OpenWeb 04/29/2012 (a.m.)
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Saturday, April 28, 2012
OpenWeb 04/28/2012 (p.m.)
The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen | Epicenter | Wired.com
Must read interview. Marc Andreessen explains his five big ideas, taking us from the beginning of the Web, into the Cloud and beyond. Great stuff!... (1) 1992 - Everyone Will Have the Web... (2) 1995 - The Browser will the Operating System... (3) 1999 - Web business will live in the Cloud... (4) 2004 - Everything will be Social... (5) 2009 - Software will Eat the Worldexcerpt:Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use—not only text or media but processing power too—will be located remotely. People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out ecommerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications. Think of each website as an application, and every single click, every single interaction with that site, is an opportunity to be on the very latest version of that application. Once you start thinking in terms of networks, it just doesn’t make much sense to prefer local apps, with downloadable, installable code that needs to be constantly updated.
“We could have built a social element into Mosaic. But back then the Internet was all about anonymity.”
Anderson: Assuming you have enough bandwidth.
Andreessen: That’s the very big if in this equation. If you have infinite network bandwidth, if you have an infinitely fast network, then this is what the technology wants. But we’re not yet in a world of infinite speed, so that’s why we have mobile apps and PC and Mac software on laptops and phones. That’s why there are still Xbox games on discs. That’s why everything isn’t in the cloud. But eventually the technology wants it all to be up there.
Anderson: Back in 1995, Netscape began pursuing this vision by enabling the browser to do more.
Andreessen: We knew that you would need some processing to stay on the computer, so we invented JavaScript. And then we also catalyzed Java, which enabled far more sophisticated applications in the network, by building support for Java into the browser. The basic idea, which remains in force today, is that you do some computation on the device, but you want the server application to be in control of that. And the whole process is completely invisible to the user.... The application model of the future is the web application model. The apps will live on the web. Mobile apps on platforms like iOS and Android are a temporary step along the way toward the full mobile web. Now, that temporary step may last for a very long time. Because the networks are still limited. But if you grant me the very big assumption that at some point we will have ubiquitous, high-speed wireless connectivity, then in time everything will end up back in the web model. Because the technology wants it to work that way...... LoudCloud was also called "Silicon Valley Power & Light". Tech companies could use LoudCloud as a utility for their applications. - a software power grid!... I have another theory that I call the missing campus puzzle. When you drive down highway 101 through Silicon Valley, you pass the Oracle campus and then the Google campus and then the Cisco campus. And some people think, wow, they’re so big. But what I think is, I’ve been driving for close to an hour—why haven’t I passed a hundred more campuses? Why is there all this open space?Anderson: What’s your answer?Andreessen: Think about what it has meant to build a primary technology company up until now. In order to harness a large enough market, to attract the right kind of technical talent, to pay them adequately, to grow the company to critical mass—until now that’s only been possible with companies that are providing tools for all sectors, not just specific sectors. Technology has been just a slice of the economy. We’ve been making the building blocks to get us to today, when technology is poised to remake the whole economy.Anderson: What categories are next?Andreessen: The next stops, I believe, are education, financial services, health care, and then ultimately government—the huge swaths of the economy that historically have not been addressable by technology, that haven’t been amenable to the entrance of Silicon Valley-style software companies. But increasingly I think they’re going to be.Anderson: Today, so much software is instantiated in hardware—Apple being a great example. As software “eats the world,” do you think that we’ll see fewer companies like Apple that deliver their revolutionary software in the form of shiny objects?So when we look at Lytro and we look at Jawbone, we see software expressed as hardware—highly specialized hardware that will be hard to clone...... When Milton Friedman was asked about this kind of thing, he said: Human wants and needs are infinite, and so there will always be new industries, there will always be new professions. This is the great sweep of economic history. When the vast majority of the workforce was in agriculture, it was impossible to imagine what all those people would do if they didn’t have agricultural jobs. Then a hundred years later the vast majority of the workforce was in industrial jobs, and we were similarly blind: It was impossible to imagine what workers would do without those jobs. Now the majority are in information jobs. If the computers get smart enough, then what? I’ll tell you: The then what is whatever we invent next.- - By Gary Edwards
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Friday, April 13, 2012
OpenWeb 04/13/2012 (p.m.)
nivio - Bringing the Magic back to Computing
MDOffice and Windows Apps served up from the Cloud. Very interesting!
