Archive for the ‘google’ Category
Sunday, October 11th, 2009
October 11th 2009 looks like a bad weekend. It turned out to be a really bad one:
RedSox - what can you say? Swept. Soul crushed. Ortiz, Bay and Youk combined with 2-3 hits over three games. and Papelbon fell from the cliff.
Patriots - Ok. This one is not a big ...
Posted in Main Page, Yottaa, google, humor, politics | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
"This is the best browser so far" is that I can say after being a Chrome user for one day.
First of all, I was glad to find out that I haven't found Chrome breaking any web application yet, especially Ajax applications. I was a little concerned about this, given that ...
Posted in WebDev, google | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
If you haven't heard of it yet, Google launched something called "Google App Engine", a complete stack for deploying and hosting web applications that leverages Google infrastucture for scalability and reliability. It "sorta" competes against Amazon's EC2.
The "infrastructure as a service" trend is fascinating. In general, I've been studying ...
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Sunday, November 19th, 2006
This Yahoo internal document by Brad Garlinghouse (a Yahoo senior vice president) is a tremendous read. Brad started by stating his love for Yahoo, for example:
I proudly bleed purple and, yellow everyday! And like so many people here, I love this company
Then he bluntly outlines the big problems he sees ...
Posted in Yahoo, google, software business model | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
On October 31 2006, while we are all enjoying trick and treat on this Halloween day (a beautifully sunny day in Boston), there are some very nice treats in the web 2.0 space too:
JotSpot, a wiki-based collaboration software and service company, was acquired by Google on October 31 2006. The ...
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Monday, October 30th, 2006
Back four years ago (2002), a good friend who works at Microsoft told me confidentially that Microsoft is working on something called "XAML". "Very similar to Nexaweb - watch out", he said. To the contrary, I was actually thrilled. Regardless of what it means from a competitive perspective, XAML validates ...
Posted in Main Page, google | 9 Comments »
