I just posted to Clear Ink’s company blog: The market for Internet skills. The post is about the market for skills on Elance, the ratio of developers to open projects and how it might affect your choice of technology–whether you’re a provider or a consumer.
Archive for 2008
Microblogging needs tags on people, not content search
September 3rd, 2008
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Instead of searches on posts to microblogging platforms, there should be a system for tagging authors so that I can listen to people who are likely to say interesting things.
LinuxWorld 2008 and PHP Meetup
August 9th, 2008
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Computer science super genius and Python proselytizer JJ Behrens and I returned to LinuxWorld again this year. We’ve been doing this together for many years with only the pesky birth of a child interrupting my attendence. As JJ says, the conference was disappointing. It does seem like it’s on its last legs. The decline of [...]
Facebook is the new Google
August 6th, 2008
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I’ve been casually repeating the following aphorism, and Rick Marazzani nudged me to blog it. Microsoft is the new IBM. Google is the new Microsoft. Facebook is the new Google. In the 80s, it was said that no one was fired for picking IBM. Microsoft was the hot new innovator in the 80s. In the [...]
Quick notes on Facebook’s f8 08 developer conference
July 24th, 2008
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I went to f8 yesterday and I can’t say I had the best time in the world. I probably have more fun at LinuxWorld, but maybe my expectations are lower when I don’t pay $150 to get in. I was hoping to get some more juicy details about the platform, especially about the business side, [...]
