day of talks by prominent speakers as well as recorded videos from past TEDTalks.
Confirmed speakers include Jonathan Fields (author, blogger and entrepreneur), Stacey Monk
(founder of Epic Change, a startup nonprofit), Chase Jarvis (photographer, director and social
artist) and Nathan Martin (CEO of Deeplocal, an innovation studio in Pittsburgh).
The theme of the event is "Fearless", and we are inviting speakers from cross-disciplinary
backgrounds to talk about their experiences, and tell us a little about what inspires them to be
fearless in the pursuit of goals. We hope to spark discussions and foster connections between
participants, encouraging aspiring individuals to follow their dreams and make a difference. The
event is free to attend, and the application deadline is March 21, 2010.
For more information about the event, visit tedxcmu.com or email
info@tedxcmu.com. You can also find TEDx CMU on Facebook
or follow us on Twitter.
ConnectNow brings together international
specialists and thought leaders in social media, emerging technologies and their intersection
with business. Learn how the realtime web, location based services, augmented reality, ubiquitous
computing and personalised services are changing marketing and communications. Understand the
importance of trust in relationship marketing and what is "social currency". For more info email
info@connectnow.net.au.
PubCon, the premier search
and social media conference, features the industry's biggest names and key players shaping the
future of the Web. PubCon South will include
cutting-edge panel sessions exploring tracks dedicated to search, social media and affiliate
marketing, an intensive professional search and social media training program, and some of the
world's top keynote speakers. PubCon South at Dallas will also hold a one-day, two-track slate of
intensive educational training programs led by some of the industry's most respected search
professionals. The event takes place at the Richardson Conference and Civic Center. Register
here.
Under the Radar: Cloud is must-attend
event for dealmakers and heads of IT from large enterprises, SMBs, service providers, carriers
and media companies who are responsible for helping their companies leverage new technology and
innovation in the fast-evolving IT ecosystem. Join us for the 15th Under the Radar conference,
featuring a hand-picked selection of the world's most innovative cloud startups among 350 top
tech, media, telcom and finance executives. For ticket and more information, visit http://undertheradarblog.com.
FutureMidwest is the region's largest technology and knowledge
conference. Founded by Adrian Pittman, Jordan Wolfe and Zach Lipson, FutureMidwest is the fusion
of two successful conferences held in Michigan in 2009 - the Module Midwest Digital Conference
and TechNow.
Both conferences highlighted how technology and digital tools have dramatically changed the way
we do business and the effect this transition has had on companies. FutureMidwest kicks things up
a notch with presentations, group breakout sessions, relationship-building opportunities and
influencers who are taking action to redefine business in the digital age. Register here.
The social media conference for marketers, Social Fresh is not about concept, but focused purely on
case studies from the front lines. Learn what social media can really do for business bottom
lines. Over the course of the day you'll hear from 35 speakers from companies like Ford, Best Buy,
Scottrade, Hardees, CMT and many more. Register now
and use coupon code RWW15 for 15% off.
DrupalCon is
the premier conference focused on Drupal, the award-winning open source content management
framework that is galvanizing social publishing and web development today. For a registration fee
of $195, attendees get three full days of sessions led by the best and brightest Drupal
experts.
Drupal has been downloaded over 2 million times since its inception, and project growth has
doubled annually for several years. Drupal is used to deliver a wide variety of application types
including blogs, wikis, community networks, digital media portals, and web content publishing and
management.
The Future of Money & Technology
Summit will bring together the best and brightest thinkers around money, including
visionaries, entrepreneurial business people, developers, press, investors, authors,
solution/service providers, and organizations who work where cash and commerce collide. We meet
to discuss the evolving ecosystem around money in a proactive, conducive to dealmaking
environment. Featured speakers include Jolie O'Dell from ReadWriteWeb, as well as representatives
from Wells Fargo Bank, Kiva, SharesPost, Jambool, Founders Fund, Outright.com, SoftTech VC, and
many more.
Use discount code "rww" to get 10% off registration.
The ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010
will be an exploration of the latest Mobile development trends - both the technology and the
emerging business applications. Get ready to explore, think and create the future of Mobile with
the brightest in the industry, your peers! As in our last Summit, The Real-Time Web, the
ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit is an unconference.
An unconference is a participant driven conference where the agenda is created
on the day, in real-time and discussions are lead by conference participants. Read about the history of unconferences.
We will have two main tracks at this Summit - Development and Business - so the Summit will be of
interest to managers, marketers, developers, innovators, entrepreneurs and thought leaders alike.
Here's a sample of some of the topics we'll explore in both of these tracks.
FinovateSpring 2010 will again showcase the most cutting-edge
financial and banking technology innovations to Silicon Valley and the world. With Finovate's
signature mix of short, fast-paced onstage demos (no slides are allowed) from handpicked
companies and intimate networking time with their executives, this conference packs a ton of
unique value into a single day.
Come see the cutting edge of banking and financial technology and network with hundreds of the
leading financial executives, venture capitalists, press, industry analysts, bloggers and fintech
entrepreneurs. Early bird registration
rates are available.
The SF MusicTech Summit
will bring together 700-plus visionaries in the music/technology space - the best and brightest
entrepreneurs, developers, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians and organizations
who work with them at the convergence of culture and commerce. We meet to discuss the evolving
music, business and technology ecosystem in a proactive, conducive-to-dealmaking environment.
Enter the discount code "rww" to get 10% off.
