Microsoft in Denial: Google Threat is Classic Disruption
To understand why Google is such a threat to Microsoft—and why Microsoft's pooh-poohing of this threat is, at best, a smokescreen—you need to understand how technology disruption works. — Disruptive...
Personas for Firefox
Personas for Firefox is a extension that adds lightweight theming to your browser. — Personas is a prototype that builds upon the ideas that: — themes today are too hard to find, install and use —...
Wikia's Got A Truck Full of Servers — 1,000 To Be Exact!
1,000 To Be Exact! — Over the past week, one of the messages on the Wikia search mailing list I am on asked for an update on the Wikia search project. To which Jimmy Wales replied with, "On track, w...
Google Is All About Large Amounts of Data
In a very interesting interview from October, Google's VP Marissa Mayer confessed that having access to large amounts of data is in many instances more important than creating great algorithms. … Mari...
Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea
I've been thinking about a number of new product ideas lately. In doing so, I've been trying to come up with a way more structured way of evaluating them. Here's a first attempt at defining that. I...
Find Your Gmail Contacts in orkut
It's not clear whether the fact that Gmail automatically adds to the address book all the people you've ever sent messages makes it irrelevant or comprehensive. It's not clear whether orkut will ever...