links for 2007-08-13

By Stephen O'Grady | @sogrady | August 12, 2007

Sam Ruby: Long Bets

“towards desktops with multiple CPU “cores”, and with direct access to terrabytes of data…, we are starting to find the notion that all the data you want is all is one place, all you have to do is form the right query to be increasingly a quaint one

(tags: samruby multicores databases megadata silos persistence)
What Do You Use Google Docs for?

in particular, note the comments

(tags: google docs spreadsheets productivity collaboration office)