Critical Masses Technology, Inc.

I am sitting on a draft of a rambling missive about folks noticing then increasing relevance of storage service offerings focusing on document-centric type of operations feeling vindicated by the Notes development model are missing the point. The point being?  It’s not that the model is suddenly relevant now, it’s just that it engenders the type of massive scaling that large sites and cloud services require.

Ever wonder what the deal with toxic fugue is? It's been a favorite topic of mine since the classic Simpsons Episode "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish." This article in today's NYTimes is enlightening.

Just a quick note on yesterday’s Chrome OS reveal by Google. Unless I’m missing something, there’s nothing new under the covers here. It seems as if the whole point of the “OS” is to provide a stripped down device-like environment for hosting a web browser.

I’ve been thinking a lot about Pubsubhubbub and the applicability of efficient but unreliable messaging services in the course of application development that affects me. Pubsubhubbuub, if you don’t know, is a Google-authored protocol that piggybacks onto ATOM RSS feeds to provide efficient updates of new content in the publish-subscribe model.