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Alan Shimel notes that Twitter, Facebook and the rest of the social media giants have spawned large ecosystems of other companies that rely on them. "By supporting open source and open standards with open APIs, Twitter has enabled other companies to interact with it. This makes the social media web that much deeper and better connected. It also drags these other companies into becoming lovers of open source as well (most of them already were open source fans anyway). A perfect example of this is a company called Gist. Gist helps people with social media overload."

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  • Google acquires reMail, yanks it from App Store Submitted by Google Subnet on Thu, 02/18/2010

    Google on Wednesday acquired reMail, a popular iPhone application that performed super fast full-text searches of Gmail and IMAP e-mail accounts. Apparently, Google's first order of business after buying the app was to remove it from Apple's App store.

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  • One cloud provider offers his view of the competitive infrastructure sky Submitted by Google Subnet on Fri, 02/12/2010

    Sinclair Schuller, CEO of software-as-as-service cloud platform Apprenda, recently offered me a view of the infrastructure sky as he sees it. His customers are primarily independent software vendors looking to convert their wares to a SaaS offering. I found his viewpoint to be interesting in helping enterprises navigate though the confusing cloud-filled sky. He divides the cloud into three areas, raw compute power (which he calls infrastructure-as-a-service), an app platform delivered as a service, and the traditional software-as-a-service model. He penned this guest column which details his taxonomy.

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