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Joel Spolsky Rants on Architecture Astronauts
via Feld Thoughts by brad@feld.com on May 06, 2008
... take over. He takes Microsoft Live Mesh to task and reminds us of the legacy of Hailstorm, Groove, Lotus Notes, and - well - the past. And he explains why synchronization is not the killer app. Well - it sort of it - as long as we don't realize it's happening. But then again, the real problem is that there just aren't enough programmers in the US anymore.Joel - nice rant.
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The Capital Gap or Where are the $Billion Startups?
via Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing by DonDodge on April 16, 2008
... but that they won't even fund them.There is a Capital Gap between the $50K from Friends and Family, and the $3M to $5M from VCs. But, that gap is being filled by Angel Investors who invested $26B in over 57,000 companies in 2007. How many Billion dollar ideas are there? Angels in vested $26 Billion in 57,000 companies last year, while VCs invested another $29.4B in 3,813 companies in 2007. ...
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Google AppEngine - A First Look
via High Scalability - Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites. by Todd Hoff on April 08, 2008
I haven't developed an app yet, I'm just taking a look around their documentation and seeing what stands out for me. It's not the much speculated super cluster VM. AppEngine is solidly grounded in code and structure. It reminds me a little of the guy who ran a website out of S3 with a splash of Heroku thrown in as a chaser. The idea is clearly to take advantage of our massive...
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Top 10 Traits of a Rockstar Software Engineer
via ReadWriteWeb by Alex Iskold on April 08, 2008
Every company is a tech company these days. From software startups to hedge funds topharmaceutical giants to big media, they're all increasingly in the business of software. Quality code has becomenot only a necessity, but a competitive differentiator.And as companies compete around software, the people who can make it happen - software engineers - are becoming increasingly important. But...
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Google hopes to house Web software on App Engine
via Webware.com by Stephen Shankland on April 08, 2008
... online Google services for those who want a place to host software, said Pete Koomen, a product manager on the Google developer team. Those include the BigTable service for data storage and processing--as expected--along with authentication to let people sign on to services and e-mail to let the system handle communications, he said.At an event called Campfire One Monday night, Google plans to...
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The Rich Get Richer: High-End Autos Not Feeling the Pinch
via Compete Blog by Leif Cefalo on March 21, 2008
While looking at Boston.com the other day it was impossible not to notice the main headlines — gold has reached record highs, the dollar continues to fall against foreign currencies, the market is down big-time and of course, gas prices continue to climb to record levels with some analyst speculating $4/gallon by this summer. Every day we read different articles about how to save at the pump. ...
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Non-Compete Agreements....Again
via Venture Law Lines by Suzanne Dingwall Williams on March 21, 2008
What is it about the weather that has everyone ranting all over the blogosphere? Let’s start with Bijan Sabet’s call for the end of non-compete clauses. Bijan has been touting this since at least late last year, and I thought VCs on both sides had nicely dissected the issue back then. But it seems Bijan is a man with a mission, bringing the matter up again in a recent guest post for GigaOm....
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Sony makes its Playstation 3 the most advanced Blu-ray player
via VentureBeat by MG Siegler on March 20, 2008
In the next few days, Sony will unleash an update for the Playstation 3 game console that will make its Blu-ray player profile 2.0 compliant. What does this mean? It means that if you’re in the market for a Blu-ray player, you should get a PS3.Blu-ray Disc Profile 2.0 is also known as ‘BD-Live’. It’s called this because discs are published containing data that can access Internet content...
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The TechMeme killer or the Google Reader killer?
via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by Robert Scoble on March 18, 2008
I just switched all my home pages off of TechMeme to FriendFeed.I find that TechMeme has become a Google News killer. All I see on it is big media companies (including me, who works at Fast Company). I miss the individual voices and I think that’s really why FriendFeed has gotten my attention.Well, that and the fact that Google Reader has just been getting more and more unusable lately. This...
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Brad Feld interviewed on NPR about the Free Internet Economy
via ColoradoStartups.com by David Cohen on March 27, 2008
Yesterday NPR interviewed Brad Feld, Kevin Rose (Digg), and Chris Anderson (Wired) yesterday in a piece called “Who Pays for Our Online Lives?”In the interview, Brad talks about the various models for making money on the web in the age of free consumer services including lead fee models, virtual goods, selling access to consumers, and subscription-based services. There were some good call in...
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