More proof that the virtual goods business continues to do well: Linden Lab is forecasting that users will conduct about $450 million dollars worth of virtual transactions in Second Life this year, up 28 percent from 2008. The company also surveyed more than 2,600 of its virtual business owners, including landlords, event promoters and retailers, [...]
Baidu, which already controls 64 percent of the search market in China, is now targeting senior citizens. Last month, the search engine launched a specialty site, “Baidu elderly search,” which boasts bigger font sizes as well as links on its home page to sites that older people might like, such as a classical Chinese poetry [...]
unr3a1 writes to tell us that Time Warner Cable has responded to the massive criticism of its new plan to cap user bandwidth with a new pricing model. Users will be given a grace period in which to assess their pricing tier. The “overages” will be noted on their bill, allowing them to change either [...]
One deal announcement that slipped past us last week: Enterprise wiki company SocialText raised $4.5 million in a fourth round from investors including Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Omidyar Networks and University Venture Fund. SocialText, which has expanded into enterprise social networking and microblogging, said it was “seeing our new and existing customers sizes continue to increase.” [...]
waderoush writes “At the CHI 2009 conference, which wrapped up yesterday in Boston, Microsoft researchers showed off two radical prototypes that push the boundaries of user interfaces. One was a ‘pseudo-transparent’ iPhone-like device called nanoTouch, which has a trackpad on the back rather than a traditional touch screen and gives visual feedback in the form [...]
I was presenting to a full house at the Pentaho Partner summit yesterday talking about open source’s inflection point. Over the last nine to twelve months, we’ve seen a change happening, what I call the perfect storm for open source:
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With rumors of an impending Sun-IBM merger becoming more intense late last week, the next big question mark pertains to what happens to Sun’s vast product line, which has hardware and software that overlaps with a lot of IBM’s own product lines.
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The New York Times had an interesting interview with eBay CEO John Donahoe where he talks about managing people.
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Red Hat’s CEO, in a blog post on Monday, is endorsing the Obama Administration’s call for openness and participation in government by likening the President’s statement to the open source software movement.
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Zend’s CEO makes a claim that PHP is disrupting Java. Not only would I beg to differ, I think the use of Java and PHP (and other dynamic scripting languages) together is much more interesting to customers than an “either/or” discussion.
Dave interviewed Zend’s CEO Andi Gutmans. I particularly found this part of the interview interesting:
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