Archive for November 12th, 2008
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
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Platform-as-a-service, with integrated IDE, object database and javascript as server-side programming language. Founded by 3 ex-Googlers, went live december 2007.
You _can_ host the created applications yourself (java middleware)
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(Executive editor of Wired) Kevin Kelly's book in progress.
Unfortunately most of the postings are too long and too philosophical for quick reading snacks. I guess I'll wait for the book then…
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"Yahoo! Query Language. YQL treats everything on the Web like a database table; the syntax will be familiar to anyone who's ever used MySQL. [...] all YQL calls need to be signed with oAuth. As long as you are absolutely sure you're not revealing a consumer key that is also used to access user data for some other application, a two-legged oAuth call can be done entirely on the client side with JavaScript."
By Yahoo's Kent Brewster
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While Bill Thompson is one of the smartest commentators out there, and I enjoy him on the Digital Planet podcast, his blog with musings and opinions didn't add enough value to the heap of tech opinion blogs I already follow…
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"I've taken a crack at creating a typology of what I'll call "network strategies." By that, I mean the various ways a company may seek to benefit from the expanded use of a network, in particular on the Internet:
- Network effect
- Data mines
- Digital sharecropping
- Complements
- Two-sided markets
- Economies of scale, economies of scope, and experience"
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Useful classification of Cloud Computing by Tim O'reilly:
# Utility computing (Amazon, Azure)
# Platform as a Service (Force.com, Google App Engine)
# Cloud-based end-user applications
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Discrepancy: "Study found Internet users claim to be very conscious about their privacy and guarded about their personal details. Some 84% said they would not give away income details online, however, 89 percent actually willingly did – without any pressure or persuasion."
The actual numbers are at
http://www.privacygourmet.com/blog/2008/07/in-june-aol-con.html
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Nic Carr points to an interesting analogy to blogging: amateur radio:
"When "the wireless" was introduced to America around 1900, it set off a surge in amateur broadcasting, as hundreds of thousands of people took to the airwaves [...]
But it didn't last. Radio soon came to be dominated by a relatively small number of media companies, with the most popular amateur operators being hired on as radio personalities. Social production was absorbed into corporate production [...] A lot of amateurs continued to pursue their hobby, quite happily, but they found themselves pushed to the periphery. "
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"the average "front page" (note, by the way, how the mainstream-media term is pushing aside the more personal "home page") is nearly a megabyte, and three-quarters of the blogs have front pages larger than a half megabyte"
(Nic Carr quote on this study,
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/11/who_killed_the.php)
Images and scripts are the largest contributors to size
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