Month: December 2006

Craigslist Whining

So when Bunch says Craigslist should run text ads and “pay for the college education of the 10s of displaced journalists across America losing their jobs everyday,” he’s attacking the wrong problem with the wrong solution. And to name laid-off or pensionless journalists as Craigslist’s victims instead of the victims of an industry that didn’t turn around fast enough? As Buckmaster says, that’s not the point.

comedy gold

Top Quark

Physicists have detected for the first time a subatomic particle, the top quark, produced without the simultaneous production of its antimatter partner – an extremely rare event. The discovery of the single top quark could help scientists better explain how the universe works and how objects acquire their mass, thereby assisting human understanding of the fundamental nature of the universe.

now about that higgs boson.

Mashup growth

And it’s not at all hard to see the value of providing APIs and opening them up on the Web. I often cite that Amazon’s most profitable products are its open Web services APIs which earned them over $200m in revenue last year alone. Though Amazon’s spending on its very innovative Web services products such as S3 and Mechanical Turk has declined, it’s also due to the fact that they’ve staked out a huge amount of territory and are years ahead of many of their competitors. So right now, the money in mashups is currently providing APIs, not necessarily in building the mashups themselves yet, at least out on the Web. But in the enterprise it may be a very different story as these new lightweight models for building applications primarily via rapid integration offers the potential to fundamentally revolutionize the economics of corporate software development.

nice ‘state of mashups’ article