OpenWeb 12/06/2011 (a.m.)

• Survey: Companies Adopt the Cloud to Use Tablets, End Up Saving Less - ReadWriteCloud

  Tags: no_tag

  • Contrast this with an astounding 92% of Brazil-based firms, and 70% of Australia-based firms, reporting some degree of cost savings.
    • - By Gary Edwards
  • Only 10% of respondents claimed cost reduction as the key driver for their cloud adoption campaign.
    • - By Gary Edwards
  • 46% of U.S.-based businesses, said it was mainly to give employees greater options for accessing resources, including from tablets and smartphones.

• Mobile banking pioneer mFoundry nabs $18M from MasterCard, Intel Capital and others

  Good stuff. The Internet-payment sector is really heating up: Square, PayPal, mFoundry, Simple, and my favorite - DWOLLA. The credit-card-payment-industry is still in control, but you can see from the heavy investments they are making in Web based systems, that the mobility phenomenon has them concerned. Dwolla is my favorite because of the innovative way they connect direct to the bank accounts of users, cutting the transaction and reconciliation cost from credit card standard 2.75% o a FLAT $0.25 cents!!!! Outstanding. Could prove very disruptive.

  Tags: PayPal, Credit-Card-Payment-Industry, Dwolla, Web-Money, Internet-money, Internet-Transcaction-Payments

  • - By Gary Edwards
  • - By Gary Edwards

• I Don't Understand What Anyone Is Saying Anymore

  Precious stuff! And funny too:Summary statement:Abstract Valley Girl 2.0 Acronymitis Using Meaningless ExpressionsThis is when you combine the four diseases above. So you get phrases like, "You should meet this guy with the SIO. He's sort of this kind of social entrepreneur thinking outside of the box in the sustainability space and working on these ideas around sort of web-based social media, and he's in a round two capital raise in the VP space with the people at SVNP." How many times have you heard what you now recall to be precisely this sentence?This would all be funny if it weren't true. People just don't make sense anymore. You'll save yourself a lot of trouble if you internalize this. Observe it, deconstruct it, and appreciate just how ridiculous most business conversation has become.

  Tags: business-management, business-consulting, brain-jammer-language, valley-girl

  • - By Gary Edwards

• TripLingo | Mandarin for China

  TripLingo provides mobile Language assistance applications for the iOS and Android.  Assists with local idoms and prhasing for commonly used conversations and questions.  Geared to help world travelors.  Lots of languages to choose from!

  Tags: TripLingo, languages, translations

  • - By Gary Edwards

• 11 Groundbreaking Inventions Of 2011

  Extraordinary stuff. A few items in particular stood out for me: The Army Research Office's "Vibrating Belt"; TripLingo; DiDO, and the skin cell printer. Amazing stuff.

  Tags: groundbreaking-inventions

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 11/30/2011 (p.m.)

• Changing File Permissions Using cPanel Control Panel

  Tags: file permissions, change permissions, cpanel file manager, linux hosting, linux web hosting, cpanel, whm

  • - By Stanley Jones

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Future of the Web 11/30/2011 (p.m.)

• MediaFuturist: A gift for you: free PDFs of my last 3 books: Music 2.0, The End of Control, Friction is Fiction

  [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 :)]

  Tags: free, pdfs, music, 2.0, end, control, Gerd Leonhard

  • - By Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

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OpenWeb 11/29/2011 (p.m.)

• Restoring R1Soft CDP3 BackUp | Continuous Data Protection | Tutorial

  Tags: eukhost_backup_solutions, r1soft_cdp_3_backup, restore, tutorials, continuous_data_protection, data_security, remote_backup, back_up_services

  • - By Stanley Jones

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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.  

  Tags: cloud computing, data privacy

  • - 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

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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 .  Basic idea is a computer on a stick that can be plugged into either other computers or into an HDMI flatscreen TV. In the latter scenario, Bluetooth connectivity for keyboard/mouse combo, provided by e.g., a smartphone. The USB connection is v. 2.0, but I'll guess that USB 3.0 would soon be an option in newer models.  According to the specs it can run either Android or Ubunutu. If you check the developer's website, they definitely have their eyes on the growth in the numbers of HDMI-equipped TVs. Note that if delivered as described, this breaks boundaries of mobile devices, tending toward a convergence of TV monitors and mobile devices in an unexpected way. 

  Tags: Cloud-Computing, Android, Ubuntu, TV-Internet, mobile devices

  • - 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

  Tags: android, IPad, mindshare

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OpenWeb 11/18/2011 (p.m.)

