This story (via Digg) suggests Gmail has a limit of 500 emails a day. Perhaps it’s just spam control – perhaps it’s the prelude to Google’s pay-for-use services, especially considering that they will introduce private label Gmail accounts.
Archives for 2006
Open Source kills innovation (?)
Posted on March 29, 2006 ·
Does Open Source really kill innovation? – debates Michael at SQLFusion, quoting from the Economist, Harvard, Infoworld and others. It’s worth reading – and considering that they are the company soon launching Open Source Fusion, you can guess what Michael’s answer is.
Full post here.
Tags: Open Source, Innovation, Software, SaaS, Open Source Fusion, SQLFusion
ajaxSketch Launched
Posted on March 29, 2006 ·
ajaxSketch, a Web-base tool for diagramming, flow charts, free hand drawing was launched today. This came just a week after it’s creator, Michael Robertson released ajaxWrite, which became both instantly popular and controversial. Popular, since within a week it was used to creat over half a million documents. Controversial, since it sparked a debate that it’s actually not AJAX but XUL, so perhaps it should be named xulWrite…
I’m a dumb user, not technical enough to follow those debates … and I don’t care anyway. What I do know is that I now have a folder named WebOffice in my FireFox with bookmarks for Writely, Thumbstacks (cool online Presentation tool – light Powerpoint-replacement, although I will be chastised for this), Vyew, Box.net, Zoho, Calcoolate … and a bunch of others. Today ajaxSketch joined the crowd. I think I’m gonna lose this race: before realize, I’ll have way too many WebOffice apps there, when I really should “standardize” on a handful. Michael Robertson is a guilty
party here: he promised to release a new app on ajaxLaunch.com every Wednesday, and so far he’s delivered.
Update (3/29): Since the announcement this afternoon, the US server had scarce availability, the European server was up, but slow. Now that they got TechCrunched, it won’t help… Oh, well, when Zillow was unavailable almost all of their launch day, nobody seemed to care except me – apparently it did not hurt them a single bit.
Tags: WebOffice, Web 2.0, AJAX, AJAX Office, ajaxWrite, ajaxLaunch, AjaxSketch, Writely, Thumbstacks, box.net
How a Good Name Turns out to be Crap – Literally
Posted on March 29, 2006 ·
(Updated)
TechCrunch gave a pretty positivie review of Jobby:
“Unlike other web 2.0 job sites like Indeed and Simply Hired (which aggregate job listings from around the web), Jobby takes information directly from job seekers, and then focuses on helping recruiters filter through job qualifications fast via tagging and tag filtering. The results are quite stunning”
A good review by Mike always helps, so all is fine for the beta-service … except … hm… apperently the name has a special meaning in Scottish slang:
“A Scots term for the brownish substance excreted from ones anus when the bowels are full or after a spicy cuisine.
Also the term for something that is disapproved of/ rubbish.” (source: Urban Dicitionary).
Yuck. 
That’s pretty bad. The Jobb(y)ers are lamenting the right course of action:
“So what’s the solution? The way I see it, we have three options.
1. Change our name.
2. Keep our name. Grin and bear it. After all, we showed the site to hundreds of people before anyone actually pointed this out. It’s pretty obscure… Right?
3. Change our logo to a little amorphous brown man in a lively plaid kilt.”
My vote is on #2, keep the name. Although I’d like to see someone come up with #3. 
Update : I guess now it’s fair to say these surfers in Hawaii had a jobby experience 
Update (3/31): Here’s a thorough data-driven analysis into how sh*t (I mean “jobby”) happens. More here, and from Guy Kawasaki.
Update (5/24): Jobby no longer… they got acquired by Jobber. Hope the deal was not … “jobby” (in Scottish). Congrat’s to the team. 
Update (7/16/07): Read/WriteWeb has a run-down of the 10 worst app names.
