Cloud Computing Eucalyptus and Amazon - A Twist Forms in the Open Cloud In the past few days we have seen two new initiatives that involve companies known for their open-source roots. Red Hat announced it is open-sourcing its Deltacloud API. Eucalyptus is teaming with New Scale, rPath and MomentumSI to provide a self-serve cloud deployment service. Earlier this summer, Rackspace open-sourced its cloud… Alex Williams View comments
Multimedia Blockbuster's Bankruptcy Could Be the Beginning of the End for DVDs For as long as I can remember, Blockbuster Video has been the nation-wide go-to spot to rent movies. Some of my earliest movie experiences as a child involved movies my family rented from Blockbuster. When the popularity of online music downloads began shuttering music stores, the world realized that Blockbuster's days were similarly numbered… Play Chris Cameron View comments
International Blogging the Holy Land: Crying in the Wilderness, Chatting in Cafes The journalistic promise of social media was to connect directly with the people who live the news that others only report. That is, the teachers, cops, soldiers, mothers, philologists, farmers and accountants who recorded their personal experiences - what they saw and what they felt. Instead, the bulk of social media that "reports" the news… Curt Hopkins View comments
mobile RIP Breaking News Online App: You Were the Best Way to Get News Fast One year ago this month, the best iPhone app for finding out what's happening around the world, fast, launched to the public. Breaking News Online (BNO), the incredible team lead by Dutch then-teenager Michael van Poppel and funded by revenue from van Poppel's bizzarre sale of an Osama Bin Laden video to mainstream media outlets, built the… Mobile Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
News Digg Responds to User Outrage: Upcoming Stories Will Return Digg has had one heck of a week. On Wednesday the social news aggregator decided it was a good time to make the switch to version 4 of its platform, which sent servers crashing and drove users bonkers. That was followed with overwhelming outrage over the buggy and feature-stripped new site, and today loyal Digg users spammed the site pleading for… Chris Cameron View comments