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Two Mega-Trends
Salim Ismael, founding Executive Director and Global Ambassador of Singularity University, recently identified one of the mega-trends of our times as follows (I’m paraphrasing): There are those changes that are exponential, like Moore’s Law, the advancements in sequencing genomes, or global knowledge. And there are those changes that remain linear (or are so slow they…
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In Memoriam Sr. Alberta Volz
[This blog will stay English. This post is personal and an exception.] Am 29. Oktober starb Sr. Alberta Volz, die in meiner Schulzeit am St. Bonaventura-Gymnasium in Dillingen an der Donau für zwei Jahre meine Klavier- und später auch Musiklehrerin war. Die Hälfte der Welt ist on-line, aber Google findet auch überhaupt nichts über sie,…
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Personal Cloud Architecture
Updated 2012-11-01 based on discussion on the Personal Clouds mailing list. See also Phil Windley’s comments. Last week’s IIW, as usual, facilitated a lot of interesting discussions including on the subject of Personal Clouds. It was the prompt for me to sit down and draw an “architecture” for Personal Clouds, which is consistent with the…
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Why AccountChooser Isn’t
In time for #CIS2012, the OpenID Foundation and Google released a new version of accountchooser.com, a set of open-source software components that, as the name indicates, lets you choose your account on the web. Except that it doesn’t. Compare with a bank. Let’s say I want to check my balance at my bank, the accountchooser.com…
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Finally somebody does it: HealthTAP
Healthtap is a startup in Palo Alto that does something I’d been hoping for: it connects patients and doctors directly, via an iPad app, instead of indirectly through layers of receptionists, offices, schedules, and insurance policies. They are still young, and the functionality they offer is very limited, but one can see where this is…