NYT Hulu: Ugly Duckling No More It's hard to believe that it's been a year since Hulu - the joint online video venture between NBC Universal and News Corp. - began streaming content. Its initial reception, after months of anticipation and a good helping of ridicule, was less than warm. Old media companies trying to take on YouTube? Were they serious? Clearly, they were. Fast… Rick Turoczy View comments
enterprise The New Stack: SaaS, Cloud Computing, Core Technology During the PC era, the technology stack was controlled by Microsoft Windows and Wintel - the "Wintel" era. We are now entering a new era, called variously 'Cloud' or 'SaaS' or 'Enterprise 2.0'. In this era everything is different - the stack, the players and the potential for value creation. Let's outline the basic shape of this emerging era… Bernard Lunn View comments
Events Guide Win a Free Ticket to NewTeeVee Live Our friends at Gigaom are running the second annual NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco on November 13, 2008. It's an event focused on the online video arena and we have one free ticket to giveaway. To be in to win, all you need to do is leave a comment here telling us what your current favorite online tv or movie service is - and why. Is it… Richard MacManus View comments
International Flickr: Public vs. Private Around the World, A Map Guess which US state has Flickr users most likely to post their photos with privacy restrictions turned on? Utah. Think you can guess relative emphasis put on privacy by Flickr users in South America vs. South East Asia? How about Hawaii vs. Alaska? (That one might surprise you!) I'm here at a small meeting of the Yahoo Product Advisory… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Google Google is Now an OpenID Provider This is turning out to be quite a good week for OpenID, an increasingly popular mechanism for creating and managing a single identity across the Internet. On Monday, Microsoft announced that it would give every Windows Live user an OpenID account, and today, Google announced a very similar plan. Google will allow web services to join a limited… Frederic Lardinois View comments