I just installed Google Voice on my T-Mobile Google Phone. (I’m sure that’s not the technical description of the model. I think it’s HTC something or other.) What stands out immediately is that Google Voice takes over the phone and does all the calling. All of it. When I call people from the phone, they [...]
Read More»I’m moderating the first panel of the day at Om’s Structure09 conference today.
If you’re at the conference please make sure you say “Hi”.
I was on a panel at Enterprise 2.0 yesterday about “Cloud Computing” providers and wanted to take the entire definite of “what is cloud computing?” from a different perspective.
As a consumer, I fundamentally want the entire technology stack for an application to
Just work
Just scale
Just tell me everything
Just works means that I tell an infrastructure that [...]
Read More»A little over a year ago Joyent was identified in a Forrester report as one of ten “Cloud Computing” companies to watch. The report was really the beginning of “Cloud Computing” being applied to those of us doing infrastructure and I think marks the point in time when the term really began to appear in [...]
Read More»Joyent is excited to announce the launch of our Summer Sale. The concept of this Sale is very straightforward. Buy any size Accelerator for one year and get the second year at no charge**.
Typically, when you buy a year long commitment with Joyent you already save significantly compared with 12 monthly charges. But now [...]
Joyent’s highly successful program that provides developers of Facebook applications with a free piece of the Joyent Cloud has been expanded. The expansion of the program enables us to better handle the ongoing massive demand for the program. This expansion continues to be supported by our long time sponsors Sun Startup Essentials.
We are now in [...]
As I mentioned last week, Joyent and Sun Startup Essentials teamed-up to sponsor the JSConf in Arlington, VA last week. I got back from the conference on Sunday, happy to be home, but full of energy from the conference. It was a great two days – lots of interesting people and lots of interesting talks. Chris and Laura Williams did an amazing job of putting on such a great event – the quality of the conference everything surrounding the conference would suggest that they were old hands at arranging things like this – apparently not the case however! Thanks, and well done, again.
Read More»I remember back in 2006 my good friend Greg McCarroll was involved in setting up the first London JavaScript Night – an evening of technical talks about anything JavaScript related in London. Anyway, it was a great night, well attended – about 50 people, which was way more people than was expected at the [...]
Read More»I/We wanted to thank everybody who was so kind to provide input over the past 5 – 6 days – here and through other vehicles. I have noted both the positive and negative. I will use both in formulating the go forward strategy.
Instead of commenting directly on each person’s input, I wanted to [...]
Hello Joyeurs
Having now spent a little over 4 weeks as the new VP Marketing at Joyent, I have to say that I am very excited about where the company is going in 2009. The Zeus announcement is only the beginning. Over the next several months you will see exciting new products, valuable new [...]
