How to tell the new Intel SSDs from the old ones

Intel today announced faster and cheaper versions of their very impressive solid state hard drives (SSDs)...

Known and unknown unknowns

Jeff Atwood has an article revealing some things that I’ve learned about software and business in general: the dangerous belief in certainty...

Is the VP of Monetizing Synergy off today?

So, I’m a bit surprised that the upcoming Web version of Office isn’t based on Silverlight (Microsoft’s “rich internet application” framework)...

Google Maps goes physical, Gavin Newsom doing product endorsements

Walking to my client’s place this morning, I couldn’t help but wonder what-the-hell-is-that?..

Holy licensing costs, MasterCard

In one commercial, you’ll see Marlon Brando, Carols Santana, Marilyn Monroe and the Ramones, with a David Bowie tune in the background:..

Javascript is now strategic for Microsoft

In this video, Chris Bryant of Microsoft makes an offhand comment that the components of the new Microsoft Office 2010 for Web are “some of the biggest Javascript applications ever built”...

Subscription media consolidation gets started

There are rumors that Amazon is interested in buying Netflix. I like the idea, though it’s just one step toward the sort of subscription media consolidation that I outlined a while ago...

Pandora’s trying to change my tastes

I got nothing against Jon Secada, but that ain’t what I’m listening to, Pandora...

Is Wolfram Alpha too clever by half?

An excellent and exhaustive survey of Wolfram Alpha by Mencius Moldbug. I think he thinks like I do: an engineer that looks at user interface analytically...

The iPhone needs multi-tasking, stat

Joshua Topolsky offers a very funny and insightful take on the iPhone’s very fundamental flaw: it is designed for doing one thing at a time...