• I2Mag-Internet & Design Inspiration Magazine

  Tags: Google, computer, internet, web, design, resources, tutorials, magazine

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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.

  Tags: SendWrite, Politics, Letters-to-Congress, Open-Web

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 11/16/2011 (a.m.)

• This 28-Year-Old's Startup Is Moving $350 Million And Wants To Completely Kill Credit Cards - Business Insider

  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.

  Tags: Dwolla, Banksters, Credit-Card-Payment-Industry

  • - 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.

• This 28-Year-Old's Startup Is Moving $350 Million And Wants To Completely Kill Credit Cards - Page 2 - Business Insider

  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.

  Tags: Banksters, PayPal, Square, Credit-Card-Payment-Industry, Dwolla, Ben-Milne

  • - 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.

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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

  Tags: Facebook, FaceBook-privacy

  • - By Gary Edwards

• China Telecom looking to expand into US consumer market, eyes 2012 launch - Engadget

  Tags: China, China Telecom, wireless networking, mobile devices

  • 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

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OpenWeb 11/10/2011 (p.m.)

• HTML5 Triumphant: Silverlight, Flash Both Discontinuing - Technology Review

  Tags: flash, silverlight, html5, HTML5 Wins

  • 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

  Tags: IPv6, Comcast

  • 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.

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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 :(

  Tags: Canonical, Ubuntu, Cloud-Computing

  • - By Gary Edwards
  • - By Gary Edwards
  • - 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.

  Tags: Javascript-library, JQuery, TreeSaver

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 11/09/2011 (a.m.)

• Google Notebook Alternatives and Similar Software - AlternativeTo.net

  Excellent list of NoteBook alternatives to Google Notebook.

  Tags: notebooks, gNotebook, google-notebook, springpad, evernote

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 11/08/2011 (p.m.)

• Mozilla Developers Testing Mobile OS - HotHardware

  Tags: Mozilla, web OS, B2G, boot to Gecko

  • 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.
    
    The developers on the B2G project are looking at the following areas:
    
    • 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

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Future of the Web 11/08/2011 (p.m.)

• Mozilla Developers Testing Mobile OS - HotHardware

  Tags: Mozilla, web OS, B2G, boot to Gecko

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OpenWeb 11/02/2011 (p.m.)

• G2One Network | the 360 degree digital studio - Website Development Company, Software Development Company, Search Engine Optimization, Branding

  Tags: Cloud-Computing, Google, HTML5, Computer, W3C, internet, software, web, development, digital, programming

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OpenWeb 11/01/2011 (a.m.)

• Sencha Announces Cloud Environment for Mobile Web HTML5 Developers

  Sencha.io is designed to give Web app developers the ability to synchronize and manage data in the cloud without having to write an excessive amount of code. For messaging, data management, login and deployment, Sencha claims that a few lines of Javascript will allow mobile Web developers to easily integrate these functions to apps built with HTML5.

  Tags: Sencha.io, mobile-apps, mobile-framework

  • - By Gary Edwards

• MobiUs Accelerates Mobile HTML5 Development, Aims to Kill Mobile Flash

  HTML5 development company appMobi is releasing a new browser today called MobiUs that will give mobile Web apps the same type of functionality that now is currently only enjoyed by native apps for platforms like iOS and Android. AppMobi thinks of MobiUs as the replacement for Flash in mobile - it renders mobile websites like a Flash extension would and gives developers device access in ways previously unavailable to in HTML5. MobiUs is technically a mobile browser. That is not the way appMobi thinks it will be used though. The company expects it to be function more like a browser extension. Like Flash, users will be prompted to download it once and from then it will just run in on the device.

  Tags: mobile-apps, mobile-web, ReadWriteWeb, appMobi, MobiUS

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 10/30/2011 (a.m.)

• This is what Firefox's built-in PDF reader looks like – Tech Products & Geek News | Geek.com

  Tags: PDF, Mozilla, Firefox, PDF.js, HTML5

  • Not long ago, Mozilla coders announced that they were starting to build PDF.js, a way to display Acrobat documents in the browser using pure web code. No longer will you have to fight with an external PDF plug-in in Firefox. Huzzah!

    Development on PDF.js has progressed to the point now where you can take an early peek at it. The restart-free add-on is available from the GitHub repository — just download the .XPI in Firefox and click to install.

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OpenWeb 10/27/2011 (p.m.)

