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Nick Carr writes about a possible major strategic statement from Microsoft, one that would address an expansive and detailed strategy for moving its software business into the cloud. While this is only a rumor, I do not consider Nick to push anything he wouldn’t consider important or substantial, so there are some teeth here. [...]

I am pretty much assuming that the Microsoft/Yahoo deal will go through, much to my chagrin. The first question I had was, what about Yahoo’s open source projects. Much as I like Google, Yahoo has always been a super open source friendly company and has pioneered support for projects like Hadoop (the open [...]

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 [...]

Let’s hope that the video of me playing with a lite saber doesn’t pop up when someone clicks on the location of the Sharper Image store in San Diego. That, of course, is not why the news that Google is going to integrating geo-tagged YouTube videos with Google Earth is burning up the internets

Marshall had the scoop, and now it is official, Video Units are live, or at least have been announced (I still don’t see the option in my adsense setup). Definitely interested in trying out the ads and seeing how they might serve relevant material on a very niche set of topics.

One of the first places I stop every morning is Gabe Rivera’s Techmeme. Both the blogs I contribute to show up on there from time to time and I remember being quite thrilled the first time it happened. Last night, The Techmeme Leaderboard was unleashed upon us and even before its formal release [...]

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 [...]

It’s been talked about for a long time, but the (renamed) Google Docs is finally complete with the release of the presentation app.

TechCrunch is reporting that Yahoo has acquired the office suite Zimbra for $35MM in cash. If this news is confirmed, its huge. Yahoo is laying down the gauntlet here, to Microsoft, and especially to Google.
Is this a smart decision? Should Yahoo play Google’s game again? The web office space is still [...]

I am a big fan of SplashCast, and not just because the company is based a couple of hours down south in Portland. The company has been on a roll lately, beginning with participation in the launch of the Facebook platform earlier this year. Recently, SplashCast released a new and improved player [...]