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- Student Technology Day: how to start a start-up
- Andy McLoughlin spoke a little while ago about how he started up his own web start-up, Huddle.net, from a simple idea in a pub to a fully working business and enterprise collaboration suite. It's a large network of hosted workspaces; yet another project management and team collaboration service based on...
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Keep the faith: More Windows-specific consumer ads coming soon
- Keep the faith: More Windows-specific consumer ads coming soonExtended Length Version of New Ad UpThere's already a director's cut of the 2nd installation online now:http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=20040177-aa27-4f24-a1ae-140c865c81f9Bring out the talking Coke tongues!!:-)RE: Keep the faith: More Windows-specific consumer ads coming soonThey missed a golden opportunity. We are in the midst of...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-11
- Deploying and managing online communities: Who, how and why?
- Deploying and managing online communities: Who, how and why?Read the book Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh BernoffRead the book Groundswell if you want great insight into how to do this properly and there are also lots of case studies and stats in the book.In respect of the product ratings...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- 166 Frames of Fame
- "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes," Andy Warhol famously said in 1968. Turns out, four decades into the future, the tomato can and Marilyn Monroe pop artist was an optimist. Now, anyone and everyone who wants...
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- News to know: Firefox 3.0 flaw; Windows 7; IT failures; HP
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0 Dancho Danchev: A security company wants you to DDoS its servers Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Alabama's Broadband Tide Mary Jo Foley: Will Google deliver its own dynamic language runtime?...
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- LinkedIn, Technorati, FireFox 3 and Slideshare: we all fall down
- LinkedIn, Technorati, FireFox 3 and Slideshare: we all fall downI missed something...What was this article about? Firefox was mentioned, but in what way was it failing? I don't like articles with links in them that I'm supposed to click on. What ever happened to the art of...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- LinkedIn, Technorati, FireFox 3 and Slideshare: we all fall down
- To Zoli Erdos' tongue in cheek crack at LinkedIn, Technorati and FireFox failures I can confidently add Slideshare. Although it doesn't make the cut for speed of failure following funding, ($3 million raised in May), it is behaving very badly today. I have a penchant for crashing...
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Twitter's failure updates: not good enough
- Twitter's failure updates: not good enoughOutagesI just ranted about outages on Twitter and Technorati yesterday. It has me wondering whether we are seeing the like of the .Com days all over again.http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/madgreek/archives/web-20-companies-is-this-com-again-25024Yes, it is the end of the World as we know itClearly our way of life is at...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Twitter's failure updates: not good enough
- Update 5/30/08 11:00am EDT: TechCrunch says "Twitter's doing an excellent job of actually communicating with users all of a sudden." That's nonsense. Yes, they've improved, but there's a long way to go to achieve failure communication greatness. Twitter's downtime, lack of reliability and...
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- News to know: Apple patches; D6 coverage; Yahoo; Google I/O
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Leopard mega-patch plugs 41 security holes Jason O'Grady: Apple releases Mac OS 10.5.3 software update Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update Google: Mac OS X 10.5.3: sync Google Contacts Psystar offering new...
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Jerry Yang: The Web's most overanalyzed exec
- Jerry Yang: The Web's most overanalyzed execQuite Simply ...By rejecting Microsoft's offer, Yang screwed a lot of big investors out of a lot of money. That sort of thing is not to be forgiven. Frankly, I'm surprised we haven't found him floating face-down in a river somewhere.One thing that I...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- tazti Speech Recognition Software for Windows XP (zip)
- tazti Speech Recognition for XP/XP Tablet operating systems is a Web 2.0 style application that enables you to log in to and navigate FaceBook and MySpace by talking to your PC. Turn on and operate the iTunes music player by talking to your PC. Search the bookmarks in all the...
- Software downloads 2008-05-13
- tazti Speech Recognition Software for Windows Vista (zip)
- tazti Speech Recognition for Vista operating system is a Web 2.0 style application that enables you to log in to and navigate FaceBook and MySpace by talking to your PC. Turn on and operate the iTunes music player by talking to your PC. Search the bookmarks in all the browsers...
- Software downloads 2008-05-13
- 7 tips for handling post-failure communications
- There are two parts to every technology failure: the issue itself and the difficult process of explaining the problem to unhappy customers. Although technical failures are unpredictable, end-user satisfaction is usually a function of management rather than technology. Given the high stakes, it's important for all...
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Moving on
- I travel a lot. It has been almost ten years since I had a job that was based in the same place I live. Whenever I get a call from friends and family the first question I get is "where are you?" People who have known me for...
- Blog posts 2008-03-09
- Amazon S3 web services down. Bad, bad news for customers.
- Amazon S3 web services down. Bad, bad news for customers.And this is whyWeb 2.0 will die. Only a fool trusts sensitive data to a third party they have no control over.Service interruptions inevitableI don't care who it is. Amazon, Google, Salesforce.com, MSFT...everyone is going to have an outage. ...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
- Amazon S3 web services down. Bad, bad news for customers.
- Update 2/16/08, 2:30PM EST: Nick Carr wrote a good post-mortem. So did Larry Dignan. Update 2/16/08, 11:00AM EST: Amazon reports the cause of the problem: Early this morning, at 3:30am PST, we started seeing elevated levels of authenticated requests from multiple users in one of our...
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Technorati fails, fixes, and fully discloses
- Technorati, a major blog indexer, recently shut down their spiders to fix severe data problems. From the blog post explaining the incident emphasis added: [A] small percentage of recently created blogs were having their data scrambled. An example of this appears in this blog post. The spidering outages allowed...
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- The scaling problem and open source
- Most trends in the open source market come down to one word. Scaling. (The picture is from a Cisco report on scaling VOIP, but the problem is general.) To stay worthwhile a project must grow. It must attract new developers, new community members, and...
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Sage (xpi)
- Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for Mozilla Firefox. It's got a lot of what you need and not much of what you don't. Features include: Reads RSS (2.0, 1.0, 0.9x) and Atom feeds, Feed Discovery, Integrates with Firefox's bookmark storage and Live Bookmarks, Imports and...
- Software downloads 2008-02-07
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