The Zeitgeist

The fact that it seems most if not all SideKick customers are in extreme danger of losing all their data is being cited be all sorts of technical pundits as an example of the “dangers of cloud computing.” Others are now warning that Microsoft’s black eye will taint the still nascent cloud computing [...]

Lots of people are scratching their heads over Maureen Dowd’s NYT hack job on Twitter. Really, not a lot of analysis is needed: H.G. Wells had her pegged almost a hundred years ago…
New and stirring ideas are belittled, because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises, “Why, then, are you not [...]

Apparently a 6th grader, Arjun Mehta,  in San Jose landed $6.5M in a series A round round led by Easton Capital, Menlo Ventures, STIC and Novel TMT Ventures for his idea of an in-game commerce system called Playspan.
My first reaction is a combination of “Wow… smart kid!” and “Holy crap.. we ARE [...]

Security: don’t even get me started on the security challenges in an environment full of widgets, gadgets and 3rd party web services. Suffice it to say that when this rock gets turned over, lots of ugly stuff creepy-crawly things will slither out.- Chris Keene blogging on the state of AJAX in general and on his [...]

I’ve been a semi-active twitterer for the last year or so. The draw to many people I know about Twitter is the idea that they can get, at a glance, a look into what their friends and acquaintances are up to. However, if you look at what people actually twitter, its not really [...]