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Recently, facebook launched a new ad program called Facebook Beacon, with much fanfare. First, it failed to elicit the expected positive response from the media. Then immediately after the launch, the tech blogosphere was full of news about how Facebook Beacon is intruding into user’s privacy and a way to block it in Firefox. Since [...]

As an avid Google watcher, it’s always interesting to note what the search giant might do next and what the implications might be. Om Malik notes that Google is now making its own high speed network switches. Why would they want to do that?

Microsoft just adding data center capacity in Ireland. Amazon is serving up cloud capacity in Europe. Google’s thirst for data centers is somewhat legendary. And now Red Hat is offering Red Hat Linux via Amazon’s EC2 platform.

First read about The Mythical WebOS
Then read about Google’s plans to be leverage the “web as platform”
Then read this NYT story about a $200 computer available in WalMart and running a “GOS”, a version of Linux specifically designed to run Google apps (via TechCrunch)
Now tell me that Google’s plans are limited to “social networking”
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I was hoping that by the time I wrote this, Open Social would no longer be the top story on Techmeme. So much for that thought. Spending time telling you all about it is somewhat pointless, since it’s been covered all over the web (TechCrunch has a pretty decent writeup). But what does [...]

So the rumor is that Automattic is for sale, at a value somewhere between $150-300 million. For the 2 of you who don’t know Automattic is Matt Mullenweg’s company, and is behind WordPress (the best blogging platform in the world IMHO), Akismet and now Gravatar. My first reaction when I heard this piece of [...]

Ever since facebook opened up its application platform, the blogosphere is full of hype paralleled only by the hype during dot com boom days. The hype these days is almost at the delusional levels, with valuations going to 100 billions. I am not an anti-facebook person. I use it extensively. As Robert Scoble [...]

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The tech blogosphere rarely talks up infrastructure and other non-sexy technology, so all the attention to Amazon’s Dynamo is good to see. I am going to use the headline from Techcrunch to ruminate over what a WebOS means to me, if anything at all.

The office 2.0 space got crowded today with the news about Microsoft’s online office suite and Adobe’s acquisition of Buzzword and its release of Adobe Share. Techmeme is buzzing along with the news from Adobe and Microsoft. The online office space is pretty crowded now and it bodes well for consumers as competition drives innovation. [...]

Michael Arrington’s announcement of Google’s plans to offer up a new set of APIs on November 5 has opened up a firestorm of discussion on the web. Part of the discussion is around semantics, which gives me quite the chuckle. Who cares if it is a social network or a social graph (although I did [...]