Churm Development - Tech News

Tech News
Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger
I'm a blogger who writes about, videos, and photographs the tech industry

Jive finishes up my enterprise disruption week This week I’ve touched base with Panorama Software, socialtext, and now with Jive Software. Jive continued the trend I discussed a couple of days ago about enterprise disruption. You are meeting quite a few of the companies that are disrupting the older players and trying to, as Jive’s CMO xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, said, open up a new social [...] Twitter War Israel and Gaza are going at it on Twitter (and in real life, as reported over on news site Memeorandum). Shel Israel reports. Tagged: gaza, Israel, Twitter Ballmer?s big moment Steve Jobs won’t be center stage this week. Chuq von Rospach, who used to work at Apple, wraps up what that means from an inside-the-Apple sphere. But there’s another first coming up next week: it’ll be the first CES without Bill Gates on stage. It is Steve Ballmer’s big moment. The lights will be all [...] JPG?s dead. Why your advertising-funded business could be next? JPG Magazine is dead. That’s a bummer because, as TechCrunch wrote this morning, it was a radical idea in publishing: one that used crowd-sourced data to serve the magazine’s readers. There were a few problems here: 1. They never got a large enough following to make a business viable. That’s because book stores are going away and [...] It?s a new year, have you backed up? We discuss backing up here. Have you backed up your data lately? Tagged: backup, hard drives, services, storage Twitter warning: your account data is being sold You iknow the spammer? Twply? Well, it’s worse than it seems. They now have your user name and password and are looking to sell your data to the highest bidder. Twitter needs a real third-party authentication system and it needs it now. Thanks to Mark Trapp and other friendfeeders for bringing this to my attention. Tagged: data, [...] Got a real-time ego problem? Get a room! Oh, be honest. You’ve searched for yourself on Google, right? That’s an ego search. Here’s mine. But doing ego searches today is far more complex than it was back in 1998 when I did my first Google ego search. Today you have to look at what people are saying about you on Twitter, I use Twitter Search for [...] The ?back to reality? CES and MacWorld 2009 is the year of reality. It’s the year when hype goes away (except for hype about Twitter). When many of us get back to the basics: health, happiness, fitness, family. We might still believe that the one who dies with the most toys wins, but only a few of us can afford that this year. [...] Twitter spam, effective or idiotic? This morning the replies kept crossing my screen. They look like this: Just started using http://twply.com/ to get my @replies via email. Neat stuff! Aaarrrrrggggghhhhh. To me this marks this company forever that it’s a spammer. I will never try this tool just because of this. It is why I am increasingly finding myself unwilling to put my [...] The story of 2009? Enterprise disruption? In addition to the interview I did yesterday with socialtext, which explores some of the disruption coming to enterprises, there’s another trend I’m tracking: the coming fight between the collaborative web and Microsoft. Now some pundits in the industry think that the fight will be head on. Not me. I think it’ll be more parasitic. Like [...] This is not a long, thoughtful, blog post It’s a link to the Gillmor Gang where Mike Arrington and Jason Calacanis tell me I’m doing this all wrong. If you were looking for a long, thoughtful, blog post, come back in a few minutes. Got something cooking that’s been cooking for a week. Oh, and happy new years! Tagged: Arrington, blogging, calacanis, Gillmor [...] The view of economy from Palo Alto?s socialtext Socialtext is one of those companies that got started during the last downturn and has played an important role in the valley’s startup culture for the past few years (they hosted the first BarCamp, for instance). So yesterday I went over to have a chat with founder Ross Mayfield and CEO Eugene Lee. We discussed [...] 20 ways to being a bigger friendfeed monster than Guy Kawasaki Guy Kawasaki is on friendfeed but you can be a lot better at it than he is. Just watch this video where I show you the 20 key features of friendfeed and how to use them to be an aggregating social media monster! Oh, and how do I know you can beat Guy? Because he has no [...] Thanks Mike Arrington for taking us off the rails into Twitter idiot land Yesterday Mike Arrington took us off the rails and into the idiot land. Listen, I’m as egotistical as the rest of them. I can say “follow me” along with the best of them. According to Loic Le Meur and Mike Arrington, founder of TechCrunch, I have more authority than either of them because I have more [...] The interview of the year: Tim O?Reilly How can you tell that someone I interview is good? My producer/editor Rocky Barbanica can’t cut much out of the interview (most interviews lately get edited to just their good parts, which usually means a 40-minute interview comes out to about 20 minutes or so). Not this one. Tim O’Reilly talks about web 2.0, foo camp, [...] 30 minutes at 12seconds.tv shows future of ?reality based? tech startups Welcome back after Christmas. Yesterday I visited Santa Cruz to shoot some surfers with Marc Silber, photographer, and to visit 12seconds.tv. At first glance 12seconds.tv is a lame idea. But, most of you thought the same thing about Twitter. So, that first impression should be thrown in the recycling bin along with all the torn up [...] Mike and Loic are wrong about Twitter search Bob Warfield has it all right: Loic Le Meur’s call for authority-based Twitter searches is all wrong. What is Loic’s idea? To let you do Twitter searches with results ranked according to number of followers. You’d think I’d be all over that idea, right? After all I have a lot more followers than Loic or Arrington has. But [...] The best gadget I stole in 2008 Maryam wanted a video camera. She asked her friends and they recommended the FlipCam. She thought it was safe from me. She got an ugly one (orange and white) just to make it very unlikely that I’d steal it. After all, if it isn’t an Apple product, or cool and black, it probably was safe [...] The best 2009 web development tool? I remember the good old days of 1994. Back when your only choice of developing a web site was doing it by hand. Remember typing HTML codes like <b> and <table> and making it all work? Or, if you didn’t know what those meant, you had to pay some developer $100+ an hour to do [...] Ahh, the echo chamber Ahhh, it’s always fun to look at the referrer log in WordPress and see who is linking to me and how much traffic they send me. Here’s mine from today. What are some trends here? Arrington rules. Techmeme is OK. Where’s the rest of the traffic? We are talking to ourselves. Mike. This is the real [...]

[ Back ]