Back in September 2007 I began to play with an emerging service from Amazon.com called the “Elastic Compute Cloud.” I pulled out my credit card, signed up, and lit a new Xen server in about 5 minutes. That server lived for years at 67.202.27.129. I used it for my personal [...]
Scott used Ooyala to add streaming video to a site in less than five minutes. That’s quite an impressive little feat, on par with Wordpress and other blogging platforms. Thanks Ooyala!
North Highland Partners is a new app business. Scott discusses starting this business and its rapid growth since inception in 2009.
Today I spent several hours pixel twiddling UITabBar icons. The iPhone UITabBar class requires icons to be in an unusual format, initially created for the Safari browser. Blogs were replete with recommendations. Use Gimp! No, use Photoshop and mess with channels! Image matte, alpha transparency, JPG, PNG, grayscale, etc. etc.
My [...]
Apple has moved to another playing field altogether. They make the netbook, ThinkPad, and all the other Windows boxes look antiquated. The next wave of computing is in your hand, in the cloud.
Alex Welch is a terrific startup CEO. While I worked for him at Photobucket, the sales team would call frequently, begging and pleading for us to build a whitelabel version of the site. The revenue was real, meaty, and immediate.
Alex stayed his ground. We focused on free services for the consumer, [...]
Simon Wardley is amazing. He turns 185 slides into a thoroughly entertaining, unforgettable presentation. His transitions remind me of Steve Jobs pitching at Apple, his humor reminds me of Monty Python. Whack the rabbit. I hope you enjoy his presentation on the future of web applications; he nailed it! Its [...]
My wife runs a business where she provides office management services on demand, The Office To Go. I put together a little brochure-ware site for her after she bought the domain. As with most of my domains, I keep them on GoDaddy and refer them to various servers in the Amazon cloud.
GoDaddy provides [...]
This evening I was reading the post mortem from 3Q earnings announcements. Google surged with a 26% increase in earnings, to $1.35 billion. IBM was suffering a tad in Europe, but still posted gains from a year ago, earning $2.8 billion.
It took a minute for that to sink in.
Google, founded in 1998, now earns 48% [...]
IBM announced BlueHouse, a first cloud offering. I don’t want it. Instead, give us Blue Plumbing.