“The odd thing about this form of communication is that you’re more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings.” Kathleen Kelly aka shopgirl@aol.com (Meg Ryan) sent this e-mail to Joe Fox aka ny152@aol.com (Tom Hanks) in […]

“Okay, so this evening I’m going to announce the Exalogic Elastic Compute Cloud or a cloud in a box. [..]. And this is the Exalogic machine, hardware and software engineered to work together to run all of your applications, allow you to develop the applications then run the applications.” This statement could be one of […]

Once upon a time, let us say in 2004, Robbie Vann-Adibé, CEO of Ecast, a “digital jukebox” company, asked Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired magazine, the following question: what percentage of the 10,000 music albums available on the Ecast jukebox were sold at least one track per quarter. The “analog” normal answer would […]

In a previous post, I was quoting Joseph Licklider’s statement “people tend to overestimate what can be done in one year and to underestimate what can be done in five or ten years.” Let’s choose Google as an example. On the word of “Googled: The End of the World As We Know It” by Ken […]