http://www.manyniches.com Jack of All Trades, Master of Some Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:29:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Something has been bothering me, and I couldn't quite put my finger on it for the longest time.  As I was digging my car out from our recent snow, I was enjoying the always pleasant and never controversial John C. Dvorak and his Cranky Geeks podcast.  The episode had a segment called "Google Must Die" and ... http://www.manyniches.com/entrepreneurs/google-net-neutrality-and-the-curious-case-of-lets-make-a-deal/ I've seen a couple of articles covering the announcement surrounding GOOG and Salesforce.com (SFDC) linking up their services, purportedly for the betterment of their collective customers.  It's interesting to see how the different players are coming together in the cloud space, and what alliances are being formed to create space and ... http://www.manyniches.com/cloudcomputing/forcecom-and-appengine-join-forces/ It seems that whenever I am talking with entrepreneurs who are looking to raise money, or are recently funded, and they find out that I went through the entire startup life cycle, from inception to something of a crash to salvation through sale, they ask me the same thing: "what ... http://www.manyniches.com/entrepreneurs/startup-mistakes-from-a-former-ceo-founder/ There's been quite a bit of chatter on the web about the Azure Services Platform.  Obviously I'm excited to see people talking about our new platform, especially when there is plenty of good, some bad, and some good if not somewhat rambling.  There will be no shortage of guessing as ... http://www.manyniches.com/cloudcomputing/cloud-strategy-a-question-of-motivations/ Just when you thought it was safe to start thinking about putting together all of those services into a composite app, the dreaded siren call of "whose neck do I choke" beckons.  If you ever plan to have an IT manager look at your application, get used to hearing that ... http://www.manyniches.com/cloudcomputing/the-mashup-conundrum/ For those of you who missed the SNL opener this evening, I think it's safe to say that McCain admitted he was going to lose when he showed up for a guest appearance.  This wasn't a funny skit, and in fact it showed him as quite unpresidential.  The jokes ... http://www.manyniches.com/fun-stuff/the-moment-john-knew-he-lost/ I'm not saying anything...but I do find the speculative fiction from the news types (this taken from news.com)  The next couple of days will be fast and furious, and there is no shortage of noise coming from the PDC.  I can't wait to take the muzzle off... http://www.manyniches.com/cloudcomputing/the-forthcoming-storm/ Just when you thought that technology had advanced the human conversation as far as it could possibly go, the leaders of the esteemed CNBC network give us their newest innovation.  First called out as the Octobox by Jon Stewart, he brought the new and improved Decabox to our attention this ... http://www.manyniches.com/fun-stuff/decabox-when-eight-is-enough/ You know, the funny thing about rallies in the market these days, especially the largest one day gain by a country mile, is that it's hard to know what's driving the move.  There's an old saying about the markets, and it relates to dead cats.  I am in no way ... http://www.manyniches.com/investing/rally-or-dead-cats/ As I work through my day job as the guy in charge of Cloud Services ecosystem development for Microsoft, I have the distinct pleasure of working on some very hard problems.  During my travels, I also get to spend time thinking about topics on which not much brain matter has ... http://www.manyniches.com/cloudcomputing/business-model-influencing-software-architecture/