It always take two failures to make a real problem
A CEO (who has now moved on to greater things) of a large and popular Web service once was relating to me a tale of one of his major embarrassing outages and me...
Category: The Narrative
Twitter SMS quotas
Got the following message from Twitter the other day: “You have 10 incoming sms updates remaining this week. Try receiving unlimited updates at m.twitter....
Comment on: “The Demise of Mobile???” at Blue Flavor
I was trying to leave a comment on this site and was having a hard time. So I decided to post it here. "Good set of comments. Buiding ovi.com for Nokia, I ...
Google’s latest play
Gosh. I just need to read up on this. But what I’ve read so far makes me feel good in many ways. In other ways, it makes me feel bad. 🙂 There’s a lo...
Kids and phones and IM and SMS
A colleague was mentioning how his (American) daughters were getting all caught up with Webkinz: “Webkinz pets are lovable plush pets that each come with ...
Ramblings on noise: Our senses
Yeah, the whole noise thing is still bouncing in my head. I was dabbling with some visualization ideas this week and it brought back the whole noise thought. I ...
Why doesn’t NASA go crowdsourcing?
I was listening to Ira Flatow interview a guy from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter team. The guy said they were getting a tera-byte of info a week, more than th...
Filtering the noise on Twitter
Just heard about a new feature in Twitter that lets you ignore the noise and get alerted to the signal, albeit a signal you choose. In my ramble on noise, this ...
Google brings their ‘Web’ service to the Web.
I thought this was funny – a ‘Web’ tab. It leads to iGoogle. It was funny, because we have an Internet group (that deals with Internet enabler...
Pause for station identification
As some of my regular readers might know, I find it useful to ‘pause for station identification’ so that it’s clear who I am and what I do. We...