Web 2.0 is stuck in unscalable hell

This is a disturbing trend. Although I’ve hoped that it would self-correct as these companies have gotten older, a LOT of Web 2.0 companies are NOT scaling well at all. In fact the reverse is true, they seem to be totally overwhelmed and underprepared in dealing with…

The Technology Whiplash Effect on Push

Every so often, a brand new idea comes along in technology. This post is not about one of those ideas. This post is actually about an idea from 1997: Push. You see, push has suffered from the Technology Whiplash Effect for the past 9 years, and I think it’s…

The inner workings of spyware

I’ve always been curious about spyware companies. I mean, what other kind of company on the planet, aside from spammers, is directly focused on creating something that annoys people to death in order to make money? It’s like if a local business started throwing printed ads…

An Open Letter to Six Apart

Dear Six Apart,

You are skating on thin ice with me. TypePad, and my blog, was down for most of the day yesterday, and my domain name jasonkolb.com still doesn’t work to access my blog. If you expect to have any kind of significant lifespan as a Software…

Programming vs. Development

I just noticed that I usually call high-level coding (such as with Web services, ASP.NET and HTML) “coding” or “development”, while I call the low-level socket-connecting-bit-fiddling-plumbing-type stuff “programming”. I have no idea why. Javascript feels like programming to me too.

A Utility I Want

I would love a utility that connects Outlook to Amazon S3 so that I can push a button combo in Outlook and send the email to S3 where I can search the emails saved there at a later time, a la Gmail. It would keep my inbox clean and provide an online repository for emails I might want later, which…

Happy fourth of July

Celebrating 230 years without a tea tax.

A million monkeys writing blog posts

This is kind of funny and sad at the same time. I generally check out my trackback links to make sure they’re real sites, if they’re not I delete them. One thing I’ve noticed happening in the past month or so is that there are