Jason Calacanis about Seesmic:

I hated the name, I hated the design, and I wasn’t big on the concept of a video version of Twitter [...] Today I’m glad to say I was 100% wrong about Seesmic. I still hate the name, but I love where he has taken it. Video comments on [...]

Just discovered Songza,

Songza is the single best place to search for and listen to music on the Web. Find a song and listen immediately, in one place.

Like an Internet radio where you can choose the content, with a nice and elegant interface. Songza is legal, they pay for licenses. I just wonder how [...]

Duncan Riley:

It’s time to stop complaining and instead start looking for solutions which Twitter will never provide. If FriendFeed goes down this path I’m sure I won’t be alone is supporting them, and eventually abandoning Twitter altogether.

Not really fair to Twitter. Even if FriendFeed delivers, it’s also a lot more nosiy than Twitter; [...]

Call me “old school” but I’m going to bring a linklog on this blog.

See, I read tons of articles online and I generally don’t have time to write a deep insight about all of them but some are really worth reading — and sharing.

I used to share my links on Delicious and Twitter but since [...]

Android leader Andy Rubin said that Google could pick Git instead of Perforce as they move Android to open-source; they’re not even thinking about using Subversion.

Subversion we don’t think is enough of a repository to handle 11 million lines of code. If this is adopted, and there are 10,000 people checking out, it’ll [...]

Jason Fried comments the article Why Startup Fails from David Feinleib.

If the entrepreneur finds themselves in a situation they can’t control it’s almost certainly because they put themselves in that position — either by borrowing too much, spending too much, rushing too fast, creating a false sense of urgency, hiring the wrong people, [...]

Twitter communicates about their recent outages; a great post.

Our direction going forward is to replace our existing system, component-by-component, with parts that are designed from the ground up to meet the requirements that have emerged as Twitter has grown [...] We keep an eye on the public discussions about what our architecture should [...]

How do you structure your database using a distributed hash table like BigTable? The answer isn’t what you might expect. If you were thinking of translating relational models directly to BigTable then think again. The best way to implement joins with BigTable is: don’t.

Amen.