Google’s Evil Buzz Is Building
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Computer history, Personal, Virtual Storage on 12. Feb, 2010 | Comments
Although “don’t be evil” isn’t Google’s official corporate motto, the company and its admirers have embraced the concept implicitly and explicitly. But pride goeth before a fall, and the buzz around Google isn’t just about their new social networking feature: Cynicism and disillusionment with Google is growing.
Google Reader Gets More Social
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 15. Jul, 2009 | Comments
Google Reader has long been my RSS feed reader of choice, but using it was never much of a social experience. The earlier attempts at community, from shared feeds to comments, just fell flat. Good thing the solo experience (not to mention the iPhone version) was so solid or I would have given up a [...]
Google Is Heading For A Cliff; What Will They Do?
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Personal on 22. May, 2009 | Comments
Google is the most important company to the Internet. Hyberbole? I think not! Without Google, the Internet that we all know and love would be a very different place, as would the business of IT. Along with Microsoft and the supporting community around LAMP, Google is the very foundation of modern computing. But the foundation of Google itself, its ability to rank Internet content and present relevant information to its users, is at risk. What will they do to fix it?
Twitter Loses Control Of Twitter
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 13. May, 2009 | Comments
Yesterday afternoon, Twitter made what they called a “small settings update“ to their eponymous service. Who cares? That title fooled me, too, but let me tell you, everyone cared. Within hours, this change spread across the worlds of bloggers and micro-bloggers alike. And less than 24 hours after announcing the change, Twitter’s founder, Biz Stone, [...]
Introducing the Enterprise Storage Strategies Blog
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 23. Apr, 2009 | Comments
As I noted a few weeks ago in my post about joining the Nirvanix team, my professional focus is on helping enterprise IT respond to the changing business climate.
Nirvanix management understands that enterprise IT is very different from other potential customers for cloud storage, so they’ve invested in services talent to help bridge the gap [...]
WeFollow: The Passive Twitter Directory
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 16. Mar, 2009 | Comments
Kevin Rose announced the availability of an interesting new service at the March, 2009 South by Southwest festival: WeFollow is a passive, user-generated twitter directory.
The genius of WeFollow is that there’s not account to create and no complicated setup. You simply send a tweet to @wefollow with up to three hashtags and your account is [...]
Nine Blog Suggestions from a Grumpy Reader
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 20. Feb, 2009 | Comments
I subscribe to hundreds of RSS feeds, and read them religiously. According to Google Reader’s statistics, I read about 200 items per day out of over 700 posted to all of those feeds. As you might expect, I’ve got some strong feelings about blogs and news sites after reading that much.
So this message is aimed [...]
Storage Folks Are Twittering
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 05. Dec, 2008 | Comments
If reading blogs doesn’t give you your enterprise storage fix, there’s a new option in town: Twitter!
Lots of the top folks in the enterprise storage community are now using the microblogging service, and a regular community has evolved. It’s really taken off over the past few months.
If you’re interested in enterprise storage, here’s a short [...]
BackType Is Closing The Blog Comment Hole
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 13. Nov, 2008 | Comments
I am an avid reader of RSS feeds, relying on Google Reader to keep me up to date with the latest industry news. But there is a hole in the world of blogs – comments are a dead end. I literally read hundreds of blogs and occasionally leave a comment, but I rarely go back [...]
Get Your Enterprise Storage Feed Fix From FriendFeed
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 07. Jul, 2008 | Comments
Serious tongue-twister of a title, right?
I just created a “room” at FriendFeed with many of my favorite enterprise storage and backup-related RSS feeds. So swing on over there and enjoy! You can interact at FriendFeed or just subscribe to the Atom feed in your favorite reader to keep up to date on the latest news [...]