• Node.js and the JavaScript Age — Cloud Computing News

  Tags: no_tag

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OpenWeb 10/22/2011 (p.m.)

• Google readies Google+ for push into the enterprise - Computerworld

  Tags: no_tag

• Silicon Publishing Brings HTML5 to Online Editing - MarketWatch

  Tags: no_tag

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OpenWeb 10/20/2011 (a.m.)

• Get an Email Alert when Somebody Logs in as Root

  Tags: email_alert_on_root_login, ssh_security, server_security, ssh_tutorials, web_hosting

  • - By Stanley Jones

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Federal Gestapo

Federal Gestapo is a new list i've started at Diigo. After reading through the slam of recent articles about the DOJ shutting down Gibson Guitar and seizing their assets without a shred of due process, i thought it time to start collecting evidence of Federal abuse. Interestingly, the Gibson Guitar story sent me to the Tenth Amendment movement, affectionately known to marxist-socialist-liberal big government tyranny types as "tenthers". The 10th Amendment is perhaps the most redundant of all Constitutional rights in that it restates the basic premise of our Constitutional Republic and the rational behind the USA Constitution: limited government. It further states that those powers not specifically reserved to the Federal Government belong to the States and the People (individuals rights). The USA Constitution is limited by the concept of "enumerated powers". These enumerated and limited powers are further explained through the Madisonian concept of balance of power first between the Federal government, the States and the People. Then between the executive, congressional and judicial branches of the Federal government. Tenthers simply insist that all Federal Government actions, rules and regulations should strictly adhere to the enumerated powers listed in the Constitution. Everything else belongs to the States and the People. Although the expansive and self serving interpretations of the Commerce Clause have all but shattered the Tenth Amendment, the movement is gradually clawing back the liberty of the American People and their Sovereign States. Primarily this seems to be accomplished by the judicial rulings of primacy; where State laws are considered primary to Federal Laws and regulations wherever they come in conflict. This is an interesting approach to cracking the near total Constitutional nullification that expansive interpretation of the Commerce Clause results in. Simply, if the power isn't enumerated and reserved to the Feds, primacy belongs to the State and the People. With this 10th Amendment primacy approach, there is no need to rule as to the Constitutionality of the Federal action and any Commerce Clause claim. The Tenth Amendment truly states the Madisonian Constitutional principle of "federalism". "Powers not granted to the federal government nor prohibited to the States by the Constitution are reserved, respectively, to the states or the people", wikipedia. 10th Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." In Mark Levine's book, "Liberty and Tyranny", he describes our Constitutional way of life as "ordered liberty". The Rule of Law and due process are integral to this concept of ordered liberty. And clearly, the Federal Gestapo tactics used on Gibson guitar are cause for alarm. Maybe i should have named my list "Tenthers"? Or "Ordered Liberty". Or "Liberty and Tyranny", which would be in tribute to the fine work our country's foremost Constitutional scholar, Mark Levine, has done. No matter though. Feel free to contribute by posting your bookmarks and comments to the Diigo "Federal Gestapo" list.

Official Gmail Blog: Faces of Gmail: Sarah Price

Official Gmail Blog: Faces of Gmail: Sarah Price: "Posted by Kathleen Chen, Consumer Operations In this month’s Faces of Gmail we’re profiling Sarah Price, our history-loving, lindy-hoppin..."

Blog: We The Stupid

We The Stupid: Ann Barnhardt on the National Debt Ceiling SCAM!

If your angry over the National Debt Ceiling Scam, you're not alone. Ann Barnhardt is fist pounding furious in this post at american Thinker. And with good reason. This is going to be a long battle. One thing i do disagree with her on though is where Obama will borrow the money to fund the $2.4 Trillion debt increase. She's right that no country in the world has $2.4 Trillion to lend us. But the Banksters have plenty!

Two weeks ago the GAO released the results of the first time ever inventory of the Federal Reserve Bankster Cartel. They found that the FRBC had created $16.1 Trillion of our money between 2009 and 2010, and passed that money to member Banksters, international Bankster associates, and too-big-to-fail Wall Street gamblers; at near zero percent interest. Combined with the the US TARP bailout, and the AiG - Fannie Mae - Freddie Mac bailouts, the total cost of converting Bankster debt to USA Taxpayer debt tops out at over $23.4 Trillion.

