Year: 2012

Requiem For A Digg

Requiem For A Digg

To me, the most interesting aspect of the Digg story is just how much of a central role the service has played in the larger story of our current tech scene. It was a key catalyst in the era of social that we now live in. And the company’s diaspora has seeded many of the current crop of services we all use. In some ways, the sale to Betaworks really is the end of an era.

Stash – privately hosted Git repositories

As far as I am concerned, GitHub is the king and queen of applications in the git world.  But it has a downside that is not easy to work around: GitHub Enterprise is expensive.  Keeping code on GitHub infrastructure is not always allowed by authorities and such, and then things get really expensive.  That’s where, I think, Stash can come in.

Stash is a product of Atlassian, the same company that owns Jira, BitBucket, and a few other well-known developer tools.  Given that Stash has only been launched this year, and judging by the screenshots, GitHub probably provides more functionality.  But as I said earlier, GitHub’s price might be simply too high for some companies.

It’s also worth noting that both companies have recently received large investments (Atlassian got $60 million and GitHub got $100 million).  Since private repositories and in-house installations seem to be the primary source of income for both of them, I’m seeing a revved up competition between the two in the nearest future.

Tribute to MS Outlook

There was a time, when I used to love email.  I loved receiving email, and reading it.  Replying to email.  Or just writing up some new email.  Occasionally, forward email.  I loved searching through email.  Or categorizing it.  Or archiving email.  I loved quoting email.  And I loved email with attachments.  But now, I pretty much hate all of that.  Thank you, MS Outlook.

Weekly digest – 2012-07-15