Meet Jo Maitland

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2011 was a great year for GigaOM Pro, as our startup within a startup continued to grow quickly on all fronts. We’re counting on 2012 to be even better year, as we stay on top of changes in fast moving markets and look to increase the value we offer to subscribers of GigaOM Pro.

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More Crunchies tickets go on sale today

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The second batch of 250 tickets to the Crunchies , the annual tech awards show hosted by GigaOM, TechCrunch and VentureBeat, are going on sale right now . The last batch sold out within hours, so act fast if you want to get in on this round of tickets. The Crunchies, now in its fifth year, highlights the most forward-thinking startups, innovative technologies and best VCs

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Dropbox Is Working On Ways To Move Beyond File Folders

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Dropbox CEO Drew Houston talked to Gigaom’s Om Malik this evening at the GigaOm RoadMap conference and let slip some key insights about his company’s product roadmap, namely that he wants to get past the metaphor of a file folder as Dropbox’s sole organizing principle. Houston described the idea of a file folder that syncs as “Chapter 1″ for the company, “We think it’s just the first step …[In the beginning of Dropbox] we didn’t want to call Dropbox ‘back up’ or even use word like ‘sync’ … [Because] it’s not storage as much as it is an experience.” He revealed that the company was looking ways of going beyond files and folders, “‘What’s the point of Dropbox if it’s just a folder? …,’” he said, “We’re really building a lot of new ways to manage and view your important stuff.” Malik then asked if these new management and organizing principles revolved around time and space, “When you think about your [files[ you can break it down into those categories, and then not only can you have the photo itself but an index of all the data associated with photo e.g

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GigaOM welcomes David Card

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Over the past few years, it’s been a blast turning GigaOM Pro from what was just an idea into what it is today: a thriving new startup within a startup that has become the fastest-growing part of our business . But as with any startup, fast growth requires investment, starting first and foremost with good people

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Erica Ogg and Colleen Taylor join GigaOM

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We have some good news for a slow news day. Erica Ogg, from CNET News, is joining the GigaOM team in about a week to head up our Apple coverage

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Reed Elsevier Leads $6M Investment in GigaOM

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Reed Elsevier Ventures — the London-based venture arm of Reed Elsevier, one of the largest publishing companies — is leading a $6 million investment in the parent company behind GigaOM , GigaOM.tv , GigaOM Events and GigaOM Pro . Current investors in the company, Alloy Ventures and True Ventures, are participating in this new round of funding. REV General Partner Kevin Brown is going to join the board of our company, joining me, our CEO Paul Walborsky, Alloy Ventures’ Ammar Hanafi and True Ventures’ Jon Callaghan.

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Make.Money.Slow : The Bitcoin Experiment

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Bitcoin .

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Structure, Nasdaq and More: Why GigaOM Loves New York

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What a week! The GigaOM team spent the past week in New York City for a number of events, including our first (and definitely not last) East Coast conference, Structure Big Data . The conference is part of our plan to expand our footprint into new markets, including New York.

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