IBM's Julia Grace on social media shifts and why 3-D and data are made for each other.
by Mac Slocum
| @macslocum
| 1 September 2010
IBM researcher and Web 2.0 Expo speaker Julia Grace spends her days digging into data. Her tools are a little unusual, though. Instead of spreadsheets and bar graphs, she uses visualizations and a seven-foot-tall, three-dimensional globe. Grace discusses life with a giant globe and explores her recent findings in this Q&A.;
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by Ben Lorica
| @dliman
| 31 August 2010
Measured in terms of (U.S.) job postings, Amazon's Cloud Computing platform is still larger than Google's App Engine. What's interesting is that the gap has closed over the past year.
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Internet companies are jockeying for positions that will benefit them for years to come.
by Tim O'Reilly
| @timoreilly
| 31 August 2010
In our planning for this year's
Web 2.0 Summit, John Battelle and I have expanded on the metaphor of "the Great Game," as we explore the many ways Internet companies at all levels of the stack are looking for
points of control that will give them competitive advantage in the years to come.
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Two recent ads contradict common attitudes and hint at something bigger.
by Mac Slocum
| @macslocum
| 31 August 2010
Grand and bold declarations about the demise of online advertising -- and the web itself -- get all the attention. But two recent ads serve as countermeasures to the gloom: hackers are calibrating online advertising to serve their own specific needs.
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by Andy Oram
| @praxagora
| 30 August 2010
Network neutrality confuses a lot of laypeople because of all the different levels on which it's being argued and the opposing ways language is used by different
participants. Andy Oram takes a look at the loaded words in the net neutrality debate.
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The big-bet model works on occasion in Silicon Valley, but it seldom works elsewhere.
by Dale Dougherty
| @dalepd
| 30 August 2010
The big-bet venture capital model works on occasion in Silicon Valley, but it seldom works elsewhere. Dale Dougherty mulls the trajectory of non-VC startups: the small firms that don't need an exit strategy because the business creates its own type of fulfillment.
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