I have thought about this a great deal. The degrees of abstraction are endless. I have thought about it from a systematic perspective, from a social perspective, from a business perspective and so on. The answer I come to consistently is NO. Now let me explain.
The guiding point is: [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Technology'
Can you serve others better than you serve yourself
June 27th, 2007 No Comments
Tags: f4t · rant · systems · Technology
Simple shifts
August 28th, 2006 No Comments
As the understanding of the web matures, new unique perspectives of the web are going drive innovation. In the beginning having the web was the driving force of innovation (The Bubble was a side effect), and by all measures that type of innovation is still going on today. Now after more than a decade [...]
Tags: 37signals · google · innovation · salesforce · Technology · zimbra
Buy a book and some processor cycles
August 24th, 2006 1 Comment
Amazon is now offering Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). This goes along with other service offerings. I really like the business strategy statement in the the Amazon 2005 annual report but the service part seems kinda just tacked on:
Our business strategy is to relentlessly focus on customer experience by offering our customers [...]
Tags: amazon · ec2 · grid · Technology
Update: My Feed management services RFP
August 11th, 2006 1 Comment
FeedBurner wins hands down.
It looks like no other feed management service has the stones to take them on. The FeedBurner reply was the only response I received. I saw traffic from multiple companies that offer Feed management services but none replied to my RFP. I will not mention any names [...]
Tags: FeedBurner · RFP · RSS · Technology · tomcarroll.org
An estimated 168 million Americans lack broadband access at home!
July 27th, 2006 3 Comments
A Reuters article (via News.com) points out:
An estimated 42 percent of Americans had high-speed Internet access at home in March 2006, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. That was up from 30 percent of Americans with high-speed access one year earlier, it said.
Wow, 168 million people do not have Broadband at home. [...]
Tags: broadband · digital-divide · f4t · Technology
Hints of Opportunity
July 21st, 2006 No Comments
Jon Udell writes in A new breed of highly-available serverless applications:
Amazon’s S3/SQS duo is a green field that invites entrepreneurs to think way outside the box.
I have already proposed prototypes that can take advantage of these services. Amazon will not be the only provider of distributed storage or messaging services (see cleversafe). These [...]
Tags: amazon · cleversafe · Jon-Udell · S3 · SQS · Technology
Check out Dabble DB from Smallthought
June 28th, 2006 2 Comments
I was reading a post from Tim Bray about Dabble DB by Smallthough. So I went and watched the screen cast demo they have up on the site. Wow, very cool. Dabble is a collaborative data management, authoring, and publishing web application (I know that description doesn’t do Dabble DB justice). The [...]
Tags: dabble-db · recommendation · smallthought · Technology · Tim-Bray
The change in corporate technology ecosystems
June 20th, 2006 1 Comment
I again was listening to the Grand Central Gang from the Gillmor gang. My only comment on the whole podcast is simply the choice in changing software platforms is not solely based on the technology. In my experience significant change in corporate technology ecosystems is heavily influenced by its IRR and if it is [...]
Tags: change · Gillmor-Gang · Technology
Attention and Gestures require an honest broker
June 4th, 2006 No Comments
In information centric economies, value is a function of trust. The role of the honest broker is to provide a well understood and transparent point of reputation for attention and gesture information. The information economy we see growing around links and clicks is driven by the reputation of a few silos in the economy. [...]
Tags: attention · COE · gestures · honest-broker · Technology