Glue is the only conference devoted
solely to exploring the problem-sets facing architects, developers and IT professionals in a
"post-cloud" world. Glue focuses on the APIs and protocols (Twitter, Facebook, Websockets,
PubSubHubBub, XMPP), formats and standards (RDF/Linked Data, JSON, Microformats, HTML5),
platforms and providers (Amazon, Rackspace, Google App Engine, Salesforce.com, Eucalyptus),
Identity Protocols (OAuth/WRAP, SAML, OpenID, SPML) emerging NoSQL data models (Cassandra,
CouchDB, MongoDB, Riak, HBase), and other mechanisms that are building the post-cloud world.
ReadWriteCloud will be blogging live from Gluecon and CloudCamp, and ReadWriteWeb's Alex Williams
will be moderating the "Managing Complexity in the Cloud" session. Please join us May 25-27 in
Denver, Colorado. ReadWriteWeb readers can receive 10% off of
registration by using the code "RWW12".
The Corporate Social Media Summit is a
two day conference focused exclusively on how big businesses can take advantage of social media
to enhance their marketing/comms strategy. Featuring:
Practical and relevant insights from peers who have already used social media successfully
20-plus corporate speakers (including
PepsiCo, Whole Foods, Dell, McDonald's, General Motors, Citi, Johnson & Johnson),
Best practice, benchmarks and practical next steps you can use to take advantage of social
media in your business
A tightly-focused agenda with 14 in-depth,
practical workshops giving you knowledge on only the most critical business issues surrounding
corporate use of social media
Save $400 if you quote RWW400 when booking. Book here.
The 2nd annual Cloud Computing World Forum is
the perfect event to learn and discuss the development, integration, adoption and future of cloud
computing and SaaS. Building on the success of the 2009 show, this two day conference and
free-to-attend exhibition will provide a focused platform for the global cloud and SaaS industry.
Show highlights include:
Co-located with CloudCamp London
Co-located with Green IT conference
Free-to-attend exhibition with seminar and scenario theatre
FinovateFall will return to Manhattan on Tuesday, October 5 to
showcase dozens of the biggest and most innovative new ideas in financial and banking technology
from established leaders(...)
Le Quinté+ de samedi à Saint-Cloud a souri à un modèle de
régularité (2 succès et 5 places en 11 sorties). En effet, A Coeur Ouvert
s'est imposé pour ses premiers pas dans cette catégorie.
According to a recent survey of more than 500 developers from Evans Data, Python use has risen 45%
since the spring of 2009! The company correlates these results with the release of the Google App
Engine cloud development platform. The App engine only...
According to her, Cherie Currie is currently living on cloud nine. She has Dakota Fanning playing her in
The Runaways, which
is all about her early days in rock and roll, and she also rocks artistic carvings with a motorized
blade as Chainsaw Chick. That's a long way since being
the young girl who lost her innocence at a very early age. The Runaways exists because of
the memoir Neon Angel she wrote, and while the movie doesn't exactly tell the true story, she's
happy with the results.
We spoke to Cherie at Sundance this year, and she went into detail about an early childhood tragedy
that pushed her into the world of rock, what it was like working with Dakota, why she wields a
chainsaw, and her real relationship with Joan Jett. Read on for the full interview just after the
break.
We know you’re busy. Even with every social media, web, and
RSS tool at your disposal, you can occasionally miss out on some of the week’s most
insightful content.
Never fear. We’ve taken a moment to round up the best Mashable resources from this past
week and present them here for your weekend enjoyment.
From in-depth how-tos, to app lists, to valuable business guides, browse below for a veritable
smorgasbord of value you may have passed over.
Music sharing and distribution on the web is nothing new. But some artists, bands, and labels
are going the extra social mile to get their music heard. Here’s how they’re
doing it.
Dick Tracy’s gadgets have nothing on today’s socially-savvy police departments.
Find out how they’re using social networks to catch criminals, prevent crime, and keep
the public informed.
Is you Facebook Fan Page lacking a little engagement “oomph?” Has your fan growth
leveled off? Try these four dead-simple ways to get folks sharing your brand again.
Location-based social media is still relatively young, but the future is bright for users,
marketers, and businesses alike. Here are 5 important lessons to take away from the current
LBS landscape.
For more mobile news and resources, you can follow Mashable’s mobile channel on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.
The B2B potential of social media is often overlooked. If you sell to fellow business owners
and you’re looking for an in on the social media action, don’t miss this post.
Social media is not the beginning or end of a marketing effort. It should be woven into every
aspect of your business plan. Take in these four tips on how to make that happen.
Is your business ready to make the leap into the cloud? Smart integration of Google Apps for
Business can really benefit your team and workflow. See how in this post.
Ten years ago this week, online music pioneer Justin Frankel released a little application dubbed
Gnutella that enabled file sharing through a distributed P2P network. Frankel, whose previous
claim to fame was programming the then hugely-popular Winamp MP3 player software, supposedly named the client after his favorite hazelnut
cream spread, and the first version published online was really more of a proof of concept than
anything else.
Still, Gnutella hit a nerve. Napster had been sued three months before, and many file sharers were rightfully
fearing that the music industry would eventually prevail in court and force Napster to switch off
its servers. With Gnutella, no such switch existed, as the client was allowing direct P2P
connections without the help of any centralized server. Add to it the fact that Gnutella, unlike
Napster, allowed users to swap videos and software as well as MP3s, and you begin to see why many
immediately viewed Gnutella as the next step in P2P file sharing.
A step, one should add, that made Frankel’s employer AOL more than a little nervous. It
only took the Internet giant a day to force Frankel and his colleagues to take down
Gnutella – but even that was too long, as countless sites quickly started to first
mirror, then build upon Frankel’s official Gnutella client. There’s always been a
little bit of mystery surrounding the exact happenings of those days, but some people have been
musing that a person with a surprising amount of insider knowledge showed up in one of the first
IRC chat rooms dedicated to Gnutella soon after AOL pulled the plug, only to provide some very
detailed information about the inner workings of the client’s P2P protocol.
