What Is A Browser - Part 2
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
oogle has posted an interesting follow-up to their "What is a browser?" viral video that I posted about not long ago. The marketing strategy behind that first video becomes clear, as Google attempts to insert Chrome into the standard set of available browsers.

Wiki is a Technology Term
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
At the end of the day, wiki is a technology term. When I talk about EditMe with people who aren't in technology, the wiki term inevitably comes up. It usually means little or nothing to them, and the blank stare on their face and vague nod at the mention of Wikipedia is proof.

Usability Lesson: What is a browser?
Sunday, July 19, 2009
What is a browser? A friend on Twitter recently linked to this video from Google asking people on the street in Times Square this very basic technical question. You may be surprised at the answers they got.

Does PBworks Work?
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Earlier this week PBwiki changed its name to PBworks. Changing the name of a company with the kind of mind share PBwiki holds is significant. I?m sure there was a lot of hand-wringing over there about this decision. The move is clearly to establish more credibility in the corporate arena, where the term ?wiki? is soiled with connotations of insecurity and communism. This change happens at the same time that the company launched a Legal edition with special intranet features aimed at legal firms. You can see a business model emerging where PBworks will be the intranet software vendor of choice for their targeted markets and their software will move further and further from what is commonly considered a wiki. Framed that way, the new name makes sense.

New Amazon EC2 Pricing - Discount Calculation
Friday, March 13, 2009
Amazon has lowered their EC2 instance pricing with an annual commitment. The deal is you pay a fixed price up front for 1 or 3 years. For that, Amazon significantly lowers the cost per instance hour (you still only pay for the hours you use) and guarantees that an instance of the type you reserved will be available whenever you need it during your 1 or 3 year period. This is great for customers that run full time servers on EC2 or want to know that their 50 backup instances will be there in a pinch when they need them and are willing to pay for that assurance.

Per User Pricing is Detrimental to Adoption
Saturday, February 21, 2009

Wikis & CMS Provide Value in a Down Economy
Thursday, February 19, 2009