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7 April 2008 tagged app engine, Business, Development, google, Web with no comments
Some unstructured thoughts on Google exposing some big web-app hosting infrastructure:
- Obviously using this probably makes you acquisition-friendly and/or more hire-able to Google?
- But does the appearance of a service like this make it more attractive to leave Google? When do those FYIFV T-Shirts come out anyway?
- And if you used to work at Google, and you left, would this style of development be something you'd miss? Would you use a former employer's service as a leg-up in your new gig?
- Have enough people left Google trained in this style of web development to constitute a market segment in their own right?
- Is this a case of programmers commoditising their complements?
- It's probably a good thing that Techcrunch currently has the number 1 match for "google app engine" on Google, right?
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19 July 2005 tagged Business, Myspace with no comments
So now myspace has been bought by News Corp, does that mean Rupert Murdoch will automatically add himself as my friend? I hope so.
Seriously though, this is big news. I can't help thinking that the first comment at Many2Many isn't as much of a troll as it seems. Danah Boyd is usually spot on, but she seems to come across a little right on in that post, or is it just me?