WebApp Developer Call to Arms. The Romans are Coming!

Just got done reading an interesting article over on TechCrunch entitled Google, Rome, and Empire. It was a very interesting post in an analogy-stretched-too-far kind of way. But the more I’ve been thinking about it, the more the analogy fits.
The analogy is thus(here slightly modified): Google is building an infrastructure on the web that rivals [...]

Posted on December 24, 2009 at 4:20 pm by mlutter · Permalink · Comments Closed
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The Perfect Hardware Device

Netbooks are the big talk these days. I hate the idea. Why would I want to carry around an underpowered laptop? They may be smaller and cheaper than the more conventional laptops… but c’mon, you are still lugging around a device that is breakable, and doesn’t fit in your pocket. Worse, it’s underpowered compared to [...]

Posted on November 30, 2009 at 1:00 am by mlutter · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Twitter Holding out For $1 Billion

TechCrunch broke the news this morning that Google is in talks with Twitter about an acquisition. Latest gossip from TechCrunch is that Twitter founder @Ev wouldn’t sell even for a valuation of $1 billion. That’s pretty crazy money considering the valuation of $250 million at their last round of financing. Twitter has exploded in the [...]

Posted on April 3, 2009 at 3:59 pm by mlutter · Permalink · Comments Closed
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