Tired of dealing with IT staffers who won't speak to you and whose locations are always dubious at best (ie, can never find them when you need them)? Well, with cloud computing you can now hand off all of your IT needs to the "cloud"...

23 July, 2008

We are currently in the thick of "National Camp Out In Front of Your Local Apple Store" Week. Offices are empty, streets have been abandoned… In preparation for tomorrow's unveiling of Jobs's gift to us all (iPhone 3G), here are a couple of random doodads....

10 July, 2008

Websites bore me. There, I said it. This includes the many bloated social networks that pop up on an hourly basis. I'm a minimalist. Even my sentences are short. I just want my web applications that do exactly what I need them to do—nothing...

26 June, 2008

Yeah, I know I'm late to the Woopra party, but I JUST got this thing working on my Mac. What is Woopra? It's the latest entry in the very crowded web analytics space. Why would anyone be interested in using something other than GOOG Analytics?...

22 May, 2008

In short, yes it is. It isn't for everyone, though. AppEngine is in the same space as that of Amazon's EC2 service. Both offer virtual hosting services that can seamlessly scale up to meet demand. Unlike EC2, Google's service is free and includes 500MBs of...

09 April, 2008

Yesterday, Read/Write broke the news that Google and Facebook had joined the DataPortability Workgroup, which got a bunch of Social Media folk all moist and whatnot. Read/Write called the news a "Bombshell," Scoble took the opportunity to complain about getting kicked off of Facebook for...

09 January, 2008

Ok, maybe you've heard rumblings of Google's wanting to "out open" Facebook? Well, today, Google announced the release of a set of tools (APIs) that will enable developers to easily create applications (widgets) that will work on any participating network. As of this writing, the...

01 November, 2007
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