Looking Back at 14 Years of White House Website Designs…in Pictures
There’s been a lot of talk over the past week about the new look of WhiteHouse.gov, from its blue hues…
Are You Watching the Watchers?
I am not a parent but when I think back to my youth, I remember asking questions. I remember asking…
Australian National Broadband Roll Out
Image via Wikipedia As you may have heard Telstra, Australia’s largest Telco and ISP and the provider of almost all…
ReBlog: On Why I Don’t Like Auto-Scaling in the Cloud
George Reese posted the following on the O'Reilly Blog "I enter into sales meetings getting clients excited about dynamic scaling…
SSD and DB usage
Image via Wikipedia Recently I have seen several articles about Solid State Drives (SSD) and some articles are picking 2009…
Apple, DRM & Content Protection
Image via CrunchBase The music industries decision to do away with DRM, which has lead to Apple’s ability to offer…
2009: Products I Can’t Live Without
Inspired by TechCrunch I have put together my own “can’t do without” list as we head into 2009. This of…
Is love for Twitter blind?
Image via CrunchBase Oh Twitter, Twitter, Twitter. In almost every respect Twitter has been a perfect example of how not…
What is Hadoop?
Image via CrunchBase Ok so you are setting out to build the next Google and are considering using a Map/Reduce…
Kickfire: Data Analytics for the Masses
You may not realize it, but the data analytics market is buzzing. There are new vendors emerging, new products popping…