A Bad Weekend

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 ...

GoogleAppEngine -Not Delivering On the Promise So Far

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 ...

The Truth of Yahoo, Google and IT Enabled Services

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 ...

Halloween Treats: Google/JotSpot and Reddit Acquisitions

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 ...