Power to the Colbert Speed

There is no quiet period in Google’s massive march towards world domination.  Paranoia in their quest to capitalize on the once-in-a-century opportunity is sometimes just too obvious. They are in a hurry and they are 10 times more scary than Microsoft. Specially for lot of startups out there.
This week’s acquisition is PeakStream. Colbert speed says [...]

Zombie attack in San Francisco

Only in Kalifornia:

(pic courtesy laughing squid)
Something along the lines of Critical Mass. Sounds fun.

Elementeo: Goal is to reduce your opponent’s IQ to zero

Kiddo you had me at your goal !

[Hat tip to venturebeat for this interview]
Idea sounds brilliant and kid’s story is typical silicon valley.

Flat world under microscope

This was bound to happen as it makes for such a juicy political resume builder. Outsourcing is a hot button and H1B visa is it’s most visible aspect. Business Week reports that Senators Chuck Grassley and Richard Durbin are going after leading outsourcing companies.
Unfortunately congress will put this under political arena and will run the [...]

Learning from the best

Google CEO sharing interesting insights on how Google tries to learn from other great companies:
..couple of positive analogies for Google, I think. One is Intel, one is Sony, and one is Dell. And I think each of them have strengths. Intel is easy. When they came over to visit with us, Larry and Sergey and [...]

Exhibit B, Attribution clause, badgeware and why application software vendors need to maintain their ego

It’s official. Open source battle when described in the context of application software is less about code freedom (beer or whatever) and it’s more about getting end-user attention. Logo is more important than the quality of the software.
Maybe Google economy principles have finally hit the enterprise software ecosystem and are now demanding better price-tag [...]

Yes on 87

Was looking for something interesting to talk about and then saw this ad on TV about proposition 87.

Hopefully this will get me beyond my blogger’s block. Go ahead and vote yes on 87.

How do you short a private web2.0 company

If there was a way to short a private company then I will go for Digg.
Digg lawyers  send C&D to similar named site called DiggGames. They did what they were getting paid for. Which is to protect Digg’s intellectual property interests. This is a totally legitimate way to protect company’s interests. Comments on TechCrunch [...]

Semaphore’s message is encrypted

From the FAQ section:
The message is encrypted, and until the code is cracked,the message San José Semaphore is communicating will not be generallyknown. If you are interested in cracking the code, you’ll find details here about the San José Semaphore decoding challenge.
Link is not working and that has increased my curiosity to know more about [...]

Liveblogging from Wordcamp

Trying live blogging for the first time. We are here at Wordcamp - first official Wordpress community conference. Finished “free” lunch (whoever said there is nothing like free lunch!) and generally having a good time here. Swedish American hall is ideally suited for this open source software’s meetup which is playing a major role [...]