29 Feb
Posted by Harper in Technology at 01:15 PM
Tags: cloud, grid, hosting, mosso, web-2.0
UPDATE: Not a moment after i posted this - i got a mosso mailing that explained an upgrade in the plan. I will leave the original number in because i still think my point is valid and because that is what new Mosso customers will be getting. Their update is just a quick fix to [...]
01 May
Posted by Harper in Technology at 10:43 PM
Tags: communities, digg, online, Technology, users, web-2.0
It all started today when DIGG censored a news story. A story about the AACS controversy. AACS issued some cease and desists to various organizations (I think including DIGG) who talked about cracking the AACS encryption on HDDVD and Blu-Ray DVDs.
So anyway - DIGG being a community based news site, the users rebelled and basically [...]
10 Jan
Posted by Harper in Technology at 11:39 AM
Tags: beta, interesting, p2p, projects, social, Technology, television, venice-project, web-2.0
The Venice Project is a P2P social television project by the guys who made Skype. They are really into disruptive technologies and I am excited to be a part of the beta. You can get more information at the Venice Project wikipedia page.
I am pretty excited to see how it goes. I played with it [...]
31 Jul
Posted by Harper in Technology at 01:16 PM
Tags: encycopedia, endeca, joel, joel-on-software, search, software, web-2.0, wikipedia
So i think it is awesome that seth godin was able to “convince” google to give joel on software a google search appliance. That is amazing. I mean - Joel probably needed a better search engine, but what makes me mad is this:
Wikipedia needs a better search engine more than joel on software needs a [...]
03 Mar
Posted by Harper in General at 02:48 PM
Tags: myspace, rants, web-2.0
As you probably noticed, i was at work late last night. As usual, My coworker andrew was also here. Often when it is just the two of us - we theorize and talk about everything that is going on like two old stoners in a VW van. Its nuts. We cover everything from office politics [...]
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