September 29, 2008
Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge
The "start-up challenge" is emerging as the new platform marketing initiative. Amazon has just launched the AWS Start-Up Challenge. If you are into Amazon Web Services, think you might be, ...
September 25, 2008
Will Android Be Google’s Vietnam?
One of my favorite quotes of all times was Ted Leonsis’s statement in the mid-1990’s that "MSN will be Microsoft’s Vietnam." Ted said this around the time that MSN launched ...
June 24, 2008
Huge Google Gmail Enterprise Win
I’ve been keeping my eyes out for one of these. I hope my friends at Microsoft have been also. Apparently the New South Wales Department of Education and Training (that ...
May 6, 2008
Yahoo! 404
Some great images are coming in already in response to my Request For Images For A Presentation post. I couldn’t resist putting this one up on the heals of the ...
May 5, 2008
Joel Spolsky Rants on Architecture Astronauts
I love a good rant. Especially about software. Joel is one of the best ranters out there – when he gets going there is no stopping him. Last week’s rant ...
April 29, 2008
Why I Like My Lenovo X300 Better Than My MacBook Air
Perfect.
April 28, 2008
Drama of the Week: Microsoft / Yahoo
My title is tongue in check. As Marc Andreessen said in his outstanding analysis of the situation in If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo – "So this may yet ...
April 26, 2008
Is Salesforce.com Switching To Macs?
There’s a rumor going around that Salesforce.com is switching all of its 4000 employees over to Macs. If so, this will be the first high profile complete Windows to Mac ...
April 13, 2008
What Exactly Is Google App Engine?
Last week was Google App Engine announcement and brouhaha. This week is deeper analysis and understanding of Google App Engine. I spent some time last week trying to understand this ...
March 27, 2008
Google’s 2007 Annual Letter
As I was reading through my RSS feeds this morning, I came across Graeme Thickins reposting of the Google 2007 Annual Letter (this year written by Larry Page.) It a ...
March 12, 2008
A Brief View Into Google’s Internal Systems
On Google Blogoscoped, I ran into a post titled The Tools Google Uses Internally that is a short overview of a web seminar that walks through the tools a typical ...
February 5, 2008
The Scorpion and the Frog
I must have Microsoft / Yahoo / Google on my mind this morning. Micah Baldwin has written a delicious scorpion / frog parable about M/Y/G. Until four minutes ago, I ...
Marc Andreessen Said It So I Don’t Have To
I’ve been chewing on what to say about the Microsoft / Yahoo merger and its impact on entrepreneurship and – more specifically – Silicon Valley entrepreneurship. I was finally gearing ...
Zimbra 2010
Zimbra just released v5.0. For those of you that don’t know Zimbra, it’s a Microsoft Exchange / Outlook competitor that Yahoo bought last year for $350m. While v5.0 looks nifty, ...
February 1, 2008
Do You Have A Frustrating Outlook?
I have been a hardcore Outlook user for a long time. I grimaced with empathy as I read through Stan James 67 Reasons That Outlook Sucks. If you are having ...