It’s fairly technical, but goes into some detail about how YourTrove works and some of the decisions and challenges we have to tackle in searching social content. So if you’re curious, check it out! YourTrove Wonders: Is a tweet a … Continue reading
While I normally agree with nearly every one of Jeff Atwood’s posts, I find this post, Please Don’t Learn to Code, at best utterly baffling, and at worst, deeply troubling. He makes several points and the post is, as usual, … Continue reading
I don’t generally care much at all about the deaths of famous people, but I feel profound sadness at the passing of Steve Jobs. As I type this on my Macbook Air and my iPhone buzzes next to me with … Continue reading
I think the two huge things that technology is changing in online advertising are 1) targeting. And 2) what I am starting to think of as “applitisements”, which is to say: display and mobile ads are going to become more … Continue reading
I put together a little primer at work on the FCC’s new net neutrality rules. As I was fact checking myself, a thought struck me… Might the new wireless rules be a politically brilliant policy disaster? Hear me out. After … Continue reading
Consider this current state of affairs… We live in an age where large corporations or their associations (think RIAA) are suing individuals and file sharing services for millions of dollars, while not making it any easier to actually, ya know, … Continue reading
I was pretty busy today, but I was able to glance long enough at my #ces column in Tweetdeck to see lots of noise about eReaders (for the record, it’s my blog and I can refuse to use the hyphen, … Continue reading
Backblaze built their own crazy 67TB 4U servers made up of 45 1.5TB drives configured in 3 RAID6 pods of 15 drives each. All I can say is WOW, when are they getting into selling these things? I’m thinking of … Continue reading