Speaking of IRC: Early versions of the software didn’t really have any way for users to
connect, save for entering another user’s IP address, which is why IRC quickly became an
integral part of the early days of Gnutella. It was also in those IRC chat rooms that the myth of
Gnutella as a seemingly invincible P2P protocol was born, and the fact that AOL tried but
couldn’t contain the software seemed to fit right into that picture. Gnutella was one of
the very first P2P apps I ever wrote about, so I lurked in those chat rooms as well, where people
were cheering the fact that someone finally found a file sharing solution that couldn’t be
shut down. I still remember one IRC user saying: “We’ve started a damn cult
again!”
Only Gnutella wasn’t really ready to be a cult. The network routed search requests from
peer to peer, leading to an exponential growth of traffic as its network became bigger. Napster
programmer Jordan Ritter described the problem early on in a paper titled “Why Gnutella Can’t
Scale. No, Really,” and Frankel himself, who has hardly ever gone on the record about
Gnutella, once stated that he was
fully aware of “how poorly it would scale” when he released the client.
Still, Gnutella captured the imagination of many, one of them being Mark Gorton, founder of the
New York-based Lime Group. Gorton was at
the time pursuing a vision of automating businesses through structured data, and Gnutella, as
something that could, for example, distribute real estate listings wrapped in XML, seemed to fit
that image quite nicely. Early versions of the Gnutella client of Gorton’s LimeWire venture were still written with this
vision in mind, hoping to build a P2P network that could eventually be used to do all kinds of
things with which we’re now familiar on the web, thanks to web services.
LimeWire’s engineers joined a growing group of developers loosely connected through web
sites like the long-defunct Gnutella.wego.com (whose admin Gene Kan tragically committed
suicide in 2002) and mailing lists like the one for the Gnutella Developer Forum, and one of
the first issues to be tackled was scalability. The introduction of a two-tiered system of
ordinary clients and so-called Ultrapeers helped grow both the network as a whole and each
user’s search horizon. The idea was also later adopted by the developers of KaZaA, whose
own take on this two-tiered approach still lives on in Skype’s P2P network.
Technical improvements like these helped Gnutella to grow, but the competition was quick to catch
up. Bram Cohen unveiled a first version of
BitTorrent only two years after Frankel had published Gnutella, and BitTorrent quickly became the
file sharing client of choice for sharing videos online. Part of BitTorrent’s quick rise to
fame was its modular simplicity: Cohen had outsourced much of the search and indexing of files to
torrent web sites, only handling the actual distribution of data within the client. Gnutella on
the other hand was meant to work without any web server. That made it much more invincible, but
also much less accessible to users who migrated from apps and clients to a world of web services.
Another issue that has plagued Gnutella from the beginning is not technical, but legal. The
protocol was supposed to outsmart trigger-happy lawyers, but the mere fact that there
wasn’t a central switch to turn off the Gnutella network didn’t stop rights holders
from going after people and companies associated with it. Lawsuits and legal threats forced Morpheus, Xolox, Bearshare and
a number of other companies and developers to throw the towel.
LimeWire got sued by the music industry as well in 2006, but that hasn’t
stopped the company from continuing with the development and monetization of its client.
LimeWire’s client also utilizes BitTorrent these days, but LimeWire’s VP of Product
Management Jason Herskowitz told me during a phone conversation that Gnutella has “worked
really well” for the company, and that its engineers are looking into ways to make Gnutella
once again more attractive to developers by exposing some of its functionality through web
services. “There is still a long future ahead for Gnutella,” he predicted.
Not everyone agrees with that outlook. Adam Fisk, who was hired by LimeWire as one of its first developers in the summer of
2000, but left the company in 2004 to eventually start his own P2P venture dubbed Littleshot, believes that some core assumptions
of the Gnutella protocol are outdated. “I don’t think that distributed P2P search
makes any sense,” he told me, explaining that the very server-less search functionality
that made Gnutella superior to Napster also ended up being its biggest burden, and that it would
be much easier to have servers handle search and just use P2P to deliver data – a recipe
that has already helped BitTorrent succeed.
Sure, LimeWire and some other Gnutella clients could still stick around for a long time, Fisk
admitted, but he was skeptical that we would ever see any significant new project based on
Gnutella. “That would be shocking,” he said.
Our top story this week was about bad news for the big guys: Google,
Facebook, Digg's top users. As you catch up on the news, be sure to watch the conversation about China, tech and
democracy that took place between activist/artist Ai Weiwei, Twitter's Jack Dorsey and
ReadWriteWeb's Richard MacManus. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet
trends of 2010, including Real-Time Web, Mobile Web and Internet of Things.
Note: We've refreshed the format for our longest running feature, the Weekly
Wrapup. It now focuses more explicitly on the key trends that ReadWriteWeb is tracking in 2010,
as well as giving you the highlights from the leading story of the week. Let us know your
thoughts on the new format.
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We
recently launched the official ReadWriteWeb iPhone
app. As well as enabling you to read ReadWriteWeb while on the go or lying on the couch,
we've made it easy to share ReadWriteWeb posts directly from your iPhone, on Twitter and
Facebook. You can also follow the RWW team on Twitter, directly from the app. We invite you to
download it now from iTunes.
Dünyadaki cep telefonu piyasasında önemli bir yere sahip olan Nokia, yeni projesi ile mükemmel cep telefonunu
üretmeye hazırlanıyor. ÜreteceÄŸi mükemmel cep
telefonun nasıl yapılacağını ise
kullanıcılara soruyor.
