Upon2020 (archive)
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Clouds, Datacenters, Virtualization and the Disruption of the Server Market
Almost everybody was raising their eyebrows a few years ago when Amazon announced that it was opening up its data center infrastructure to others. Since, it has grown by leaps and bounds and supposedly contains more than 40,000 servers available for rent at this time (each of which hosts more than one virtual server). Many…
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Waiting for Facebook’s Other Shoe To Drop: Advertising
Apparently, 1 billion Facebook “Like” buttons went up all over the web within the week. Technically, this means, 1 billion web pages now include a piece of JavaScript from Facebook. That piece of Javascript is aware of the user’s identity (and preferences, and social network, …). This enables Facebook to push out 1 billion advertisements…
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Very Nice VRM Article
CRM Magazine has a very nice article about Vendor Relationship Management. Titled, “It’s Not Your Relationship To Manage”, it has plenty of quotes from Doc Searls and the VRM community. Not a hint of critizism that I can spot in a CRM magazine? VRM has come a long way. Congrats Doc!
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Attending Big Data Workshop April 23, Mountain View, CA
The first time I heard of an “unconference” I was very sceptical. No program? No speakers? What kind of conference is that? Well, it’s the kind of conference in which you skip sitting in the audience falling asleep because the speakers drone on or the panelists are just trying to get you to buy their…
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Gluecon: Why The iPad Is Important
Interesting take and very consistent with my series of posts on how computing is moving all around us: I truly believe that the models of human-computer interaction (”HCI”) that all of us grew up with are going to change dramatically in the next 3, 5, 7, 10 years. … the iPad is such an important…