Rackspace just launched a new suite of cloud computing (really virtualized hosting) products. We use a bunch of these products from different companies. We also have a consulting practice dedicated to Amazon’s EC2 offering, so I wanted to take a closer look at how the different offerings stack up in terms of price and features. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Web/Tech'
Comparative Pricing for Virtual Hosting Providers
June 25th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Amazon, Virtualization, Web/Tech, Work
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Teaching This Fall
June 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Collaboration, Content, Community, Teaching, Web/Tech, Work
Big news! The University of Victoria’s program in Business, Management and Technology has asked me to teach a class. This will commence in September of this year and will be repeated in January 2010 (assuming I don’t totally cock it up). The course I’ll be teaching is Web Design and Management I, a very basic [...]
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The Newspaper Business: Still Confused About Itself
April 20th, 2009 · No Comments · News, Web/Tech
I’m taking in all the news about the 2009 Pulitzer Prize awards. Because the industry is at a perilous crossroads, I had a feeling that the announcements would be a rich source of quotes of the ironical variety, and indeed I was not disappointed:
“The watchdog still barks. The watchdog still bites,” [Pulitzer administrator] Gissler said. [...]
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Thoughts on Oracle/Sun
April 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Collaboration, Content, Community, MySQL, Web/Tech, Work
Interesting quote about the Oracle/Sun acquisition from EETimes.com:
“Acquisitions have strengthened Sun’s position in the enterprise storage and business integration software markets, but have not positively affected the company’s business or financial profile.”
To put that another way: Sun has been attempting to achieve incremental successes at a game that nobody else really wants to play anymore. [...]
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BART Departures on Facebook
March 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Collaboration, Content, Community, Facebook, Web/Tech, Work
Late last night we released a new Facebook app, BART Departures.
You can use this app to see when the next BART train is leaving from the station of your choice. Once you’ve found the train you plan to take, you can click on the “I’m taking this train!” link and we’ll post a little note [...]
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Battle Plans for Newspapers
February 10th, 2009 · No Comments · News, Web/Tech
Excellent piece on the NY Times debate blog today on the future of journalism. I’m seeing a lot of these discussions both on newspaper sites and on sites that cover the future of journalism like the Nieman Foundation. It’s great that these things are getting discussed, although as I’ve mentioned before it seems like there [...]
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Advertisers Face Hurdles on Social Networking Sites
January 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Collaboration, Content, Community, Web/Tech
Link: Advertisers Face Hurdles on Social Networking Sites
And when they try to take advantage of new “social advertising,” extending their commercial message to a member’s friends, their ads will be noticed, all right, but not necessarily favorably. Members are understandably reluctant to become shills. IDC, the technology research firm, published a study last month that [...]
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Free Advice: How to Save Journalism
December 9th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Collaboration, Content, Community, Deep Thoughts, News, Web/Tech
On Twitter this morning I was getting cranky at an organization that desperately needs to retain me as a consultant but won’t for whatever reason. I approached the point where I was about to dispense free advice (which violates rule #2 of consulting).
Amy thought that I was putting out a general call for free advice, [...]
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New Platform Consulting Products: Amazon and Facebook
October 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Amazon, Business, Collaboration, Content, Community, Facebook, Virtualization, Web/Tech, Work
Just posted three new categories of consulting practices over on the consulting web site:
Facebook (application strategy, corporate presence and application development)
Amazon Web Services (focusing on their S3 storage and EC2 hosting products)
The Facebook and Amazon practices actually aren’t new, but we’ve packaged them up in the form of consulting practices and put them on the [...]
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ASP.NET Ajax Will Incorporate JQuery
September 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment · .NET, Web/Tech
From the most excellent blog of the most excellent Scott Guthrie comes news that Microsoft will incorporate and ship the outstanding JQuery Javascript/AJAX library in a future version of ASP.NET Ajax.
This is a tremendous win for JQuery, which already has the momentum of a runaway freight train in a space that has been profoundly fragmented [...]
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