Piyasaya çıkan cep telefonlarının
çoÄŸu beÄŸenilse bile her zaman kötü yönleri
bulunabilir.Nokia bu durumu aÅŸmak için yeni bir proje
başlattı ve nasıl bir cep telefonu istenildiğini
kullanılara soruyor ve bu doğrultuda yeni cep telefonunu
yapacağını açıklıyor.
Hazırlanan bu web
sitesinde, Nokia'dan beklentilerinizi belirtebilir hayalinizdeki cep
telefonunu seçenekler ile bildirebilirsiniz. Tüm bunları normalden daha
kolay bir şekilde sayfada yer alan kontrol mekanizması ile
yapıyorsunuz. gerçekçi olmayan taleplerinizi de
Nokia'ya iletmeniz mümkün.
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is setting up two new focus groups - one to look
at cloud computing and one at smart grids - to identify what future telecommunications standards
might be needed to support these technologies.
The shortest way to describe this is that Google is no longer a verb. It's becoming
a noun. Not just the few clicks to find information, but the information itself and the
experience surrounding it.
Today, we get to add Google's chapter to "Will One Company Dominate
the Cloud" introspective series and take a glimpse of the silent revolution from "index" to
"be" that is transforming the company and it's products to the default way to engage the
Internet.
As fate has it, Google done us a big favor in preparing for this piece. The company has launched
an assault on the enterprise with its movement in the Google App Engine, having a
stand-off with China, and negotiating with the EU. And that was
just a bit of Google
news from this week.
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Whereas it's a bit more clear where Amazon and Cisco win (our
recent analysis) as they head towards the cloud, with Google it takes a bit more expansive view.
We have to take the focus out a bit, to be able to dial in on the details.
Acknowledgment: Developers are the Products they Build
We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Tim Bray. He has been a key contributor and thought leader
in key areas of interoperability and information design, including his leadership in bringing XML
to the world. He recently announced that he's joining Google and focusing on Android in a
transition from Sun.
Several things struck us about our dialog that we think are key for Google.
First, when Bray described his new job at Google, he talked about what he wanted to do and what
he saw that needed to be done. Within three days of being there, he has a sense of ownership of
the companies products and mission. In some organizations, you may never get such a luxury.
Second, Bray described his opportunity to "roll up his sleeves" and get back in the groove as a
developer on a project he feels passion for. He mentioned his desire to take the open APIs of
Android and expose some of the information in a more portable way, for example to transfer a call
log from one phone to another. A very interesting project, with tangible results. This type of
innovation lives on top of all the work the company has done to make the API exist, and to
attract individuals who are willing to rethink how it should really work.
We think that this is the most interesting thing about where Google is right now. It's "open"
mantra gives the company the ability to see a whole generation into the future of information
channel disruption. And, by bringing in "no holds barred" developers like Bray and a legion of
others, the company is patiently solving problems that many of us don't even know exist.
Lastly, Bray said something that caused us some deep thought.
His comment, "when the Drizzle team was moved into Google, they
just kept working on the their open source project and things stayed nearly the same."
What caused us to pause was that open source development, whether Linux or XML, gives the
developer, as a person, a way to contribute to the world. And it's documented. If the Internet
was the Bible, leading a key open source initiative, is like getting your own chapter in the
book, where time will be the judge of your actions. Much better than your manager alone.
To know that hard work, intellectual capital, libraries are available to the world after the
contract is complete. This really speaks to the artist in us, in a way, the paid open source
developer is using Google as a canvas.
If working at Google offers this emotional spark to employees, it will gain entirely new
efficiencies in solving the big problems, in the context of individual efforts. Maybe this open
source spirit is embedded into Twitter, and is why it works. We like to contribute to our version
of the greater good...and want fans to cheer us on.
What we learned; acknowledgment matters, and connections to the whole population of people is an
amazing vehicle. Google: become an indie rock star - with the strength of grep.
All of the Information on Earth
Google's destiny to become the hub of the worlds information is
intertwined with history. And this comes with artifacts of policy and posturing. To start with,
not everyone agrees that Google should achieve a dominant cloud position. As we're noticing,
stopping it is another matter.
We'd like to suggest that in 2010, the company is not shy about stepping towards its future and
will use its power, technology, and cash to stir it up. Here is our list of organizations in the
world that Google has, is, or will be, continually bumping into in its quest for cloud
information dominance.
China (counties own the filters for the people)
ATT (service providers own consumer on the network)
Penguin (book publishers own the words in the texts)
Visa (financial institutions own the digits in the transactions)
Facebook (social networks know the details)
Amazon (commerce sites own the decision point)
Twitter (owns "what's happening")
Microsoft (owns the computer applications and files)
Open can be a Key to Unlock Doors
We see both practical and strategic reasons that Google has a
deep connection with the open source movement. Strategically, being the new optimized layer,
removing all historic barriers to information give the company more leverage. Practically,
solutions can be built where information is free.
Reviewing a few examples, such as Google Earth, Android, and even GMail and we see that where
there are open protocols and information disruptive products can be built. Once they are built,
the Google wields a significant economic advantage in binding the worlds information assets and
converting them to eyeballs.
Here, we take a quick look at the information assets that Google is investing the global cloud.
Results: Google has moved away from Page Rank to "Closest Object" in it's
default results. What this means is that many businesses today show up as widget in the results
in google with embedded links, maps, and other efficiencies.
Ads: This is perhaps the best known and most valuable insight and unique
asset, who wants to pay for what customer
Realtime index: Google has worked to keep up with Twitter's realtime firehose
Semantic index: The company continues to add more and more microsyntax parsers
into its index, giving more controlled tools for publishers
GMail: It had to be done. And it is monetized.
