Deviant Abstraction

David Heinemeier Hansson speaks at Startup School from Manuel Martensen on Vimeo.

via The Long Tail

How does look like a “user generated” Web 2.0? For the answer, click on the link below.

This is simply a real, smart and cool idea.

I will try it and let you know.

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An interesting interview from Jeff Bezos. He discusses Amazon strategical thinking and how it is linked to its corporate culture. I am a big fan of them, although I wonder how it is really inside. There is in this big organisation always a wide gap between exec levels and regular people.

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This artist tells us all about how to make it in this post-Internet world and it resonates well with Chris Anderson’s Long Tail ideas: this is the long tail at work.

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This is simply one of the best career advice’s post I have read so far.

Excellent questions (as always with Guy) and insightful answers. They come from Penelope Trunk. I have actually added her book on my Amazon wishlist.

Having looked recently for a job for the first time in my life, it sounds right with what I have experienced and what I have felt.

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Some common ideas, but well written. Too bad the author doesn’t investigate further her analysis.

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This interview is quite old but a really interesting read. Reid has understood everything about social networks and entrepreneurship. Since it is his job, it is great for him and for us since he explains most of it in this text.

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Someone is going to tell you who he is in small things. A 404 page can be used for this purpose. Using the Wayback machine, this post describes the facts and his analysis.

Link and on Google’s core values

A completely cool blog post on a meeting between Craig Newsmark and bankers discussing Craigslist.

Some things seem to be really changing.

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The PC era is coming to an end according to Greg Papadopoulos, CTO of Sun. He claims only Amazon, Yahoo!, Google and so on would survive as a computer operator and revives infamous Thomas J. Watson misquote.

What can we think of his assertion, especially when you read this mostly from your PC?

• A lot of processes whether computer based or human based are sourced somewhere else from the base company. But a company still needs to create value and cannot do it simply by aggregating different providers. It needs to add something, somewhere, although this can be done from an outsourced data-centers, companies would still need some infrastructure.
• Most companies have already outsourced most of their IT, stored in remote data-center, so this is no news.
• Actually, the number of CPU sold is increasing so stating there will be only 5 computers in the world seems contradictory with the facts.

This annoucements look a big PR event. What is behind is commoditization of those hardware and the emerging of a whole new class of applications to manage and use those CPU. Peer to Peer seems the most relevant abstraction for this next revolution.

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