8 September 2011 2 Comments

Creeping with the enemy

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For a long time, we’ve been watching Microsoft do its thing. We remember everyone having a 5.25-inch floppy with MS-DOS on it, as it was passed from PC to PC, spreading like kudzu across the nascent industry of localized computing. Whether Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Co. allowed that to happen deliberately or whether it [...]

1 July 2011 0 Comments

Google+: C-

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Matt Stanford of Experts Exchange had an interesting post the other day that talked about Google’s latest foray into the world of “something someone else does that we think we can do better”: Google+. Besides being a name only slight less annoying than anything beginning with an e-hyphen or an i followed by a capitalized [...]

15 June 2011 6 Comments

How Do You Know When Your Question and Answer Site Is Successful?

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In (very late, I know, but my son was smaller during the early rounds so I have an excuse) response to Jeff Atwood’s “Who’s Your Arch Enemy” where he notes a certain combination of search terms that return some results somehow equals “universally loathed” I give you: http://www.google.com/search?hl=&q=stackoverflow+sucks About 382,000 results (0.24 seconds) http://www.google.com/search?hl=&q=experts-exchange+sucks About [...]