Editor’s note : This is a guest post written by Jeremy Allaire , founder and CEO of Brightcove . Prior to Brightcove, Jeremy founded Allaire Corporation which was subsequently acquired by Macromedia due to the success of their web development tool ColdFusion. At Macromedia, Jeremy helped create the...

Don’t count Songbird out yet. The open source media player that’s increasingly positioning itself as an alternative to Apple’s iTunes has forged a deal with global electronics maker Philips. Under the agreement, which will be announced later today at CES, Songbird’s software...

YouTube just rolled out a feature that keeps you up to date on the videos that your friends are sharing on Facebook. Originally posted at The Web Services Report A Gadget Zonemore:  YouTube shows what friends share on Facebook

The Gillmor Gang convened Wednesday to ponder the last several weeks of events loosely contained in a discussion of the next generation Web operating system. Three major announcements set the table for this Thanksgiving edition: Google’s ChromeOS, Microsoft’s Silverlight 4, and salesforce’s...

The brains behind Yahoo Boss , a young engineer named Vik Singh, is leaving Yahoo to become an entrepreneur-in-residence at Sutter Hill Ventures. Earlier this year, Singh was named to Technology Review’ s 35 Under 35 list at the age of 24. Singh is exactly the kind of talent Yahoo should be trying...

As part of its push to go more social, Google has been attempting to unify its various account profiles into one Google Profile. And now it’s more useful. Google’s Brad Fitzpatrick has just tweeted out that Google Profiles can now be used as OpenIDs. What this means is that you can sign...

The background debate about whether or not Twitter can actually scale has intensified. More than a year ago I asked “ Twitter At Scale: Will It Work? ” Today Twitter is far, far bigger . And the uptime woes continue. The big problem with Twitter is assymetric following without limitations...

On Monday, Advanced Micro Devices shipped its latest generation of processors with cloud-computing and dense-computing environments in mind. The new six-core Opteron EE processor, code-named Istanbul, promises increased performance in the same 40-watt ACP power band as previous generations. AMD said...

SAN MATEO, Calif. July 29, 2009 - Quantivo, the leader in on-demand Behavioral Analytics, today announced that its SaaS service is now hosted on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as Amazon EC2. Quantivo changes the expectations of customer analytics by offering a high-performance, highly scalable...

We’ve just gotten word that development-outsourcing site Elance has suffered a security breach, compromising some user information that included names, addresses, phone numbers, and location (no financial information was taken). Multiple users have received the following letter: It has recently...

Menlo Park, Calif., June 30, 2009 - KANA Software, Inc. (OTCBB: KANA.OB), a world leader in innovative customer service solutions, today announced availability of KANA 10, the industry’s first service experience management (SEM) platform for managing the entire customer service experience. This...

The ObjectsOnClouds Open Source Project Initiative (ObjectsOnClouds Project) is a worldwide collaborative effort to develop a set of technologies interworking together as a cloud computing platform. The ObjectsOnClouds Cloud Applications Computing Platform (ObjectsOnClouds Platform) consists of a Java-based...