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Tuesday, 26th June 2012

Google Plus: Ghost Town or Company Town in the Making?

Google Plus: Ghost Town or Company Town in the Making?

The Google Plus social network is often slammed as a virtual ghost town, bereft of people and meaningful interactiions. But what if Google Plus is starting its life a ghost town… only on purpose?

Social Brian Proffitt comments

Venture Funding

Menture Capital? Why Women-Led Startups Get Less Funding

Women are more social than men. There’s research to prove it. And there’s the anecdotal evidence. (How many men chat to the guy in the bathroom stall next door?) So women should do well in the pursuit of venture capital, which is at heart a networking game. But they don’t. Why?

Tim Devaney and Tom Stein comments

Spotify Radio Nudges Millions of Listeners Toward Paying for Music

Last week, Spotify made a big splash by launching an unexpected new feature. The company made Spotify Radio, a Pandora-style Internet radio service formerly for the desktop, available to mobile devices as well. Spotify Radio is notable not just because it's available on iOS, or because it could pose a challenge to Pandora. The big deal is…

Play John Paul Titlow comments

Facebook Email Change Suggests Shareholders Are More Important Than Users

In a frantic 48-hour stretch starting Saturday, Facebook leaked the news that it was testing a new app, faced the threat of a lawsuit by someone claiming the company had stolen the idea, and announced that it had shelved the project. Separately, the company also changed the listed email of all users to an…

Social Dave Copeland comments

Hadoop Needs Better Bridges to Fulfill the Big Data Promise

Hadoop is designed to store big data cheaply on a distributed file system across commodity servers. How you get that data there is your problem. And it’s a surprisingly critical issue because Hadoop isn’t a replacement for existing infrastructure, but rather a tool to augment data management and storage capabilities. Data, therefore, will be…

Enterprise Brian Proffitt comments

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