Comments on: Platforms and Technology Cottage Industries http://gigaom.com/2006/12/04/platforms-and-technology-cottage-industries/ Trusted Insights and Conversations on the Next Wave of Technology Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:14:33 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: The Future of Software » Blog Archive Designing the Future: One Tiny App at a Time « http://gigaom.com/2006/12/04/platforms-and-technology-cottage-industries/#comment-412854 The Future of Software » Blog Archive Designing the Future: One Tiny App at a Time « Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:17:55 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/04/platforms-and-technology-cottage-industries/#comment-412854 <p>[...] software titles are already taking on increasing importance in software usage and development. As we wrote earlier, In the past, we had a few platforms for lone coders who had financial limitations to scale their [...]</p> [...] software titles are already taking on increasing importance in software usage and development. As we wrote earlier, In the past, we had a few platforms for lone coders who had financial limitations to scale their [...]

]]> By: GigaOM Fichey launches Why? « http://gigaom.com/2006/12/04/platforms-and-technology-cottage-industries/#comment-389879 GigaOM Fichey launches Why? « Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:00:02 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/04/platforms-and-technology-cottage-industries/#comment-389879 <p>[...] by Om Malik Friday, July 27, 2007 at 12:58 PM PT | No comments Just because it is cheap to start a company, put together a Web-based product and get some attention, it doesn’t necessarily mean it is a [...]</p> [...] by Om Malik Friday, July 27, 2007 at 12:58 PM PT | No comments Just because it is cheap to start a company, put together a Web-based product and get some attention, it doesn’t necessarily mean it is a [...]

]]> By: alan patrick http://gigaom.com/2006/12/04/platforms-and-technology-cottage-industries/#comment-76475 alan patrick Tue, 05 Dec 2006 01:03:19 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/04/platforms-and-technology-cottage-industries/#comment-76475 <p>An app to manage email would be very useful!</p> <p>Its not a "river of data" so much as a sewer of cr*p :)</p> An app to manage email would be very useful!

Its not a “river of data” so much as a sewer of cr*p :)

]]> By: Hank Williams http://gigaom.com/2006/12/04/platforms-and-technology-cottage-industries/#comment-76474 Hank Williams Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:51:27 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/04/platforms-and-technology-cottage-industries/#comment-76474 <p>The only problem is that amazon's main service, S3, doesnt work very well. It was down most of friday and in the month of november there were numerous days where it seemed to be down for significant chunks of the day for a significant number of hours. I have noticed that it is often just painfully slow. When you go to amazon's website and it is running and s3 is down you realize that amazon is not really, at least yet, giving entrepreneurs industrial strength amazon infrastructure. They have not sufficiently explained their network architecture as other content services like Akamai do. Obviously s3 is way cheaper than akamai, but cheap just isnt a substitute for <em>working</em>. Its really got to be as good as any other CDN in order to be credible. And it is very far away from that now. More importantly, if there is a problem there appear to be nowhere to turn other than their web forums. There is no customer facing direct accountability. I'm not sure what their plan is but it would be great if you guys could coax Bezos to actually talk about the nuts and bolts of this thing and not just the grand vision.</p> The only problem is that amazon’s main service, S3, doesnt work very well. It was down most of friday and in the month of november there were numerous days where it seemed to be down for significant chunks of the day for a significant number of hours. I have noticed that it is often just painfully slow. When you go to amazon’s website and it is running and s3 is down you realize that amazon is not really, at least yet, giving entrepreneurs industrial strength amazon infrastructure. They have not sufficiently explained their network architecture as other content services like Akamai do. Obviously s3 is way cheaper than akamai, but cheap just isnt a substitute for working. Its really got to be as good as any other CDN in order to be credible. And it is very far away from that now. More importantly, if there is a problem there appear to be nowhere to turn other than their web forums. There is no customer facing direct accountability. I’m not sure what their plan is but it would be great if you guys could coax Bezos to actually talk about the nuts and bolts of this thing and not just the grand vision.

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