The Banksters are flush with dollars, but what are they going to invest in? It's said that the Federal Reserve owns somewhere between 70%- 80% of the US Treasury issued debt. The way this happens however is that the Federal Reserve first "lends" (at near 0%) created dollars to member Banksters. Then the Banksters purchase the Treasuries at 3.25% and up depending on the payout period per note. In effect, American Taxpayers get to borrow back their own money while paying the Banksters a hefty, risk free handling fee of at least 3.25%.

So, with $16.1 Trillion sloshing around, and not much too invest in, the Banksters really need Obama to borrow $2.4 Trillion, and spend a whole lot more. At some point this ponzi scheme will collapse, but not today. Least ways not until the Banksters can launder that $16.1 Trillion freebi. My guess is that the Banksters would like to turn the $16.1 Trill into 3.25% bonds, and then into land, indentured tax obligations (inter-generational), and investments in debt free third world countries - where the game of new world order begins anew.

Jaded, cynical, but very much awake and aware......

~ge~

iCloud enters the Web Productivity Platform race

Check out the "Write" document editing and collaboration portion of this iCloud demo video. "Write" is designed to be compatible with MSWord 97-2003. It's simple editing, but the collaboration is very cool. iCloud calls the technique a shared "drop zone". A colleague is invited via instant messaging to share a drop zone. This results in a split screen displaying two iCloud desktops. The Write document is then dragged and dropped by the author into this drop zone, creating two instances of the document. there are a number of "virtual desktop" variations. I guess the first level of vd would be the Citrix, VMWare, Microsoft class of a virtual OS running within a native OS window. A second level of vd would be that of desktop productivity application suites running on a Web server and delivered to a desktop through a browser with "data" having to be managed, uploaded and synced separately. A third level would be cloud virtual desktops/OS where the local folders of data and documents are synced to a Web server, and full productivity application suites and services are delivered entirely through a Web browser. iCloud is in this third level of cloud based virtual desktop/OS. iCloud applications and services compete with the Google and Zoho productivity platform, Microsoft BPOS, Stoneware WebOS, and Glide OS in that they offer a full suite of alternative cloud based applications and services similar to the legacy Windows desktop productivity suite of integrated applications and services. iCloud also competes with cloud based storage services such as DropBox and Box.net. Like Box.net, iCloud offers an easy to use right-click method for uploading, syncing and sharing any local file folder. Where Box.net seems to aim for the Web Document and Content Management market sector, iCloud clearly targets this emerging concept of a cloud based desktop. One last point of interest concerning iCloud is the API and global inclusiveness demonstrated by the developer community behind iCloud. The basic challenge facing the Web cloud-computing model is that of provisioning a Web productivity platform with the internal messaging and data connections that applications ans services need to exchange information. The legacy Windows desktop productivity environment featured internal technologies like copy/paste, DDE, OLE, ODBC, MAPI, ActiveX and now the .NET-WPF generation of Silverlight controls. A Web Productivity Platform initiative has to provisions for a similar internal messaging and connectivity if it's to be an effective replacement for the aging Windows productivity environment anchored by MSOffice. It's often been said that the name of the game in Silicon Valley has always been "platform". As SalesForce.com's CEO Marc Benioff pointed out in a Q&A with Tim Anderson, there comes a point in time when customers of a platform vendor start writing their business processes to that system. When this happens, they are committing to that platform for the long haul. It's one thing to move data and documents, and another to move a business process bound to platform specific applications and internal messaging services.

In fact, this is the lesson of Massachusetts. It wasn't converting the MSOffice binary documents that stopped ODF. The problem is Reuter's Rule; conversion breaks documents. And it does so in two important ways; fidelity and internal process logic.

Years of Windows desktop productivity development and the critical day-to-day use of business processes based on client/server compound documents, forms and reports established MSOffice as the anchor of many a workgroup environment. These compound documents are the fuel of local windows desktop productivity bound business systems. Convert the compound documents, and you break the business process.

If conversion fidelity had been the only issue, ODF would have easily succeeded! But as Massachusetts discovered, breaking a business process is very disruptive and costly. No matter how sincere and willing a workforce, if they can't get their work done any kind of transition to a newer, faster, cheaper, better system will fail.

iCloud is clearly worth watching. Stoneware would be my choice as the Web Productivity leader primarily because of their attention to the transition phase of moving business processes and systems from the Windows desktop to the Web. They have really given some serious thought to easing the disruptive cost entailed.

Google of course has some clear advantages. Like gMail, gVoice, gDocs, gMaps and a scalable cloud-computing expertise and infrastructure to die for. They have loosely integrated applications and services that hopefully will come together some day. Native Client "Web" conversion of legacy C and C++ code, and Chrome OS are truly exciting. Most of all though Google has a profit model beyond the reach of anyone else excepting perhaps a Facebook-Microsoft coalition.

