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Marc Benioff’s Cloud 2
From Techcrunch. Quote: The future of our industry now looks totally different than the past. It looks like a sheet of paper, and it’s called the iPad. It’s not about typing or clicking; it’s about touching. It’s not about text, or even animation, it’s about video. It’s not about a local disk, or even a…
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Unlimited Free Client-Side Storage
So far I’ve looked at devices with which we’ll interact with information in 2020. Now I’m changing gears to look at the backend. Fry’s is selling Terabyte hard drives for $69.99 this week. A Terabyte is, give or take, a billion pages of text, or a million books. An entire library. Or a month’s worth…
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Very Nice China Censorship Testimony By Rebecca McKinnon
Here. I still think it is <<insert strong adjective here>> that none of the major content companies other than Google have in any way supported Google’s stand here. At the very least, they could publicly say that they admire Google’s point of view. It costs them nothing, and does have an impact as we can…
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Curl broken in OSX?
Wasted two hours today attempting to HTTP POST some content with a client certificate using curl on OSX Snow Leopard. It somehow would not show its cert to the Apache server. In an act of desparation, I tried the exact same command with the exact same client certificate on Linux, and it worked. So I…
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Doc Searls’ 2020 Vision
From his responses to a survey at Harvard. Interesting read.