Documents and files: Google Docs and the Apps Marketplace create a whole new
stream of information about an individual. Private, personal, and shared.
Mobile transactions: This is an interesting sample of where Google's strategy
to build the Android OS pays off in the cloud. Not only does Google get to connect mobile to
the rest of the offerings, but also to be able to dial in on movements, calls, and other
critical tasks in our real-time lives.
Books: Indexing all of them, first is an interesting piece of the strategy to
break apart historic containers of knowledge. Is the book copyrighted? How about the quote?
Browsers: The browser knows a lot. Google's Chrome moves it from being default
search, to being default experience. This was a great example of where access to information
"Faster pages" is the simple value proposition for consumers to switch.
Filters: Protecting companies, trademarks, and interpreting the legality of
free speech. Someone has to do it, if we're all one people.
Health transactions: Google has even taken on one of the most sensitive
challenges, private health information. And, it's connections to legacy systems that prefer EDI
to JSON.
It's clear that Google is making progress. What we've also learned in this review is that the
companies biggest asset - people - may scale to solve problems in lightweight ways that entire
teams and companies haven't been able to in the past. Perhaps being open, or transparent, gives
the company a unique advantage in being prepared for a cloud future.
Is the cloud where the action is?
What verb would you be if you were hired at Google?
The cloud, the smartphone, the tablet, the Web itself as a big giant operating system-- what's the
fatal flaw in all of these? It's all about feeding content to passive "consumers". Plug me in,
baby, I'm not lifting a finger ever again.
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the first beta release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long-Term
Support) Desktop, Server, and Netbook editions and of Ubuntu 10.04 Server for Ubuntu Enterprise
Cloud (UEC) and Amazon’s EC2. Codenamed "Lucid Lynx", 10.04 LTS continues Ubuntu’s
proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a
high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Desktop and Netbook Editions continue the trend of ever-faster boot speeds, with
improved startup times and a streamlined, smoother boot experience.
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Edition provides even better integration of the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud,
with its install-time cloud setup.
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server for UEC and EC2 brings the power and stability of the Ubuntu Server
Edition to cloud computing, whether you’re using Amazon EC2 or your own Ubuntu Enterprise
Cloud.
The Ubuntu 10.04 family of variants, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, and Mythbuntu,
also reach beta status today.
Desktop features
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Social from the start: We now feature built-in integration with Twitter, identi.ca, Facebook, and
other social networks with the MeMenu in the panel.
New Design: Cleaner and faster boot, new notification area, new themes, new icons, and new
wallpaper bring a dramatically updated look and feel to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu One: Choose any folder in your home directory to sync, choose from millions of songs for
purchase in the Ubuntu One Music store.
Cloud computing: The Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud installer has been vastly improved in order to
support alternative installation topologies. UEC components are now automatically discovered and
registered, even with complex topologies. Finally, UEC is now powered by Eucalyptus 1.6.2
codebase.
UEC and EC2: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS continues the tradition of official Ubuntu Server image releases
for UEC and for Amazon’s EC2, giving you everything you need for rapid deployment of Ubuntu
instances in a cloud computing environment. UEC images, and information on running Ubuntu 10.04
on EC2, are available at:
Stability and security: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS brings many improvements over Ubuntu 8.04 LTS to keep
your servers safe and secure for the next five years, including AppArmor profiles for many key
services, kernel hardening, and an easy-to-configure firewall.
Ubuntu Netbook features
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Ubuntu Netbook Edition is optimised to run on Intel atom based netbooks. It includes a new
consumer-friendly interface that allows users to quickly and easily get on-line and use their
favourite applications. This interface is optimised for a retail sales environment.
It includes the same faster boot times and improved boot experience as Ubuntu desktop.
Kubuntu features
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Kubuntu 10.04 LTS will be the first LTS to feature KDE 4 Platform and Applications. KDE 4 has
come a long way since its early releases and is now suitable for the high demands of LTS users.
Being an LTS we have focused on bug fixing and stability for this release, but we did find time
to add features such as touchpad configuration, Firefox KDE integration, Kubuntu notification
improvements, and cross-desktop systray menu standardisation. Kubuntu features the Plasma Desktop
while Kubuntu Netbook Remix comes out of preview status with the Plasma Netbook workspace.
Edubuntu in Lucid features a more complete live environment containing more software from
universe and all existing language packs as well as our usual educational software in their
current version. For Lucid the text installer has been removed and so is LTSP for the time being.
We expect to have LTSP back on the DVD for the next beta. The DVD is then much smaller than it
used to be but will still provide a complete education environment based on Ubuntu Lucid.
Also included on the Edubuntu DVD is a small repository containing the required packages to
transform the regular Edubuntu desktop into a LTSP server or install the Netbook edition
interface.
Mythbuntu features
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Mythbuntu 10.04 introduces MythTV 0.23. This new version is significantly faster and should feel
more responsive and stable than older versions. It also integrates better into the OS with better
support for things like ConsoleKit and Upstart.
Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for desktops, laptops, and servers, with a fast and
easy installation and regular releases. A tightly-integrated selection of excellent applications
is included, and an incredible variety of add-on software is just a few clicks away.
Professional technical support is available from Canonical Limited and hundreds of other
companies around the world. For more information about support, visit http://www.ubuntu.com/support
To Get Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 1
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To upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 1 from Ubuntu 9.10 or Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, follow these
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Your comments, bug reports, patches and suggestions will help turn this Beta into the best
release of Ubuntu ever. Please note that, where possible, we prefer that bugs be reported using
the tools provided, rather than by visiting Launchpad directly. Instructions can be found at
If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a bug but are not sure, first try
asking on the #ubuntu IRC channel on FreeNode, on the Ubuntu Users mailing list, or on the Ubuntu
forums:
IBM this week announced that more than 200 of its partners are now planning to sell LotusLive cloud
services, validating its ever-expanding cloud strategy.