There be interesting times ahead of us.

~ge~

OpenWeb 05/19/2010 (a.m.)

• Droopy: easy file receiving – stackp

  Droopy: easy file receiving What is it ? Droopy is a mini Web server whose sole purpose is to let others upload files to your computer.

  Tags: download, file-exchange, droopy, web-server

  • - By Gary Edwards

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Future of the Web 04/27/2010 (a.m.)

• 1.5 million Facebook accounts offered for sale

  Tags: facebook, cybercrime, socialengeneering

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OpenWeb 04/05/2010 (p.m.)

• Mobile Data Surpasses Voice Traffic For First Time - HotHardware

  Tags: mobile usage statistics, mobile devices, mobile web

  • Total mobile data traffic topped mobile voice traffic in the United States last year, for the first time.
    
    In fact, globally, data traffic (that includes SMS text messaging) topped voice traffic on a monthly basis last year and the total traffic across the world exceeded an exabyte for the first time in 2009, according to a report just released by Chetan Sharma Consulting, a leading strategist in the mobile industry (clients include AT&T and China Mobile).

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Future of the Web 04/05/2010 (p.m.)

• Mobile Data Surpasses Voice Traffic For First Time - HotHardware

  Tags: mobile usage statistics, mobile devices, mobile web

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OpenWeb 02/24/2010 (p.m.)

• Mobile Cloud Computing: $9.5 Billion by 2014

  I left a lengthy comment on this very good article. excerpt: According to the latest study from Juniper Research, the market for cloud-based mobile applications will grow 88% from 2009 to 2014. The market was just over $400 million this past year, says Juniper, but by 2014 it will reach $9.5 billion. Driving this growth will be the adoption of the new web standard HTML5, increased mobile broadband coverage and the need for always-on collaborative services for the enterprise. Cloud Apps in your Pocket Mobile cloud computing is a term that refers to an infrastructure where both the data storage and the data processing happen outside of the mobile device from which an application is launched. To the typical consumer, a cloud-based mobile application looks and feels just like any app purchased or downloaded from a mobile application store like iTunes. However, the app is driven from the "cloud," not from the handheld device itself. There are already a few well-known mobile cloud apps out there including Google's Gmail and Google Voice for iPhone. When launched via iPhone homescreen shortcuts, these apps perform just like any other app on the iPhone, but all of their processing power comes from the cloud. In the future, there will be even more applications like these available, but they won't necessarily be mobilized web sites like those in Google's line-up. Cloud-based mobile apps are perfectly capable of being packaged in a way that allows them to be sold alongside traditional mobile apps in mobile application stores, with no one but the developers any wiser. HTML5 Paves the Way for Mobile Web's Future

  Tags: OpenWeb-Standards, html5, Microsoft-Cloud, Google-cloud, ge

  • - By Gary Edwards

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Future of the Web 02/01/2010 (a.m.)

• Webspiration: Online Visual Thinking Tool | mywebspiration.com

  to map out ideas, organize with outlines and collaborate online with teams or colleagues. Webspiration unleashes your creativity, strengthens organizational skills, and transforms your ideas and information into knowledge.

  Tags: Collaborative software, palestra di lv, mind manager

  • - By Alessandro P

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OpenWeb 01/30/2010 (p.m.)

• Official Google Docs Blog: Upload and store your files in the cloud with Google Docs

  Tags: Google, Google Docs, online file storage

  • We're happy to announce that over the next few weeks we will be rolling out the ability to upload, store and organize any type of file in Google Docs. With this change, you'll be able to upload and access your files from any computer -- all you need is an Internet connection.
    
    Instead of emailing files to yourself, which is particularly difficult with large files, you can upload to Google Docs any file up to 250 MB. You'll have 1 GB of free storage for files you don't convert into one of the Google Docs formats (i.e. Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations), and if you need more space, you can buy additional storage for $0.25 per GB per year. This makes it easy to backup more of your key files online, from large graphics and raw photos to unedited home videos taken on your smartphone. You might even be able to replace the USB drive you reserved for those files that are too big to send over email.
    
    Combined with shared folders, you can store, organize, and collaborate on files more easily using Google Docs. For example, if you are in a club or PTA working on large graphic files for posters or a newsletter, you can upload them to a shared folder for collaborators to view, download, and print.

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Future of the Web 01/30/2010 (p.m.)

