2008年5月30日のブックマーク (12件)

  • DealBook - Blog

    A Walzonomics PrimerHere’s how business executives and donors are evaluating Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, especially on taxes, labor unions, energy policy and more. By Andrew Ross SorkinRavi MattuBernhard WarnerSarah KesslerMichael J. de la MercedLauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni How Google’s Antitrust Defeat Might Transform Big TechThe search giant is likely to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that it

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    Steven Davidoff on Mark Zuckerberg:"But if you haven’t covered these bases, remember that you are Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive and co-founder of Facebook, and that taking such overt actions would be unprecedented."
  • Google spotlights data center inner workings - CNET

    Culture Google spotlights data center inner workings The search company grew a little less secretive at its Google I/O show, describing some particulars of its mammoth infrastructure of software and hardware. SAN FRANCISCO--The inner workings of Google just became a little less secret. The search colossus has shed only occasional light on its data center operations, but on Wednesday, Google fellow

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    Stephen Shankland cites Larry Page:"but Google clearly believes its technological destiny is best left in its own hands. Co-founder Larry Page encourages a "healthy disrespect for the impossible" at Google, according to Marissa Mayer(...)in a speech Thursday."
  • A green tech bubble? -The Green Blog - A Boston Globe blog on living Green in Boston

    Email|Link|Comments (1) Posted by David Beard, Boston.com Staff May 27, 2008 12:10 PM By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff Amid concerns the planet is warming, the market for clean, green technology is beginning to show signs of overheating, too. more stories like this"I call it the global warming bubble," said Bob Metcalfe, who knows something about bubbles. An inventor of the ethernet and founder

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    David Beard cites:"John Doerr(...)was famously quoted saying the Internet spurred "the greatest legal creation of wealth in the history of the planet." More recently, he has said that "greentech" could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.""
  • Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Miasma computing

    « Silicon Death Valley | Main | Understanding Amazon Web Services » Miasma computing May 27, 2008 The metaphor of "the cloud" is a seductive one, but it's also dangerous. It not only suggests that our new utility-computing system is detached from the physical (and political) realities of our planet, but it also lends to that system an empyrean glow. The metaphor sustains and extends the old ideali

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    Nicholas Carr alerts:"The metaphor of "the cloud" seems to have been derived from those schematic drawings of corporate computing systems that use stylized images of clouds to represent the Internet - that vast, ill-defined digital mass that lies beyond the firewall."
  • WSJ Tech Live | October 21–23, 2024

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    John Paczkowski cites"What are the elements of a successful system? Walt asks. Gates: A rigorous curriculum, great teachers and great relationships with the kids–which means smaller learning communities. And you need bold change agents in the system itself. People who are willing to take risks."
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    Brian Lam cites Melinda Gates:"Melinda: We take this lesson from Microsoft: a long term approach. We're saving lives today, but we have a long horizon. Once we get an HIV vaccine, we'll try to distribute. Why not a 200 year perspective on helping the world?"
  • We're all guinea pigs in Google's search experiment - CNET

    Culture We're all guinea pigs in Google's search experiment Google tests slightly different versions of its search pages and carefully watches how users respond. Also: the minimalist search page began as an accident, not by design. SAN FRANCISCO--When it comes to search quality, Google has a split personality. Google uses a method called split A/B testing to measure exactly what changes it should

    We're all guinea pigs in Google's search experiment - CNET
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    Stephen Shankland cites Marissa Mayer:""We know 10 years out search will probably be a lot more personalized," she said. "And there will be a lot more content to index. When we think how to build search, it's important to think about the 10-year case.""
  • When Google disowns you | Software as Services | ZDNet.com

    Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley's blog covers the products, people and strategies that make Microsoft tick. Larry Dignan and other IT industry experts, blogging at the intersection of business and technology, deliver daily news and analysis on vital enterprise trends.

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    Mary Jo Foley cites Ray Ozzie:"But while Google is a “tremendously strong competitor,” Ozzie acknowledged, “open source was much more potentially disruptive” to Microsoft’s business. (He noted that, unlike Google, many open-source programmers aren’t beholden to shareholders.)"
  • Tech Insider - Business Insider

    Tech Insider Emails & Alerts Get the best of Business Insider delivered to your inbox every day. Sign-Up FREE Report from Business Insider Intelligence: The 5 Ways AI Will Change U.S. Healthcare

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    Peter Kafka cites Jeff Bezos:"Talk about S3: Going over basics of cloud computing. "We live in a weird, multi-era decade right now, and have been living in it for a while, where people build their own databases.""
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    John Paczkowski cites Jeff Bezos:"Bezos: We’re not that worried. “People loved their horses too,” he says, noting that you don’t keep riding your horse to work just because you love it. He adds that Amazon spent some time investigating those intangibles–smell, for example"
  • Amazon's Jeff Bezos: A passion for Kindle and digital content delivery - CNET

    Culture Amazon's Jeff Bezos: A passion for Kindle and digital content delivery Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos kicks off morning proceedings announcing a new streaming-video service and talking about the Kindle e-book reader. CARLSBAD, Calif.--Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos kicked off the morning proceedings here at D6 after a night of polite carousing by industry luminaries. During t

    Amazon's Jeff Bezos: A passion for Kindle and digital content delivery - CNET
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    Dan Farber cites Jeff Bezos:""You can't ever outbook the book, so you have to do things that you can't do with a book, such as in-stream dictionary lookup, changing fonts, and wireless delivery of content in 60 seconds," Bezos said. "We have to build something better than a physical book.""
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    Jonathan Richards cites: "Mr Yang, who reportedly played a round of golf with Microsoft's chief executive, Steve Ballmer, this week, said that Microsoft was "no longer interested" in buying Yahoo!, but that the two companies were "talking about other things". He declined to be drawn further."