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Personal Cloud Meeting at IIW
We had an excellent brainstorming meeting on Personal Clouds at IIW yesterday. About 20 people showed up to discuss their views on Personal Clouds: what they are and aren’t, what they need to do, will do in the future, and what they can’t and shouldn’t do. I was really surprised by how much agreement there…
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Some notes on Linux memory usage
Always felt that ps and top were largely useless to tell anything meaningful about memory usage. Here are some links to more useful tools: Stackoverflow: A way to determine a process’s “real” memory usage, i.e. private dirty RSS? Find out what is using your swap Memory usage with smaps (the script seems to have moved…
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Community Tools Must Evolve With Their Communities: Lessons from ElggCamp
Elgg is a rather interesting, open-source, highly customizable social networking application. While it’s not all that known by the general public, all sorts of organizations — from schools to non-profits and brands — use it to set up social networks for their customers, students, and stakeholders, at their own website using their own brand. I’m…
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Is iCloud a Personal Cloud?
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…
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Hello World from Ipad3
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?