• Official Google Docs Blog: Upload and store your files in the cloud with Google Docs

  Tags: Google, Google Docs, online file storage

  • - By Paul Merrell

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OpenWeb 01/27/2010 (a.m.)

• Collecta Widget Builder

  Very cool!  Enables you to build a custom "real time" search "feed" widget that can then be embedded in blogs, wiki's or other web page documents.

  Tags: Open-Web, seach-widget, collecta

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 12/18/2009 (a.m.)

• A Humbled Microsoft Opens Windows to Rivals - TIME

  excerpt: "Once upon a time, Microsoft bestrode the software world like a ruthless cartoon villain, gobbling up rivals and defying pleas for restraint from regulators. But the once-impregnable giant has now been humbled: following an acrimonious 10-year anti-trust battle with European regulators, Microsoft on Wednesday finally agreed to open its Windows operating system to rival web browsers in Europe." Great opening line!  But they get the story wrong.  Woefully wrong!  Just the opposite is happening.  Microsoft has moved from the browser Web application to the Web itself.  It's the platform stupid!!! No one understands platform better than Microsoft.  Control the platform's base formats, protocols, interfaces and internal messaging system, and you control all applications, services and devices using that platform.   The problem for Microsoft has been that the Web is a platform used by all, but owned by none.  It's based on open standards that no one owns or controls.  So as the Web evolves into a universal platform for converged communications, content and collaborative computing, Microsoft was facing the one fate every monopolist fears - having to compete on a level playing field! While it took them well over ten years to come up with a counter strategy and effective implementation, Microsoft has finally achieved the impossible.   They have carved out a huge section of the Open Web for their proprietary and exclusive use.  

  Tags: ge, Open-Web, Open-Web-Ecosystem, BPOS, browsers, microsoft-monopoly

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 12/04/2009 (a.m.)

• As Google Backs Away From A Plug-in, Microsoft Rushes Towards One - washingtonpost.com

  I posted two lengthy comments here.  Can't see the forest for all the trees is the idiom that comes to mind. excerpt: With Silverlight, Microsoft continues to make it clear that they intend to use this web application framework, which they developed, to power much of what they are doing on the web going forward. Again, the problem here is that not only does Microsoft control this, but it requires a plug-in to use. Sure, they've made the plug-in available to most browsers, including the ones by rivals Google and Apple, but it's still a plug-in. It's something that's going to stop everyone from seeing the same web no matter which browser they use. This has of course long been an issue with Microsoft. Despite a clear shift within the rest of the industry toward web standards, Microsoft long played difficult with its Internet Explorer browser. They could afford to, and maybe you could even argue that it was in their interest to, because they were so dominant. It was only when a standards-based browser, Mozilla's Firefox, started biting off significant chunks of IE's market share that Microsoft shifted their position to play more nicely with standards.

  Tags: ge, silverlight, wpf, Open-Web-Productivity

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 12/03/2009 (a.m.)

• Google waving goodbye to Gears, hello to HTML5 [Updated] | Technology | Los Angeles Times

  Tags: Google Gears, HTML 5, Chrome

  • As Google prepares to release its first beta version of Chrome for the Mac (a developer preview has been available for months), the company is letting the sun set on its Gears project.

    "We are excited that much of the technology in Gears, including offline support and geolocation APIs, are being incorporated into the HTML5 spec as an open standard supported across browsers, and see that as the logical next step for developers looking to include these features in their websites," wrote a Google spokesman in an e-mail.

    That's great, but HTML5 isn't ready yet, and commercially available browsers don't support it.

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Future of the Web 12/03/2009 (a.m.)

• Google waving goodbye to Gears, hello to HTML5 [Updated] | Technology | Los Angeles Times

  Tags: Google Gears, HTML 5, Chrome

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OpenWeb 10/18/2009 (a.m.)

