Category: Thoughts
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Will Large Cloud Providers Kill Smaller Ones?
Now that Microsoft has launched additional services for Windows Azure, providing a generic, scalable service for hosting websites, and has improved support for running generic virtual machines, things are bound to change for the entire hosting market. The point is, Amazon has offered virtual machines for ages with EC2, and we all know how successful…
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Internet Gold Rush: Generic Top-level Domain Names
Do we need generic TLDs? In a word, no. Let’s start from the basics though. What is a TLD? It’s a top-level domain, that is .com, .net, .org, .it, .fr and so on (.it, .fr, etc. are ccTLDs – country-code TLDs). What is a generic TLD, or gTLD? It’s a custom top-level domain, for example…
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Siri and Voice Commands
I’m not an expert on Siri, nor have I ever tried it, but it seems quite smart. My question is, do people really use Siri, and other voice-activated systems found in Android (and Windows Phone?) when they’re in public? I mean, imagine being in a bar all by yourself. You’re enjoying a cappuccino and a…
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Social Media Metrics
The Sad Announcement generated the following social media (re)actions: So, a total of 37 “shares”, distributed like this: 78% on Twitter 22% on Google+ 0% on Facebook. We ought to think about that.
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Firefox Redesigned New Tab Page
Nice try, Mozilla, but it’s too little, too late. I waited for something like this for a long time, envying Opera users, and now that I have it in Firefox, I’m very disappointed. The worst part is that there’s no way to add custom links or pages, as the layout only displays your most visited…