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Dec 9, 2010

I have sadly reached a point, where two things are happening with email despite my best efforts. First, I often write very short answers to emails. These answers could easily be perceived as rude even though that is not the ...

Dec 7, 2010

There are two bad habits in car drivers that I find quite annoying: not pulling into the intersection and not signaling turns. The two in combination can dramatically reduce the throughput of an intersection. Unfortunately, one of those intersections is ...

Dec 6, 2010

Early in 2009 we organized a one-day event in New York which we called "Hacking Education" -- the idea was to bring together people from different fields for a discussion on how to disrupt and improve education using technology in ...

Dec 4, 2010

There is so much going on with Wikileaks that it’s hard to know where to start. Here are some of the questions that I am thinking about:Will the cable leaks make diplomacy harder or easier? Is the answer different for ...

Dec 3, 2010

The team at 10gen has done an amazing job building and supporting MongoDB, a NoSQL database that supports both agile development and performance/scaling. This combination is particularly well suited to web development where frequent or continuous deployment are becoming the ...

Dec 2, 2010

Yesterday’s post about the Google-Groupon deal generated a lot of views and comments and two important lessons. First, on a “meta” level there was a lesson about blogging. While I had known this to some degree before, for stimulating dialog ...

Dec 1, 2010

On one hand I can understand Google’s aggressive interest in Groupon. Groupon appears to be one of the few companies that has cracked the code on making money from local businesses. Groupon’s revenues are rumored to be around $50 million ...

Nov 30, 2010

Whenever I have an idea for a blog post, I add it to a running list. The idea for today’s post came to me during Web 2 Summit and I wish I had posted it then because it would look ...

Nov 29, 2010

Over the holiday several events happened that illustrate that we are facing a clear and present danger to the freedom of the Internet.It started with the US government seizing a bunch of domains that were accused of participating in copyright ...