Facebook: Initial State and Culture

In many systems, initial state has huge impact to the later development. Facebook’s initial users are students. They are relatively fine to disclose their real information, fine for others to know what they are doing.

Question is whether broader users are ok with this culture, when Facebook wants more users to join. At least I’m kind of hesitating.

Nick Carr's New Book: "Big Switch"

Thanks to bloglines.com. It allows me to be the first readers of Nick Carr's latest posts. And since I read his post Attention bloggers: "Big Switch" giveaway earlier than many other readers, I got his new book!

I'll try to write a review after reading his book. Initially, I can imagine data storage, data transportation and CPU cycles will become utility. One of the things that cannot become utility is business logic. Later, the difference of business logic, includes business process and business rules, will differentiate companies.