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Recently, Bryan Richard and Tim O’Reilly proclaimed that GPL has no future in this networked world where software is to be delivered as a service. You can also read Tim’s previous post on the topic here. I am not comfortable with their postions. The software as a service is at very early stages and it [...]

The success of Facebook is well known to most people. But Facebook is not the only social networking service that has been seeing bright times in recent days. Ning, a social networking company started by Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini announced Series C funding of $44 million.

Aditya Agarwal asks an interesting question and then answers it in the context of Facebook. The answer in this case is yes, and the logic behind it is pretty good. In his own words ” … searches carried out on Facebook had a particular structure that only we could understand and optimize for.” [...]

I’ve been using Pownce for a few days now and Twitter for some time (after resisting for a very long time). I am still trying to understand whether Pownce will succeed or not. After all Twitter has critical mass, Evan Williams, and a loyal fan following. On the other hand, the first [...]

Over the past week, I have been playing with kyte.tv, which could be labeled as a personal video publishing platform. How do the folks at kyte describe their efforts?

As recently as six months ago, I barely consumed any internet video, with the exception of tech talks on Google Video. What a difference six months makes. Today I watch at least some video every day, usually news sites like Beet.tv or some form of science/technology discussion (most of which I capture via [...]

According to Mike Arrington, Google has acquired GrandCentral. You can follow the blogosphere buzz on this news here. In my opinion, this is a smart move by Google. Google has been pushing its Gtalk application for a long time. They integrated Gtalk with Gmail sometime back and, recently, they also created a Gtalk gadget. In [...]

The rumor mill is busy spinning out various merger/acquisition options for Yahoo. Starting with Microsoft’s takeover of Yahoo to Yahoo’s discussions with Facebook to News Corp’s attempt to control Yahoo by throwing the bait of Myspace to Yahoo-Ebay merger. Some of them are good for Yahoo while others are bad in the long term perspective. [...]

In the recent Desktop Architect Meeting 4 (DAM 4), Google gave enough hints about their plans on releasing more apps for Linux. Google has already made its Google Picasa software and Google Earth available for Linux users. Even though Google was not explicit about their forthcoming Linux apps, we could speculate on various possibilities.