I’ve switched from 1&1 to MediaTemple for my hosting needs. I’ve used 1&1 since 2004 and had good experiences with them. Now it’s time to grow up and use a real hosting provider. I am running on their GridServer (gs) which is a huge upgrade from 1&1 shared hosting. The future of hosting lies in [...]
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Monthly Archives December 2007
Compromise = Shitty Products
Compromise makes shitty products or product experiences. For some reason the Gatorade bottle is heavier than other products, thus making it more resistant. I’ve seen a lot of people using Gatorade or Propell bottles as water containers. That’s what I call free advertising. Helping your customers advertise is really important for branding.
The other one is [...]
Torrent Geek: 10 Most-Anticipated Movies of 2008
Nice list of 2008 upcoming movies. Dark Knight, Cloverfield, Ironman and Wanted look awesome.
Apple Thinks Ram is worth 6x More
Finally someone that is making sense of things. I can understand the high prices back when PPC reigned, but now that parts are commodity x86, it doesn’t seem all that fair. I am guessing most people just upgrade at Apple since they don’t know any better. It is not Apple-like to take advantage of these [...]
Macworld Rumor mill: iTunes movie rentals!
Don’t you love this time of year? With Christmas behind us, only one thing is on everyones mind: Not New Years, but rather the pre-Macworld rumor mill. As exiting as the actual event (or even more) is the sound of everybody giving “their two cents” on what will happen this year (would be a whole [...]
Macentine: When is a legally closed Mac site NOT a legally closed Mac site?
A big thank you to Macenstein for reporting this. As my feed reader kept updating the Think Secret website, with new articles, I just kept wondering: What the h@#l is going on there? Was it all a publicity stunt, or did he regret closing due to the bad press he got for digging in and/or [...]
Seth’s Blog: Exclusion
Seth Godin talks about exclusion to obtain exclusivity:
Limiting the supply of your service, or the quantity of your product, or being aggressive in who you sell to (and who you don’t) are all time-tested ways to build a killer brand. Humans like being insiders, and will work hard to create their own imaginary demarcations to [...]
MarsEdit Wins: I called it!
Congrats to Daniel Jalkut for winning a n Eddy Award for his MarEdit blogging client software. It is among my favorite mac apps right now (and I called it!).
(Via Red Sweater Blog.)
All in one PCs
Who would be stupid enough to buy a PC that is completely under the keyboard instead of behind the screen like an iMac or Gateway One? (ohh shit….I have a laptop!)
(Via Digg.)
Amazon launches a DB service
Building scalable web apps on a budget is increasingly easy with Amazon’s multiple Web Services. On demand cloud computing, storage and now SimpleDB. As described in their website:
Amazon SimpleDB is easy to use and provides the core functionality of a database - real-time lookup and simple querying of structured data - without the operational complexity. [...]