Damn you apple...

You keep me strung out on your new junk.

API Freak-outs.

The more and more we use services that other people develop you will notice freak outs anytime one popular company decides to change one part of their API. Everyone that depends on your API needs to run around and change the way their code works with the API.

Apple decided to use Twitter as a single sign on service of iOS. This raises a huge question about API lock in for both company.

Internet birthplace to be preserved for future generations

Internet birthplace to be preserved for future generations: "

This is the room where the Internet was born, 3420 Boelter Hall at the University of California, Los Angeles.

This is the same room, 42 years later. Until recently, nobody knew exactly which room had housed the lab where the first ARPANET message was sent. But, now that it's been pinpointed as 3420 Boelter, there's work underway to restore the room to its 1969 appearance, and preserve it as a historic site. The Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site and Archive opens June 1st. The lower photo was taken during a pre-opening tour led by Paleofuture blogger, Matt Novak.

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Too Many Chefs....

You have heard the term: there is too many chefs in the kitchen. These last two weeks has been an exercise in information exchange, some of the wrong ways and some of the right.

I think one thing is for sure, I need to be more involved on the front end of each project than I have in the past.

a week looking back

So this was the week that we went live with our first store. Our site has been sitting on the server for a few months. We let it just sit there as we were waiting for product to ship to Amazon for warehousing.

One the product was received at Amazon we pushed our product live to our EBay store and started pumping stuff about it in Facebook.

The orders were one a day then two a day, now in the first week we are running of curtain products. A good thing for sure.

Our warehouse in the cloud

The cloud: it seems to be one of those buzzwords that people want for their business, yet they don't seem to completely understand what you can move to the cloud and what you can not.

One of the first onsite services that a business can offload to a third party provider. Some business will jump to a hosted solution they are familiar with, most of the time a hosted exchange system.

We have been hosting our websites because hosting it in house is just costly and who can provide the uptime that I data center can.

Can I move physical products like my warehouse filled with motorcycle parts? Of course you can. Using Amazon Fulfillment for warehouse in the cloud suddenly move physical inventory takes on a new model. With our products leaving the manufacture and going directly to Amazon, suddenly I don't need a physical building, I don't need a person to process the shipment.

This brings the E concept to a closed loop. My E Store truly becomes a "push a button to ship" process.

Report: USA tops when it comes to cyber-combat

Report: USA tops when it comes to cyber-combat: "

A survey of cyberspace says that the United States enjoys the honor of being the world's "top attack traffic source," accounting for 12 percent of all such malicious data—eight percent of the globe's in the third quarter of 2010.

This could represent the activities of 'infected hosts that are looking for other hosts to spread to, or it may represent brute force attempts to log in to other systems,' according to the Akamai Corporation's David Belson. It's all in the server maker's latest State of the Internet report (registration required).

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Evil no more?

3G is not 3G it’s Dial Up

Well I am spending the week with out DSL. Which means I am leaning on my iPhone 4 for most of my needs. I can pretty much do most things I need to do for server con-figs from my phone. The only issue I am having is uploading a file in the browser from my phone.

I am using USB Drive app to get files from my PC to my phone so that I can send out invoices. That is simple, it’s just uploading a file that I need to figure out.

You might ask, well why don’t you just tether your iPhone to your computer. Well here at my desk the coverage is very spotty. My iPhone sits and bounces from 3G to Edge and then back again. That gets me no where, not to mention that I would go over my 2GB cap in the first ten minutes.

Hopefully the modem will show up tomorrow and I will not be waiting until Friday for delivery.