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Many years ago, we had desktop operating systems. The ones that succeeded were the ones that were able to develop an ecosystem of applications and developers around them. That worked very well for a long time. Then along came the web, and as the web has matured, the platform that developers build [...]

Off late, the name Yahoo appears synonymous with depression and whatever can go wrong with a company. The top level reshuffling didn’t have the much needed impact and there are rumors (expectations?) about impending job cuts. If I were a Yahoo shareholder, I would be deeply frustrated with what is happening in the company. [...]

The big news today is the acquisition of MySQL by Sun Microsystems. This is significant in many ways but I am excited that this deal debunks the myth that there is no big money in open source software. Sun has paid $1Billion for MySQL and it clearly shows how valuable MySQL is to the future [...]

Deepak’s post on Information as a Service got me thinking. The discussion about Twitter’s business model (or lack of it) and the standoff between facebook and Robert Scoble made me dig deeper. These events and the nature of business in the Web 2.0 era raises a very important question, which I would like to call [...]

This post is surely going to raise eyebrows as it pushes the boundaries (probably crosses them) of what we know as privacy. Wired asks the question Should web giants let startups use the information they have about you?. It is a very valid question. Companies like Google, Yahoo, Ebay, Amazon, and even Craigslist [...]

Is it me, or do some of Sun’s customers seem to be a little behind the times?
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The fastest grower (in terms of datacenter infrastructure spending) was growing 100% per month.

Unless you’re Google, there is no way you should be in this situationl
The striking point … unless you’re Google, there is no way [...]

Robert Scoble wrote an excellent post, discussing his decision to leave PodTech. As you can make out from all the posts on Techmeme and the comments on a lot of the blogs, he took a lot of heat as well. However, that’s not what this post is about.

The problem with the “Web 2.0” phenomenon is that it constrains innovation by perpetuating the assumption that the web is accessed through computing devices, whether PCs or smartphones or game consoles. As broadband, storage, and computing get ever cheaper, that assumption will be rendered obsolete. The internet won’t be so much a destination as a [...]

Om Malik has a rather eloquent piece on Google’s infrastructure putting up barrier to entry for competitors.
Not quite as eloquently, this is a subject that has been covered at TechBizMedia a few times recently
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Over the past year I have received my fair share of invitations to write for this and that blog. As a science blogger I have resisted any such invitations. As a tech and business blogger, I write for this blog, a duopoly that was definitely influenced by GigaOM. A few days ago, [...]