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Gigaom is the company blog at research.gigaom.com, writing about business and data. Since 2013, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-13, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Gigaom research posts on Lync, Amazon warehouse work, Teams and AWS Lambda, mostly as citations. One points to the AWS Lambda piece as a reply to a charge that the author is one-sided.
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What Hacker News says?
> Lync... "just works" Those are two things that I would never say together. Lync is great if you are all on Windows within the same building or campus perhaps, but the video quality is horrible compared to Google Hangout or (consumer) Skype for cross country and international communication. Also: Lync is now called "Skype for Business" and old Lync will be sunsetted per http://research.gigaom.com/2014/11/microsoft-…
Comment linking /2014/11/microsoft-announces-skype-for-business-will-retire-lync/
on “New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft”Submitted What makes teams successful? 150,000 GitHub projects analyzed as a story · 79 points
HN discussionSo the Taylorization of journalism begins. I wonder if Bezos will start monitoring bathroom breaks as well. https://research.gigaom.com/2013/02/if-amazon-is-the-future-... > ...temp workers scramble like rats in a maze, pulling boxes off shelves, directed by handheld devices that not only show where the goods are stored but the most efficient path to walk. These devices also monitor each worker’s performance, coaxin…
Comment linking /2013/02/if-amazon-is-the-future-of-work/
on “Bezos Takes Hands-On Role at Washington Post”Submitted Building your own apps with Zengine as a story · 10 points
HN discussionGreat that they are at least trying to improve, but even the improved almost one second channel switch time is imho still order of magnitude too much. How many ms did it take to switch window in irssi? Edit: it's even worse. For some reason chat switching did barely improve at all and still take >2s on "low-end" hardware. Wtf. https://research.gigaom.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/1/2023/...
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/sites/1/2023/03/f53b19fe-microsoftteamscharts-05-2-1320x1205.png
on “Microsoft rebuilt Teams from the ground up, promises 2x faster performance”Submitted A business is a city, not a family as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOk. Is my credibility at stake now? :) You should read his article on AWS Lambda, in case you think he is one sided - http://research.gigaom.com/2015/01/why-aws-lambda-is-a-maste...
Comment linking /2015/01/why-aws-lambda-is-a-masterstroke-from-amazon/
on “Ask HN: How is Google Compute doing with respect to AWS?”Submitted A developer’s checklist for deploying the Internet of things as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Log and Telemetry Analytics Performance Benchmark as a story · 1 points
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HN discussionSubmitted The commoditization of app developer skills as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why we must apply big data analytics to human-generated data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Smart cities: Opportunities for startups as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The challenges facing AWS as a story · 1 points
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