by Tom | Apr 9, 2002 | General
NY Times: Google’s Toughest Search Is for a Business Model. The executives’ disdain for business meant they spent nothing to advertise their site and cut very few deals with other sites. They have insisted that the ads that do run on Google should employ...
by Tom | Mar 27, 2002 | General
Why Napster is Right Great rant about copyright, Napster etc. “We should be able to sell music we legally purchase.” That should be obvious, no?
by Tom | Mar 27, 2002 | General
“Adam Vandenberg had an aha moment thinking about Radio in relation to Microsoft Sharepoint. He’s right that everything we do is about presence. Our scaling strategy is Apache. (In other words static HTML and XML where ever possible, and using CPU cycles...
by Tom | Mar 27, 2002 | General
We’ll be able to store all the Library of Congress on a laptop by 2008.
by Tom | Mar 27, 2002 | General
The whole grid computing initiative, e.g. the Globus Project, is very much a large-scale way of utilising the enormous quantity of wasted resources within BigCos. It might just work.
by Tom | Mar 27, 2002 | General
Boxes and Arrows: Taking the “you” out of user: My experience using personas. Thoughtful piece about using personas to ensure that the end-user of the system is accurately designed, rather than some cheerleader or devils advocate of any particular piece of...
