Has enterprise software always been terrible? Gnip’s Eric Marcoullier says yes
When I listen to business software makers talk about how their market has changed, they frequently tell me that the biggest influence on the landscape is consumer software: Hence the oft-repeated phrase “the consumerization of software.” That idea was rehashed during the enterprise panel at TechCrunch’s Real-Time CrunchUp today, but Gnip’s Eric Marcoullier offered a fresh take on why this is happening.
The most common explanation was given at the beginning of the panel by Maynard… Continue Reading
Data-sharing service Gnip raises $3.5 million
Gnip, a company that provides technology to help other web services quickly share information provided by users, has raised $3.5 million.
Here’s how Gnip works: When a user updates their information on a site like Digg or Twitter, it takes that information and updates it quickly on the user’s accounts at other sites, such as Plaxo’s personal information aggregator service, Pulse.
The San Francisco, Calif. and Boulder, Colo.-based company has already signed partners like Yahoo and Plaxo.
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Gnip to be a nozzle for Twitter’s XMPP firehose
After another night of downtime there is some good news coming out of Twitter land this morning. The micro-messaging service will open up its XMPP data — known by some as the “firehose” because of the massive amount of service data is sent through it — to new startup Gnip, according to TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington.
This is big news not only in that it means Twitter is feeling confident enough about its service to give XMPP… Continue Reading
Gnip launches to make cross-site data sharing more efficient
Update: The company says that Twitter has been working with Gnip. See comment, below.
Most web users will probably never hear of Gnip, but millions will start receiving the benefits, starting today. The San Francisco-based company’s software service acts as a middleman, making it faster for any two web services to share specific, publicly available data back and forth about individual users. The result is that web sites can much more quickly display recent information that… Continue Reading