• Gray Matter : Open XML and the SharePoint Conference

  excerpt: The trend in Office development is the migration of solutions away from in-application scripted processing toward more data-centric development. Of course this is a primary purpose of Open XML, and it is great to see the amount of activity in this area. We've seen customers scripting Word in a server environment to batch process / print documents or for other automation tasks. In reality Word isn't built to do that on a large scale, it is better to work directly against the document rather than via the application whenever possible. The Open XML SDK unlocks a "whole nuther" environment for document processing, and gets you out of the business of scripting client apps on servers to do the work of a true server application (not to mention the licensing problems created by installing Office on a server). comment:  Gray makes a very important point here.  The dominance of the desktop based MSOffice Productivity Environment was largely based the embedded logic driving "in-process" documents that was application and platform (Win32 API) specific.  Tear open any of these workgroup-workflow oriented compound documents and you find application specific scripts, macros, OLE, data bindings, security settings and other application specific settings.  These internal components are certain to break whenever these highly interactive and "live" compound documents are converted to another format, or application use.  This is how MSOffice documents and the business processes they represent become "bound" to the MSOffice Productivity Environment. What Gray is pointing to here is that Microsoft is moving the legacy Productivity Environment to an MSWeb based center where OpenXML, Silverlight, CAML, XAML and a number of other .NET-WPF technologies become the workgroup drivers.  The key applications for the MS WebStack are Exchange/SharePoint/SQL Server.  To make this move, documents had to be separated from the legacy desktop Productivity Environment settings. Note that OpenXML is the only document format supported by MS Web Apps (Live)!  The MSWeb does not support HTML5 documents.

  Tags: Open-Web, MSOffice, ge

  • - By Gary Edwards

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Future of the Web 10/11/2009 (a.m.)

• Knowledge Genes® - Welcome Page

  Tags: web2.0, collaboration, Knowledge, tools, future

  • Better knowledge, process and control
    coded WHAT, HOW and WHY
  • Better information in terms of WHAT you need to achieve, HOW and WHY

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OpenWeb 10/10/2009 (a.m.)

• Google Cloudboard - Moving the Point of Assembly

  Google tests a service called Cloudboard, an online clipboard that should make it easy to copy data between Gmail, Google Docs and other Google services. The service is not publicly available yet, but there are many references to it. lengthy comment from ~ge~

  Tags: ge, Open-Web, MS-WebStack, Google, unified-productivity

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 09/23/2009 (a.m.)

• Zoho's Next Big Thing | ge TalkBack on ZDNet

  Moving the Point of Assembly Kudos to Zoho. Their efforts remind me of the early days of the Microsoft Productivity Environment where core MSOffice editors expanded their reach through DDE, OLE, rich copy/paste, data binding, merged content and data, VBA scripting and the infamous recorder, and a developer API that meshed platform and productivity apps so deeply into end user information that the binding of business processes to the MOPE is proving near impossible to break. Even for years after the fact. A business ecosystem for client/server was born back in the early 90's, with Microsoft continuing on to own entirely the client side of the equation.

  Tags: ge, zoho, zdnet, mope, poa

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OpenWeb 09/07/2009 (a.m.)

• AppleInsider | Inside Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Exchange Support

  Apple desktop and iPhone support of Microsoft Exchange is not support for Microsoft, as some think.  It's actually a strategy to erode Microsoft's desktop monopoly.  It's also part of a longer term plan to thwart Microsoft's hopes of leveraging their desktop monopoly into a Web Server monopoly. Excerpt: Apple is reducing its dependance upon Microsoft's client software, weakening Microsoft's ability to hold back and dumb down its Mac offerings at Apple's expense. More importantly, Apple is providing its users with additional options that benefit both Mac users and the open source community. In the software business, Microsoft has long known the importance of owning the client end. It worked hard to displace Netscape's web browser in the late 90s, not because there was any money to be made in giving away browser clients, but because it knew that whoever controlled the client could set up proprietary demands for a specific web server. That's what Netscape had worked to do as it gave away its web browser in hopes that it could make money selling Netscape web servers; Microsoft first took control of the client with Internet Explorer and then began tying its IE client to its own IIS on the server side with features that gave companies reasons to buy all of their server software from Microsoft. As Apple takes over the client end of Exchange, it similarly gains market leverage. First and foremost, the move allows Apple to improve the Exchange experience of Mac users so that business users have no reason not to buy Macs. Secondly, it gives Apple a client audience to market its own server solutions, including MobileMe to individual users and Snow Leopard Server to organizations. In concert with providing Exchange Server support, Apple is also delivering integrated support for its own Exchange alternatives in both MobileMe and with Snow Leopard Server's improved Dovecot email services, Address Book Server, iCal Server, the new Mobile Access secure gateway, and its included Push Notification Server.

  Tags: exchange, apple, iphone, monopoly

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Future of the Web 08/30/2009 (a.m.)

• Using an NAS for Centrally Managing Your Media

  There are several reasons to utilize an NAS: obviously to back up your data, but one new trend is sharing media. For Netbook users, this is essential, since hard drive space is at a minimum.

  Tags: storage, devices, data, nas, device

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OpenWeb 08/10/2009 (p.m.)

