Who’s hot…who’s not…2.0

Check out the popularity of your favorite site Alexa style, in this handy list.

Seth Godin’s Web 2.0 Traffic Watch List on Statsaholic.com

There are literally thousands of “web 2.0″ companies, and until now, there’s been no easy way to compare which ones are getting traffic.

Published in: on July 18, 2007 at 8:41 pm Comments (0)

Ubuntu takes on Corporate Staff Computing Strategies

One of the big stumbling blocks to having the Enterprise standardize on Linux for staff computing is the laptop problem.  The cost of supporting users that expect a MacBook experience but are dealing with a laptop that blends Linux, hardware, and drivers from three non-cooperating vendors is too high compared to the well known costs and problems of Windows. 

In this article, Mark Shuttleworth takes a stab at defining the requirements and the market for a Linux laptop that “just works”.

Willing to buy a high-end, free-software-only laptop?

Right now, software freedom isn’t a huge priority for most of the companies that make up components for the PC and laptop industry. If we want to get onto their radar screen, we need to show that its worth their while to think about it. To that end I’d like to build up a list of people who are interested in this idea, and would potentially buy a high-powered laptop if it were guaranteed to work completely with free software drivers and OpenBIOS.

Published in: on July 13, 2007 at 2:34 pm Comments (0)

Pass the Linux flavoring, please

Yep.  Must be getting tough to find fresh employees that know how to use OpenWindows and pkgadd.

Sun OpenSolaris to become more ‘Linux-like’

Analysts familiar with Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Project Indiana say that as early as this week the company could reveal plans to revamp the OpenSolaris operating system by incorporating key pieces of Linux software.

Published in: on July 12, 2007 at 9:46 pm Comments (0)

Google begins to integrate Blogger and FeedBurner

Redirect Your Blogger Feed to FeedBurner

now you can simply go to Settings > Site Feed > Post Feed Redirect URL and add the address of your FeedBurner feed.

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Legg Mason gets into SNS

See our previous post on Ning…

blog.pmarca.com: Ning news: new investment round

To these ends, we recently closed our first outside investment round — our so-called “Series C” — with a top-notch group of institutional investors. The round was orchestrated by our friends at Allen and Company in New York. We raised $44 million. The round was led by Legg Mason with a number of other investors participating, including me.

Published in: on July 11, 2007 at 1:34 pm Comments (0)

Google does that Robin Hood thing again.

Google grabbed up FeedBurner about a month ago and just opened up the pay service to everyone for free.  Feed Analytics, here I come!

Published in: on July 5, 2007 at 7:23 pm Comments (0)

Google, Apple, the iPhone and Everything

So here is an article by Peter Nowak that outs Google as a nascent telecom behemoth. 

One thing I tend to disagree with is Nowak’s suggestion that by comparison to Google’s master plan the iPhone is a tinkertoy. 

Read Nowak’s article, then follow up by reading the recent article by Cringely.  Put the two together and what do you have?

“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”

Google: You ain’t seen nothin’ yet

Search engine giant Google Inc. has been putting together a massive cable network to provide customers around the world with telecommunications services ranging from broadband Internet to home and mobile phones.

I, Cringely . The Pulpit . The Google Connection | PBS

Safari for Windows is part of a PLATFORM in the same sense that iTunes is part of the iPod platform or vice versa. In this case the platform in question is the iPhone and an as-yet unmentioned partner in that platform is Google.

Published in: on July 3, 2007 at 2:45 pm Comments (1)