Microsoft Sucks is the Best

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Just for kicks I thought I would see what Google, Yahoo and MS search sites would reveal when I typed in their respective names and the work sucks. Google was probably the most even treatment. Yahoo seem […]

We Need a Data Portability Feed

Robert Scoble describes some “real roadblocks to data portability“. He makes some good points that may make it challenging to implement automated data portability.
In short he says,
So, the story is, doing the simplest of data portability (for instance, making all systems understand when I changed my email address) is going to take a lot […]

Google Translation Service API

Now this is really interesting.  It should make language a much smaller barrier.  More discussion here.

Amazon Fulfillment Web Service

This and this are good to see from Amazon.  My team built the same thing back in 2000, but e-commerce collapsed and took the company out with it. Amazon has done a nice job presenting their fulfillment as a service offering.  More discussion here.

24 Hours of Google

This is a snapshot of Google searches for the last 24 hours. The top listing was as of 7:37 Pacific Time.
It’s kind of interesting to see what dominates the public interest and how much attention we give to different things.

APIs to Learn

Twitter, Facebook and now YouTube.
Oh yeah, the iPhone SDK.

GigaOM Interviews Ray Ozzie

The interview focuses on the next steps in the OS and most interestingly on cloud computing.
In particular I liked the part about Amazon’s ability to make money on AWS
OM: When do you think utility computing can be a profitable business; are we’re looking at like maybe two years, four years out before it actually […]

Protect positive, hard working people from the slackers

Jason Calacanis started an interesting debate about keeping costs down in a startup. One of his points was to fire people who were not workaholics, later changed to fire people who don’t love their work.
Fire people who are not workaholics. don’t love their work… come on folks, this is startup life, it’s not a […]