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He currently doesn't want to reveal that, but check his linkedin profile for some clues - http://www.linkedin.com/pub... - Amund Tveit

"Developing technology based on some things I've worked on before. I'm not leaving information systems, but neither am I working on search. This is going to be big, but the first sales might be tough since we're aiming high. After the first sales, it's going to be a landslide." - ⓞnor

I'm a developer and like SQL. I waist a lot of time trying to manipulate the OO layer, when many times writing my own queries would be much easier and more efficient. - Chip Ramsey

I'm not saying SQL and RDMS is always wrong. I have done my share of SQL and as you say, I always ends up writing SQL myself instead of using OO layers. I developed a tagging server (http://sourceforge.net/project...) using SQL directly. When you need more than two way relations, key-value stores aren't as well suited. I am currently using CouchDB for a project and the API and map-reduce views are sweet. - Knut

Knut those were my quotes and come from experience developing on those systems, following forums, and talking with developers. Many things in apps are simple gets/puts of structured objects. But many times you also want to know simple things like sums, averages, counts, top 10, etc while not having to do all the heavy lifting in application code. SQL is not the only option. MS has DryadLINQ, for example. But the point is scaling can't be complexity shifted to developers if adoption is to be wide. - Todd Hoff

If you look at CouchDB, you will see that you can do counts etc with map-reduce. You can write them very easily in javascript and you will have access through the same API you use to access key-value objects. Needless to say, you can to the same with map reduce on bigtable as well. As for scaling, I still don't agree. RDMS system are hard to scale and companies have traditionally hired database admins to tune them. I don't get how that should be harder with key-value stores. My experience is the opposite. - Knut

On who's cluster are you running the map-reduce jobs Knut? Interestingly enough map-reduce isn't part of Google App Engine. And this is more of declarative-compiled-into-map-reduce-etc is good versus hand-coding-the-same-thing-all-the-time is bad argument than RDBMs are great if you just give them a chance argument. - Todd Hoff

Congrats Evernote. You've made a big fan of me. - Keith - @tsudo

Congrats! - Susan Beebe

CONGRATULATIONS!!! - Adriana

Congratulations on winning the Crunchie! You had my vote for biggest impact on my life in 2008. (RTM had that honor for 2007. :) ) - Kate O'Neill

Congratulations! Nice to see one of my faovirte services be rewarded. - Knut from twhirl

Congrats. You guys are not only making people's lives easier but saving the environment as well. No more printing! - Brian Bufalo

Way to go and keep on going! - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Oh btw, the look in you face resembles your attitude at the time Ithink. You have mellowed over the years - Knut from twhirl

Roger: I find it disturbing that you knew his last name. I didn't. What sort of books *do* you read? - Bjørn

2nd page. Not clicked since trying out the text detection, which on Windows didn't help parse text from snapshots of book pages. - Christopher Galtenberg

Top Right of Front Screen - Johnny Worthington

Just restored my iPhone so currently on page 2, and will probably stay there. Its a great tool but I don't need it every day. - Dom Barnes

Evernote is on my first screen. I use it when I want to write something down or store a pic that I want to find later. - Knut from twhirl

1st page - Misha

1st screen - Kolomeetz

- Who's on first! - I don't know. - Third base! :) - Махатма Бугоганди

When are you going to ask a question for G1 users? Oh wait. There is no version for Android. - darodave