mattjung

"Trying to solve the issues for the millions of small and medium sized enterprises out there that have real problems in a time of economic upheaval is smart, very smart.

But will these produce the big exits which VCs tend to demand? The jury is out"

In fact, I was wondering if someone who needs to talk out loud has a different approach of solving problems or if he has even has some shortcomings given that he is not able to keep things in his mind. When children learn reading at school, the first step is to read loud, then to understand what they read out loud. It takes considerably more efforts until a child is able to understand a text she is reading silently.

Nice link!

Seems that EC2 feels some competitive pressure...Yet a big move that kills the (superficial) cost-argument against the Amazon offer.

estimations...

We put "Founder" on it. Does this make a difference compared to Co-Founder (I'm not a native english speaker)?

Respect to Google! But I'm afraid the servers in Hong Kong will be blocked very soon.

This article may create a wrong attitude towards customers and business imo. I believe it is indispensable to go out and talk and listen to people instead relying only on online-tools (by the way, that's what 37signals always have done, too). A company that is happy to pass the sleep-test, is very likely to start drifting off...

I disagree. The same conviction could have happened in any other European country and very probably also in the United States. Any legal experts here?

How long would it have taken until such content had been removed at Hacker News? I guess not more than 30 minutes. Two months = #fail. A simple flag-feature would probably already do it... I hope Google draws the right conclusion from this failure.

I don't understand why Google was not able to remove the video - which was one of the most seen on the site - in time (means within few days instead of 2 months).

I totally agree that this device could replace the PC for many many people. I see the iPad as the universal remote-commander for all kind of media and entertainment. Imagine you could buy a film on iTunes and beam it into your television screen...

I wonder if it isn't a waste of energy to integrate with 10 different providers and to keep up with all API changes and being forced to find the best way to abstract all the different features of the providers into one interface...

http://mises.org/story/3280

Imagine the world without an abstraction called IP Layer.

Is this really a myth? Being the first means confronting different challenges than being niche or disrupting an existing market - like creating and educating the market. The most important point in this discussion is to be aware of the impact of being the first (if it is really true) and developing the appropriate marketing strategy.

Making money definitely doesn't take the same amount of practice as piano playing. You won't find a single world-class piano player who started playing when he was 20 years old. But you will find many successful entrepreneurs that started to get interest in making money in their twenties or even later. The main reason is that luck alone can make you rich, but will never transform you into a good piano player. It may help you in creating a business if money is your primary interest (e.g. Friedrich Flick), but it will even help you more when you do something that's fun (e.g. Steve Jobs).

I am really impressed by all those nifty moves Amazon has made in the last three years to become the major cloud infrastructure provider (I would have expected it from Google). Every step makes completely sense. They were able to reinvent themselves, something very rare for economic giants...

A simple yet inspiring idea...

A friend of mine trained himself to be able of lucid dreaming, but stopped with it when he began to have "nested" dreams - he thought that he woke up, but found himself in another dream (and that multiple times). That made him frightening.

thanks, that's exactly the service i thought of...

I agree that is by far not the end of the security discussion, especially, there is always that issue of trust towards the cloud provider itself. Do you trust Amazon's VPN, privacy mechanisms, etc. or do you prefer a third-party provider? Similar to: do you trust MS Firewall or the one of a third-party provider?

But I think it is more than only addressing perception - the alternative until today was building your own VPN by hand and dealing with all those dynamic IP addresses. Very awkward and error prone...

It allows enterprises to easily and securely integrate servers that run in the cloud with their own internal infrastructure via a VPN. This fosters hybrid environments (internal IT + cloud in parallel) and thereby lowers the barriers for migrating IT services incrementally to cloud services. It takes away one of the most cited obstacles for the adoption of cloud computing in enterprise IT: security.

This feature is maybe the most important one since EC2 was launched. It makes cloud computing enterprise ready...

The Billie-Jean-Story sounds very familiar to me. Improving things a thousand time until you understand that the first version,closest to the original idea, was the best...

I was originally thinking of the free version of Googles web-applications. Switching to Google Apps (the 50$ version) could effectively take away some of my concerns, especially support

Does anybody know how to get that book ("Four steps to Epiphany") in Europe - either as paperback or E-Book?

Because 1) the product is good enough for my needs and 2) because I know them and 3) I expect them to still be there in 5 years. There are probably tons of other similar products out there with the same simplicity and reliability (or even better), but why would I want to change to something that is not extremely better?

I Agree. But what's so special about this? Any startup must think about the defendability of its idea. Completing very obvious gaps in the Amazon-offering is surely hardly defendable.

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