And this is not about the recession. This is Amazon’s news that they are now putting some of their cloud in Europe. I have to say that I always thought that it always was in Europe. But I guess it is more in the EU now than it was (probably so that businesses that have to say that they host stuff in the EU can stay with that). Even so, it seems to be going against the grain a bit … Keep Reading
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Google Blogs the news and Danny Sullivan has an excellent summary of what the service does and currently doesn’t do.
Here is a 2-page spread from New YorK Magazine on Tom Stoppard.
Google is mainly (entirely?) working from scans (yes I know that there were no PDFs in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s). I am not sure that there are any current issues in the archive I couldnt see anything yet from the noughties (correction Popular Science is there up … Keep Reading
Why does this Guardian article about the Government putting aside £1 Billion to fund technology startups give me a gloomy feeling?
Somehow one knows that if the government does this, the bureaucracy will kill or at least stifle too many of the innovative companies that go with it. When we started in 2005/6 we wasted too much time (not a great deal thank heavens) talking to and negotiating with VCs and getting a small firms loan guarantee. That was a … Keep Reading
This week I have been dabbling with Twitter and its a very good source of topical references. If you would like to know what Tim O’Reilly or John Battelle are thinking about, then you will get lots of good ideas following them on Twitter. Or you can pick up JAFurtado’s tweets, which scatter plenty of topical technology and publishing references (I like the fact that some of them are in French or Spanish and Portuguese, although I can only cope … Keep Reading
Google were not much in evidence at the Online show at Olympia this week. But they were much in the mind of publishers and aggregators that I met. Its rather odd to be at a trade show where by far the biggest actor is not present, but the influence is pervasive. This got me to wondering how one might measure the Gravitational Pull of Google Book Search. One measure would be the number of published titles available through GBS compared … Keep Reading