The Foundational Role of Identity in a Personal Cloud
If we're to build personal clouds supported by a cloud operating system (COS), then we need to understand the key services that the COS would provide to the user. Operating systems are not monolithic pieces of software, but rather inter...
Personal Clouds Need a Cloud Operating System
If you need an OS for you laptop, your phone, and your tablet, why don't you need one in the cloud? Our current conception of how people use the cloud has significant limitations that could be mitigated with the introduction of a cloud-based ope...
Personal Clouds as General Purpose Computers
There's no doubt that clouds are big business. A 2011 report from research firm Gartner put worldwide software as a service (SaaS) revenue at $12.1 billion, a 20.7 percent increase from 2010 revenue of $10 billion. The SaaS-based delivery will ex...
KRL, Data, and Personal Clouds
Personal clouds need access to data. Lots of data. Data from all over. I envision my personal cloud as a general purpose computing platform that is always working for me. As such, it will need access to all sorts of data about me, my s......
Ways Not Places
Since the dawn of the World Wide Web, we've been fixated on the concept of "place." The entire language of the Web is about location: we visit Web sites using Web addresses. Consequently, it's almost impossible for us to think there's ...
Ways Not Places
Since the dawn of the World Wide Web, we've been fixated on the concept of "place." The entire language of the Web is about location: we visit Web sites using Web addresses. Consequently, it's almost impossible for us to think there's ...
Roles in an Identity Ecosystem
I created a diagram for another document trying to map out some roles in an identity ecosystem as a way of understanding them better. I'd thought share it here.
I don't think this is complete by way of explaining the totality of interactions...
Sending Events in Parallel
Last month, I wrote about federating personal event networks through event subscription and motivated the idea with an example called the On-Call TA scenario. The idea is that a personal event network for the class distributes meeting r...
Local .Net Job
A local company run by a friend of mine who's had very good luck with start-ups is looking for a .Net developer to work on a shopping cart solution. They're looking for someone who's happy and organized. Don't laugh, cultural fit is one of the most im...
Journey Out to Our Frontier
Watching the 3/3/2012 edition of the Gillmor Gang, I was struck by the fact that people--I think it's wider than just the group on the show--have a tough time with the Doc Searl's VRM message because they always want to see it in ter...
Whoring Out Your Brand
I had an experience this week that made me appreciate the dangers of slapping your brand on any old product as well as the dividends paid by good customer service. Here's the story:
Last summer, I was shopping for a new grill for t...
