Archive for December, 2007

Information as a service »

This post is surely going to raise eyebrows as it pushes the boundaries (probably crosses them) of what we know as privacy. Wired asks the question Should web giants let startups use the information they have about you?. It is a very valid question. Companies like Google, Yahoo, Ebay, Amazon, and even Craigslist [...]

Jonathan Schwartz on the Internet as Customer »

Is it me, or do some of Sun’s customers seem to be a little behind the times?
Read on

The fastest grower (in terms of datacenter infrastructure spending) was growing 100% per month.

Unless you’re Google, there is no way you should be in this situationl
The striking point … unless you’re Google, there is no way [...]

Scoble leaving PodTech, but this is about video »

Robert Scoble wrote an excellent post, discussing his decision to leave PodTech. As you can make out from all the posts on Techmeme and the comments on a lot of the blogs, he took a lot of heat as well. However, that’s not what this post is about.

When you don’t know you are using a web application »

The problem with the “Web 2.0” phenomenon is that it constrains innovation by perpetuating the assumption that the web is accessed through computing devices, whether PCs or smartphones or game consoles. As broadband, storage, and computing get ever cheaper, that assumption will be rendered obsolete. The internet won’t be so much a destination as a [...]

Sorry Om, I beat you to it »

Om Malik has a rather eloquent piece on Google’s infrastructure putting up barrier to entry for competitors.
Not quite as eloquently, this is a subject that has been covered at TechBizMedia a few times recently
Exhibit A
Exhibit B
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