A few months ago, there was a week or two of tech-blog obsession with new “url shortening” services — i.e. tinyurl, bit.ly, etc. I told a few people (who were cooking up their own grand schemes of URL shortening domination, and thinking about VC funding) how trivial this was, software-wise, and how there’s really no [...]
The big news over the next day or so is going to be the fact that Google Mail, the web mail software used by millions of people, went down around 12:53pm today. Aside from the inconvenience and immense loss of productivity this will cause (basically, a worldwide version of that “cubicle gopher” cartoon from Dilbert–where [...]
The software architect spends a ton of time thinking stuff through when designing their software systems, to avoid problems like Twitter rolling over on its “unique IDs” for twitter messages (aka the “Twitpocalypse”?!), and the programmer just pounds out whatever works at the time without thinking things through. My advice: hire a better software architect. [...]
Random gripe of the day: there’s been way too much hype about Mozilla Firefox 3.0 web browser. I recently installed Mozilla Firefox 3.0, and my experience has been summed up in one word: dismal. As much I have been a fan of the browser, there’s been way too much hype around this release. I regularly [...]
There’s been more than enough random speculation (and complaining) on the various blogs on why the popular Twitter instant messaging service has been crashing (it seems like it’s been down more than it’s been up, and the site’s technical team has even said that they’re not sure what’s happening.) I don’t have any insights into [...]
Omid Rahmat — former publisher of Tom’s Hardware Guide — talks talks about the next Internet wave in our Insights & Opinions section today. Omid has had a long and successful career in the publishing industry, and we’re honored to have his contributions… If there is another Internet wave coming – a Web 3.0, a [...]
With as much talk (and evidence) of a slowdown in the economy, it’s surprising how many recruiters and companies I have run into recently who still have a lot of trouble finding technical staff to fill open positions at their companies. In particular, I find there are lots of companies who are desperate to fill [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
