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AWS filled a major gap in their offering with the addition of SimpleDB. Two things jumped out at me, the first being that it’s optimized for very large datasets and the second, more important as well, observation is that it’s designed around search indexes instead of schemas. There’s a lot more to be said about [...]
Maybe it’s not entirely fair to call The Curtis hotel in downtown Denver (14th Street & Curtis) the worst, it is likely that a La Quinta or Motel 6 would rank lower… Denver is fortunate to have a number of really fine hotels, including the Hyatt Regency and, my favorite, the Monaco Hotel. I am [...]
“It lets you SMS reminders to yourself”…. as opposed to, maybe, SMS’ing reminders to yourself? I know this service does something with search but I just don’t get it. The product is pretty straight forward. It lets you SMS reminders to yourself while you’re on the go. [From MobileCrunch » Forgetful? Text Kwiry Your Reminders]
13Dec
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Today we announced that the company has closed on a $12 million round of financing, led by Vista Ventures and with full participation of existing investors Mobius (Brad Feld) and Masthead (Rich Levandov). Lisa Reeves, my former colleague at SAP Ventures who left SAP this year to join Boulder-based VC VIsta Ventures, is leading for [...]
This post could also be called “the day DRM jumped the shark”. The momentum has definitely turned in favor of getting rid of DRM altogether, let’s hope that consumers vote with their dollars and choose DRM free content and hardware whenever possible. DRM free is a relative term but still represents an ideal we should [...]
Holy crap. It’s 1:37 into the video, pure pain. We’ve had some extraordinary ocean swell this last week, 1 experienced surfer and 2 professional crab fisherman have lost their lives. Most of this footage was shot over in Half Moon Bay; Ghost Tree is down by Pebble Beach. PS- keep in mind that the the [...]
On this day in 1792 King Louis XVI was tried for treason in France, of which he was found guilty and guillotined in Jan of 1793. While perhaps better known as the husband of Marie Antoinette, King Louis has a rather important role in American history. Throughout most of the Revolutionary War the Continental Congress [...]
Interesting article on sun spots, how they work and the historical impact on climate. Today’s climate change consensus is that man-made greenhouse gases are warming the world and that we must act to curb them to reduce the projected temperature increase estimated at probably between 1.8C and 4.0C by the century’s end. But throughout the [...]
Netvibes previewed their Ginger release and it looks to be impressive. I particularly like the social aspect but wonder, given the fact that this is being done everywhere, how many of these social networks the average user will have appetite for. At any rate, let’s hope this Ginger does better than the last Ginger. This [...]
Very sad to read this. I could write something about how this gives us all perspective, yada yada yada… but that’s just filling space that is best reserved for a moment of silence and prayer.