John Furrier
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Niche Startups You Might Miss
When you fire up your computer in the morning if you are like a lot of people, you eventually make it around to your feeds. If you are also like a lot of people, you have a boat load of feeds to scroll through, share on a link blog possibly, and read some of the ...
Client/Server Apps Making a Big Comeback
Since the growth of the internet in the late 90's and post .com bust companies have been trumpeting the delivery of applications/services via the web browser as the way of the future and declaring the death of "old", "dinasour" desktop client applications. There is a growing movement however back to client/server type applications that are ...
Jason Calacanis Makes No Apologies for Hiring a Hacker
According to numerous news reports and an explanation on Jason Calacanis’s personal blog, Mahalo has had in it’s employ a felon, a felon who will continue to work there until June 1st. It’s a sensational line, but when you examine the facts and delve past the headlines, it’s not nearly as big a deal as ...
Cloud Math: They Didn’t Have this Course at my School
Several days ago, Lori MacVittie posted at DevCentral on the problems with Cloud Math: It’s been a long time since I had the (mis)fortune to sit in a math class, so bear with me while I figure this out. In order to determine my daily budget for the application I am hosting with Google’s App ...
Zoho 2.0: The Most Microsoft-y Zoho Yet!
According to their company blog, Zoho 2.0 has just been released, and I have the exact same first impression as Frederic Lardinois over at ReadWriteWeb – it looks a whole lot like Word 2007: Clearly, this new interface, dubbed the MenuTab by Zoho, was inspired by Microsoft’s Ribbon interface, which is slowly becoming the standard ...
Green Tech Has The Steal Sign
Green Tech appears to have the steal sign as in there should be an over abundance of money pouring into the sector. Now, with a stroke of the pen, the U.S. government has become the largest global investor in green technology and is about to reignite the industry. "And that is a different ball game ...
Twitter Nation This Morning
Have no fear twitter’maniacs, I will do my best to catch you up on all things twitter that tweeted overnight! Seriously? Well sort of. As I was going through my feeds it seems like the most anyone can do these days is to find something twitter to write about. I found no less than seven ...
Is Your Head in the Clouds this February?
There is no doubt that the term cloud computing has been gaining mass adoption over the past 18 months amongst technology companies, especially the marketing departments. It was never more evident last month as I attended four events over four weeks covering a wide range of all things “cloud related”. We have gone from Application ...
Likaholix, Maybe Could Have Been
Likaholix, a company started by ex-Google employees Bindu Reddy who was a group product manager and Arvind Sundararajan who was a senior staff engineer, launched into a beta phase today. The sign up page says they are giving away approximately 3,000 invites. In this article here, they were giving away 200 of them. Somehow, I ...
Yahoo Hiring, and Maybe They Were Serious
Yahoo hiring? Someone has to be joking, right? I saw this tweet within the past hour, and thought, "Yeah, right, hiring or resume collecting?" Shortly after that, RWW broke the news on a Yahoo challenge to Facebook Connect. Yahoo! Updates, the company’s answer to Facebook Connect, became available on more than 600,000 websites today with ...
