News Google Stock Mania Continues - $700/share Google's stock price broke $700 for the first time today, reaching as high as $704.79 in morning trading. That means it has taken Google under a month to go from $600 per share to a staggering $700 share price. Since mid-September Google has added 30% to its stock price and an additional $53 billion to its market capitalization -- or about one… Josh Catone View comments
News The Industry Standard Plans Comeback; Bubble Prognosticators Giddy Dot-com era tech business magazine "The Industry Standard" will be making a triumphant return in the form of a blog and community site in December, reports Reuters. Founded in San Francisco in 1998, the weekly tech magazine touted itself as the "the newsmagazine of the Internet Economy," until its own bubble burst in 2001 and it was shut down by… Josh Catone View comments
Analysis Amazon Dynamo: The Next Generation Of Virtual Distributed Storage A few weeks ago, Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon, published a long technical paper on his blog about Amazon's highly available storage system called Dynamo. The paper itself is quite complex and technical and includes a description of the architecture, algorithms and tests that Amazon has been doing with the system. Yet, even from a casual… Alex Iskold View comments
Google Google OpenSocial: The Third Place Techcrunch has sniffed out details on Google's new social network project, named OpenSocial (set to go live Thur US). OpenSocial is not a social network itself, rather it is a set of three common APIs that allow developers to access the following core functions and information at social networks: Profile Information (user data) Friends… Social Richard MacManus View comments
web EFF et al. to Call for Do-Not-Track List The Electronic Frontier Foundation and a number of other organizations will hold a press conference tomorrow calling for the creation of a national "Do-Not-Track" list, according to a report today in AdvertisingAge. While on face the creation of a method of opting-out of browser history and other tracking seems reasonable, as Steve Rubel points… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments