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The Mayor of Realtime

1:46 pm PST • November 15, 2009

If you believe the noise emanating from the retweetsphere, this realtime thing is something we don’t need, don’t want, destroys our sense of normalcy, prevents real thought from emerging, is…

iDroid Wars on Gillmor Gang

12:32 pm PST • November 14, 2009

The Gillmor Gang debated the virtues and otherwise of the smartphone’s latest pretender to the iPhone crown: Droid. Michael Arrington led the Droid’s faction, with a QVC-like enthusiasm for the…

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iDroid Wars on Gillmor Gang

11:57 am PST • November 13, 2009

The Gillmor Gang debated the virtues and otherwise of the smartphone’s latest pretender to the iPhone crown: Droid. Michael Arrington led the Droid’s faction, with a QVC-like enthusiasm for the…

Earlier this summer I traveled to Redmond to meet with a number of Microsoft executives, including Bob Muglia, President of the Server and Tools Business. Muglia’s group has grown rapidly…

Over the past few weeks, it’s definitely been crunchtime as we’ve been putting together the panels and demos for our Realtime CrunchUp on November 20 in San Francisco. Get your…

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The Private Web

1:58 pm PST • November 1, 2009

For years we’ve been told the key to the future is the Open Web. And for years it’s been true that taking the open path eventually pays off. You can’t…

Ever since our first Realtime Crunchup last July, the momentum behind realtime streams just keeps getting stronger. Which is why TechCrunchIT editor Steve Gillmor and I are putting together another…

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The power of two

1:22 pm PDT • October 24, 2009

I spent this week at John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Summit, and thoroughly enjoyed myself. Partly because MG SIegler was on fire, doing a hybrid live blogging/news analysis…

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Back to Mono

12:32 am PDT • October 19, 2009

I went to a birthday party this weekend where I ran into a Facebook guy, a smart guy who asked me to go off the record. In fact, the whole…

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Ozzie on the realtime wave

11:31 pm PDT • October 7, 2009

In June, I spent several days on the Microsoft campus talking with Microsoft executives about the impact of realtime and the emerging era of cloud computing. My conversation with Chief…

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For Your Eyes Only

10:21 am PDT • October 2, 2009

Google Wave is roiling the collaboration space as it moves out of the sandbox and into a wider beta. The ripples are being felt by vendors ranging from IBM to…

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One and one and one is three

11:13 pm PDT • September 1, 2009

Today’s Gmail outage illustrates just how tolerant the new realtime architecture is to individual service failure. The initial surprise at the comprehensive nature of the flatlining may have caused some…

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Break Up GoogleSoft

12:11 am PDT • July 8, 2009

The best news in years for Microsoft just hit the wires. Remember way back when Microsoft was under the threat of a breakup in the anti-trust days? Bill Gates famously…

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Track is Back The Movie

4:38 pm PDT • July 5, 2009

I’ve been filming segments with various folks in preparation for TechCrunch’s Realtime Stream CrunchUp this coming Friday. One of these conversations took place last Thursday in the wake of FriendFeed’s…

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Hanging on for dear life

2:26 pm PDT • June 13, 2009

With the Gillmor Gang shut down, I’ve been shifting my attention to the Realtime Stream CrunchUp Eric Schonfeld and I are hosting July 10 at the Fox Theater in Redwood…

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Down by the old MillStream

7:45 pm PDT • May 26, 2009

I was hoping to get down to the 140 Twitter conference today in Mountain View, but FriendFeed proved too efficient at carving up today’s developments in realtime. Robert Scoble’s live…

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The Swarms of Summer

5:05 pm PDT • May 17, 2009

While we continue to debate the Death of RSS, another more interesting battle is taking place inside the walls of some important companies about the shape of the new realtime…

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Rest in Peace, RSS

1:04 pm PDT • May 5, 2009

It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter. RSS just doesn’t cut it anymore. The River of News has become the East River of news, which means…

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Adventures in Realtime

6:19 pm PDT • May 3, 2009

Ever since Leo Laporte enabled a foldback loop on the video feed coming from his TwiT studios, the Gillmor Gang has hit a new sweet spot in the Adventures of…

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The Realtime Real Estate Crisis

12:48 pm PST • January 27, 2009

It can be illuminating to compare the strategies of the major cloud platform vendors. Instead of matching currently exposed features, let’s imagine what each major player could do to tack…

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The Free Store

2:09 am PST • November 23, 2008

It’s not the famous Web 3.0 the semantic crowd has been lobbying for for years. It’s not the next big thing or even the next little thing, or whatever the…