PRO: Social commerce remains a licensing play

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Right now, social commerce feels like a technology platform play rather than a retail business. According to our GigaOM Pro 1Q12 U.S.

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PRO: Flash analysis: Facebook’s post-IPO prospects

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Facebook just had the biggest initial public offering in tech history. During the week leading up to it, we tapped into the GigaOM readership to see what they thought of the social network giant’s prospects for the next two to five years.

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Yes James, Good guys do win

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The last thirty days have been nothing but full of twists and turns in tech-land.

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Welcome to GigaOM Europe

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Well, hello. The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed a little addition to the GigaOM navigation bar: Europe .

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10 ways big data changes everything

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A yottabyte isn’t what happens when the Jedi master starts gnawing on your leg. It’s the information equivalent of one quadrillion gigabytes, or 10 24 bytes, and is enough digital data to fill the states of Delaware and Rhode Island with a million data centers, according to Backblaze .

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GigaOM Acquires PaidContent: Interview With GigaOM CEO Paul Walborsky

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GigaOM founder and executive editor Om Malik. Photo by Pinar Ozger, courtesy GigaOM PaidContent.org is one of the longest-running news organizations chronicling the rise of new media.

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Tech Blog GigaOm Acquires Media-Focused Site paidContent

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Hot off the press release presses: tech blog GigaOm has acquired paidContent (and parent company ContentNext) from The Guardian. Rumors of the acquisition  were first reported by Peter Kafka at AllThingsD.

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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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