Just been reading an interesting article from the Register outlining how Ebay is looking into integrate Skype into their business. Its amazing that they see it as a lead generation tool for businesses.
I’m not sure if its worth $2B, especially once the telco’s around the world change their pricing models to integrate VOIP technology. I suppose the price was inflated by the other interested parties ie. Yahoo, Google, News corp etc.
I guess only time will tell….
Sphere: Related ContentI spent a bit of this afternoon setting up the Projectx website. Some of the technologies we used:
One of the great things about Typo is that it has support for static pages – so you can use it as a basic Content Management System (CMS). This means we can host both our company website and weblog with one software package.
And the best bit? Typo uses Ruby on Rails.
I’ve been a fan of CSS based design for a long time. Using CSS the layout instructions for projectx.co.nz are only 100 lines of code. It helps that Typo outputs clean xhtml markup.
We host all our sites on Linux and use Subversion to manage deployment. Because we’re using Ruby for most of our web applications – we use Lighttpd, a fast and modern webserver that works well for hosting applications on FastCGI.
Ruby, Lighttpd, Linux and Postgresql. It’s the LAMP stack for Web 2.0 companies.
Sphere: Related ContentI was using one of the local job sites the other day.
I entered Usability into the search box as one of the keywords. To my surprise the results were returning matches to the word “use”. I wasn’t interest in any those matches, just in the word “usability”. I tried putting the word within quotes, but that made no difference to the results. That’s so wrong!
Hmmm… I know stemming is a powerful part of search technology, but you need to rank the results properly. I think it would have been better a list of alternative matches – like Google’s “Did you mean….” technology.
On a related note, here is a really good report from 37 signals on the search capability of several US ecommerce sites. It provides some great insight on what is important when building search technology. Enjoy.
Sphere: Related ContentI find I am so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it’s the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain.’
“Red” Redding, Shawshank Redemption
I thought this was a fitting quote to start our company blog. We are very excited to start the journey of building a company from an idea into something big.
