2008-10-01から1ヶ月間の記事一覧

サヴァイヴするために、ネット・スタートアップはぜい肉を削ぎ落とす(2)

<前編 To Survive, Net Start-Ups Slow Their Metabolism - NYTimes.com (October 26, 2008 By BRAD STONE and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER) Lala, a music site based in Palo Alto, Calif., has scrapped two music services and recently began a third site in …

サヴァイヴするために、ネット・スタートアップはぜい肉を削ぎ落とす

To Survive, Net Start-Ups Slow Their Metabolism - NYTimes.com (October 26, 2008 By BRAD STONE and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER) SAN FRANCISCO ― Silicon Valley has always been a land of big, bold dreams. In the first Internet boom its start-ups eithe…

ウィンドウズ・アジュア: マイクロソフトがクラウドをメインストリームにする

Windows Azure: Microsoft mainstreams the cloud | Software as Services | ZDNet.com (October 27th, 2008 Posted by Phil Wainewright @ 4:22 pm) Two years ago, Microsoft boosted the fortunes of on-demand vendors everywhere when it announced the…

フレッド・ウィルソン: 次にわたしたちが見つけ出すもの

Fred Wilson: What To Look For Next (October 7, 2008 7:25 AM Fred Wilson) The Treasury, the Fed, and Warren Buffet have been the only buyers in this meltdown and have been largely focused on financial companies. Meanwhile the rest of the ma…

小型ヴェンチャ・カンパニーが不景気でもカネを積む

Small venture company bucks the economic winds (October 26, 2008 Deborah Gage) In January of last year Doug Renert and two partners started what they thought would be a recession-proof business - Tandem Entrepreneurs, a company with a rela…

小型ヴェンチャ・カンパニーが不景気でもカネを積む

Small venture company bucks the economic winds (October 26, 2008 Deborah Gage) Despite the tough economy, Tandem has been able to stick to its business model, Renert said, "and it's not because we anticipated a downturn. It's more because …

ヤフーのジェリー・ヤンとのインタヴュー、その2: 買収提案、カール・アイカーン、リーダーシップについて

An Interview With Yahoo’s Jerry Yang, Part 2: On Opportunities, Carl Icahn and Leadership | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (5:00 PM PT on October 23, 2008 Kara Swisher) BoomTown was a squeaky enough wheel to get Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang …

ヤフーのジェリー・ヤンとのインタヴュー、その1: エコナリプスの影響、ほか

An Interview With Yahoo’s Jerry Yang, Part 1: The Econalypse’s Impact and More | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (11:51 AM PT on October 23, 2008 Kara Swisher) BoomTown was a squeaky enough wheel to get Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang to grant a…

ヤフー、軟調な見通しを予測、だが「楽観視しつづける」(ブームタウンはそれほどでもない)

Yahoo Predicts Weaker Results Going Forward, but “Remains Optimistic” (BoomTown Less So) | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (2:27 PM PT on October 21, 2008 Kara Swisher) Weaker results? Check. 軟調な結果? チェック。 Guidance going forw…

ヤフー決算: (あまり)期待できないときに期待すること

Yahoo Earnings: What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting (Much) | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (6:55 AM PT on October 21, 2008 Kara Swisher) Here’s a bright spot in Yahoo’s third-quarter earnings announcement later today: Sources t…

サーチミーのランディ・アダムズとの質疑応答、人員削減と生き残りについて

Q&A with SearchMe’s Randy Adams, on making cuts and surviving » VentureBeat (October 17th, 2008 ERIC ELDON) Earlier today, we reported that visual search engine startup SearchMe had laid off 20 percent of its workforce. Lots of startups ar…

ヤフー取引についてバルマーが言った逐語の聞き書き: フィクションと事実をはっきり分けるために

The Verbatim Transcript of Ballmer on Yahoo Deal: Separating Fiction From Truth | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (6:00 AM PT on October 17, 2008 Kara Swisher) While many would like to see Microsoft reignite its bid for Yahoo, and as …