Aneesh Chopra talks about the new face of government IT, where procurement goes after the cloud and
the developer community is invited into the federal sandbox.
Google Chrome's Incognito mode is a
handy way to browse without leaving unwanted traces of your activitybehind. It comes with some
minor sacrifices, of course -- your theme doesn't display and your extensions don't work, for
example.
At least your extensions don't work for now.
Soon enough you'll have the ability to specify which extensions you want Google Chrome to allow
while you browse Incognito. The change has landed in recent Chromium builds, and I have no doubt
that we'll see this make the jump to Chrome's developer and beta channels fairly soon.
While it will be nice to have certain extensions available -- like LastPass (so I don't have to type in all my
passwords) or
ExtensionFM (so I can listen to my music library in the cloud) -- it's important to remember
that some extensions may do things that you're trying to avoid during private browsing sessions. In
fact, Chrome/Chromium will spawn an alert saying "Chromium cannot prevent this extension from
recording your browsing data" when you place a check in the allow box.
For now, you'll need to download a build
from the Chromium BuildBot stash to try this out. So far, so good. I haven't experienced any
(additional) instability or crashing due to enabling a few extensions in Incognito mode.
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ARMONK, N.Y., March 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced more than 200
partners are planning to sell to their customers LotusLive cloud services. The news comes in
just two months since the introduction of the LotusLive partner program as evidence of increasing
migratio
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable
regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small
business.
Google Apps for business has a number of
benefits over traditional business IT and desktop software. Using the full suite essentially
places all of your data and entire workflow in the cloud, meaning you can access it all anywhere,
any time, from any Internet connection.
At $50 per year per user, the fully integrated apps system is certainly cost-effective, and even
adding the free versions of Gmail, Calendar, and Google Docs into your workflow can keep your employees
coordinated.
For more casual users, or even those who might not be acquainted with Google Apps, here’s a
guide to how the software can benefit your small business.
The many advanced features of Gmail really make it a
leap forward in the web-based e-mail space, and a lot of these are ideal for business.
If you’re not ready to take the full plunge into the paid Google Apps suite, you can still
configure Gmail to function as your business e-mail client through your existing domain name by
following the steps outlined in my post, “How to Set Up Gmail as Your Business E-mail Client.”
The first big advantage of Gmail, like all the apps discussed here, is that it functions
in the cloud. You don’t have to worry about downloading messages to multiple
locations or syncing various devices. Your inbox will look the same from any web or mobile
connection. And with 25 gigs of e-mail storage per user (with a paid apps account), it’s
unlikely you’ll ever have to clean your inbox or delete old messages.
Gmail works a bit differently than traditional desktop clients and webmail services in that
conversations are “threaded.” This means that e-mails with the same
or related subject lines are grouped together in a thread so you can see all the messages sent
and received on a topic in one place. When a new message is received, the entire thread is bumped
to the top of your inbox, making tracking complex and multi-party conversations easy.
Gmail also has a chat feature built right into the interface that lets you send
a quick update or discuss a project with an employee if you’re not in the same office.
Chats are also stored in Gmail so that you can search and refer to them later.
Google search, the asset that started it all for the company, is of course built
right into Gmail, which makes finding information from e-mail conversations (even very old ones)
extremely efficient.
Additionally, Gmail Labs offers some extra settings for your inbox that can be extremely valuable
for business use:
Signature Tweaks puts your e-mail signature before the quoted text in a reply
the way that Outlook would.
Default ‘Reply to All’ allows you to reply to group e-mails with
one click, instead of from a drop-down menu.
Forgotten Attachment Detector will notify you if you’ve mentioned an
attachment in an e-mail, but forgotten to add one.
Undo Send gives you a few seconds after sending a message to click
“undo” in case you forgot something, or sent it to the wrong party by mistake.
Title Tweaks is a great feature that puts your unread message count first in
the title of the inbox web page. If you have many windows open while you’re working,
you’ll still be able to see when new messages arrive.
Google Docs is a web-based suite for word processing, presentation building (similar to
PowerPoint), spreadsheets, and web forms. All the work is done in a web browser, and all the data
is saved in the cloud.
The software can be a bit quirky at times, which may frustrate users of more stable products like
Microsoft Office, but the payoff in online storage, shareability, and collaboration options may
be worth the adjustment for many small businesses.
Because the data is online, streamlined document sharing and collaboration are
big perks with Google Docs. Any file you’re working on can be shared with individual team
members, or the entire group within the apps system. You can also set permissions for specific
users to view and edit documents. And, multiple users can simultaneously view and edit documents,
which can be useful for real-time collaborative projects or presentations during conference
calls. You can also grant permission for those outside your office network to view and edit
documents, which can be especially useful for sharing information and presentations with clients
or colleagues.
As you create and share documents, your Google Docs dashboard may start to get a little messy. Be
sure to create folders to keep your work organized just as you would on your
desktop. You can also share entire folders if you need to collaborate on multiple documents
related to the same project.
Google Calendar provides an efficient and intuitive way to keep appointments and events synced
across your entire business. With calendar sharing and permissions (similar to
those in Docs), you can add other employees’ calendars to your own, and vice versa, in
order to see and manage the big picture of your team’s time.
