Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 01 2009 | From Google Reader
Quoted: Software, Biotech, acquisitions Luke Timmerman wrote: Microsoft could be safely ignored on the biotech beat for years, but not anymore. The Redmond, WA-based software powerhouse, in another move to beef up its stake in the life sciences software business, said today it is acquiring the Seattle-based assets of Rosetta Biosoftware from Merck. Financial
Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 01 2009 | From Google Reader
Quoted: Without a doubt, the product that has the entire web buzzing right now is Google Wave, the search giant’s newly announced communication platform. Earlier this week, we brought you detailed information on the new Google product in our article Google Wave: A Complete Guide, but now we want to explore exactly why everyone is so excited about Google Wave.
Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - May 30 2009 | From Google Reader
Quoted: Amidst all of the coverage of Google Wave this week, I have not seen mention of its significance for software application distribution. In short, waves come with optional code content (like attachments) that run inline with the user’s approval. The first time a user sees an extension or robot connected to a wave, they “install” or grant access to the
Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - May 29 2009 | From Google Reader
Quoted: SourceForge, the public company whose properties include code repository SourceForge.net and tech news site Slashdot, announced today that it’s acquiring Ohloh, a community and database for open source programmers. This is SourceForge’s first acquisition since 2000. Bellevue, Wash.-based Ohloh says it has compiled the world’s largest directory of open
Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - May 29 2009 | From Google Reader
Quoted: Has Google, with its latest project, Google Wave, actually come up with the Next Big Thing in online communication, or is it yet another Googler vanity exercise? Wave is a combination of email, instant messaging and a real-time wiki — plus open architecture and APIs. Or as creators Lars and Jens Rasmussen and Stephanie Hannon put it, “what email would
Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - May 27 2009 | From Google Reader
Quoted: What are you doing? How about now? Has anything changed yet since you started reading this blog post? Every story has a who, a what, a where, when, and why - but the event-driven nature of the social Web may be putting such a premium on broadcasting about what we're doing, that software designed to help us answer important questions like who and why
Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - May 27 2009 | From Google Reader
Quoted: Intellectual Ventures founder Nathan Myhrvold took U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell and other bigwigs on a tour of his shiny new invention lab in Bellevue today. Housed in a former Harley Davidson service center, the nondescript warehouse boasts an an eclectic array of industrial and scientific equipment, a closet full of mosquitoes, even a tricked-out restaurant-style
Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - May 25 2009 | From Google Reader
Quoted: Last year we called on Google to let users have the option of making Google Analytics data public. Today they’ve done that, in a fashion. They aren’t aggregating the data into a public site (although adding it to Google Trends over time would make sense). But they are allowing websites to access the data via an API and publish it to the web or in applications.
Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - May 23 2009 | From Google Reader
Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - May 22 2009 | From Google Reader
Quoted: TC notes the extraordinary growth Twitter has seen since its initial inflection. This is a growth pattern I have never seen in terms of speed - not in the nearly 25 years I've been watching this industry. I think this is both Twitter's most important and dangerous phase of its young life. The retention problem must be addressed, and quickly. In my previous
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