Whenever a company becomes wildly successful in a brief span of time, it naturally becomes an object of fascination for corporate executives and even the general public. More than that, it comes to be presented as a new model for business success. Reporters and scholars scour its history and its practices, looking to distill general lessons for other firms to copy. Google is no exception.
For all its success, Google is still a young company, and it has yet to be tested by adversity. We don’t even know whether its approach to management, and in particular its approach to innovation, is a cause of its success or a product of its success — a crucial distinction.
Interesting stuff. More here.
Wordpress 2.3.2 has been released. A few security flaws were fixed, some performance improvements implemented, and parts of the XMLRPC interface updated. However, most fixes centered around suppressing DB Errors, and providing more tools to the WP Developer when the constant WP_DEBUG is set to true. More details here.
This is going to be huge! Combine it with their other services, and you have maximum scalability for any project. Media Temple (my current host) may lose me after all of this comes out of beta. I am already using S3 for backups and will begin rolling it into all of my upcoming podcast projects. I’ve been flirting with this Ubuntu AMI (Amazon Machine Image) on their EC2 platform, with good results. Keep ‘em coming, Amazon.
Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. This service works in close conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), collectively providing the ability to store, process and query data sets in the cloud. These services are designed to make web-scale computing easier and more cost-effective for developers.
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Google Maps Mobile, has just been updated to add a slick new feature that helps pinpoint where you’re at using the Cell Towers for triangulation. If you have a GPS enabled phone, it will use that instead. Its pretty accurate, so far – usually pulling my location up within 3 meters (with my new Blackberry Curve II).
After the jump is a video explaining how it works.
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