by Luchi on October 16, 2012
in Business, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Facebook, IT, Security, Storage, Technology, Trends
The One Lesson The Cloud Needs To Learn From Facebook People, websites, talk shows, and even doctors discuss more about a Facebook epidemic than they are talking about an obesity epidemic. In fact, the massive amount of time that young people spend checking their status updates is not only the latest Hollywood fad, but also a reflection of the new level of online social interaction that Mark Zuckerberg has managed to create. You don’t need to be a psychology or sociology major to know how he managed to bring together so many people. What he did was to use the
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Top Tech Startups Emerge from Summer Expo at Plug and Play Competition is fierce in the tech startup space yet few venues showcase new talent quite like Plug and Play’s quarterly EXPO. Last Thursday, over 500 attendees poured into Plug and Play Tech Center’s Sunnyvale headquarters to watch new tech startups compete. The event also featured a VC Panel with Ajay Agarwal, Jim Barnett, Kamran Elahian and Sumeet Jain. Robert Goldberg of Zynga gave the keynote and VIP judges hailed from companies like Adobe, Cisco, GoDaddy.com, Honda, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, Warner Brothers and Yahoo!. “Imagine what American Idol would
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Cloud Computing Will Produce the Next Mark Zuckerberg The next king or queen of science and technology will come from the cloud, I predict. Budding geniuses wanting to make a name for themselves must master cloud computing. Naysayers wag their fingers with conservative statements like “the cloud is far too new to generate history-making change. Not just yet.” My opinion? Fooey. Cloud computing is new but not nascent. It’s an open frontier just waiting for a brazen cowboy to stand up as sheriff. I doubt we’ll all be moving from Facebook to “Cloud”-Book anytime soon. Yet ignoring the potential for
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Steve Jobs “may never be equaled Passionate, prickly, and deemed irreplaceable by many Apple fans and investors, Steve Jobs made a life defying conventions and expectations. And despite years of poor health, his death on Wednesday at the age of 56 prompted a global gasp as many people remembered how much he had done to transform the worlds of computing, music and mobile phones, changing the way people communicate and access information and entertainment. “The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come,”
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by cloudtweaks on January 7, 2011
in Apps, Awards, Cloud Computing, Computing, Invest, ipad, IT, Lists, News, SaaS, Social networks, Startups, Stocks, Storage
Best New Cloud Start Ups The Annual Crunchie awards is hosted and put together by TechCrunch, GigaOm, and VentureBeat. Listed are the finalists in each category Best Internet Application ChartBeat Greplin Pandora Rdio Ujam Best Social App Cityville Dailybooth Foursquare GroupMe Twitter Best Social Commerce App Blippy Groupon Jetsetter LivingSocial One King’s Lane ShopKick Best Mobile App Bump Chomp Google Mobile Maps for Android Hashable Instagram Best Location Based Service Facebook Places Foursquare Gowalla SimpleGeo Uber Best New Device Boxee Box Google Chrome Notebook iPad iPhone 4 Kno Xbox Kinect Best Technology Achievement Blekko Google Self-driving cars Hunch Palantir Qwiki
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