Tag: business
Amazon’s cloud is the world’s 42nd fastest supercomputer
I posted about this on Twitter, but it’s still a little astonding.
Adobe donates Flex to foundation in community-friendly exit strategy
First Adobe kills Mobile Flash and now Flex looks like it’s about to wither away.
FeeFighters – FeeFighters Loses BBB Accreditation Over Investigative Blog Post
I’ve always felt the Better Business Bureau was a little scammy, nice to know they can’t take criticism as well.
NYTimes.com – Corporations Getting New Tools for Calculating Emissions
I would be skeptical of any tool able to reasonably estimate this in a meaningful way, just too many differences across the whole ecosystem of every product from the original ore being mined to manufacturing to shipping to use by the end user.
NYTimes.com – Deal Sites Have Fading Allure for Merchants
Oh yeah, right now is starting to look like a bad deal.
ZDNet – AVOS’ Delicious Disaster: Lessons from a Complete Failure
The second (maybe even third) great migration from Delicious is in effect only this time since exporting is broken, people are even more upset.
Zach Holman – Scaling GitHub’s Employees
Pretty cool read, the focus is on automating tasks so new employees don’t need to know a lot to get started and working, having teams that focus primarily on one single part of GitHub and reducing complexity.
NPR – OnStar Hits Reverse: It Won’t Keep Collecting Data From Old Customers
OnStar however still hasn’t changed it’s mind about selling data it collects from current customers at some point.
Ars Technica – Three Senators condemn OnStar for tracking former customers
Glad I don’t own a vehicle with OnStar installed. It’s more than a little sleazy to collect and sell information from former customers.
binary/organic – Fight Google or Use their Services: Pick One, not Both
Google is so awesome the people complaining about Google are using Google to do their complaining.