- - By Gary Edwards
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
OpenWeb 04/13/2012 (a.m.)
This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always. | Privacy Inc. - CNET News
Very informative article. Kudos to Marbux. Explains how warrantless (illegal) surveillance by Government works, including the un-Constitutional strong arm tactics they use on Internet Service Providers to access your Web communications and activities. Marbux has it right about the Calyx Project; "Where do i sign up?" Good read! excerpt: Nicholas Merrill is planning to revolutionize online privacy with a concept as simple as it is ingenious: a telecommunications provider designed from its inception to shield its customers from surveillance. Merrill, 39, who previously ran a New York-based Internet provider, told CNET that he's raising funds to launch a national "non-profit telecommunications provider dedicated to privacy, using ubiquitous encryption" that will sell mobile phone service and, for as little as $20 a month, Internet connectivity. The ISP would not merely employ every technological means at its disposal, including encryption and limited logging, to protect its customers. It would also -- and in practice this is likely more important -- challenge government surveillance demands of dubious legality or constitutionality.
- - By Gary Edwards
Feds use keylogger to thwart PGP, Hushmail | News Blogs - CNET News
The more i learn about the Governments illegal and un-Constitutional surveillance activities, the worse it gets. As i read this article i couldn't help but wonder why the Government would want to disclose the warrantless activities as evidence in court? Clearly the Government wants to have their violations of carefully enumerated Constitutional protections of individual rights validated by the nations courts. Scary stuff. excerpt: A recent court case provides a rare glimpse into how some federal agents deal with encryption: by breaking into a suspect's home or office, implanting keystroke-logging software, and spying on what happens from afar. An agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration persuaded a federal judge to authorize him to sneak into an Escondido, Calif., office believed to be a front for manufacturing the drug MDMA, or Ecstasy. The DEA received permission to copy the hard drives' contents and inject a keystroke logger into the computers. That was necessary, according to DEA Agent Greg Coffey, because the suspects were using PGP and the encrypted Web e-mail service Hushmail.com. Coffey asserted that the DEA needed "real-time and meaningful access" to "monitor the keystrokes" for PGP and Hushmail passphrases. The aggressive surveillance techniques employed by the DEA were part of a case that resulted in a ruling on Friday (PDF) by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which primarily dealt with Internet surveillance through a wiretap conducted on a PacBell (now AT&T) business DSL line used by the defendants.
- - By Gary Edwards
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Monday, April 09, 2012
OpenWeb 04/09/2012 (p.m.)
CSIRO eyes microwave backhaul market - Telco/ISP - Technology - News - iTnews.com.au
- CSIRO has begun talks with global manufacturers to commercialise microwave technology it says can provide at least 10 Gbps symmetric backhaul services to mobile towers.
Microwave transmission is used to link mobile towers back to a carrier’s network where it is physically difficult or economically unviable to run fibre to the tower.
Where current technology has an upper limit of a gigabit per second to multiple towers over backhaul, the government organisation said it could provide the 10 Gbps symmetric speeds over ranges of up to 50 kilometres.
- The microwave backhaul project comes as second phase of CSIRO’s ‘Ngara’ project, which previously aimed to use radio spectrum freed up from the switch to digital television to provide residential fixed wireless broadband connections.
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Friday, April 06, 2012
OpenWeb 04/06/2012 (p.m.)
Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses - NYTimes.com
- The prototype version Google showed off on Wednesday looked like a very polished and well-designed pair of wrap-around glasses with a clear display that sits above the eye. The glasses can stream information to the lenses and allow the wearer to send and receive messages through voice commands. There is also a built-in camera to record video and take pictures.
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Sunday, April 01, 2012
OpenWeb 04/02/2012 (a.m.)
