Author: Johannes Ernst

  • AAPL now more valuable than entire US retail sector

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

  • Going to ElggCamp San Francisco on March 24

    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…

  • The Kony 2012 Campaign.

    Very impressive. KONY 2012 from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo.

  • My Take on Personal Cloud Computing

    It’s just a matter of time until the cloud hype of “everything massively scalable” of the recent years gives way again to something more personal. Just like massive mainframes were eclipsed by personal computers. Some people call this the Personal Cloud (e.g. Jon Udell’s recent post) Here’s my take on it, as I posted to…

  • End of an Era — Thank You NetGate

    After about 14 years, I just took home the last colocated physical server that we owned. All our sites have moved to cloud servers, mostly at Amazon and Rackspace. Hopefully I will never have to buy a physical server again. No more exploding fans (yes), funny motherboard timing errors, and faulty RAID arrays. No more…