2 month ago
deusx : Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder | Technology | guardian.co.uk - "It's just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You'r
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3 month ago
deusx : Why Google Chrome Will Dominate | HaveMacWillBlog (aka Robin Bloor’s Blog) - "Chrome is the end of the browser and the beginning of the Cloud Client. These are quite different things. A Cloud Client is a flexible and configurable Interface in which an application can run. Whether the rest of the application is local or lives
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3 month ago
Linkorama : I'm in Your Google Docs, Reading Your Spreadsheets - Now an employee can accidentally drop it into the lap of a random outsider without even knowing that anything is amiss. That’s the power of cloud computing at work.
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3 month ago
joshua : Visualization Strategies: Text & Documents
Simon Willison : Visualization Strategies: Text & Documents - Visualization Strategies: Text & Documents. “List of ...” style posts usually make me want to stab someone with a fork; this is how that kind of post should be done—well researched, carefully written and, most importantly doesn’t call itself
Linkorama : Visualization Strategies: Text & Documents - The purpose can vary from highlighting specific relations to contrasting points or use of language, but all of the following methods focus on distilling a volume of text down to a visualization.
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4 month ago
veen : Open Source and Cloud Computing - O'Reilly Radar - "if you care about open source for the cloud, build on services that are designed to be federated rather than centralized. Architecture trumps licensing any time."
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4 month ago
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | The role of REST in Cloud Computing
deusx : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | The role of REST in Cloud Computing - "I am in no way saying that AtomPub is the solution. What I am pointing out is that if you want federation then you need to design your protocols and APIs RESTfully. In this example it is hypertext, link following, in the AtomPub spec that allows the
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Welcome to Web 3.0 - Marc Benioff on Now Your Other Computer is a Data Center
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6 month ago
nelson : Choosing BOINC projects - Very thoughtful collection of distributed computing projects
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6 month ago
Linkorama : Do You Trust Google to Resist Data Mining Across Services? - I don't think we were aiming at a Google weakness. Its a basic security requirement for enterprises
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6 month ago
nelson : cpushare.com - P2P cycle sharing. Why didn't I think of that? Note the open order book with the lack of buy orders
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6 month ago
deusx : jkOnTheRun: I'm taking the web-only challenge. Are you in? - "A paradigm shift. A glimpse into what I expect we'll see in the future. Namely: a centralized heavy-duty box for the home, but lighter, portable web devices for the home's inhabitants."
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deusx : Tinselman: The Mother of All Demos - "Douglas Engelbart's whirling vision of the future; it was the first public use of a mouse, as well as examples of cutting, copying, pasting, teleconferencing, video conferencing, email, and... hypertext. It's just too damn much for 1968!"
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7 month ago
joshua : Preparing For EC2 Persistent Storage
bmilleare : Preparing For EC2 Persistent Storage - Awesome write-up for preperation of persistent storage on AWS
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8 month ago
Simon Willison : Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes - Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes. You can store a snapshot of a storage volume to S3 with a single API call, making backups trivial.
Jeremy Zawodny : Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes - Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes: good to hear how well baked this appears to be
bmilleare : Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes - This is potentially game-changing in the cloud computing dept.
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8 month ago
nelson : google app engine thoughts - Google engineer boils down some of his experiences using it.
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8 month ago
nelson : Commodity cloud hosting - Doug Cutting, one of the smartest engineers I've ever met, argues for the importance of non-proprietary cloud computing technologies
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veen : Reaching for the Sky Through The Compute Clouds - ReadWriteWeb - "Is cloud computing a bad idea? Of course not. It is a wonderful, powerful idea. In this post, we explore the ideas behind cloud computing and argue that it will be an integral part of our future."
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veen : Demystifying Clouds - "In this article, I am going to try to demystify some of the hype around utility cloud computing and focus in on the companies that are providing cloud solutions and the technology components that they are using."
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Jeremy Zawodny : Trust.salesforce.com - System Status - Trust.salesforce.com - System Status: I like the idea of a public health dashboard like this
nelson : trust.salesforce.com - Amazing system status dashboard
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deusx : Feld Thoughts: The Treadputer - "A few months ago, I told Ross that I wanted to integrate a computer workstation into a treadmill so that I would work while I ran."
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11 month ago
deusx : 10 Incredible Old Computer Ads - "What the heck is electronic mail?!"
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12 month ago
deusx : Jupiter Brain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "A Jupiter Brain is a theoretical computing megastructure the size of a planet. Unlike a Matrioshka brain, a Jupiter Brain is optimized for minimum signal propagation delay, and so has a compact structure."
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12 month ago
nelson : Amazon SimpleDB - I give Amazon credit; they're doing very exciting things with web services
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13 month ago
deusx : open...: Proprietary Software Does Not Scale - "The whole point about cloud computing is that it has to be effectively infinite - the more people want, the more they get. You can't do that with software that requires some kind of licensing payment, unless it's flat-fee."
Simon Willison : Proprietary Software Does Not Scale - Proprietary Software Does Not Scale. I’ve been thinking this for a while: if you’re using software with a per-CPU license you can’t just roll it out as an image across a bunch of virtual machines when you need to.
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13 month ago
Linkorama : The Enterprise Outlook is Cloudy - Ultimately, information and capabilities will exist in the cloud, and most likely there will be more in the cloud than behind the firewall.
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