August 2005 - Posts

• A Machine Century

  "The jobs collectively consumed almost exactly one machine-century." - Data analysis in the month of March at Google. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:07 AM by rbirkby | 0 Comments

• GTalk

  As everyone knows, Google launched a simple IM program. It turns out the author of that chat program was one of the early people on the ASP.Net team and developed the RegEx libraries in .Net (heavily used for parsing HTML for the ASP.Net processor). He's Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10:17 PM by rbirkby | 0 Comments

• Google releases an operating system

  ....or not... The FT writes : Google will today launch an upgrade to "Desktop", its free software that allows users to launch programs on their PC, in its latest encroachment on Microsoft's ground. The upgrade of the free software, which mirrors many Read More... Posted Monday, August 22, 2005 10:45 AM by rbirkby | 0 Comments