Code vs. Technology
I find a lot of techy, geeky, software developer people are really interested in spending a lot of time talking about the code they're writing and really 'fun' binary shifting and operation puzzles.
Turns out I'm definitely not one of those people. I'm much more entertained by discussions of how technology is being used in new and innovative ways to improve lives and society. Not super high-level, stuck in the clouds, but somewhere above the code discussing specific applications and implementations and their effects.
The challenges, either known or unknown previous to the development of sites like the following, are what really interest me: Flickr, Backpack, Google, SidePilot, PubSub, Odeo, Amazon, or even thefacebook. None of them, with the exception of Google and possibly Amazon (because of scale), have any particularly difficult problems. What's cool about them to me is that they all solved some void in the market (in all these cases, the consumer internet market) in new and interesting ways. That's what really interests me.
Turns out I'm definitely not one of those people. I'm much more entertained by discussions of how technology is being used in new and innovative ways to improve lives and society. Not super high-level, stuck in the clouds, but somewhere above the code discussing specific applications and implementations and their effects.
The challenges, either known or unknown previous to the development of sites like the following, are what really interest me: Flickr, Backpack, Google, SidePilot, PubSub, Odeo, Amazon, or even thefacebook. None of them, with the exception of Google and possibly Amazon (because of scale), have any particularly difficult problems. What's cool about them to me is that they all solved some void in the market (in all these cases, the consumer internet market) in new and interesting ways. That's what really interests me.
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