Tags: Jobby, job-search, indeed, simply hired, techcrunch, slang, urban dictionary, domains, domain names
Predicting Your Child Political Leaning
Posted on March 29, 2006 ·
I’ve previously written about and expressed my doubts of a Berkeley Study on how to predict your child’s political leaning in the future. A week later it’s on TV: CBS is making fun of the study, too.
Worth watching just for the cute kids being “interviewed”.
Tags: politics, conservatives, liberals, kids, humor
MySQL Acquires IBM and EMC…
Posted on March 28, 2006 ·
That’s really funny … details at Zack’s blog
Other acquisition-related news or rumors:
- Facebook on the Block: $2B, yeah, right.
- Google to Acquire the World
- Microsoft acquires the Catholic Church
- Microsoft and Oracle in Fight Again…
Tags: Facebook, MySQL, IBM, EMC, Oracle, Miscrosoft, Google, Acquisition, Humor
Computer Glitch Stops All Trains
Posted on March 28, 2006 ·
The Bay Area Rapid Transit is not so rapid today: ABC7 just announced that all BART trains are stopped at stations, due to a computer glitch. The BART spokesman does not know the reason (yet), but he stated they did a software upgrade today, and compared the situation to introducing a new version of Windows – a scary thought. 
Tags: BART, Transit, Traffic, Bay Area, San Franciso, SF Bay Area, computer glitch, windows
Dip Into a Beer-Spa
Posted on March 28, 2006 ·
The Chodovar Family brewery in Chodova Plana offers beer baths, beer massages and beer cosmetics in what may very well be the world’s first Beer Spa. I wonder if they are using Open Source Beer. 
I can’t wait to see a Wine Spa open in Napa – just make sure you dip in white, not red 
Tags: beer, spa, beer spa, health spa, Napa, wine, wine spa, wine country
Flickr Flicked Out
Posted on March 27, 2006 ·
Apologies for the somewhat crappy appearance of my blog, but I often use embedded photos from Flickr which appears to be flickering now. 
Tags: flickr
“And Now, Here They Are, The BEATLES!”
Posted on March 27, 2006 ·
Those were the famous words Ed Sullivan used to launch the Beatles (already hot in the UK) in the US. Here they are, back again: Apple vs. Apple.
“IT IS the ultimate battle of the generations over an image of a half-eaten piece of fruit.” claims the UK’s The Times. The New York Times also reports. Apple Corps, the business arm of the former Beatles and their heirs took Apple Computer to court for the third time.
- The first suit 1981 ended with a modest settlement of $80,000.
- The second one in 1991 settled for $26.5M
- The third … care to extrapolate?
It is the second, 1991 settlement that bound Apple Computer to steer clear of the music business, for which the Beatles’ company retains the famous trademark. Of course my third point above is a joke, I could not possibly predict the outcome of this lawsuit, but it’s no laughing matter, the least it will do, without considering the outcome is to divide the music fans into two camps. Hardcore Beatles fans might just take their business elsewhere. And if Apple (Steve’s Apple, not Sir Paul’s) has to pay up again … well .. this is the real thing folks, not the bogus rumors about Jobs dumping his stock.
Update (3/27): “ The best part? The case will be heard by (no joke): Mr. Justice Mann.” (via MacUser)
Related posts:
- For a 3rd Time, Two Apples Meet in Court…
- Apple Scruffs
- Apple to Meet Apple in Court
- Apple V, Apple: Defining Music In The Digital Age
- Apple Rock Stars Face Off Today in a London Courtroom
- Beatles, meet the Cluetrain
- Litigation Madness Week?
- Mr. Jobs, it’s almost time for your periodic contribution to the Beatles Preservation Fund
- A Hard Days Night (this one is a must-read, the story is told by weaving the titles of 24 Beatles songs together)
- Apple Vs Apple Legal Battle
- Who Owns The Word Apple?
- Apple Corps: Let it be…
Tags: Apple, itunes, ipod, Beatles, Lawsuit, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Steve Jobs, music
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