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Why AccountChooser Isn’t
In time for #CIS2012, the OpenID Foundation and Google released a new version of accountchooser.com, a set of open-source software components that, as the name indicates, lets you choose your account on the web. Except that it doesn’t. Compare with a bank. Let’s say I want to check my balance at my bank, the accountchooser.com…
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The Fundamental Remaking of Several Industries
@parislemon neatly summarized today’s news about H-P getting out of the PC business: HP To Apple: You Win. I hope he meant more than tablets, because the victory of the Apple model is much broader. Just a few days ago, Google caused a major earthquake with the announcement that it would acquire Motorola, one of…
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Hayden: Google Acting as a Nation-State
Great to see somebody on top of things, here Michael Hayden, previously director of the NSA and the CIA in the context of the Shady Rat attacks: “You see Google acting in some ways as nation-states used to act, exercising to the best of their ability some attributes traditionally associated with sovereign states. ‘We’re going…
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Four Competing Visions of PaaS Evolution
I spent some time recently trying to understand how platform-as-a-service efforts might evolve from here. The OpenStack Design Summit this past week, and the Talk Cloudy To Me event of the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group on Saturday were particularly helpful. I figure I might as well blog what I found… which is four competing…
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Seems Facebook Just Did Drop The Other Shoe
… as I predicted in the post Waiting for Facebook’s Other Shoe To Drop: Advertising, BusinessWeek writes: The company has developed a potentially powerful kind of advertising that’s more personal—more “social,” in Facebook’s parlance—than anything that’s come before. Personally I don’t like commercial entities to use my friends to advertise to me … but I…