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Book Review: Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
Michael Lewis learned something when he wrote his previous book, “The Big Short”. In that book he chronicled the story of a few people who were able to make millions by shorting the housing market just before it crashed. As he puts it, he suspected they were on to something... -
Learning From Other Startups – Atlassian’s Core Values
Atlassian is one of the most famous startups in the world. They have received a crazy amount of press for ideas like “Fed Ex Projects” where they divide in to teams and must deliver a prototype by 10am the next morning. Their purpose which they don’t mind bragging about is,... -
Breadth, Focus, and the Need to Practice Thinking
I had a great conversation a few evenings back with a new friend. She had read many of the same books I used to read when you saw Book Reviews popping up on this blog on a very regular basis. I still read those books, but MUCH MUCH slower than... -
VMWare as the Amazon of PaaS
Note: This is an extremely geeky post… if you have no interest in Enterprise Infrastructure it will not only bore you, it probably won’t make much sense. I noticed this week that VMWare expanded their Cloud Foundary offering to include support for .NET. I had three seperate thoughts about this... -
The Silliness of Marketing
I received an email last week from Verizon informing me that the Galaxy Nexus had arrived in stores. The picture of the main portion is above. The Galaxy sounds like it’s going to be an amazing phone, what I don’t understand is why the ad doesn’t say that! The phone... -
Twitter for Fun, Pittsburgh Fear Factor
A few months ago, right after the original announcement that Batman would be filming in Pittsburgh, something really funny happened; people decided to use Twitter to imagine what Batman would be like if he was a Yinzer. I wrote a blog post about it then. It’s a fun use of... -
We’re Not Nearly Done Making Things Cloudy
Note: I had written a very elegant post on this topic, but it got lost deep in my wordpress instance… so all you’re going to get is the executive summary. Amazon’s cloud is starting to reach critical mass and that is believed to be a sign that cloud computing is... -
Amazon Silk’s “Cloud Acceleration” Isn’t Working
When Amazon announced the Kindle Fire, one of the most interesting features was the browser, Silk. The idea is that Silk will cache entire web pages (including all the bits that come from third parties) on Amazon’s EC2 cloud and have them ready for super-fast delivery. The most popular sites... -
Sauerkraut Sunday: The Sauerkraut Crisp Edition
Looks like Ohio isn’t done putting a twist on Sauerkraut. A recent contest put on in Ohio was to come up with the next big food product. The winner… Sauerkraut Crisp crackers, go check them out. On to the purpose of Sauerkraut Sundays… As I go through the week, I use Twitter to... -
ChromeOS, Google Docs and Fighting With Microsoft
Joe Brockmeier over at RWW asked an interesting question in his post yesterday, “Why hasn’t Google killed off Chromebooks?” They’ve been on a killing spree lately with labs, Wave and others. So why not kill off a set of devices that Brockmeier points out will have lower sales per year than...
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The Leader of the Pack is Now Android
When the iPhone came out many pundits didn’t believe it stood a chance. Then... -
It’s Always Time to Panic: Learning from Netflix
Netflix was in a dying business model three years ago. Sure, it didn’t look... -
The Future of Cloud as a Service (to my blog readers)
Microsoft announced a new version of their cloud, called Project Daytona. I read this...