SMB cloud adoption begins to acclerate, study finds
Interesting chart describes the massive transition of small and medium sized businesses to the Cloud. Cloud based eMail and messaging leads the way. Top two reasons for the great transition? Cost reduction and productivity improvement. Unfortunately this article fails to describe what this great transition to the Cloud means to legacy productivity systems - most of which are provided and provisioned by Microsoft. What happens to desktop and workgroup based business systems when the local data and transaction processing server systems are moved to the Cloud? How are desktop and workgroup systems re written or migrated? Another factor missing from this article is any discussion of what happens to productivity when communications, content and collaborative computing are interoperably entwined throughout the application layer? We know that the legacy Windows productivity platform seriously lacked communications capabilities. This fact greatly reduced expected productivity gains. excerpt: Microsoft commissioned the study of 3,000 small and medium sized businesses in 13 countries. The survey was conducted by Wayland, Mass.-based research firm Edge Strategies. The most commonly used cloud services are email, instant messaging, voice communications, and backup. Edge also looked at SMB cloud plans over the next three years and the same cloud services also are in the IT plans of those embracing the cloud. From this data, it certainly could be argued that SMBs seem to be quick to embrace the cloud in order to enhance communication. It makes sense: in small business, communication is key to ensure rapid growth. The biggest motivators for migration to the cloud among SMBs is to save money (54 percent), followed by increases in productivity. Decision makers also mentioned flexibility as a fairly common response. Of those already using the cloud, 59 percent reported productivity increases as a result. SMB cloud adoption begins to acclerate, study finds http://betanews.com/2012/04/01/smb-cloud-adoption-begins-to-acclerate-study-finds/
- - By Gary Edwards
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Monday, March 26, 2012
OpenWeb 03/27/2012 (a.m.)
iTWire - Huawei claims 30Gbps wireless "beyond LTE"
- Huawei says it has "recently introduced...Beyond LTE technology, which significantly increases peak rates to 30Gbps - over 20 times faster than existing commercial LTE networks."
It claims to have achieved this with "key breakthroughs in antenna structure, radio frequency architecture, IF (intermediate frequency) algorithms, and multi-user MIMO (multi-input multi-output).
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Saturday, March 24, 2012
Future of the Web 03/25/2012 (a.m.)
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https://www.facebook.com/events/253224101436264/ [ 25 de MARZO: "PARON EN FACEBOOK, 24 HORAS". CONTRA LA CENSURA EN LA RED. POR LA LIBERTAD DE EXPRESION de Jose Ramon Blasco Artatxo Dados los continuos ataques que sufren lus usuarios de facebook en lo que respecta a la LIBERTAD DE EXPRESION, varios colectivos y usuarios individuales convocan un PARON en facebook de 24 horas como protesta por esas agresiones. DichoPARON comenzaría a las 00.00 horas del día 25 de marzo, finalizando ese mismo día 25 a las 24.00. Se hace un llamamiento para que en esas 24 horas, no se cuelgue nada en la red, y si unos minutos antes como indicaremos al final de esta nota. El hecho de cercenar lla libertad de expresión, se agrava por ser objeto, quienes estan en esta red, de indefesión continua,ya que se dan los bloqueos sin explicación o con ambiguedades...Son "juicios sumarísimos" sin posibilidad de alegaciones ni pliegos de descargo...]
- - By Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.
- - By Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.
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Friday, March 23, 2012
OpenWeb 03/24/2012 (a.m.)
Wyden Amendments to House's JOBS Act Would Halt ACTA, Force TPP Transparency | Bloomberg BNA
Microsoft Reinvents its Cloud Strategy
Microsoft announces a new plan, "Microsoft Dynamics", to accelerate the transition to replace their traditional / conventional software systems with cloud-ready infrastructure. Dynamics also serves as a migration guide, providing "seamless integration" of services from old IT to new Cloud.Competitors mentioned include SalesForce.com, SAP and Oracle. Lots of focus on integrating CRM into the full line of business applications. This is somewhat similar to the Visual Productivity challenge of integrating gMail into a working productivity system based on the Google Apps platform. Embedding the full range of Visual Web Communications into productivity apps and services is the key at all levels.One thing to consider in this article is that the only Cloud - Productivity - Business systems contenders are SalesForce, Oracle, SAP and Microsoft. Google Apps isn't mentioned. Nor is Amazon, RackSpace or VMware. Apple, Cisco, HP and Facebook are also left out.
