I’m always fascinated by business models, i.e. at how entrepreneurs and companies put together services in order to make money from them. I’d call it the source code of business if I hadn’t seen the other source code in Luxembourg —legal and accounting—but arguably that’s more like binary code, i.e. 99% unintelligible. Sarah Lacy writes [...]
From the Official Google Blog: Today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be. Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to [...]
We’ll be migrating Tech IT Easy from wordpress.com to a self-hosted solution these coming days, so I won’t be posting much, I don’t think. In the mean time, here are a few things flying through my head. Men can’t get away with this !! Jason Kottke pointed me towards an anti-fashion-industry trend lead by some [...]
I seem to have made some people upset by a comment thread I started on Friendfeed yesterday. My stance was as follows: The reason being that Friendfeed has become very forum-like with people forming relationships, writing how Friendfeed changed their life, how they just had triplets, etc. etc.… all stuff an a**h*le like me doesn’t [...]
My sentiments about online media aside (I think it’s despicable the way media-companies treat consumers, particularly outside of the US), it has always bothered me to use Last.fm for a number of reasons. Here they are: Last.fm, apart from being happy to pull my listening data into their site, does not integrate with my listening [...]
“Ouch, it hurts, it hurts!” … “Oh yeah, that feels good, so good!” Guess which one is all other browsers moaning collectively (Microsoft & Firefox no. 1), and which one is the geeks… Let me start by saying that Google Chrome rocks! OK, it crashed about 2 mins after I started it, and I think [...]
Another way to phrase this is, whether mobile commerce will drastically change life as we know it or not? Disruptive technologies, according to Christensen, lead to products that are cheaper, simpler, and, often, more convenient to use. By that definition, e-commerce could certainly be seen as a disruptive innovation over brick & mortar commerce, and [...]
Context: I’m currently in discussion with a number of companies that are involved with SOA-vending & -consulting. As a result, I’ve been studying up a little on this market and hope to learn more by writing about it. Note: Since I know, judging by the response to other articles on enterprise-software, this isn’t exactly the [...]
Okay, I was wrong at least on one count. iPhone 3G will hit Finland and pretty much everywhere on 11th of July and I wasn’t expecting it before September. Other than that, I still agree with my previous posts about iPhone (before European launch and after it) and smartphones in general. One thing to keep [...]
This morning, I read an interesting piece written by Steven Poole, and just had to comment on it. In it, he discusses his book, which he released for free (and DRM-free) around the net, and which has received ca. 30,000 downloads so far. But he also discusses the idea of artists, or creators in general, [...]
This post is aimed at helping friends bootstrap projects (although they certainly don’t need me to turn everything into gold, especially these ones). I apologize for the inconvenience caused to readers coming for content, not announcements, but these are 2 AMAZING projects that definitely deserve exposure. Unfortunately, a number of readers won’t be able to [...]
Here’s a quick question to all people used to either interact with or being part of software development teams. Consider a software vendor, a good one, and its technical headcount. It is no secret that R&D teams aren’t made of software developers only. In order to be deployed successfully, architectures and code need to be tested by [...]
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I can only guess what the man on the right picture is doing here. I guess he makes our new blogger, Ms. Georgia Psyllidou (left), look good. I’d like to spend some time, introducing her to you. Georgia is actually an acquaintance of Jeremy’s, though she caught my attention by some [...]
The more and more I’ve started to think about it, Facebook’s applications are an exercise in personal information anarchy. One evening at a bar, we were joking with my friends that it would be quite trivial to make an application to Facebook called “How sexy is your social security number?”, which would compare your SSN, [...]
Time for some trivia. I installed Leopard last week on my tiny iBook G4 (1,33 Ghz, 1 gig ram, new 160 GB 5400 rpm hard-drive), which is still happily churning away after two years. Here are some observations. I first did an upgraded install, but Leopard changed something unix-based and didn’t like my separate partitions [...]
