Deviant Abstraction

Is a Joost-like with embedded aggregation features (they “parse” YouTube).

I do not really know what to think about this it, but it looks real cool… Although I do not really understand the research nor the consumer value. I will give it a try and let you know. I do not think we would not hear about it if it was not from Harvard.

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Issuu is something I have not yet fully understood. As always in those case, it looks wonderfully new. It seems to be a kind of YouTube for print.

As you can see, they have YouTubed this document. Both are awesome: the content and the presentation.

Update Issuu reader is destroying my lay out, so click on the link to see it.
Update Thanks to the team support, it is now working. Awesome support!

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Jealous? Take the test and enjoy the commercial for the US army (between they speak of army values… Where was the last time I heard the word value in France…).

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Commodity based open source storage software à la Red Hat GFS is it seems the next big wave. One of the reason is web companies use a lot of storage and cannot afford expensive NetApp or EMC hardware. They are also too small to create their own Distributed/clustered filesystems.

Solutions: open source with support as MySQL did it.

This is a quick win, since it is not particularly hard compared to the guaranteed lucrative market position, a company would gain. I guess VC are not interested in this market, as they were not in MySQL at their start.

In the meantime, Amazon S3 is gaining a lot of advance since its competitor are non existant yet.