Upon2020 (archive)
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On Mozilla’s Persona Post-Mortem
There’s a great summary on the Mozilla wiki about what did and didn’t work about Persona, Mozilla’s attempt at a new identity protocol for the web. (Given the existence of that page, I’m not sure the project continues to be actively pursued? Techcrunch reports that Persona is dead.) Having been in the middle of the…
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Power Consumption of Various Little Computers
Today’s fun facts: Device Approx. power consumption Raspberry PI 2-3W BeagleBone Black 1-2W Wandboard Quad 2-4W Wansview Webcam 2-5W Netgear 5-port gigabit switch 4-5W Indie Box Prototype based on Atom with two drives 22W i3-based Home Server with four drives 70-80W Don’t take those measurements too literally. I did not systematically try to distinguish between…
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Facebook: With 100% of potential customers, is total user sell-out next?
From Facebook’s most recent earnings statement: Monthly active users (MAUs) were 1.23 billion as of December 31, 2013, an increase of 16% year over year. There are only 7.1 billion people on the planet. Some are babies, some are in jail, some illiterate, and some are Amish, and the like. Facebook’s customer reach is close to…
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Argh, which website accounts do I have?
A few years ago my problem was how to manage the passwords of 200+ on-line accounts. It’s gotten worse. Now I don’t remember what on-line accounts I have! Just now Paypal indicated to me that I apparently used to have a Paypal account with a certain e-mail address (that I’ve used for 10+ years). I…
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“Own your own words” or they will disappear in 5 years
Gregory Ciotti gets it exactly right: Today, Svbtle gave me a great reminder of why I hold this opinion. In their “Open for Everyone” announcement, they let slip a paragraph that should frighten writers everywhere: We’re working on a way to guarantee that your written content will remain available on the web for at least…