Upon2020 (archive)
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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…
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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…
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Google Goggles Everywhere
Lots of speculation that Google will come out with electronically enhanced glasses by year’s end. They will supposedly contain a camera (so they see what you see) and a heads-up projector (so they can modify what you see) Here are some of the more “interesting” (frightening!) scenarios that this would enable, like: Look through things…
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5 Why’s: A Different Take on the Current Economic Malaise
I found myself asking Five Whys about the current economic difficulties in the Euro zone and the world in general. The 4th question is the really hard one and one that I had not seen answered well anywhere. I suggest that even if you disagree with my answer, do not believe any commentator on the…
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Will Apple Buy a Carrier?
Jean-Louis Gassée now thinks it’s likely Apple will get into the carrier business, perhaps as a MVNO. I predicted something like it a while back. My reasoning is simple: 10 years down the road (or 5, or 20 if you like), do you really think that the oligopolic, infuriating carriers get to remain unchallenged in…