People in Tech Baratunde Thurston on Content Curation, Real-Time Search, and "Analytics Porn" In New York City, on the 16th floor of the Roger Smith Hotel, we caught up with social media superhero Baratunde Thurston, web editor for The Onion. Thurston started getting into this whole "Internet" thing in simpler times when the social web was called Usenet. He now carves out his niche at the overlap of the Venn diagram of comedy, politics… Jolie O'Dell View comments
Cloud Computing 3Tera to Support AppLogic with New AppStore, Now Seeking Cloudware Vendors 3Tera, a California-based cloud computing company, today announced the upcoming launch of their AppStore, a marketplace for cloud components where users can find production-ready, scalable components on a free, trial, or pay-per-use basis. AppLogic, as we wrote in 2006, "allows Web companies to manage - and scale - all their applications… Jolie O'Dell View comments
mobile Why is Apple Rejecting PhoneGap-Built iPhone Apps? PhoneGap is a very interesting development platform for mobile applications that lets developers build apps that work for multiple devices, including the iPhone, using only HTML and Javascript. That means far more people are able to develop mobile applications. Recently, though, Apple has been rejecting an unusual number of apps built with… Mobile Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Amazon Amazon Launches New Features For Elastic Compute Cloud: Scaling, Monitoring, and Traffic Distribution Amazon Web Services today announced the public beta of new features for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The new features purport to allow for simple and automatic monitoring, scaling, and traffic control using cloud resources. "Monitoring cloud assets, scaling capacity automatically, and balancing traffic efficiently have been among… Jolie O'Dell View comments
Events Guide Twiistup Calls for Startups to "Show Off" at July 30-31 Event Twiistup, the explosive SoCal event that was recently bought by a secret investor, has announced its call for "Showoff" entries. Ten slots are available in the New Tech-esque startup presentation before a horde of tech investors, entrepreneurs, and media types - including L.A.'s monied entertainment set. The showcase will take place on Thursday and… Jolie O'Dell View comments