June
An article originally posted on TechCrunch
“Is Microsoft’s vision to compete in search and reinvent itself as an advertising company nothing more than an attempt to get back into its familiar position as Top Gun? Should Microsoft, Google and everyone else just give up on search and outsource to Google? That’s what Tim O’Reilly argues in a blog post today, and I don’t think he could be more wrong.”
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Starting from what seems like a misunderstanding, both Tim O’Reilly and Michael Arrington exchange interesting views on the importance of competition in the search market.
I agree with Michael that competition is important in the sense it drives innovations otherwise unexpected in a monopolistic situation. However I personally think this competition could come from an outsider as evolving technology is making search engine building easier and easier. In a near future competition will only be about innovation - provided you have sufficient ressources to implement it.
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April
An article originally posted on TechCrunch
“So who are using these services? A high-ranking Amazon executive told me there are 60,000 different customers across the various Amazon Web Services, and most of them are not the startups that are normally associated with on-demand computing. Rather the biggest customers in both number and amount of computing resources consumed are divisions of banks, pharmaceuticals companies and other large corporations who try AWS once for a temporary project, and then get hooked.” Read the full article at www.techcrunch.com
It is really interesting to see this move happening. Sensitive information is probably anonymised before its uploaded onto the Amazon services, but still it probably has caused a big stretch in the Security and Legal departments of these large corporations.
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April
An article originally posted on TechCrunch
“Palo Alto based Wiki startup SocialText, founded way back in 2002, is announcing version 3.0 of its software this morning. The upgrades are designed to put a little “social” into the enterprise.”
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SocialText follows the widget trend by allowing users behind the enterprise firewall to mix and match widgets taking data both from the outside world and the inside world.
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