Archive for September, 2008

This Cloud Will Rain a Thousand Entrepreneurs

By Jorge Escobar at 29 September, 2008, 10:51 am

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For entrepreneurs, the web is like a sky full of possibilites. With very little investment they can go to their basement, code every night for two weeks and come out with the next Facebook.

But guess what happens if their little project gets picked up by a major blog like Slashdot or ReadWriteWeb. The site’s shared-hosting server gets pounded by millions of requests, and all of a sudden there’s a huge problem: They need money to buy more servers and a cabinet in an expensive datacenter.

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Wireframe Wonder to Speed Up Web Development

By Jorge Escobar at 24 September, 2008, 4:19 pm

ProtoShare is a tool that enables the creation of wireframes. But not any wireframe, mind you, but actual working wireframes. In effect, these wireframes are HTML snippets that the user is able to drag and drop on his canvas.

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So You Think Google is After the iPhone? Wrong!

By Jorge Escobar at 23 September, 2008, 12:13 pm

A number of articles today (and in the past months) have been covering the release of the first Android-powered phone, how it compares to the iPhone, and how it’ll affect Apple’s presence on the mobile business. Personally, I think it shouldn’t be compared with the iPhone at all.

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