Data Abstractions for Richer Cloud Experiences
As we discussed earlier, one of the primary services of a cloud OS (COS) will be data abstraction. Traditional operating systems provide data abstraction services by presenting programs and users with a file system view of the data stor...
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...
Salmon and Peas in a Saffron Cream Sauce
An impromptu and fast recipe that worked really well.
saffron
butter
olive oil
salt
pepper
mixed herbs
salmon steak fillets
frozen peas
cream
Put the saffron in a small amount of hot water. Get the butter and oil hot enough to bubble, add salt, pepper, mixed herbs. Shortly after, add the salmon, skin side down. Fry until the skin is crispy, then turn onto a...
Aerial map mashing
Thanks to Jeff Warren (also here) of GrassRootsMapping and Public Laboratory, I now know — and am highly turned on by — the possibilities of mapping in the wild. That is, mapping by the 99.xxx+% of us who are not in the mapping business, and are in the best multiple positions to map the world(s)...
This is What a Hole in Your Digital Life Looks Like
10:15PM Tuesday March 27, San Francisco, across the street from Alexander’s Restaurant at 4th $ Brennan. I slipped into the driver’s seat of my rental car after dinner with Phil Windley and Doc Searls, took one look in the rear view mirror, and … Continue reading →
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...
Two marketing essays
Here are a couple of essays – which further explain our system and what our purpose and goals are. “What do you do WITH all this bandwidth?” – our answer to the Gigabit networking, broadband infrastructure question. Building on existing … Continue reading →
Portraits of New York from altitude
On my way back from SXSW a couple weeks ago, I got some terrific shots of many things, including portions of Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky (including mountaintop mining), Virginia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Trenton and Providence. Most of those aren’t uploaded yet, but I just put up the best of the bunch: this series of New...
NCAA basketball is now officially the NBA’s farm system
I enjoyed watching the Kentucky-Kansas NCAA Championship game last night, but not nearly as much as I have earlier finals, such as the Butler-Duke game two years ago. That game was in doubt even during the final second, when Gordon Hayward came inches away from winning it for Butler with a 45-foot shot released microseconds...
EFF Finally Notice 0day Market
Six years after I first blogged about it, the EFF have decided that selling 0days may not be so great.
Maybe they should be reading my blog?
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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...
Musing about communities and prices
Soon everyone on earth will be connected. It’s over. People are getting connected. Things are getting connected. Whole communities are getting connected. And when communities get connected, other things begin to happen. They become markets. Entire markets in themselves. And at the same time participants in larger markets. It’s fractal, small pieces exhibiting the same...
