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Wednesday, 21st July 2010

Interview With Tim O'Reilly on Reasons to Give up Some Privacy

This Spring, Tim O'Reilly was surprised to find himself defending Facebook's changes to its privacy policy. "There's enormous advantage for users in giving up some privacy online and [so] we need to be exploring the boundary conditions," the founder of O'Reilly Media and international technology thought leader wrote. "It's easy to say that this…

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Tips for a Startup Infographic

Infographics have become fairly ubiquitous, illustrating more and more news stories, presentations, advertisements. Their popularity is no surprise, perhaps, as we look for new ways to visualize and understand the vast amounts of data we're presented. Infographics can make information more accessible, more enjoyable, and easier to…

Audrey Watters comments

High Costs Keeping Software Startups from Filing Patents

It seems that every week we hear about another patent lawsuit between tech companies claiming the exclusive rights to various technologies and methods. With large corporations like Apple, Google and Microsoft frequently defending patents in court, smaller companies may get the idea that patents are the best way to protect intellectual property. A…

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Jive Gets $30 Million and the Market Sees a Glimpse of What's to Come

In preparation for what looks like an IPO, Jive Software announced yesterday it had raised $30 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. It's a funding story of relative significance that documents one company's rise to prominence and a venture capital firm's growing commitment to the social enterprise and cloud computing space. The Jive…

Enterprise Alex Williams comments

Weekly Poll: What is the Buzz at OSCON and Online About the Open Cloud?

The open cloud is dominating discussions that we are having with people at OSCON. And over the past week, that conversation online has accelerated as the conference approached. Open cloud computing is a big topic. At a granular level, we are hearing lots of talk about the rise of "DevOps," and "NoSQL". Topics like open government, APIs and…

Alex Williams comments

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