Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 28th, 2011 No Comments »
A couple of days back, New York Times had a story on a recent research paper that was presented at Usenix Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing. The idea is to spin a cloud using servers placed inside the homes and use the heat generated by these servers to heat the homes. In the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 16th, 2011 No Comments »
In an article that was published in July 2010, Bruce Schneier categorizes Social Networking Data into six groups based on (broadly speaking) who generated the data, about whom, what data is that. He further states that each category will have different editorial rights and we will have different access rights in each category. It will […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 8th, 2011 3 Comments »
As part of his “5 Myths of Social Software”, Jon Mell dispels a myth that one needs “lots of people for social tools to be a success.” He points to this famous diagram by Chris Rasmussen and his own positive personal experience at a three person startup to conclude that “placing social tools in the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 28th, 2011 1 Comment »
Yesterday I posted about a new class of devices that I would call “micro servers”. These are inexpensive Ubuntu boxes that consume very little electricity that can be used to run different always on applications. Such a device is a perfect fir for EnThinnai. This post is a record of that experiment. EnThinnai is a […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 27th, 2011 1 Comment »
Smartphones and tablets have thus far dominated the discussion on the topic of post-PC devices. These devices are expensive, mobility focused and mainly facilitates users with consuming information. But I would like to consider another set of devices which are inexpensive to own and operate, stationary and distributes information. There are already examples of such […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 14th, 2010 Comments Off on Flexible, but Secure Access Control in Cloud Storage
There is a report that EU will be funding a research effort into Cloud Storage Technologies to the tune of $21.4 M. This project will be spearheaded by IBM’s research team in Haifa and it will take three years for the projet to complete. The following paragraph in that story is my focus today: “The […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 12th, 2010 2 Comments »
Project VRM, a Berkman project has been endeavoring to bring forth a set of “tools to make markets work for both vendors and customers in ways that don’t require the former to “lock in” the latter was developed in the The Cluetrain Manifesto.” Doc Searls, has been spearheading the project. In a recent blog post […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 26th, 2010 2 Comments »
Background: During the recent Enterprise 2.0 Conference that took place in Boston, there was a panel called Microsharing: It is All About the Tools. It is Not About the Tools. It was moderated by Marcia Conner. Stowe Boyd felt that the panel “demonstrated that there is widespread disagreement, confusion and even antipathy about streams in […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 25th, 2010 4 Comments »
To data almost all Presence serving system push a user’s Presence status to others. It is widely considered to be an efficient mechanism rather than individuals periodically polling the Presence status of all of their friends.But this is based an a oversimplified analysis that does not take into consideration accepted social etiquette and potential security […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2010 No Comments »
Over a series of posts in his blog Confused of Calcutta, JP Rangaswami presents his thoughts on how corporate IT department should get inspiration from Facebook to develop and deploy software infrastructure that emerging workforce will demand. I call the collection of posts “facebook Manifesto” (the case of the letters being used advisedly). The purpose […]