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May 13, 2008
May 12, 2008
Overestimating trust
"I just went back to Linked In for the first time in a while, and have discovered that my total trusted network has burgeoned to 1,137,200 people, which really overestimates how much trust in people I have" -- Shel Israel, March 2005
May 11, 2008
What really matters
"Are we too fixated on identity? It's relationships that matter!" -- Jamie Lewis, September 2006
May 10, 2008
Someday, an intelligent operating system
"Some day, someone will design an operating system that actually understands what a user is, what a program is, what a document is, what configuration data is, what application data is, and it will know how to organize them on behalf of all those parties." -- Cameron Purdy, February 2004
May 07, 2008
Wanted: P2P address books
"Social networks are currently bad hacks that tell me we really need to add P2P protocols to address books so you can visualize your real social network instead of building a faux social network." -- Tim O'Reilly as quoted by David Weinberger, March 2004
May 06, 2008
Friendship isn't a transaction
"Friendship isn't a transaction, something almost no social networking service understands." -- Clay Shirky, March 2004
May 05, 2008
Databases need to support the Web
"City governments shouldn't have to go out of their way to provide web-facing data services and feeds. Databases should natively support them. That's the idea behind Astoria (ADO.NET Services)." -- Jon Udell, February 2008
May 04, 2008
Gears + VM = Control
"Of course I'll have to install Gears; I can?t do my job otherwise. But I'm inclined to do so in a virtual machine, because I prefer to keep control of what gets installed." -- Tim Anderson, May 2007
May 03, 2008
Software that works
"Over the last five years, there's been a quiet revolution under way, and it's not the dynamic language revolution, nor the REST-HTTP-SOAP revolution, nor the agile revolution, nor AJAX. It's not about containers or dependency injection or inversion of control or mock objects or unit testing or patterns or services or objects or aspects or meta-object protocols or domain-specific languages or model-driven architecture or any other fancy acronym and accompanying hype and marketing drivel. It's a revolution of pragmatism, of customers and clients and others turning to developers and saying, 'Enough is enough. I want software that works.'" -- Ted Neward, October 2006
May 02, 2008
YouTube time
"Two to three years is longer than it took for YouTube to incorporate, build out their infrastructure, scale their business to serve the entire planet - and get sold." -- Jonathan Schwartz, October 2006
