Steve Gillmor

Back in the good old days, big software companies did big things. Little companies tiptoed around in the shadow of the platform makers, gaining enough speed to liftoff and attract enough attention to survive long enough to be acquired. Like the old movie studios of the 30’s and 40’s, the technology studios of the 80’s […]

Bob Dylan once made a record called Self Portrait, full of some of the most bizarre recordings of his career. Among these clunkers – mostly clunkers – was one called Days of 49. It had a tight groove, sort of post John Wesley Harding meets Nashville Skyline, and it concerned the Gold Rush of (for […]

For some months now, the proto-blogger of the blogosphere has been focusing on two subject areas: Twitter and the presidential campaign. Dave Winer correctly anticipated the power and growth of the real time messaging platform, building several applications around the Twitter API and its identity namespace. And his political analysis has jumped from Scripting News […]

Yesterday’s announcement of Yahoo joining with Google and MySpace to form an OpenSocial Foundation may have seemed like good news for social media developers, but for me it was a golden opportunity of a different type. For months now, I’ve been on a rampage about Google’s violations of user privacy with its Google Reader, GTalk, […]

Lifestreaming has been a favorite swarm for the attention crowd in recent weeks. Friendfeed is my favorite, not because I use it much but because it’s a bit of a greenfield, a place to start over and remodel the information triage space. The last two days have seen crucial piping strategies from Discus, a commenting […]

Mike Vizard and Steve Gillmor discuss IT’s take on the election, how the enterprise is handicapping the cloud computing revolution, and whether Microsoft’s Silverlight challenge will push Google into an Adobe acquisition. Recorded Thursday, March 20, 2008.

On The Gang this Friday, Dan Farber asked me what I was doing in this new gig – a column or a blog? No difference, I replied. Just like there’s no difference between mainstream and bloggospherian journalism and commentary. This is my opinion, and in the self-contained universe that is this space, it’s the guiding […]

Mix ’08 came of age in a methodical but elemental way as Microsoft signaled both its intention and confidence in weighing in on the new generation of technology that many have suggested is moving past the Windows colossus. As Ray Ozzie assumes the command and control of the company’s strategy, Steve Ballmer stayed largely on […]

Mike Vizard from CeBIT in Germany chats with me from Mix ’08 in Las Vegas about the battle for the high ground in cloud computing between Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, Yahoo, and others.