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I explained yesterday how the Obama campaign utilized data integration techniques to realize a distinct advantage in targeting voters. However, all that data wouldn’t have meant anything without the technologies to process it and disseminate it. Obama’s team excelled here, too, utilizing the latest technological advances and trends to do on the cheap what, just [...]
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When times are tough, bad bosses lash out. After John Soden III, a managing director at Thomas Weisel Partners in San Francisco, sent a hectoring email ordering employees into the office, his...
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The problem with Google's movement towards becoming more of a social entity is that it lacks one cohesive place to tie everything together. YouTube has social elements, Picasa has social elements, even Google Maps has social elements, but Google lacks this singular area -- like a Facebook profile page -- where all of this information can reside and be easily seen. But actually, it has such an area, Google Profiles -- but no one really seems to talk about it, because it hasn't been terribly...
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SoundCloud, an audio sharing site geared towards music professionals, has closed a ?2.5 million (around $3.3 million) funding round led by Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures. As part of the deal, Stefan Tirtey of Doughty Hanson will join the company's board of directors.
We last covered SoundCloud in October, when the site launched in a private beta. Since then it has opened to the public, and now claims 100,000 registered members. The site's primary function is to help musicians,...
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"Do you know how big we are? Do you know what CNN is?!" Them fightin' words -- from longtime CNN host Larry King to Ashton Kutcher. King sent out the YouTube video (below) responding to the challenge Kutcher laid out yesterday to beat CNN to become the first Twitter user with a million followers.
So far, it's not working all that well for Kutcher. He is gaining followers at a remarkable rate -- he now has over 870,000 followers -- yesterday he had under 850,000. But CNN is gaining them just as...
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ComScore released its search market share numbers tonight for March, 2009 and the first quarter. After a dip in February, the number of searches done in the U.S. on Google and the other top search engines recovered in March. ComScore estimates there were 9.125 billion searches done on Google last month, up 11 percent from February. That growth outpaced the growth at the other search engines (Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, and Ask), resulting in Google gaining half a percentage point in market share...
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One thing is for certain - the six month old MySpace Music project is throwing off a lot of cash to the labels. That's because MySpace's 75 million or so U.S. users are streaming literally billions of songs a month at various streaming rates ranging as high as half a cent per play (although most streams are likely much less).
Labels are known to give streaming rates as low as half a cent per song play, and journalists have tried repeatedly to understand the rates that MySpace is paying since...
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This a Guest Post by Mary Hodder, founder of Dabble.com, a social video search site and blogger for Napsterization. Hodder is a veteran Silicon Valley technologist and was most recently VP of Products at Apisiphere, a geolocation mobile company building an enterprise platform for mobile developers. This post is in response to the Amazon's removal of sales rankings on a number of gay- and lesbian-themed books due to a glitch.
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The promise of cloud computing has come not only to web startups seeking cheap storage for photos or a way to handle a viral hit without owning a data center, but to big industry, thanks to Tata and folks using Amazon to offer supercomputing as a service. John West over at HPCWire pointed me to [...]
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It was in a conversation with Skype CEO Josh Silverman, I raised the question: when will eBay spin-off the mammoth Internet calling service via a public offering. Of course, he didn’t answer the questionThe answer to that question came today when eBay CEO John Donhaoe announced that Skype will have an IPO, sometime in 2010. [...]
