Too old or too young?

Gartner said age does maater in IT … so, being in late 20s, am i too old to innovate in this fast changing world? am i too young to fight for a job in the top management team ? Why not starting a fresh new company? you may be the talented top management in this 1 man company ?!

=)

Amazon – wanna to be tech-giant ?

Amazon has a few move in tech service offering, which including :

1. Mechanical Turk
2. S3 – Simple Storage Service
3. SQS – SImple Queue Service
4. EC2 – Elastic Compute Cloud

I doubt if any tech companies offer the same coverage of services, from storage, computing power, message queue (or application intergation) to AI tasks processing platform. All these services are innovative, some in the tech involved, some for the cost saving. If Amazon keeps its pace with these technology business growth. One day, or sooner, it may be one of the tech giant.

Certainly, in the very beginning, the major customers of these services are those new startup or non IT companies in small size.  How long will it take to raise the level of reliability for these services to a level that capable for large enterprise solution, e.g. financial institution.  SAP has offered hosted services for its own system.  Maybe, one day, companies will not buy their own machine . . .

Future of Microsoft Office?

Zoho, one of the most successful web-based office, recently improve its usability with a QuickReader plugic. When you want to edit a web page, by just right click the link. Considering the functions provided by these web-based office nowadays, it may take maybe only 2-3 years (or event less) before people leaving microsoft office completely …. at least, in homes & schools.

Dynamic vs Static Page

At the moment blog / wiki that start bursting out … I am not qutie aware why static page is that important. At first, I was wonder if this would make people remember the links easier. But, you and I know that nowaday, no one remembers the website, but a brandname instead … so why static page ?

Okay, I got it now .. it is for search engine optimisation. With the increasing dependency on search engine, nothing would grow that fast without indexing !!!

Read Shimon’s post for a full explanation.

Facebook Clone in China

While facebook haven’t clear up its own roadmap, the clone in China “Xiaonei 校內網” was acquired by Oak Pacific Interactive.  It is so discouraging that a nearly “illegal” clone, does generate profit for the founder.  I fear that it would lead to more “illegal” clone in the market.  And it is a critical sign for degradation of creativity in the mainland China.

忽發奇想 – 網上新聞

傳統報紙漸被網上新聞媒體取代，不少傳媒都投放了不了資源。無可否認，新媒體的將來是肯定的。然而，基於個人喜好，始終 “報紙” 那種色彩繽紛、字體大小不一的標題，令人更容易選擇有興趣的資訊。如果可以將以往編輯與讀者互動的的過程，放到 web 2.0 的平台，又會是一件怎麼的事呢? News headline + Tag cloud ?

我諗點都會好過一版都係字，唔知點樣打點樣 . . .

Web 2.0 Photo Sharing Service … without limit ?

Flickr is currently imposing limit on free accounts. The exact quote is shown below :

You’ve run into one of the limits of a free account. Your free account will only display the most recent 200 photos you’ve uploaded. All of your photos beyond 200 will remain hidden from view until you either delete newer photos, or upgrade to a Pro account.

With such limit, flickr become less user-friendly (at least to me ..), so, any alternative offers service in similar quality ? zooomr, bubbleshare ?