2008-09-03
chrome eula gaffe
i'm sure you've read about it about a million times, so I'm not going to repeat it (my opinion is that it was a honest mistake)
but seriously.. cut + paste a eula???
it's amazing how different companies operate.
The scary thing that no one has picked up on is which product did they cut and paste it from?
2008-09-01
chrome?
oh joy.
another open source browser. this one looks like a branch off webkit/khtml.
I'm not sure what the motivation behind creating another browser is for google, unless they are thinking they are paying to much $$ to firefox to be their main search provider.
I'm also interested in how toolbars will work in the chrome world.
the 'incognito' model seems a bit different than microsoft ...
2008-04-16
Google needs to change their motto
From "Don't be Evil" to "We don't need to be Evil".
because its true.
This yahoo/msft/aol/newscorp thing is just noise to them.
James pointed me to Latrz, which to me is a delicious clone. I'm guessing it was written in a day. My recent experience and It highilghts a couple of things to me
- Having the user api just makes sense for ...
2008-04-10
appengine - more thoughts
so i had some more time to thing about appengine, and the biggest problem I can see is the lock-in. all the other things are minor
Krow weighs in about people's complaining about lock-in. Initially I thought so too, as there is no equivalent to GQL. but then I remember about hbase and hypertable. Once some open source guy writes a GQL clone the platform is open ...
2008-04-08
Google's Appengine - some initial thoughts
Google has just announced their alternative to Amazon's s3 called 'App Engine'.
I think that if this is successful it will provide a shift in some of the basic web development economics and practices, even more than Amazon's s3 has.
why?
- Small hosting providers (ones that offer a shell account for $12/month) will be marginalized. why pay for something when you get it for free ...