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Nicholas Carr: The truthiness of Web 2.0
“Zillow’s flaw exposes a deeper problem with the Web 2.0 mashup model. Entrepreneurs are launching all sorts of sites and services that are built on data that they’re siphoning out of third-party sites and databases. Sometimes, the secondhand data is good; sometimes, it’s not. The process of chopping up […]
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Business Week: Taking On the Database Giants:
Switching to an open-source database can slash costs for one of the most expensive segments of the software budget by as much as 90%. “If you had told us four or five years ago we would be considering these types of products at the rate we are, I would […]
Joel Spolsky: What is Design?
Let’s design a trashcan for a city street corner, shall we?
Let me give you some design constraints.
It has to be pretty light, because the dustboys, er, sanitation engineers come by and they have to pick it up to dump the trash in the garbage truck.
Oh, and it has to be heavy, […]