• HuffingtonPost CTO to speak on Enterprise MySQL

  HuffingtonPost CTO to speak on Enterprise MySQL: Heavy-Traffic Management on Aug. 11 at the NYC MySQL Group http://www.meetup.com/mysqlnyc/calendar/10930810/

  Tags: CTO, MySQL, IT Management

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OpenWeb 07/26/2009 (p.m.)

• IT Management Conference & Expo in NYC Oct.14-16

  http://www.manageit.me ---The greatest minds in IT in 50+ presentations : top industry-leaders: Creator of MySQL Michael "Monty" Widenius, Internet Celebrity Gary Vaynerchuk, Co-Creator of PHP & Zend CTO Zeev Suraski, Richard Sheridan, CEO of Menlo Innovations & Pioneer of Agile eXtreme Programmi...

  Tags: IT, Management, Leadership, CIO, CTO, CEO, MySQL, PHP, Zend, PMP

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Future of the Web 07/14/2009 (p.m.)

• Remix Culture & Fair Use: Best Practices for Online Video

  An interesting video I came across about the main issues concerning fair use, copyright, and video mashups. Highlights from my transcription below: We’re seeing this blossoming of amateur cultures, video remixes and creativity, and a lot of these works are circulating on the Internet. Copyright law is all about balance........

  Tags: remix, fair use, copyright, mashup, culture, online video, creative commons, bestpractices, edu_trends, edublogger

  • An interesting video I came across about the main issues concerning fair use, copyright, and video mashups. Highlights from my transcription below: We’re seeing this blossoming of amateur cultures, video remixes and creativity, and a lot of these works are circulating on the Internet. Copyright law is all about balance........ - By Diego Morelli
  • An interesting video I came across about the main issues concerning fair use, copyright, and video mashups. Highlights from my transcription below: We’re seeing this blossoming of amateur cultures, video remixes and creativity, and a lot of these works are circulating on the Internet. Copyright law is all about balance........ - By Diego Morelli

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OpenWeb 07/13/2009 (a.m.)

• Google's Real Chrome OS Problem: Who's Going To Buy It? | SiliconValley Insider

  .... "While i don't see Google or anyone else replacing the MSOffice productivity environment anytime soon, i do see Google challenging Microsoft wherever the Web comes into play. As for the future, that battle for desktop productivity will take place, just not with ChromeOS, Linux, or, the MacOS. What has to happen before the assault on the Microsoft's productivity empire can begin is that the business systems bound to the MSOffice productivity environment must transition to the Open Web, via SaaS or some other replacement. Or, the productivity environment itself must be re-purposed to the Open Web. The tricky part will be that re-purposing play. ChromeOS is a blockbuster announcement. Not a declaration of war, but a shot across the bow that shouts; Google will defend the Open Web, and profitable business they have there. ..... ~ge~

  Tags: ge, chromeOS, google, google-wave

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Future of the Web 07/11/2009 (p.m.)

• Google's Real Chrome OS Problem: Who's Going To Buy It? (GOOG)

  While i don't see Google or anyone else replacing the MSOffice productivity environment, i do see Google challenging Microsoft wherever the Web comes into play. And as far as i can see into the future, that pretty much means everywhere. The tricky part will be that re-purposing play. ChromeOS is a blockbuster announcement. Not a declaration of war, but a shot across the bow that shouts; Google will defend the Open Web, and profitable business they have there. ~ge~

  Tags: ge, chromeOS, google, google-wave

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OpenWeb 07/02/2009 (a.m.)

• Feng Office: Putting the “Flow” in Workflow

  Conrado gets a very good review! Excerpt: Feng Office packs most of the features you should require for most project management duties. In addition to basics like calendars, contacts and email, it also provides milestone and task management, and a built-in time-tracking function. All of the above are well-implemented, although some users may actually find the similar interface design of all the functions more confusing than helpful, since it’s often not clear which function you’re using at any given time without looking at what tab is highlighted. I like the uniformity, though, since it gives each feature a sense of connectedness to the others and adds to the feeling that Feng Office is a holistic solution. Notes, Links and Documents features also bring much to Feng Office’s overall value proposition, and each is well-executed. You can even create new Word docs and PowerPoint HTML documents and presentations directly from within Feng Office using its own built-in editors, both of which retain UI elements from Microsoft’s own suite. That means less time switching from browser to standalone apps, which adds up to better productivity.

  Tags: feng-office, conrado-vina, web-contact-manager, office20

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