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As t → zero

July 31st, 2007 · 2 Comments · HumansAndTech, SoftwareDev

Andy Hunt asked a while ago, What happens when t approaches 0?”

One of the interesting topics that came up today at Software Trends was “what happens when the time to develop a new application approaches zero?”

It will never be zero, of course, but it will, over time, asymptotically approach zero. Suppose we finally get to [...]

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The Irony of Dot-Com Acquisitions

July 4th, 2007 · 2 Comments · HumansAndTech

It goes something like this:

Startup website takes off New features continue pumping out like crazy. Soon, you have everything covered – tags, RSS feeds, gradient bling, and your very own corporate blog Cha Ching. FunkyBigDotCom just bought you. You explain on your blog now you’ll have the resources to do all [...]

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Web 2.0: What Happened to Organic Growth???

July 16th, 2006 · 5 Comments · HumansAndTech

Another day, another round of VC. From TechCrunch this week:

Online social network Multiply has closed a Series A funding round with $5 million from Transcosmos and $1 million from the company’s founders. Multiply is a service that filters all networking functions, from highlighted users to visible tag clouds, through a proximity filter with a slider. [...]

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Sometimes the world is ready …

September 13th, 2005 · No Comments · HumansAndTech, Links

Researching JSON-RPC for the “JSON Message” pattern, I came across this interesting slashdot posting from January 24, 2005, a few weeks before “Ajax” was coined …

Seen those funky remote scripting techniques employed by Orkut, Gmail and Google Suggests that avoid that oh so 80’s page reloading (think IBM 3270 only slower) … Now [...]

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