Why it’s over
A few days ago, stimulated by the level of recent noise on the internets about open and closed and apps and HTML5 and walled gardens and governance models and why someone hates
Facebook getting the privacy conversation
I had low expectations for Charlie Rose’s interview with Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg. The subjects were certainly great gets for Rose and have plenty of interesting things to say. I just thought that Rose, who has never struck me as having a real affinity for technology interviews, would focus... Read More »
Gateway to Social Enterprise: Seven Days to Dreamforce
Fans of the TV series "Stargate SG-1" may have seen a DVD 'extra' interview with series actor Richard Dean Anderson: a conversation in which he called the Stargate (as best I recall) "the best stage prop ever conceived." The Stargate is better than a Star Trek transporter, and a whole... Read More »
The Need for Feeds
I used to work as a financial journalist for FNN, CNBC, and CNN. It was terrific fun. Even if you are not a financial news nerds like me, you have probably paid a little more attention to world markets lately. I’ve gotten reacquainted with CNBC, and that has me thinking... Read More »
Rumination, Inspiration, Innovation
Innovation may look like an act of invention, but it seems to me that the most important innovations begin with a question. More poetically, as RFK famously paraphrased GBS, "There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were... Read More »
The Bridges of Clöudigsberg
A system lacking adequate connections is crippled, in fundamental ways, compared to a system that might have "less" capability – but has better ways of bringing its power to bear on the problem you're trying to solve. That's the point I take away from the comments of Marine Corps Gen.... Read More »
When the Cloud Knows Where You Are
In a ZDNet post this afternoon, James Kendrick described a chance encounter that led to his installing Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle app on someone's iPhone – and narrated that person's pleased surprise in discovering that "It knows where I am in the book!" We see people fretting all the time about... Read More »
The Truth of Things is in the Cloud
"Why should we limit computers to the lies people tell them through keyboards?" Attributed by author Steven Levy to MIT hacker Bill Gosper, this challenge now comes one step closer to closure with today's announcement of Toyota Friend: a private social network, for Toyota customers and their cars, that will... Read More »
Incentives in Closed-Loop Clouds
In 1969, my family went to Disneyland and I was tall enough to drive alone on the Autopia. That rail-guided go-kart track left little discretion for strategy, and not much headroom for skill: as I recall, the hardest part was overcoming a stiff spring to hold the throttle all the... Read More »
Tell the Cloud to Remember to Forget
This week's brouhaha concerning iPhones' stored location data appears to be an artifact of forgetting to forget. This won't be the last time that someone suffers from a relatively novel problem: storage has gotten so cheap that it's getting hard to justify the effort involved in throwing things away. Beware,... Read More »
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