Category: Big Picture
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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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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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Doc Searls’ 2020 Vision
From his responses to a survey at Harvard. Interesting read.
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Germany: Law Requiring Data Retention “In Advance” Unconstitutional
They thought: why not simply requiring everybody to store logs, just in case a crime happens and the authorities would have a much easier time if they could access the logs when they needed them. The German constitutional court disagreed and requires that all such logs be deleted as soon as possible. Link to story…
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iPad: Under- or Overwhelming?
A lots of techies seem underwhelmed by yesterday’s iPad announcement. But Kevin Marks has a good pro-iPad point of view. I have another one to add: Yep, we have seen all the pieces that make up the iPad: unibody, touch screen, WiFi, 3G, flash, big button in front, dock, … So technologically, it’s indeed a…