A news story on NRP’s “All Things Considered” this evening, had an interesting subtext. The initial context of the news story highlighted that students at Virginia Tech have been using Facebook and MySpace as a means of communicating with each other and with distant friends. The subtext was how the news media has used this [...]

Internet dating has taken a strange but perhaps more optimized twist. Today’s dating scene is tough - at least once you’ve gotten out of the target rich environment of college. A lot of people start developing relationships through email. But, some people are just good writers. What happens when the writing stops and the talking [...]

 I stand fast with my technological point of view that no solution will succeed without having an established interface. I tend to leave some of Bill Gate’s creations out of the mix because monopolies don’t play by the same rules as the rest of the world. I’ll also eliminate very small niche software. These tend [...]

Back in the early 1990’s companies like Sun, IBM, and Lotus were talking about and developing solutions for “the network PC revolution”. The idea behind the network PC - for those who managed to escape the hype and disappointment - is that all of your applications and data reside on a server somewhere an [...]

Back in the 1990’s there was this idea of “network computers” - computers that did nothing without their connection to the network. The idea fizzled. Now we are on the verge of the “web computer”. Same idea but with better timing.
The emergence of Amazon S2 & AWS , Force.com, Facebook, and Google Apps & [...]

Today, Sun announced its intent to acquire MySQL AB. This is a very interested announcement for a number of reasons.
I’ve been curious when MySQL would be acquired. I have read a number of accounts that it would not happen and MySQL AB would rather go public. I bought most of the arguments in favor of [...]