Tag Archives: business

BBC News – Google kills off seven more products including Wave

So most of the prod­ucts make sense to kill off they either never gen­er­ated much trac­tion or were already sup­posed to be cut.

November 24, 2011 – 11:42 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Amazon’s cloud is the world’s 42nd fastest supercomputer

I posted about this on Twit­ter, but it’s still a lit­tle astonding.

November 16, 2011 – 12:45 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Computer Science, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Adobe donates Flex to foundation in community-friendly exit strategy

First Adobe kills Mobile Flash and now Flex looks like it’s about to wither away.

November 16, 2011 – 12:35 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, General News, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

FeeFighters – FeeFighters Loses BBB Accreditation Over Investigative Blog Post

I’ve always felt the Bet­ter Busi­ness Bureau was a lit­tle scammy, nice to know they can’t take crit­i­cism as well.

October 3, 2011 – 10:20 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Communication, Marketing, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – Corporations Getting New Tools for Calculating Emissions

I would be skep­ti­cal of any tool able to rea­son­ably esti­mate this in a mean­ing­ful way, just too many dif­fer­ences across the whole ecosys­tem of every prod­uct from the orig­i­nal ore being mined to man­u­fac­tur­ing to ship­ping to use by the end user.

October 3, 2011 – 10:14 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Economics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – Deal Sites Have Fading Allure for Merchants

Oh yeah, right now is start­ing to look like a bad deal.

October 2, 2011 – 6:53 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Marketing, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

ZDNet – AVOS’ Delicious Disaster: Lessons from a Complete Failure

The sec­ond (maybe even third) great migra­tion from Deli­cious is in effect only this time since export­ing is bro­ken, peo­ple are even more upset.

September 30, 2011 – 12:53 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Communication, Quick Posts, User Experience | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off