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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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
Monday, October 31, 2011
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.
- - 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.
- - By Gary Edwards
Posted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.
Saturday, October 29, 2011
OpenWeb 10/30/2011 (a.m.)
This is what Firefox's built-in PDF reader looks like – Tech Products & Geek News | Geek.com
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.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
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.
Saturday, August 06, 2011
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..."
Thursday, August 04, 2011
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~
Thursday, December 30, 2010
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~
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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.
- - By Gary Edwards
Posted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.
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