For example, if an executive has an assistant, their calendars may be shared so that the
assistant could manage his boss’s appointments remotely from his own account. It’s
also a smart tool for coordinating meetings, calls, and shift staffing for multiple employees to
avoid scheduling conflicts. Sharing multiple calendars with one “master calendar”
creates a color-coded scheduling table for the coordinator that updates automatically when users
make changes or additions.
The Calendar app can also be used to create events through Gmail. By adding your
employees’ e-mail addresses to an event, they will receive an invitation to respond.
Responding ‘yes’ automatically adds a shared event to your calendar that each invitee
can view and add notes to. It’s a smart way to coordinate meetings and keep everyone in the
loop.
Google Sites is a drag-and-drop web development tool that you can use within your
business’s apps to create online information hubs for employees. The
websites you create exist within your Google Apps domain, can be public or private, and
permissions for employees to add, change, and contribute information can be set from the main
account.
Beyond simply being a WYSIWYG web editor, Sites makes it easy to integrate data from
other Google Apps into dynamic pages that team members can use to collaborate on
projects. Integrating spreadsheets or data charts from Docs, a deadline schedule from Calendar,
and team-specific messages from Gmail could essentially create a one-stop project dashboard full
of dynamically updating information.
Sites here can be purely functional or informational, or with the aid of some built-in templates
or a good designer, a full-fledged dynamic public website for your business that
team members have easy access to.
Google Groups have long been public forums where users across the web gather to discuss specific
interests or get technical support. Groups for business brings that same functionality into your
private internal network.
E-mail can sometimes be cumbersome when coordinating a team. When you need a central space to
collect ideas and share documents (but you’re not interested in building a web page in
Sites), Groups offers a solution.
Employees can create discussion groups on their own and subscribe, either by
e-mail or via a Groups dashboard, which lists new posts like a news reader.
Rather than e-mails going out to individual inboxes, a group thread remains visible to all of
your subscribed team members, and users can go back to it for reference, to add more information,
and even share docs and calendars.
Using Groups for business discussions and project management creates a communal and
searchable database of information that employees can go back to whenever needed.
Google’s recently launched Google Apps
Marketplace allows developers of other business web apps to integrate their offerings with
Google and sell software directly to Google Apps users. The marketplace currently has over 50
partners, including Intuit, Zoho, and Aviary. This additional space for third-party software
means that Apps users will have even more options to tailor their suite for specific business
purposes.
Smart Integration Across the Board
While each app has worthwhile features, perhaps one of the best advantages is the way that they
all integrate with one another. Documents and appointments can be easily shared via e-mail, and
your inbox can be used as a portal for productivity via embeddable widgets, chat, and other
notifications.
If your small business is ready for a web-based, collaboration-minded IT solution, Google Apps is
certainly a cost-effective way to go, and you can investigate the free versions simply by signing
up for a Gmail account to determine if the suite is right for your workflow.
Do the rise of cloud computing and the outbreak of peace on open standards in the browser mean
programmers will be forced to find new ways to make money online?...
Dan Kantor
knows the web, and he knows music. Better still, he knows how to make the two play nicely together.
If you're not familiar with his work, Dan built Spinner --
AOL's popular music site -- when he was part of our family.
Now he's on his own, and he's got a new musical marvel to share: ExtensionFM. While using the extension inside Google Chrome is fun
enough, it's easy to see just how cool it's going to be on the Google Chrome OS smartbooks and
tablets that are due out later this year.
The concept behind ExntensionFM is a simple one: scan the webpages you browse for embedded MP3s and
build a library of tunes inside your browser. You can also put together playlists, and the music
will keep streaming in the background as you happily (or unhappily, depending on your modus
operandi) surf the web.
ExtensionFM also provides listings of artists and albums in your library, and a list of the sites
you've listened to -- which adds a whole 'nother layer of cool. Once you've grabbed a track from a
particular site, ExtensionFM keeps tabs on it for you. We'll have more on this after the break,
along with more screenshots and Dan's screencast! Right now, I've got
some 2 Skinnee Js queued up from Archive.org, with some SXSM tracks from Sam Roberts on deck. Play
controls are always within reach -- just click the ExtensionFM button in your browser actions area.
Now, back to
that 'subscription' thing...Sites in your library are set to auto-update by default -- which you
can disable on a per-site basis if you prefer to update things manually. Right click and hit
refresh to do a quick check for new tunes. You can also play or queue entire sites, or delete them
if your tastes have changed. I've played with
ExtensionFM in Hexxeh's builds of Chromium
OS -- the source of Google's upcoming Chrome
OS. To me, there's no question that this will be an absolutely killer extension for your
Chromebook (or tablet). It's an awesome, easy-to-use bridge between all the great, free music in
the cloud and your lightweight browser OS.
So what's next for ExtensionFM? I mentioned to Dan the possibility of using Chrome's bsync
abilities to store your library in the cloud, and he said they've been pondering that already.
Doing so would give you log-in-anywhere access to your music...Anywhere including, say, an Android
handset -- where it wouldn't be a big stretch to tap into Google's APIs to give you
music-on-the-go.
"We want exfm to be the only player you need," Dan told me. They're well on the way to achieving
that goal: ExtensionFM is pure awesome.
Right now, ExtensionFM is in closed beta. If you want in on
the action, head over to our
Facebook page -- or share this post on Twitter and make sure you @downloadsquad!
After showing off the project earlier this month with a promising trailer (above), Dylan "Steaky"
Loney has released The Great Class Dash, his new Team
Fortress 2 mod that turns the online first-person shooter into a Canabalt-styled
single-player 2.5D sidescrolling platformer.
This first public release has players automatically running through four different stages:
Canada, Egypt, Volcano, and Swamp. To make it through each level, players need to cycle through
different classes while running, as each of the nine classes has a unique ability that allows
players to pass through different obstacles.
