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Sometimes better is not good enough. »

Our main product is a technology that can directly answer questions put to it on any topic and dramatically improves the quality and accuracy of results compared to any existing search technology.

The real battle is happening in the cloud »

Microsoft just adding data center capacity in Ireland. Amazon is serving up cloud capacity in Europe. Google’s thirst for data centers is somewhat legendary. And now Red Hat is offering Red Hat Linux via Amazon’s EC2 platform.

Blogger logic »

I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I wonder what would happen to the blogosphere if we all thought like Sir Conan Doyle

I rest my case »

First read about The Mythical WebOS
Then read about Google’s plans to be leverage the “web as platform”
Then read this NYT story about a $200 computer available in WalMart and running a “GOS”, a version of Linux specifically designed to run Google apps (via TechCrunch)
Now tell me that Google’s plans are limited to “social networking”
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Does Google want to be your platform? »

I was hoping that by the time I wrote this, Open Social would no longer be the top story on Techmeme. So much for that thought. Spending time telling you all about it is somewhat pointless, since it’s been covered all over the web (TechCrunch has a pretty decent writeup). But what does [...]

Should Yahoo buy Wordpress? »

So the rumor is that Automattic is for sale, at a value somewhere between $150-300 million. For the 2 of you who don’t know Automattic is Matt Mullenweg’s company, and is behind WordPress (the best blogging platform in the world IMHO), Akismet and now Gravatar. My first reaction when I heard this piece of [...]

The YouTubing of Google Earth … building a global tagspace »

Let’s hope that the video of me playing with a lite saber doesn’t pop up when someone clicks on the location of the Sharper Image store in San Diego. That, of course, is not why the news that Google is going to integrating geo-tagged YouTube videos with Google Earth is burning up the internets

Yearning for the good old days »

The internet is full of posts telling you what the value of links should be (I am not going to link to any of them) and how you can get links and so on and so forth. Perhaps I am grumpy today, but I almost yelled about loudly as I read yet another one [...]

Video units are here »

Marshall had the scoop, and now it is official, Video Units are live, or at least have been announced (I still don’t see the option in my adsense setup). Definitely interested in trying out the ads and seeing how they might serve relevant material on a very niche set of topics.

The mythical WebOS »

Cross posted to bbgm
The tech blogosphere rarely talks up infrastructure and other non-sexy technology, so all the attention to Amazon’s Dynamo is good to see. I am going to use the headline from Techcrunch to ruminate over what a WebOS means to me, if anything at all.