Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Future of the Web 11/30/2011 (p.m.)
[I want to start 2011 in a renewed spirit of generosity and sharing, so here are the complete PDFs of my last 3 books, for free; provided under a Creative Commons,non-commercial, share-alike, attribution license (see below). If you still want to buy the dead-tree versions of these books (or donate something for the free PDFs - yes, that's an option, too;), you can visit my Lulu Store, or go to Amazon.com, or check out my 'Paying for Gerd' page. You can also return the favor by blogging or tweeting of Facebook-liking my stuff. Thanks, and enjoy, and have a great 2011. Update: my free videos (50+ keynotes and presentations) are here, the iTunes podcast feed is here (just subscribe to download all videos to your iPod / iPad / iPhone, or computers), and my free slideshows (90+) are here, on Slideshare :)]
Posted from Diigo. The rest of Future of the Web group favorite links are here.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
OpenWeb 11/27/2011 (p.m.)
Spooked By Lax U.S. Data Privacy, European Firms Build Their Own Cloud Services
Draconian post-9/11 U.S. government surveillance statutes will cost U.S. economy as customers shop for cloud services elsewhere.
- - By Paul Merrell
A few recent legal developments affecting U.S. online privacy have rightfully troubled privacy advocates and civil libertarians on American soil. In addition to the Patriot Act's relaxed regulation of law enforcement's access to private data, recent court rulings have made it clear that U.S. authorities can secretly request data from tech companies without the user ever knowing.
If this seems objectionable from the standpoint of U.S. citizens, imagine how it looks to outsiders who are storing their data there. Some European companies who do business with U.S. technology companies are concerned enough to start looking elsewhere for infrastructure
Posted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
OpenWeb 11/20/2011 (p.m.)
Tiny USB Stick Brings Android to PCs, TVs | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Vaporware, but interesting. More info on the developers' website at
- - By Paul Merrell
Google has made no secret about its plans for Android. Smartphones and tablets are just the beginning — the company wants Android everywhere. And thanks to FXI Technologies’ Cotton Candy USB device, we may not have to wait long to see Android on more than just our mobile devices.
FXI essentially built an ultra-lean computer inside a small USB stick. Stick it into any device that supports USB storage, and Cotton Candy will register as a USB drive. From there, you can run the Android OS in a secure environment inside your desktop, courtesy of a Windows/OSX/Linux-compatible virtualization client embedded in the device.
Stick Cotton Candy into a computer, and Android will appear in a virtualized window on your desktop. But get this: The USB key also features an HDMI connector. This way, you can connect the stick to your TV and use Android on the big screen (though you’ll need some kind of secondary input device, like a Bluetooth mouse/keyboard combo, to get anything done.)
Five Reasons Why the Amazon Kindle Fire Will Light Up Enterprises | ZDNet
Posted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
OpenWeb 11/16/2011 (p.m.)
SendWrite - The easiest way to send a card
It's Kristallnacht for the Open Internet, free speech, right to assemble, the rule of law, and probable cause. SendWrie provides an easy to use means of sending digital letters to your congress critters.
- - By Gary Edwards
Posted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
OpenWeb 11/16/2011 (a.m.)
Page one of this extrordinary Business Insider interview of Ben Milne, founder of Dwolla. Lots of highlights on this 3 page article. An absolute must read. Dwolla is using the Web and mobile Web connectivity to truly disrupt the massive Credit Card transaction and payment industry. Built on top of the legacy Bank ACH payment and reconciliation system used by all Banks. This is awe-sum! A recent economic study claimed that 40% of all transactions is "interest payment". For Governments, it's 50%. The Banksters are getting their vig at every turn, with Credit Cards accounting for much of the productivity-sales formula of invest, build, service, and sell.
- - By Gary Edwards
- really strategic investors, which is what we did. One of our investors is a financial institution; one is a financial services company.
- Our investors do credit and debit processing for banks. So when you get a credit card from your bank, it's being issued by companies like them. Our investors are also distributing our product to financial institutions. So we've been building a payment network, and we can do it legally because of who our investors are.
Incredible interview with Ben Milne of Dwolla, the PayPal and Square killer that promises to take a huge chunk out of the Credit Card transaction industry. Incredible must read! This is page 2 out of four. Starts at: http://bit.ly/vzVUy3 excerpt: How does Dwolla work and how is it different from PayPal? With Dwolla, payments are made directly from your bank account. No credit or debit cards are allowed. And because they don't exist in the system, we don't have to bring the fees into the system. You can spend any amount of money and when you do that, the person on the other end doesn't have to pay 1, 2, 3 or 4%. They only pay $0.25 a transaction, which is especially helpful when it's $1,000, $2,000 or $5,000 transactions. Obviously PayPal becomes very cost prohibitive with those larger transactions. The biggest difference between ideas like this and a PayPal — and PayPal is a phenomenal idea, Square is too — is that those are built on top of networks like Visa and MasterCard. We're building our own.
- - By Gary Edwards
- The biggest difference between ideas like this and a PayPal — and PayPal is a phenomenal idea, Square is too — is that those are built on top of networks like Visa and MasterCard. We're building our own
- - By Gary Edwards
All banks are connected by one ACH system. Credit card companies utilize that same system to pay off your credit card charges. Banks internally set along that same system to move money in their own banks. This system in its own right is riddled with flaws — tons of fraud issues and waste and delays. If you've ever had a payment take a few days to clear, its because they're waiting on that ACH system.
