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The NBER officially tell us that we are now in a recession:The committee identified December 2007 as the peak month,after determining that the subsequent decline in economic activity was large enough to qualify as a recession. via the Big Picture Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d2310′).each( function(e){e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); The rumors of the potential demise of SaaS seem to be exaggerated. True,there is a glut of companies,and the current business model doesn’t seem to give space to consolidation of services and customers. The traditional providers of business software implementations are all happy and cushy in the knowledge that their cumbersome implementation,[...] I am confident that the One Laptop Per Child will have the effect which is the educational equivalent of the nutritional disaster that imported formula has had on the poor parts of the world. Is this a broad generalization,or is this post by Atanu Dey actually on point? The famous OLPC irks me [...] While interesting to suggest giving an OLPC,what is it that makes it insulting? It doesn’t go to a “kid”,it goes to a school system,which will then have to pay to maintain it. They’re actually having trouble unloading the devices,from what I’ve heard. My dad immigrated from Africa,and I find that [...] The Empire is still far,far away:Guy Sorman has a scalding piece on the mirage that is modern China: The Party’s primary concern is not improving the lives of the downtrodden;it seeks power more than it seeks social development. It expends extraordinary energy in suppressing Chinese freedoms—the media operate under suffocating censorship,and [...] Startups are highly attractive workplaces for some of us,but according to Dharmesh Shah,there is much more to ask when considering joining one:Nowhere else will you get the diverse set of experiences and visibility that you can get in an early-stage startup (whether your own or someone else’s). If you’re not going to [...] Web 2.0 has jumped the shark. Boris Karadogan published a list of Web 2.0 companies,and in doing that he crushed the hopes of procrastinator entrepreneurs,worried the investors,and started the road to a newer version of web. Here is a list I recently got of all the web 2.0 companies out there. Multiply [...] Cedric is pessimistic regarding Ruby and its mainstream acceptance:Why Ruby on Rails won’t become mainstream Interestingly,they might even be right. But by then,it won’t matter because despite its technical excellence,Ruby on Rails will still be a niche technology that only experts know about. And then he proceeds to make a case [...] I have found the most compelling criteria for finding intelligent life in other universes:you must have cake. Seriously. There are various arguments for that,but I like the economic side of it:you are obviously wasting untold resources,same that could be put to clever use,on the immediate satisfaction of a transient desire [...] In the process of looking for a suitable job,and then getting hired,I find these 25 hurtful words spread all over the place. As Levitt and Morville say,our information has to be findable,and adjectives have become obscuring instead of enlightening. Much more the better,then,to use real accomplishments to eliminate the [...] |  | ||||||
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