Posted on December 30th, 2009 by Carel
Filed under Business, Technology
A recent Forbes article on Google is a very interesting read. Here is an extract: Your day begins with a wake-up call from your Google Android phone. As you run to the shower, you hit Google News and check headlines, then Gmail. Your first appointment of the day has been moved to a new location; [...]
Posted on March 30th, 2008 by Carel
Filed under Entrepreneurship, South Africa, Technology, Venture Capital
Roelof Frederik Botha is a partner at Sequoia Capital, one of the most influential VC firms in the world. Sequoia has the highest rating on TheFunded website of 3.9. Here is his bio from the Sequoia website: Roelof Botha is a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital focusing on services and software investments. Prior to joining [...]
Posted on December 7th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Blogging, Technology
Well, not really… I recently started to see that many blog URLS omit the www. prefix, e.g., using only blog.beyond438.com instead of “www.blog.beyond438.com”, or “jeffnolan.com” instead of www.jeffnolan.com. Read all about the deprecation (I had to look up the word) of “www.”. The no-www.org site seems to be the definitive source. It’s a quick read [...]
Posted on August 17th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Business, Saas, Technology
Amazon and Google are launching some amazing services these days. Amazon’s services include: Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Simple Storage Service (S3) and now Flexible Payments Service. These services may be accessed via APIs (web services) and are used by developers to introduce new products and services. Amazon charges a small fee for using their [...]
Posted on February 7th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under SAP, Technology
Last year I wrote about SAP’s in-memory BI technology. Refer to SAP’s SDN portal for the latest info. Today I read about a partnership between Cognos and Google regarding enterprise search and BI. Sounds very interesting and may compete with SAP and Oracle’s BI offerings. The Cognos solution is built into Google’s OneBox appliance.
Posted on November 13th, 2006 by Carel
Filed under Technology
Recently Mark Shuttleworth hosted the Ubuntu Linux Developer’s Summit at Google in Mountain View. You can view his presentation on Google Video. Btw, the Google Developer’s site is an interesting place to find APIs for Google and other cool sites and tools. My teenage son uses Ubuntu on his Dell PC and so far he [...]
