Asking your users to buy lifetime subscriptions to a service is an unconventional way to build a business. But in 2004 that’s what TextDrive did. But after those lifetime subscriptions were… Read more »
Node.js the event-driven programming language that is the darling of the real-time web world, is many things but it’s not a good business, nor is it applicable for all use cases,… Read more »
Node.js is enjoying enormous popularity in the developer world. A language born from the internal needs of a huge service provider to provide scalable and nonblocking services, it is receiving tremendous… Read more »
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) may be shelved by the U.S. House of Representatives, but the Senate’s PROTECT-IP Act (PIPA) still looms and Joyent CTO Jason Hoffman just can’t believe… Read more »
GigaOM’s Structure Big Data has been underway in New York today. Although unable to attend in person because of a prior commitment here in Belgium, I’ve been making odd moments of… Read more »