Why doesn’t he use capitals? His company has spent a future on building a brand and yet he doesn’t use it!
Yang’s latest internal memo: “We’re on the move”
I must be getting old.
Category Archives: IT
Yes, it’s true…
“In Paris you get 50 Mbps symmetrical for 30 EUR per month!”
Why the French are ahead in broadband; will free mobile calls for ads work | Rose Cantine
Actually it’s a bit more than the 50Mbps, mine’s running at in the early sixties and every few weeks it gets faster. There is 100Mbps in the building but I can’t be bothered going through the pain of changing.
Follow the link to the previous blog and there is a lovely comment about how sharing links means that they don’t need to dig the road up three times. Note that it’s more efficient and improves people’s lives but it cuts GDP by a third!
Google changes the game…
Google has announced that they now have a forms interface to the Google Spreadsheet application…
Official Google Docs Blog: Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information
This is massive news. Google is building the next generation of office and the functionality set isn’t the same as our desktop applications.
They now have applications for collecting data, manipulating data, analyzing data. All they need is workflow applications and things will get very interesting.
Arrington works from home…
…so he’d know how many emails get printed.
“I don’t print emails (no one does, you idiots)”
Hey, You Condescending Jerk, No One Prints Emails Anyway
Er, except, I work in an office and sit next to a printer. Currently, there are over twenty emails that have been printed and are sitting there waiting to be picked up. The oldest was printed six days ago!
However, the general point is correct. It’s time to get rid of that line from the footer.
Buy Amazon stock…
Wow!
“Adoption of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) continues to grow. As an indicator of adoption, bandwidth utilized by these services in fourth quarter 2007 was even greater than bandwidth utilized in the same period by all of Amazon.com’s global websites combined.”
After a year, Vista sucks articles continue…
In the year 2012 someone will write a bestseller about Vista. It’s an operatic tragedy in multiple parts.
Could Windows 7 be the best Windows yet? | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com
As an aside, the best thing that they could do for Windows 7 is keep that name. Nothing fancy just a version number.
OLPC sales figures announced…
OLPC campaign nets $35 million; 100,000 units go to emerging markets | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
I’d say that selling 200,000 laptops that nobody had seen was a great start.
However, I maintain that they need to sell them outside the US and that they need more than a limited time offer.
It’s not just Apple…
Dave Winer is taking on Apple’s hard disk policy. The fact that they keep the hard drives is upsetting him.
“It’s amazing to me that the tech blogosphere doesn’t treat Apple’s policy re broken hard disks as the huge gaping security hole that it is.” from It’s a security issue, folks (Scripting News)
I’d not thought about it before but this is industry standard practice. Most hardware manufacturers exchange hard drives for corporate clients every day. There is Peta-bytes of data walking out of offices around the world every day.
But what about corporate IT?
Nick Carr has a good article in The Guardian about how consumer IT is now a service.
The big switch may turn off jobs | Technology | The Guardian
Of course he’s right, but he doesn’t talk about how this is going to affect corporate IT departments. Most IT staff are not running dating sites or YouTube; they’re running payroll and finance applications for corporations.
Very cool app…
Political Polarization During the 2008 US Presidential Campaign
Now can we have the same for email addresses in corporate address books?