Búbosvöcsök

“That’s weird…” “It’s never done that before.” “It worked yesterday.” “How is that possible?” “It must be a hardware problem.” “What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?” “There is something funky in your data.” “I haven’t touched that module in…

See Michael Krigsman about rescueing projects. (Update: Chapter 2 is here)

[UPDATE: For real-world horror stories of IT vs Web 2.0, see this excellent ComputerWorld article] On my desk at work I have two ethernet cables. One is black and one is white. The black one is connected to our corporate...

It's been the blogospheric equivalent...

Yesterday the Wall Street Journal had an article entitled Why So Many Want to Create Facebook Applications which gives an overview of the burst of activity surrounding the three month old Facebook platform. If a gold rush, complete with dedicated VC funds targetting widget developers, around…

Iionnovate put up an audio interview with Google's Marissa Mayer. During the talk, Marissa names social networks as one of the biggest hot areas in technology today. She also mentions Orkut when asked about some of her favorite networks or network companies: I was part of Orkut here at Google as…