Submitted by Louisgray
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The party’s in full swing today on Google Chrome OS bashing – it seems that the blogosphere took cues from Steven Hodson yesterday, and multiple bloggers are attempting to advance the theory that Chrome OS is going to fail, and fail hard.Randall Kennedy has a long screed on why Google Chrome OS will fail at Infoworld. Not (Read More)
Scobleizer:
Today InfoWorld’s Randall Kennedy says that Google’s Chrome OS will fail.What he is missing is he’s looking at the wrong field.Google is playing a different game. Google Chrome OS is NOT about killing Microsoft or Apple.What is it about? Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers.See, what happens if the wor (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Seesmic is having a huge week. The startup that develops Twitter and Facebook clients for the web and desktop just unveiled a native Windows client at Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference earlier this week. At the Real-Time CrunchUp today, Seesmic is launching its first venture into the mobile space with impressive (Read More)
All about Microsoft:
I'm not one of those ready to write Windows an RIP certificate now that Google has finally taken (some of) the wraps off its Chrome OS. In fact, after reading through industry watchers' questions and Google's answers about it, I'm thinking that Chrome OS may not look quite so appealing by the time it rolls out in late 2010. (Read More)
Submitted by Ferringer
from Google Reader:
SharePoint Server 2010 can be installed on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. You can find installation steps for different OSes on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869(office.14).aspx . So is there any difference between these OSes when you want to play with SharePoi (Read More)
Submitted by Logicalextremes
from Google Reader:
There are mistakes and there are mistakes. Some mistakes we learn from. For example: Thinking that selling toys for pets on the Web is a great way to get rich. We're not going to do that again. Other mistakes we insist on making over and over. For example, thinking that: (Read More)
Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
The Enterprise Cloud Summit panel at the Interop Conference yesterday discussed some of the challenges and concerns of large enterprises and government agencies in moving their applications to the cloud. While there are some regulatory and compliance concerns for some applications, it isn’t an all or nothing proposition. Mo (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Opening our RealTime CrunchUp event today in San Francisco is Twitter COO Dick Costolo. Our own Michael Arrington and Steve Gillmor are sitting down with Costolo for a 30 minute conversation.Twitter is one of the hottest players in the realtime field right now. And it has a $1 billion valuation, which has been the source of (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
EA may be cutting 1,500 people, but there seem to be plenty of jobs at Microsoft for Natal and other projects.Continue reading »Join the conversation about this story »See Also:AIDS Vaccine Beat Out By Xbox Natal In Time's "Best Inventions of 2009" (MSFT)Xbox's Natal To Launch With 5 Million Units, 14 Games* (MSFT, NTDOY)So (Read More)
Submitted by Ferringer
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James Avery and I have just launched a new site, Tekpub.com, that is focused on helping developers kick ass in their jobs. There have been a lot of questions about this after our “soft” launch yesterday, so I thought I would address them here. What is it you do again? Screencasts – or more precisely “Video Productions” – (Read More)
TechCrunch:
At our RealTime CrunchUp event today in San Francisco, the first roundtable is entitled “Filtering the Stream: Getting Rid of the Noise.”The panel is populated by a lot of big players in the space: Facebook, VP of Product Chris Cox, Google, Google Fellow, Amit Singhal, Seesmic, CEO Loic Le Meur, Futurity Ventures, investor/ (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Update 3: Now we're getting there. We just had a nice chat with a Googler about how Microsoft has a NIH mentality (Not Invented Here), while Google is still doing things like Google Wave.Read the rest of this story »See Also:My Google Interviewer Didn't Know How To Answer His Own Questions! (GOOG)Google New York's Trendy Ne (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo must keep its share of search above 11% for the next three years, otherwise the Microsoft deal won't add additional profits, says Doug Anmuth of Barcalys.His key points from the a report he released this week: The Microsoft partnership would still generate incremental EBITDA for Yahoo! (vs. not having the deal) down t (Read More)
Mashable!:
Google stole the tech and media spotlight today as it revealed a mountain of new details about Chrome OS, the company’s new operating system due in late 2010. It is a completely different type of OS (we provide a summary of how) that eliminates the desktop and focuses on getting you on the web quickly and efficiently. Now (Read More)