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hello, i'm yan

I am a photographer, entrepreneur, software engineer, guitarist, climber, and telemark skier

This blog is about startups, blogging, Ruby On Rails, virtualization and cloud computing, photography, customer service, marketing, ux and design, git, and lots more.

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Posts from August 2008

Storing your stuff online is not cloud computing

I’ve noticed people have been saying things like “I am cloud computing because my mail is now on gmail ZOMG”. Storing your mails on the internets is not cloud computing, it’s just online storage. Uploading pics from your phone directly to the web is not cloud computing. Google docs is not cloud computing. Just storing [...]


Does cold calling actually work for you IT firms?

I got another cold call today from an Indian IT outsourcing company, despite that it says not to cold call me on my linked-in profile (which I’m sure is the place they harvested my contact information from). Besides being extremely annoying, I wonder if this strategy actually works for them? How many times have you [...]