Archive for August, 2008

Google to launch app marketplace for Android

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Less than 10 days passed from my article "The future of operating systems" where I was suggesting that there are three more companies to launch app marketplaces (Google, Microsoft, Nokia) and Google made the move and announced the Android app marketplace. More on this article on Techcrunch. I am pretty sure ...

Your personal archive.org library

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

The last few weeks I have been using a site called Iterasi. It is a social bookmarking website but with an interesting twist; it let's you save a snapshot of any website and view it later. In other words, instead of simply saving an address like on Delicious you store ...

Amazon Elastic Block Store launches

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Amazon has just launched EBS (Elastic Block Store) which allows anyone to attach persistent, high-performance, high-availability block-level storage to an EC2 instance. For me basically this is the end of hosting to traditional companies and from now on all our projects will be hosted there. The easy of use and ...

The future of operating systems: my point of view

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

In the last few years there have been many changes in the world that were so expected that only few people talk about how they will change the future of personal computers. First of all I would like to summarize these changes and then analyze 4 different approaches on the ...