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Backwards compatibility can kill you

By dlambert ⋅ July 31, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

Image via Wikipedia “Release early, release often.”  This is the Web 2.0 mantra, and it’s also a major guiding principle behind agile development proceses. In product development, conventional wisdom has it that first-to-market- or first-mover advantage is hugely important.  But for software products, this can kill you by painting your product into a corner from [...]

When’s the last time you used dial-up?

By dlambert ⋅ January 2, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

As a favor to a friend, I recently did some tech support for a guy who was having trouble getting his dial-up Internet connection to work properly.  Yes, that’s right – dial-up. Let me tell you – if you haven’t done this recently, it’s a real eye-opener.  Not that I’d wish it on anyone else, [...]

2.Ohio was Great!

By dlambert ⋅ October 11, 2008 ⋅ View Comments

Thanks to Ben Blanquera and Angela Siefer for putting on a terrific event tonight.  Reid Hoffman and Judy Estrin had some really insightful thoughts on innovation and networking, and Michael Nelson walked us through the effect of government policies on IT.  Craig Newmark also dropped by to add to the celebrity guest list. As a [...]

I Can Haz Mashups?

By dlambert ⋅ May 28, 2008 ⋅ View Comments

It’s a popular misconception that if you throw some SOAP, WCF, or J2EE service layers on top of an application, it’s automatically easy to integrate.  I place the blame for this misinformation squarely on PHB‘s and Gartner conferences, because this is simply a case of management by buzzwords.

A good friend of mine used to tell me all the time that the reason we’re entertained by a dancing bear isn’t that the bear dances well – it’s that the bear dances at all. 

Twitter: Snatching Defeat from the jaws of Victory

By dlambert ⋅ May 23, 2008 ⋅ View Comments

It’s rare these days that a Web 2.0 startup lands a round of financing, and the funding is completely overshadowed with bad news.  Twitter isn’t just shooting itself in the foot – it’s mowing itself down with a chain gun.

Problem #1 is uptime, or lack thereof.  Anyone who’s been on Twitter over the last month or so has experienced a *severe* up-again, down-again roller coaster ride at Twitter.  Every day, it seems like there’s an outage, and some of them have lasted for hours. 

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