Amazon Amazon Cloud Player Launches Update: Amazon has now launched the service described below, under the name Amazon Cloud Drive. Amazon is preparing a music locker service, a website where you'll be able to listen to music you've uploaded from your local collection (or otherwise proven you've bought) now streaming from any computer with a web browser. That according to a… Play Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
News Stripe Payment Platform & Data Portability A large number of entrepreneurs and investors are betting that the Internet is going to disrupt financial services just like it's disrupted so many other industries. Stripe is one of those, it's a stealthy startup aimed to make online payments super simple. It's being built by three Irishmen in Silicon Valley and has reportedly amassed a few… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Google Java Inventor Joins Other Founding Fathers at Google James Gosling, the man who founded programming language Java at Sun Microsystems, announced this morning on his blog that, "through some odd twists in the road over the past year...I find myself starting employment at Google today." If you haven't been following closely, the move is one that a non-fiction writer could only hope for to make reality… Mike Melanson View comments
Twitter Shorty Awards 2011 The third annual Shorty Awards are happening in New York City tonight and the event is a great way to learn about some of the most effective ways that people and companies are using Twitter. We've got a video player embedded below to watch the show and we've got one Twitter list of all the winners you can follow in one place, here: Shorty Awards… Social Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Networking OpenFlow: The NoSQL of Network Protocols In the early 1960s, Paul Baran invented packet switching. Packet switching became the foundation ARPANET, which later gave way to the Internet. Baran died at the age of 84 last Saturday. But packet switching lives on after all these years as the primary foundation of computer networking. But just as chips, databases and programming languages… Enterprise Klint Finley View comments