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Google takes on the "Find a Hotel" problem
October 29, 2006 – 9:37 pm
If search is only 5% solved then searching for a hotel is most definitely in the 95% of unsolved problems. Below is a screenshot of the Google Search results for New York Hotel.
The extent of the problem is clear from the fact that the first organic search result isn’t even in New York.
Microsoft’s Live.com does [...]
Actually using Amazon EC2
October 8, 2006 – 8:24 pm
Demitrious Kelly has an absolutely fascinating blog about operations in a modern web environment.
The whole thing is worth reading, but his comments on the use of Amazon EC2 is particularly compelling.
Traditional OPS VS Amazon AWS (part 1)
Traditional OPS VS Amazon AWS (part 2)
Traditional OPS VS Amazon AWS (part 3)
MySQL on Amazon EC2 (my thoughts)
Reading his [...]
Enterprise 2.0: Data Syndication
September 24, 2006 – 11:11 pm
While Web 2.0 technologies have become very wide spread in consumer-facing websites, many enterprise developers have struggled to find anything relevant to their requirements (apart from some AJAX based UI improvements).
Recently, Bob Lee pointed out how useful Firefox live bookmarks are for keeping track of online documents.
I think this is the future for enterprise 2.0 [...]
Online Application Composition: Mashups++
September 12, 2006 – 3:53 am
One of the reasons I started this blog was to explore some more speculative ideas. Online Application Composition (OAC) is one of these ideas.
To some extent this idea this is inspired by Chris Anderson’s post on embedding Google Spreadsheet in a webpage. The real trigger, though, was Google’s release of the GData API for Google [...]
Why the most significant online infrastructure play of August wasn’t Elastic Computing
August 29, 2006 – 10:34 pm
Judging by the reaction to last week’s release of Elastic Computing by Amazon one might think they had done something that will redefine computing as we know it. In fact, it looks more like they have built a nice provisioning model around VPS hosting. Solving operational issues is worth noting of course, but I think [...]