グーグル決算が行けば、インターネットもついてくる? いや、そうじゃない

As Google Earnings Go, So Goes the Internet? Um, No. | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (6:00 AM PT on October 16, 2008 Kara Swisher) Today, Google, the Internet’s juggernaut in both power and profits, will release its third-quarter ea…

エンジェル投資家ロン・コンウェイ語る(シリコンバレーに教えてやる、の伝書の話)

Angel Investor Ron Conway Speaks (About His Wise-Up-Silicon-Valley Missive) | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (7:45 AM PT on October 14, 2008 Kara Swisher) Of course, the stock market had to come roaring back and it had to be extra su…

グーグル・フォンのリヴュー: TモバイルのG-1でわたしが気に入ったこと、気に入らないこと

The Google Phone Review: What I Love & Hate About T-Mobile G-1 - GigaOM (Om Malik, Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 9:00 PM PT) It’s here: the Google Phone. After years of speculation and months of waiting, the first Google Android OS-based …

フェースブック: 収益計画は2011年までに、いまは成長が鍵

Facebook: Revenue plan by 2011; Growth is key for now. | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com (October 9th, 2008 Posted by Sam Diaz @ 5:36 pm) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he’s more focused on growing the social networking site than he is in…

聞こえてくるのはシリコンバレーのウェブ2.0バブル失速の音か?

Is That the Sound of the Silicon Valley Web 2.0 Bubble Bursting? - BusinessWeek (Rob Hof on October 09) No doubt the Valley, and technology at large, is in for the toughest times since at least the all-too-recent dot-com bust. But I’m not …

モジラの驚くべき道のりをたどる

Business & Technology | Tracking Mozilla's amazing journey | Seattle Times Newspaper (October 6, 2008 at 12:00 AM By Pete Carey, San Jose Mercury News) John Lilly became chief executive of Mozilla in January, moving up from his role as chi…

ブラックベリー・ストームが世界中の3Gで始動する

Blackberry Storm with Global 3G Launches* - GigaOM (October 7, 2008 at 9:44 PM PT Om Malik) Verizon Wireless and its partner Vodafone Group are will soon start selling BlackBerry Storm, a touch screen smart phone to customers in the U.S., …

IBMとソーシャル・ネットワーキング

IBM and social networking | Open Source | ZDNet.com (October 6th, 2008 Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 6:47 am) Some time ago I had a long talk with an IBM’er about social networking. しばらく前に、わたしはあるIBM社員とソーシャル・ネットワー…

エヌヴィディアで動作するマックブックが10月14日に?

NVIDIA Powered MacBooks on October 14th? - Mac Rumors (October 05, 2008 03:29 AM EST Arnold Kim) While Apple would still be using Intel CPUs to power their laptops, the support chips (including graphics) were said to be supplied by a compa…

わたしも一晩寝て考えたけど

昨日の午後11時すぎ、というか日付が変わる直前に寝ぼけ眼でパラパラとお気に入りブログを読んでいたら、偶然「極東ブログ」の記事「大恐慌に軍靴の音を聞く……考え過ぎだけどね」が投稿されているのを見つけた。 そうそう、この記事を待っていたんだった。読…

データ・センタもグーグルばかりでもないかも

10月になったな、だいぶ涼しくなってきたなと思っていたらこんな記事を見つけた。 「排熱はムリに冷やさない」、ソフトバンクIDCが北九州のデータセンターを稼働:ITpro (2008/10/03/ 00:03) アジアン・フロンティアの特徴は三つある。天井や上げ床の高さを…

グーグルの「ずっとベータ」は勝つ戦略か?

Is Google's perpetual beta a winning strategy? | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET News (September 30, 2008 6:37 AM PDT Matt Asay) Tim O'Reilly recently came to Google's rescue (as if it needed hi…