Zillow has $57 million in venture funding and a technology greenfield to create new online real estate features such as Make Me Move, a system that enables you to name a price so good you'll sell your home. Zillow's conundrum: How do you build technology infrastructure that can enable rapid product development and prepare for the long term?
David Berlind, Dana Blankenhorn and others have been noting how open source could be in trouble if there aren't standard definitions for it. The gist: So many software makers claim something is open source that the whole movement loses meaning.
David Berlind breaks out the video camera for some must see Dave TV, part of his new Testbed blog. This video looks at competition in the content management space.
"Freedom is scary; but on balance I think Java’s new path will be more interesting and more profitable and more fun." --Tim Bray Sun's Director of Web on his Java Is Free blog.
A look at the headlines of the day...The wife and children of CNET editor James Kim are safe and in good condition.
Notable headlines:The iPhone 3G rollout: Assessing the wild cardsSteve O'Hear: Gallery: 25+ social networking apps for iPhone and iPod touch. Gallery right.
Notable headlines:Mary Jo Foley: On the road to Midori: RedHawk, MinSafe and Sapphire Next Microsoft enterprise instant messaging/VOIP server: Think 2009Microsoft to push XP SP3 via Auto Update on July 10Microsoft to deliver SQL Server 2008 in AugustJason O'Grady: Mac.com, ahem, MobileMe is down for maintenanceTechRepublic: Poll: Does your IT department plan to support the iPhone 3G, with its improved enterprise features?
Wolfram has rolled out its Computable Document Format (CDF), which aims to turn documents into interactive applications.
A teen in Staten Island, NY had a real crappy texting experience.CBS' Channel 2 in New York reports:Alexa Longueira, a high school sophomore, was walking along Victory Boulevard near Travis Avenue on Staten Island Wednesday evening when she felt the earth move and was plunged into smelly darkness.
Oracle on Wednesday launched its Fusion 11g middleware family and the effort is aimed at linking the technological underpinnings of all of the company's acquired applications, owning the market, creating one fundamental software stack for the enterprise, laying the foundation for a cloud strategy as well as a few other things we're probably forgetting.At this juncture, the big picture behind Fusion has yet to emerge---especially with the cloud computing angle, according to Dana Gardner.