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Sunday, April 6th, 2014
After a few amazing years of ignoring this blog, I'm back. I'm attending a conference about cloud computing in Canada called The Cloud Factory in Banff. What an amazing venue the Banff Centre is!
Just published an article about the future of "the cloud" and Canada. I expect big things to ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
It takes (sci-fi) author Cory Doctorow to put it sufficiently lucidly: the internet is designed to efficiently and inexpensively copy information and has flourished as a result, therefore traditional copyright in the age of the web is a direct attack on the digital culture which has given rise the web. ...
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
Well I was thinking Amazon's SAN in the cloud was going to be the biggest web application news of 2008. But that just got trumped by Google's new web browser, touted by many as an "operating system for the web." Wow. Open source, heavily influenced by popular web technologies such ...
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Heri at Montreal Tech Watch broke the news that my web infrastructure services company Syntenic has a new (beta) webpage. I have no doubt that my amazing wife's blog pulls in more visitors than I do, so I am hoping to reverse that trend with a slick new design!
I also ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
A lot has been written lately on how intelligent search will solve all kinds of problems, most recently in The End of Theory, Chris Anderson of "long tail" fame confuses the abundance of low hanging fruit that "big search" and biotechnologies provide with the ability to really understand and extract ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Reuven of Enomaly speculates on whether there will be an analogue of Moore's law for cloud computing, looking to coin "Ruv's law." I would like to see more detail on what it would postulate, presumably a linear relationship between growth in cloud computation and time. I think we would also ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Semiconductor's Magnetic Movie is a stunning, if questionably accurate visualization of magnetic fields and their interactions. Worth a watch:
Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Finally got www.goalr.net into the Heroku private beta which will allow the private domain and e-mail functionality that our "Goaltender" application relies upon to both gather our weekly goals and followup on them.
Just posted to Bitcurrent on the future of cloud computing.
Business has been moderately insane (in a good way) ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
Like most heavy cellphone users I have a love hate relationship with both the device and the wireless service. Love because it gives me freedom from a physical location and thus is an essential business enabler for entrepreneurs. Hate because it restricts my freedom in many ways that ...
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Monday, July 2nd, 2007
Apologies to RSS subscribers who will no doubt be affected by my blog consolidation. I'm pulling in all of the posts from www.infreemation.net and rebranding this blog Infreemation. Why the consolidation? Most of what I write in both blogs is about information: technology, policy, analysis, visualization. I haven't been making ...
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