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I used to think Guy Kawasaki was smart

Based on some stuff he’s written.

But huh?

Guess not.

As an entrepeneur, he doesn’t get it.

As an investor, I’m not convinced he gets it. I actually don’t base any investments on how much it would cost to build a pile. Beyond one’s faith that the people doing it can do it, it’s about the size of the market, revenue and the return on investment.

Thinking about uptime numbers for the top 20 websites

I was reading Om early today and saw Blogger, YouTube get F for downtime. Om was discussing Pingdom’s post Downtime in 2007 for the Alexa top 20 websites

And I found myself wondering how many of those sites are destination sites versus serving their customers’ pages under some-subdomain.some-other-domain.com

For example,

Does 4 hours and 47 minutes of downtime for blogger.com over-estimate or under-estimate the availability of myblog.blogspot.com?

Do I really care about the uptime for Microsoft’s main corporate site at microsoft.com when I’m using Microsoft Live or hotmail?

Does the uptime for comcast.net (which is a destination site) tell me anything about what I really care about: how often my comcast cable modem hangs?

Does the uptime for photobucket.com tell whether they’re better or worse at serving my images and video at i128.photobucket.com/my-account/?

It’s great to see craigslist.org do as well as most of the list because everyone seems to tell me that it their setup is modest and doesn’t require a large staff (there’s no 100 MWatt datacenters in their future).

9.5 hours until Java is open-sourced

Sun is releasing the source to Java SE, Java ME, and Glassfish in nine and a half hours, and then releasing the rest of the stuff around the spring of 2007.

Most interestingly they’re releasing it under the GPLv2 license. Floyd Marinescu has a great explanation as to ‘Why GPL?’.

Once it hit midnight eastern here I noticed a bunch of news articles coming out on the wire about it. CNET’s news.com, Javaworld, Mercury News, and the AP’s Tech Wire and I’m sure more are covering the news.

If you’re interested there is a webcast with Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green at 930am PST.

Thumpers are a better deal than "cheap" Apple XRaids

Using some of my numbers, Paul Murphy points out:

“In other words real results with the ZFS/X4500 combination easily exceed Apple’s marketing claims – and you get two thirds more disk for $4,000 less.”

when comparing Apple XServes+XRaid as a low-costs server+storage combination to the Sun x4500s.

A damning line is:

“Apple went from market leading performance for less than Dell and Sun to market trailing performance for more than Dell and Sun.”

For only $375, you too can find out about the 8 core principles of Web 2.0 and more!

I thought Nicolas Carr was joking when he wrapped up a post saying that the price tag for Tim O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices was $375 for the PDF.

But.

He was telling the truth.

And what’s up with Web 2.0 having “eight core patterns”?

I mean this from a larger perspective of Man.

Anyone else notice there is the Eightfold Path of the Budda and the Eight Beatitudes of Jesus (St. Augustine’s writing on the Sermon on the Mount are some of the best by the way).

See Nick? Once a classics-educated hippie, always a classics-educated hippie. But we all have to grown-up sometime.

Stuff I came across during the last week in October

Chris Bailey found a place in Eugene, Oregon named Taco Time and even thought to tag it textdrive.

Hmm … not very redundant my friends. One of Ian Foster’s requirements to call something a “grid” is a non-trivial QoS.

Nice to see a rule I learned in grad school codified in a book. Book Review: The No Asshole Rule by Robert Sutton

While chatting with Gruber, I learned about the Autocompletion Tip.

Feld discusses the transition of Small to Medium to Big but I don’t see where Small, Medium or Big is defined. It would be nice to see his definition because the SBA a “small” business as “one that is independently owned and operated and which is not dominant in its field of operation. In services this is generally less then $6.5 million in revenue.

Are Entrepreneurs Born or Made? I think they’re both.

An article like The Persistence of (Bad) Online Data always makes me think of Terrell’s ClaimID (I happen to also use claimid)

Good little study on page load times.

Search Startups Are Dead, Long Live Search Startups has a very gratifying second to last paragraph. Because I actually think of us as an emerging platform company. By the way, don’t ever “pitch” a “platform”.

A bit behind but Automattic released a major update to multi-user wordpress which is the software that powers wordpress.com.

Larry Ellison is such a capitalist it makes me tingle.

Yes I happen to know a provider where you could sign up for that just drop it in your Bingo disk.

Googles market valuation greater than IBM’s.

Check out the erlang-based web framework Erlyweb but if the link doesn’t work then it’s likely he realized that he left an “e” out of frameworks.

Fraser is saying Farewell S3, hello Bingo..

Charles River is doing supposedly simple $250000 seed investing.

Some guys at Amazon open sourced Carbonado. I love abstraction layers.

There’s a django book coming.

Reddit and Jotspot were both bought and it’s soooo all over the place, I’m not even going to link.

It’s nice to finally see things up on people’s sites with affiliate links.

There’s stuff going on about who is disclosing stuff or not. (like here and here) I think there’s going to be something in the “disclosing” space soon.

I went to the Vox launch party. Vox is neat, I have one but I doubt I’ll be posting there along with my parents. I guess I’m not far enough down the Lifecycle. Yet.

Ev bought his own company back. That’s ah … well … ummm … cool I guess.

Om talks about Parakey. Very interesting.

Snort fart.

That’s right youngins do it while you’re young and dumb. Lord knows it’s smarter than grad school (maybe) and Paul Graham is sort of correct in that it’s tough once you’re past 40.

Sun's Project Orangebox

Just in time for halloween.

Check out the I/O Panel and download the datasheet.

Tony Jaa kicks all kinds of ass

The plot of The Protector is so-so, but Tony Jaa …?

Tony Jaa kicks all kinds of ass.

First time I’ve felt like I was watching “a Bruce Lee” since Bruce Lee.

The JRuby guys get hired by Sun

In their own words

“The two core JRuby developers, myself and Thomas Enebo, will become employees at Sun Microsystems this month. Our charge? You guessed it…we’re being hired to work on JRuby full-time.”

And remember that they got a simple rails application running under jruby last May.

Tim Bray has some more on it

Well. Well.

Dell sells EMC storage

Dave is rightly happy about passing EMC in networked storage sales

The problem?

All of Dell’s SAN, NAS and iSCSI (“networked storage”) are EMCs.

66,581 EMC + 19,651 Dell = 86,232 terabytes

vs.

68,898 terabytes NetApp

Unless I’m missing something here?

{btw 86,232 TBs is 3,593 raw thumpers , nuts huh?}