- - By Gary Edwards
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
OpenWeb 03/21/2012 (a.m.)
Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz And Khosla Back Big Data Startup ClearStory | TechCrunch
Interesting, but do they have a plan to implement ODBC at the Cloud level? It's one thing to provide connectivity, exploration and analysis to non Cloud data and transaction servers. And another to connect the data feeds into next generation compound documents. Seems to me this is an effective first step, but the value remains elusive. Left a comment on this page. exerpt: The startup’s offering, which has not been released yet, will connect to data stored in databases as well as the web and other sources, and adds a visual discovery component to make it easy for users to parse through this data and make sense of the information. The beauty of ClearStory is that it allows businesses to analyze internal and publicly available data at the same time and make this data easy for the masses to understand.
- - By Gary Edwards
Mobile Content Management | Averail
new startup, looking to be a contender in the mobile sync-share-store content sector. Not sure what separates them from the Dropbox sector though. big time funding. Sandhill road.
- - By Gary Edwards
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OpenWeb 03/20/2012 (p.m.)
Who will be the ‘Dropbox of the enterprise?’ The race is on — Cloud Computing News
Could have written this two years ago, but it is a sign of the times, and the advance towards a Cloud Productivity Platform that brings this issue front and center. DropBox has many challengers (finally). It's always seemed to me that sync-share-store is a foundation kind of service. Another would be that of real time connectivity to data and transaction processing systems - Cloud ODBC. The great transition is indeed underway. And this is a good day for me. I've got tow companies that made the 451 list! Now, if only DropBox will listen.
- - By Gary Edwards
What’s in a name? Analyzing ‘Dropbox for the enterprise’ — Too much information
The 454 Take on DropBox and the sync-share-store phenomenon. Kathleen Reidy
- - By Gary Edwards
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Friday, March 16, 2012
OpenWeb 03/17/2012 (a.m.)
ChronoZoom: A deep dive into the history of everything
Imagine a timeline of the universe, complete with high-resolution videos and images, in which you could zoom from a chronology of Egypt’s dynasties and pyramids to the tale of a Japanese-American couple interned in a World War II relocation camp to a discussion of a mass extinction that occurred on Earth 200 million years ago – all in seconds.
Based on an idea from a University of California, Berkeley, student, ChronoZoom – essentially a zoomable timeline of timelines augmented with multimedia features –- is coming to life.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
OpenWeb 03/14/2012 (a.m.)
Ray Ozzie's startup has mobility, communications at core - Computerworld
Interesting, but lightweight interview with Ray Ozzie. Look at the productivity comment in particular. He also mentions "social productivity" as being an aspect of "communications". My guess is that his new startup, Cocomo, will gear up towards a Cloud Productivity Platform where this new capability of integrated web communications is woven deep into collaborative productivity applications. With enough juice to blow the legacy Windows - MSOffice Productivity environment out of the water. We shall see. excerpt: When he joined Microsoft he thought it had a "tremendous history," he said, with great technology assets and people. But it was a company struggling to adjust to changes in the PC and server markets, he said. "I tried my best to communicate with various groups what their purpose in life was," he said. For instance, he tried to convince the Office group that it should focus on selling productivity, as opposed to selling PC-based productivity products, and the Xbox group that it should sell entertainment, not boxes or discs.
- - By Gary Edwards
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Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Monday, March 05, 2012
Sunday, March 04, 2012
OpenWeb 03/05/2012 (a.m.)
EUROPA - Press Releases - Antitrust: Commission opens proceedings against MathWorks
Commission v. MIcrosoft Redux.
- - By Paul Merrell
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Monday, February 27, 2012
Future of the Web 02/27/2012 (p.m.)
Michael Geist - The ACTA Guide, Part One: The Talks To-Date
[Monday January 25, 2010The 7th round of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations begins tomorrow in Guadalajara, Mexico. The negotiation round will be the longest to-date, with three and a half days planned to address civil enforcement, border measures, the Internet provisions, and (one hour for) transparency. Over the next five days, I plan to post a five-part ACTA Guide that will include sourcing for much of the discussion on ACTA, links to all the leaked documents, information on the transparency issue, and a look at who has been speaking out. ...]
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