The Digital Platforms Code: A Pyrrhic Victory
Everyone is claiming the new Digital Platforms Bargaining Code as a win, but at what cost? Read More
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A Deep Dive Into Google, Facebook and Australian News
A long and detailed exploration of how we got to the point that the ACCC is planning to legislate to force Google and Facebook to pay more money to established Australian news businesses. Read More
Draft News Media and Digital Platforms Laws
Justin’s quick take on the proposed laws ACCC wants to pass so Australian News orgs can charge Google and Facebook rent. Read More
Google Share Details on Their Datacentre Network Evolution
On Tuesday at the ACM SIGCOMM 2015 conference in London, Google shared details, and I do mean details, on the way their internal datacentre networks are (or at least were) constructed. In a paper titled Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Clos Topologies and Centralized Control in Google’s Datacenter Network [PDF] the authors describe how… Read More
Interpreting Cloud Company Strategy
We’ve all seen the AWS numbers now, and hopefully looked at them in a bit more detail than just the headlines. I’ve written about cloud economics before, so let’s revisit things a little. The AWS business is apparently a roughly $6bn-a-year revenue business. That’s all external revenue from customers, not… Read More
AWS Financials Available. So Now What?
Last week we saw Amazon break out their AWS numbers as a separate segment for the first time, so of course, the entire tech press lost their collective minds and wrote reams about it. It’s bigger than we thought! It’s smaller than we thought! They have margin! OMG. I’ve previously… Read More
Rackspace is Right to Stay Out of the Cloud Price War
Rackspace have responded to the latest escalation of the price war between Google, Amazon, and Microsoft with exactly the right response. In an article at The Register, Rackspace very clearly state that they charge “premium prices for premium service” and explicitly differentiate themselves from “commodity providers of cloud infrastructure”. Rackspace… Read More
The Economics of the Cloud Wars
It looks like the Cloud Wars are well and truly on, with Google announcing major price drops, AWS following suit, and Microsoft joining in with drops in Azure pricing to match those of AWS. It got me to wondering about how this might end up. Google has been in the… Read More
Google + Wikipedia FTW
There was an image in the paper this weekend that was a parody of a well known painting. Actually, there were two: one was a parody of Edvard Munch’s The Scream, where they’d added a clown hat and clown makeup. I thought it fitting, since clowns are evil. I couldn’t… Read More
eigenmagic 2001
Google has set up a version of their index from 2001 as part of their 10th birthday celebrations. I did a quick search for eigenmagic on it, just to see if Google had noticed the site. Yep. :) Check it out here. If you check out the archived version on… Read More