We want to fix that system between the banks, take out the delays and make it instant. If we can create this ubiquitous cash layer of distribution between consumers and merchants and developers and financial institutions, that actually fixes the problem.- We don't believe in credit cards. We believe in authorization and in lower cost transfers. Our generation actually understands that when you buy sh*t, it comes out of your bank account and you have to pay for that.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
OpenWeb 11/11/2011 (a.m.)
Openbook - Connect and share whether you want to or not
Excellent search FaceBook service. The quote at the top of th epage explains why FaceBook users need to pay close attention to what FaceBook is doing to shred privacy: "They 'trust me". Dumb fucks." ..... Mark Zuckerberg, FaceBook
- - By Gary Edwards
China Telecom looking to expand into US consumer market, eyes 2012 launch - Engadget
- Instead of resting on its laurels as China's third-largest wireless provider, China Telecom is now looking to branch out into relatively uncharted waters -- namely, the US consumer market. In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Donald Tan, president of China Telecom Americas, confirmed that his company plans to bring its own branded wireless service to select US markets next year, in the hopes of capitalizing on the large Chinese communities and consumer bases scattered across the country.
- If the trial goes swimmingly, he added, China Telecom may expand it to Canada, as well, and would even consider purchasing or constructing its own network in the States (pending FCC approval, of course). The provider, which has already been marketing its services to US corporations for a decade, also has the capacity to spend "hundreds of millions or billions" on stateside acquisitions
Posted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.
OpenWeb 11/10/2011 (p.m.)
HTML5 Triumphant: Silverlight, Flash Both Discontinuing - Technology Review
- You could hardly ask for a more ringing endorsement of the future of HTML5 and a Web based on open, common standards than Adobe and Microsoft's near-simultaneous leaks announcing the impending disconinuation of their respective rich media browser plug-ins, Flash and Silverlight.
Deployment of IPv6 Begins : Comcast Voices | The Official Comcast Blog
Comcast has been conducting IPv6 technical trials in our production network for more than a year, and we've been working diligently on IPv6 deployment for over 6 years. After so many years of challenging preparatory work, significant technology investment, internal skills development, and close collaboration with our technology partners, I am incredibly pleased to announce that we've achieved another critical milestone in our transition to IPv6 — we have started the pilot market deployment of IPv6 to customers in selected markets!
We're now the first large ISP in North America to start deploying IPv6. This is a significant milestone not just inside our own company but also in the industry, particularly given the chicken and egg relationship between the availability of content and software that supports IPv6 and the deployment of IPv6 to end users.
This first phase will support certain types of directly connected CPE, where a single computer is connected directly to a cable modem. Subsequent phases in 2011 and 2012 will support home gateway devices and variable length prefixes.
Critically, our approach is "native dual stack" which means customers will get both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Some other ISPs that are less prepared may be using tunneling or large scale NAT in the network. Those approaches are likely to result in some applications (such as some real-time applications) breaking or seeming slow. Native dual stack, the approach we are using, avoids breaking or slowing applications and maintains a better and faster broadband Internet experience. Our customers buy Xfinity Internet service in large part for our great speeds, and they can rest assured that they won't have to slow down as the world transitions to IPv6, as we've "just said no to NAT" in this phase of our IPv6 transition.
- For all the key technical details, check out this complementary blog post from John Brzozowski.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
OpenWeb 11/10/2011 (a.m.)
Canonical's new partnerships for Ubuntu: A challenge in the enterprise space? | TechRepublic
Good article that tries to explain how Canonical is changing direction, and what that will mean for Linux. The explanation looks at a brief list of Canonical partnerships that the author believes are key to the new direction. Interesting stuff, but you have to follow the partnership links to grasp the impact :(
- - By Gary Edwards
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- - By Gary Edwards
- - By Gary Edwards
Beyond jQuery: JavaScript tools for the HTML5 generation | HTML5 - InfoWorld
Good article covering lots of JavaScript Libraries and their specific uses. excerpt: Over drinks, one person proclaimed, "No one programs in JavaScript, they just string together jQuery calls." This statement is certainly not true, but like a hand grenade, it gets close enough to make its point. jQuery sure seems to be everywhere, and with good reason: Its creators took all of the neat ideas from libraries like Prototype, Dojo, and Yahoo's YUI, then turned them into something that was just a tad easier to use. When jQuery nurtured fertile plug-in culture, the library became irreplaceable. One seemingly random estimate claimed that at least 70 percent of JavaScript is jQuery. While there is probably no scientific way to make such a blanket statement, the fact that someone would try is good enough.
- - By Gary Edwards
Posted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
OpenWeb 11/09/2011 (a.m.)
Google Notebook Alternatives and Similar Software - AlternativeTo.net
Excellent list of NoteBook alternatives to Google Notebook.
- - By Gary Edwards
Posted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.
OpenWeb 11/08/2011 (p.m.)
Mozilla Developers Testing Mobile OS - HotHardware
- Mozilla has been experimenting with an interesting idea called Boot 2 Gecko. Essentially, B2G (as it’s called) is a mobile operating system based on the Web, as opposed to what the project’s wiki calls “proprietary, single-vendor stacks”. Mozilla has something there--open Web technologies indeed increasingly provide an intriguing platform for lots of things, mobile and otherwise.
- New web APIs: build prototype APIs for exposing device and OS capabilities to content (Telephony, SMS, Camera, USB, Bluetooth, NFC, etc.)
- Privilege model: making sure that these new capabilities are safely exposed to pages and applications
- Booting: prototype a low-level substrate for an Android-compatible device
- Applications: choose and port or build apps to prove out and prioritize the power of the system
The developers on the B2G project are looking at the following areas:
Posted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.
Future of the Web 11/08/2011 (p.m.)
Wednesday, November 02, 2011
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