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 [...]

Verizon Fios Redirection Problems

Verizon has decided that it knows how best to redirect my typos - right to a Verizon yahoo page.
I didn’t ask for this nor do I want it. It wasn’t clear in any TOS that I saw, but may be in there.
This is why we have class action lawsuits. If Verizon [...]

Conversation Feeds

Dennis McDonald writes about Speedbumps on the Way to Creating a Blog Based Micro-Community. He describes how he and another blogger tried to create a conversation across two blogs and then integrate the posts and comments into one single conversation supported by a feed.
He wants what I call a conversation feed. I [...]

More evidence that Obama represents something big

I got involved with Twitter this weekend - I was surprised to find it engaging. I saw this on their blog.

Seems to me that Obama represents something big. (BTW - I did vote for him because I think we don’t need more Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton legacy going on. Hillary has brains and [...]

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