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rev=”canonical” considered harmful (complete with sensible solution)
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Sites like http://tinyurl.com/ provide a very simple service: turning unwieldly but information rich URLs like http://samj.net/2009/04/open-letter-to-community-regarding-open.html into something more manageable like http://tinyurl.com/ceze29. This was traditionally useful for emails with
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An open letter to the community regarding “Open Cloud”
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.I write this letter in order to be 100% transparent with you about a new initiative that could prove critical to the development of computing and the Internet: the
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Introducing the Open Cloud Principles (OCP)
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.In light of the rapidly increasing (and at times questionable) use of the term “Open Cloud” I hereby propose the following (draft) set of principles, inspired by the Open
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Cloud Standards Roadmap
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Almost a year ago in “Cloud Standards: not so fast…” I explained why standardisation efforts were premature. A lot has happened in the interim and it is now time
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Crystal Ball: Apple’s $599 “iPad Touch” Netbook (with pictures)
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.They say a picture is worth a thousand words so how better to illustrate what I think an Apple “netbook” might look like than to design what I’d build
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On the Google Docs sharing security incident
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.I was just trying to respond to ZDnet’s hot-off-the-press article (The cloud bites back: Google bug shared private Google Docs data) about the recent Google Docs sharing vulnerability but
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Cloud Computing Types: Public Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Private Cloud
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.It’s no secret that I don’t very much like this whole private cloud or internal cloud concept (see here and here), on the basis that while advanced virtualisation technologies
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Cloud Computing Economics 101
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.I have finally got around to adding some of my cloud computing economics research in Wikipedia’s cloud computing article. I tried to maintain a neutral point of view but
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Netbooks, Notebooks and Cloud Computing
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.My response to the Are netbooks quietly driving us toward cloud computing? article turned into an article in its own right: I’ve been saying for a long time that
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Towards a Flash free YouTube killer (was: Adobe Flash penetration more like 50%)
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.A couple of days ago I wrote about Why Adobe Flash penetration is more like 50% than 99%, which resulted in a bunch of comments as well as a
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Lessons learnt the likely loss of the “netbook” trademark
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Reposted from the Save the Netbooks Blog: There’s a number of things that Psion could have done to avoid losing the “netbook” trademark. For a start, trademarks relate to
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Why Adobe Flash penetration is more like 50% than 99%
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Slashdot discussed PC PRO’s “99% Flash Player Penetration – Too Good to be True?” article today which prompted me to explain why I have always been dubious of Adobe’s