The blogosphere has been speculating on the future of the "Google OS." Many thought it would be based on Android, their open source telephone platform. When I read about Chrome's protected memory spaces (via acquisition of GreenBorder in 2007 or so), I thought that it sounded more like an operating platform than a web browser....Read More
Effortless scalability. I want it. I'll pay for it. Planning a smooth scale-out growth of a web application can be a nightmare. You are never certain how popular the application will be....Read More
Despite the financial and market challenges of the dot-com crash, some companies not only survived, but flourished. Many new internet sites also emerged. Google hurtled past incumbent search engines like Yahoo and AltaVista. EBay grew steadily. Friendster and then MySpace appeared without warning. In 2005, YouTube began its meteoric rise....Read More
This is my first blog post. Ever. I should have done this years ago. Apparently, the first bloggers started at it in 1994, around the same time I began my first technology startup, a web consultancy....Read More