OSCON: Energy + Awesome + Space Exploration + Hacking
I wanted to post these two keynotes from OSCON 2011. They really bring out the spirit of exploration, adventure, care, and doing things bigger than oneself. This is about doing things that go beyond the cat picture of the day. These presentations, well, I’ll let them speak for themselves. Absolutely great!
Turning the Camera on Chris Dixon
Chris Dixon is one of my favorite people in tech and writes one of the few blogs I read religiously. If you don’t read it and you care about tech & entrepreneurship, you should. He’s thoughtful about markets, investors, products and is always very well reasoned in his arguments. I’ve also found him to not be [...]
Version 0.9. What Do You Think?
I’m excited to announce that we silently launched our new website last week. Like a startup we took a very “version 0.9” approach. What I would love to do with this post is tell you our goals and solicit reactions for what you like and what you don’t like. What you’d like to see added, [...]
Reflections of America this July 4th
July 4th. The funniest experience I ever had on July 4th (US Independence Day) was July 4th 1999. That was the year I spent July 4th in Tokyo, where I was living for 6 months. I had been living in Europe since the start of 1995, most recently in London. I have always had a [...]
OS Bridge Day #1: Hacking for Freedom
Keynote: Hacking for Freedom
(Description of Hacking for Freedom)
Day #1 has kicked off with a bang. A keynote that really pulled at the heart strings for the love of freedom and liberty! The notion of technology being involved directly to those pushing for their freedom in other parts of the world is huge. Below I’ve snagged… read more…
Too much Social Me-dia going on
Hat tip to Sameer Patel for the tweet that led me to this: @lehawes Folks taking the Me in Social Me-dia too literally I’ve noticed quite a bit of this lately. A few weeks ago, I unfollowed 20% of my follows because they either RT’ed themselves or their friends, and vice versa. Seeing a mediocre [...]
A Few WTF Moments!
Ever been working along on something, and you see an ad or get an error that just boggles the mind? You look at it and just think to yourself, “what the… why did they… I… don’t… can’t… even… imagine. Ugh idiot!” Well here’s a few that have hit me lately. This is SUPPOSED to be [...]
The Cloud is Rockin’ and Rollin’ In
Well, this is nothing new for those of us who are following the industry. However, as I go to main street around the world (as opposed to early adopter land like Silicon Valley and other places), there are many users (including businesses) who are unaware of what cloud computing can offer them and any challenges [...]
Disrupting The Analyst Industry Through Blogs, Yeah Right!!
For a long time I was getting frustrated with where the industry, in general, and analyst space, in particular, are heading. When I got into research and analysis, I thought blogs can disrupt the analyst industry in the same way open source disrupted the proprietary software. As a believer in grassroots approach to social and [...]
Windows Azure SDK Unit Testing Dilemma — F5DD Plz K Thx Bye
I’m a huge advocate for high quality code. I will admit I don’t always get to write, or am always able to write high quality code. But day in and out I make my best effort at figuring out the best way to write solid, high quality, easy to maintain, easy to read code. Over [...]
Trust Is Key For Cloud Success And What Can We Do About It?
All the public cloud providers demand one thing from their customers. They want their customers to trust them. Their entire business model is reliant on the idea of trust. It is easy for small and medium businesses to trust the public cloud providers because they lack the necessary financial muscle to build their own IT [...]
The Semantic Link is open
At the end of last month, I wrote about the new Semantic Link podcast that I’m involved with for SemanticWeb.com. We recorded the first episode earlier this week and it’s now online, along with an introduction to the series from myself. Please do have a listen, and let me know what you think whilst I [...]
Wikileaks, Amazon And Public Clouds
When Wikileaks released the documents from US State Department, it faced DDOS attacks from people who didn’t like what they were doing. To counter the DDOS attacks, Wikileaks moved to AWS for their hosting needs, a move touted by some in the Clouderati as a validation of public cloud computing. Today, the Wikileaks site is [...]
A debate with the Doctor of Failure
Failure happens. There are many issues and stakeholders in any technology implementation process and any of them adds complexity that can lead to failure. The question is how much technology, the DNA of the technology vendor, and other stakeholders contributes to the failure. Is it always a project management issue…
Gluecon 2011: Changing the Game
Gluecon is unlike any conference I’ve ever run before. Because it’s aimed at developers, the topics are far more technical than my feeble marketer’s brain can easily comprehend. And because Glue isn’t defined as “a cloud computing” conference, it’s not caught in the echo chamber of “defining” this, that and the other thing. Glue seeks [...]
