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  Ugly is in the eye of the beholder: Microsoft redesigns the iPod

  03.21.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Ugly is in the eye of the beholder: Microsoft redesigns the iPod

  Recently I stumbled upon an article that was somewhat surprising to me. The premise is that while we spend oodles of time making websites pretty and elegant, there’s little return on that investment. To wit, the dating website Plenty of Fish is referenced as an “ugly” website. Now I’m not in the market for these […]

• Business, Innovation

  WiFi VOIP Phone

  03.21.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on WiFi VOIP Phone

  One of my colleagues alerted me to a very interesting piece of technology, Wireless IP Flip-phone. It’s becoming more and more clear that traditional telcos are in BIG trouble because VOIP is a killer application, a traditional telco killer. A great question is “Who will win the telco sweepstakes over the next five years?” I […]

• Business, Innovation, Technology & Science

  Heisenberg’s Principle; it’s not just for physics anymore…

  03.16.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Heisenberg’s Principle; it’s not just for physics anymore…

  The other day I had a chance to host one of our large telco customers in Sun’s Executive Briefing Center. One of my colleagues teed up the issue of measurement and behavior in a very clear and concise manner. It reminded me of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in that when something is observed, it’s changed […]

• Business, Innovation

  S3 – Simple Storage Service

  03.15.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on S3 – Simple Storage Service

  I got an email from Amazon this morning announcing a simple storage service for developers. Indeed, it is simple. One may read, write, and delete objects from 1 byte to 5GB and pay $0.15/GB/Month for storage and $0.20/GB/Month for transfer. No minimum charge, no startup fees. Security and simplicity are key tenets of the new […]

• Business, Innovation

  YouTube

  12.26.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on YouTube

  If you haven’t seen YouTube, you’re missing a great community – both in terms of content and technical capability. It’s at heart, a video content sharing site. Here’s a short video of the making of YouTube from the people who founded PayPal: Is that cool or what? Oh, you don’t like that? What about this? […]

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