Paul Kedrosky: “At yesterday’s Microsoft analyst day in Redmond the company’s Craig Mundie put up a figure comparing cumulative R&D investment by major tech companies since 2000… [The figures show] a huge gap, with Microsoft outspending most of its competitors, including IBM, and massively out-spending arch-nemesis Google.”
Paul goes on to state that many shareholders might [...]
There is an interesting post from the Dell blog on “bloatware”. If you’re not familiar with the term, bloatware is the software that’s pre-loaded on the new PC that you buy that you’ll almost NEVER use. For those that haven’t really looked into it, bloatware is all about margins in the PC industry. While the [...]
Matt is putting on an interesting new event called the Soulard Idea Market in a couple of weeks. Read his blog for details.
I think of the concept as an “evening retreat” for your brain. The goal is to engage in some (brain) stimulating activities, meet some new people, and come away with some ideas that [...]
The launching of PayPerPost was initially seen as a boon for spam bloggers, blogging bots and scam blogs designed specifically to generate advertising dollars without any unique content or true audience. I posted my thoughts on PayPerPost a while ago as part of their offer to pay bloggers to do so. When I made my [...]
Recently there has been a discussion about the potential open sourcing of Java. Paul Krill of InfoWorld has written an article about how Java will now likely be open sourced in a series of phases. Krill writes, “Some components of Java that could be open-sourced in an incremental fashion include the Java virtual machine, the [...]
c|net: “Microsoft on Tuesday said it has bought Winternals Software, a small maker of Windows utility programs, in a deal that the software maker hopes will add key technical talent to its operating system development team… Russinovich will be focused on helping Microsoft further develop the Windows kernel in his role as technical fellow.”
Excellent news. [...]
Time for a new theme. I’m gonna stick with this one for a while. I’m also taking vacation starting tomorrow so blogging may be light- be sure that you’re subscribed to my feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/randyh for my del.icio.us updates…
As an interesting and somewhat related follow up to Tim O’Reilly’s excellent post last week, Nicholas Carr posits that infrastructure is not really a competitive advantage. While operations may be the “secret sauce” for some of the large scale infrastructure providers on the web, Carr contends that many of the services themselves will find it dramatically cheaper [...]
TechCrunch: “What’s so strange about [Dandelife]? The business model! Users will be able to make their stories available for branding by corporate sponsors bidding for content. Companies may license your stories for use off-site, as case studies in annual reports or advertisements, or they may sponsor a category of stories aggregated by tag.”
Sounds like an [...]
Matt Mullenweg: “The idea for an event for WordPress users has been bouncing around in my head for a long time, as there is a really interesting group of people around WP but we don’t do nearly as many face-to-face interactions as some similar projects. A set of circumstances are coming together at the beginning [...]
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