Mar
20

Is iCloud a Personal Cloud?

jernst on March 20th, 2012

It’s amazing how my personal photos move around effortlessly between my iPhone, the iPad and iPhoto on the MacBook, by virtue of Apple’s iCloud. They just “show up” when I want them, as if by magic (sorry, but this marketing slogan is somewhat appropriate here).

So is iCloud a Personal Cloud, in the sense it has been discussed recently?

I don’t think so. iCloud doesn’t feel like a thing to me. It’s more like some proactive ether around me that magically moves stuff around without ever making an appearance itself.

I think something like ownCloud has a much better claim to delivering a Personal Cloud.

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Mar
18

Hello World from Ipad3

jernst on March 18th, 2012

Checking out the WordPress app on the iPad.

Looks nice. Typing on an actual keyboard is definitely faster, though.

Now what do I do to insert some actual HTML like a table? Can’t be done?

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Mar
14

AAPL now more valuable than entire US retail sector

jernst on March 14th, 2012

Incredible.

But then, which of those two would you bet on?

Link.

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Mar
8

Going to ElggCamp San Francisco on March 24

jernst on March 8th, 2012

Why not build your own social network instead of sending money, private data, and power to Facebook and Google?

So I’m asking myself … and I’m going to ElggCamp San Francisco to find out how to best do that with Elgg, a rather interesting piece of open-source social networking software that surprisingly enough isn’t very well-known. There are well over a thousand plugin’s!

They have a great agenda and beer at the end. Looking forward to meeting people who are running Elgg, and help others run Elgg. Perhaps we can make it even easier to run Elgg?

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Mar
7

The Kony 2012 Campaign.

jernst on March 7th, 2012

Very impressive.

KONY 2012 from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo.

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