Kentucky’s moving up in the tech world, some parts of it already (and unfortunately) dubbed "Silicon Holler." The latest success comes out of Lexington now that Exstream Software is being acquired by Hewlett Packard.
Guess what? Google's working on phone software
We’ve been speculating on this for some time, but now the really big dogs in the media have picked up on it.
Beta Urchin Software, New Google Analytics Features
At the eMetrics Summit in D.C., Google unveiled some new features for Google Analytics, as well as a new version of its Urchin hosted wed analytics software.
First up, what’s new for Google Analytics: Head into your Analytics profile and enable “Site Search” (which is not currently available in my account), and the Content section of Analytics will show you the keywords people are using to find your site.
eBay Buys Auction Management Software, Site
“German engineering” is often a selling point in and of itself. And so I have to wonder how many times that phrase came up while eBay was in the process of acquiring ViA-Online GmbH, a German auction management software company.
The Filter Tweaks Music Software
The Filter, a social music recommendation site has released a new version of its software that features an improved user interface that enables users to create playlists to fill their iPod, iPhone and Apple TV more quickly.
Google Software Engineer on Google Images
I’ve asked Google some questions in regards to their image search engine. Here are the answers by Radhika Malpani, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google.
Microsoft, Clinton Make Green Software, Services
Google’s well known for its environmentally friendly leanings, and Yahoo launched a “Be a Better Planet” campaign just last week. Now Microsoft has joined the usual suspects by launching its own endeavor; oddly enough, former president Bill Clinton was also involved.
Extradited Software Pirate Pleads Guilty
The leader of one of the oldest and most well known Internet software piracy groups, Hew Raymond Griffiths has pleaded guilty to criminal copyright infringement charges, in one of the first extraditions for an intellectual property offense.
Griffiths, a British national living in Bateau Bay, Australia was extradited in February 2007 to face charges in U.S. District Court.
How Not To Give Your Software Away For Free
If you are a startup entrepreneur, at some point, you will need to make a decision regarding your business model. Many software startups have a strategy to build early market traction by giving away their offering for free with some plan to monetize at a later date. I’m not going to make a strong argument against this. So, for purposes of this article, lets assume for a moment that as a software startup, you actually *want* to charge money for your software someday.
ELGG – Social Technology Software
If you want to build out your own DIY social network, then you need to check out ELGG.
ELGG is a new open source social network software package that is available on source forge. We spent the last day and a half installing the software and playing with some of the mods and other goodies that come with the software.
Good parts about this is that it is fairly easy to install, there are some mods we had to make to the SuSe Linux that we were installing it on.