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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
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Google Retaliates Against Microsoft Bid For Yahoo! With Another Tier of Google Office Apps: Team Edition
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
I can’t help it. I love this rivalry.
However, to tell you the truth… it’s getting ugly folks.
In case you are just joining us today, here is the backstory… Microsoft and Google continue to fire “warning” salvos.
Sun buys MySQL, shoring up network computering. Oracle grins. Microsoft panics that things are shifting towards network computing faster than expected.
Microsoft reacts by bidding for Yahoo! at premium to speed up the deal during an election year. Google issues a hurriedly-written release objecting the merger.
And then, (just like in Final Fantasy when Active Time Battle in Final Fantasy), Google tells students, “you know what, dudes? You really don’t need to buy Microsoft Office this year since we are going into an economic slowdown. Get Google Apps Team Edition instead.” Teeheee.
Here is an excerpt from the press release:
Google Apps Team Edition lets colleagues and departments at work, or
study groups at school, immediately begin sharing information within a
domain. In addition, the Team Edition can easily be upgraded to Google
Apps Standard, Premier or Education Edition for full administrative
control, such as the ability to set default sharing options, decide
which applications are available on the network, or determine who has
access.
This is getting good.
Building Legos With SolidWorks Is Fun Fun Fun
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
This is a good practice of geometry. You use calipers to measure dimensions then use sketches to calculate how the solid is formed. Good exercise in applied geometry 
50th Anniversary: http://digg.com/world_news/Google_50th_anniversary_of_the_Lego_brick
Sunsetting Features In Web Product Development Process
Friday, December 14th, 2007
When you spend hours and hours writing code and developing a product, you may become attached. You may treat a section of code or a filename with tenderness and may never want to let it go.
Hmmm, I just read a post from the Google AdSense blog:
http://adsense.blogspot.com/2007/12/farewell-onsite-advertiser-sign-up.html
Ben raised an excellent point: “sunsetting” features is sometimes necessary to improve the overall ROI of a product. Of course, phasing out features does not require deletion from your library of tricks.
Just as companies like Toyota constantly research customer need, I also use Quality Function Deployment (QFD) to determine what customers really want and what they really need.
I often remove features based on the metrics and remove emotion from the design process… most of the time. 