The Scout, for example, can double jump over large gaps. The Heavy breaks through walls, the
Sniper ("a notorious hunter") scares away animals in your path, the Pyro's suit protects him from
steam and clouds of mostquitoes, the Spy can sneak past enemy sentry guns, and so on.
ISLANDIA, N.Y., March 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CA (Nasdaq: CA) today announced that Dr. Donald
F. Ferguson, executive vice president and chief technology officer, will deliver an address on
managing cloud-connected applications at CloudSlam'10™ at 1:00 PM ET on March 23.
CloudSlam'10 is a
This year's MIX 2010
was led by Scott Guthrie, who has emerged from Microsoft's rank and file to own just about
everything developer-related. Where last year's MIX and PDC conferences were spearheaded by Chief
Software Architect Ray Ozzie, Guthrie's keynote appearances focused on the progress Silverlight has
made in driving the company's 3 Screens and the Cloud approach to the disruptions going on in
mobile, television, and the Web OS desktop. I spoke with Scott after his opening day keynote in Las
Vegas:
TechCrunch50
startup CrowdFlower has been attracting a lot of attention,
even raising $5
million in funding recently. CrowdFlower is a labor as a service startup that helps
businesses outsource mundane or repetitive tasks to the cloud. Now the startup has attracted a
competitor, recently launched CloudCrowd, which also
promises increase efficiency and lower costs to companies by breaking large projects into smaller
tasks, and distributing them to its virtual workforce.
Once a client assigns a task to CloudCrowd, the company will distribute tasks its work force of
more than 100,000 workers. With each task completed, a worker earn a credibility rating that
determines the types of tasks they are offered. Workers who don’t have a rating yet are
assigned basic tasks until they develop a reputation. Workers are able to see how much each
separate task pays, and earnings are distributed through PayPal.
Tasks range from content moderation, internet research, audio and video transcription to data
entry. Since the company’s launch a few months ago, CloudCrowd has completed over 500,000
tasks for a variety of clients, including USC and RentCycle.
As I wrote above CloudCrowd will face competition from CrowdFlower, but it seems that the model
is attracting the attention of businesses to perform mundane tasks, so there should be room fr
several players in the space.
Voilà le marathon s'est arrêté, 3 jours de débats, d'interviews, de
discussions, de perroquet rouge et des cochons qui crient dans un haut-parleur (vous en verrez
quelques images...), d'un super tirage au sort avec Framasoft et Ubuntu-fr...Au total nous avons
enregistré près de 41 vidéos que nous aurons le plaisir de vous faire
découvrir au fur et à mesure avec des focus particuliers sur certains thèmes
comme le fameux Cloud computing, l'interopérabilité....
Bon voilà maintenant je vais vous faire languir un peu mais dès la semaine
prochaine s'est promis (Post prod oblige) vous aurez plein de vidéos surtout pour ceux,
ils sont nombreux, qui n'ont pas pu venir et les autres qui étaient sur place et qui
avaient pas que cela à faire (non mais...). Pour les autres, et plus encore, on se revoit
aux RMLL 2010 qui auront lieu à Bordeaux du 6 au 11 juillet 2010.
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In the
next few weeks, the ReadWriteWeb events guide will take you from New York City, to San Francisco,
to Portland, Oregon. Along the way you'll find a conference on search engine strategies, a
showcase for startups, an in-depth look at the freemium business model, and a day filled with of
social media case studies.
Go beyond search at 
After a long winter's hiatus, 
The first 
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The social media conference for marketers, 
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The 2nd annual 
We know you’re busy. Even with every social media, web, and
RSS tool at your disposal, you can occasionally miss out on some of the week’s most
insightful content.
Our top story this week was about bad news for the big guys: Google,
Facebook, Digg's top users. As you catch up on the news, 
We
recently launched the official 
Our channel 
Our channel 
Our channel 
The shortest way to describe this is that Google is no longer a verb. It's becoming
a noun. Not just the few clicks to find information, but the information itself and the
experience surrounding it.
We recently had the opportunity to sit down with 
His comment, "when the Drizzle team was moved into Google, they
just kept working on the their open source project and things stayed nearly the same."
Google's destiny to become the hub of the worlds information is
intertwined with history. And this comes with artifacts of policy and posturing. To start with,
not everyone agrees that Google should achieve a dominant cloud position. As we're noticing,
stopping it is another matter.
We see both practical and strategic reasons that Google has a
deep connection with the open source movement. Strategically, being the new optimized layer,
removing all historic barriers to information give the company more leverage. Practically,
solutions can be built where information is free.
Right now, I've got
some 2 Skinnee Js queued up from Archive.org, with some SXSM tracks from Sam Roberts on deck. Play
controls are always within reach -- just click the ExtensionFM button in your browser actions area.
Now, back to
that 'subscription' thing...Sites in your library are set to auto-update by default -- which you
can disable on a per-site basis if you prefer to update things manually. Right click and hit
refresh to do a quick check for new tunes. You can also play or queue entire sites, or delete them
if your tastes have changed. 
I've played with
ExtensionFM in 
This year's MIX 2010
was led by Scott Guthrie, who has emerged from Microsoft's rank and file to own just about
everything developer-related. Where last year's MIX and PDC conferences were spearheaded by Chief
Software Architect Ray Ozzie, Guthrie's keynote appearances focused on the progress Silverlight has
made in driving the company's 3 Screens and the Cloud approach to the disruptions going on in
mobile, television, and the Web OS desktop. I spoke with Scott after his opening day keynote in Las
Vegas: 
TechCrunch50
startup 
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