Twitter PostsSome people have complained that with the management structure and organization of Linux, it’s hard to take a big-picture perspective that a product manager might take, thinking about integrations across and along the entire stack of an operating system. For example, one of the benefits of a “database filesystem” would be that many services and […]
It seems that, after years of prognostication about video moving to the Internet, such as Mark Cuban’s claiming that HDTV is the new PC, that we might finally be hitting a critical inflection point.
I spoke with my friend the other day, who said he turned in his Comcast DVR in favor of Netflix + Hulu […]
There is an excellent article on the New York Times called The Rise of the Machines, which details just how little anyone seems to understand some of the financial instruments and their vast global interdependencies.
It reminds me first and foremost of the time that I saw Bill Joy speak at the Kennedy School of Government. […]
What does the currency crisis have to do with technology, the overall theme of this blog?
My original inspiration for SupraSphere was based on the work of Bernard Lietaer, particularly his book The Future of Money, where he describes a new communication medium that will allow experimenting with different types of money, allowing the most capable […]
It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but not too much has changed in the overall IT landscape. Cloud computing has become such a buzzword that it’s hard to know what it is anymore, and I still have deep reservations about the whole model with respect to privacy, security, and flexibility down the road.
In any […]
I attended a very interesting panel discussion yesterday evening called “An Evening in the Cloud” at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference at the Westin on the Waterfront in Boston. It was a sort of conversational panel between vendors of cloud computing platforms (”Cloud Players”), namely Google, SalesForce.com (through Force.com), and Amazon Web Services, and a group […]