Archive for October, 2008
Winning at Search: The Algorithm or The Infrastructure?
We are on the eve of Google announcing their search results for their 3Q. Google has become a major force in discovery and advertising by virtue of their ability to surface the closest result relevant to a user across the broadest set of queries on the Internet. Dozens of start-ups and certainly a few large [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Is Cloud Computing Stupid?
This was the supposition of Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation. As a venture investor hoping to invest in businesses that are ultimately profitable, with strong customer stickiness, and sustainable defensibility, you might be shocked to hear that I find some of Stallman’s assertions to be quite reasonable. The cloud does have the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )What is Cloud Computing?
Given Larry Ellison’s recent objections to the term “cloud computing”, and that I will likely write about the space often, I thought I would take a shot at defining things that get lumped into the term. I tend to agree that “cloud computing” is an abused term, but I believe if you parse the various [...]
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