Three sided-cloud

There are three sides to the cloud:

1. The authoring tool. I edit and update a feed. It contains a <cloud> element that says how a subscriber requests notification of updates.

2. The cloud. It is notified of an update by the authoring tool, and then in turn notifies all subscribers.

3. An aggregator. Subscribes to feeds that may or may not be part of a cloud.

What they call real-time 

via http://dashes.com/anil/2009/07/the-pushbutton-web-realtime-becomes-real.html via http://dashes.com/anil/2009/08/what-works-the-web-way-vs-the-wave-way.html

http://foratv.vo.llnwd.net/o33/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2009-05-18-romer.mp3

Romer notes that business keeps evolving as new companies introduce new rule sets. The good ideas are copied, and workers migrate from failing companies to the new and old ones where the new rules are working well. The same goes for countries. Starting about 1970, China took some of the effective rules of Hong Kong (which was managed from afar by England) and set up four special economic zones along the coast operating as imitation Hong Kongs. They worked so well that China rolled out the scheme for the whole country, and its Gross Domestic Product took off. “Hong Kong was the most successful economic development program in history.

• Web 2.0
• 14:22 After the internet bubble burst, what was the difference between businesses that succeeded and those that failed?
• 15:00 Hardware, Software and Infoware
• Given in 1997 in Wurtzburg at the same conference where Eric Raymond first presented The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
• The web is what open source ought to be paying attend to, not Linux.
• The Open Source Paradigm Shift
• How many of you use Linux
• How many of you use Google
  
• Dave Stutz
  • On Leaving Microsoft
  • "There's plenty of money to be made building software above the level of a single device"
  • Software commoditization
  • PC commoditized hardware -> value moved to software
  • Open source commoditized software -> value moved to the database
  http://twit.tv/floss73

June 13th, 2009

FLOSS Weekly 73: Tim O'Reilly

Hosts: Randal Schwartz, Jono Bacon, and Leo Laporte

Tim O'Reilly talks about open source and the future of web technologies.

Guest: Tim O'Reilly.

Tim O'Reillyis the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media. He works to spread knowledge on past, present, and future technologies though his company. Beyond publishing is recognized as a leading visionary for future technology trends. He is an advocate of open source, open standards, and is pushing for intellectual property reform.

Daniel Everett "A recursive sentence like “The boy who was fishing owned the dog” does not occur in the Pirahã language. They would say, “The boy was fishing” and “The boy owned the dog.” The eminent linguist Noam Chomsky has declared that recursion is an essential part of human language and is innate. Chomsky’s former student Everett says that the Pirahã language proves otherwise. The resultant controversy is profound. The Pirahã language is the simplest in the world. Speaking it and singing it are the same, and it can be hummed or even whistled, yet it can convey enormous richness. Among other things, the wide variety of verb forms are used to account for the directness of evidence for a statement. Everett originally went to the Pirahã in 1977 as a Christian missionary. They challenged him to provide evidence for the existence of Jesus, and lost interest when he couldn’t. Eventually so did he. The Pirahã made him an atheist."

"This brilliantly ironic satire is set in a future world where television and computers are connected directly into people's brains when they are babies. The result is a chillingly recognizable consumer society where empty-headed kids are driven by fashion and shopping and the avid pursuit of silly entertainment--even on trips to Mars and the moon--and by constant customized murmurs in their brains of encouragement to buy, buy, buy."

You miss stuff without the video.

The beginning of the end of cash as we know it? "Apple has apparently instituted a credit card-only policy for iPhone sales at its retail stores in order to guarantee supply for the holidays and frustrate potential resellers, according to multiple reports. Would-be iPhone buyers must now present a credit or debit card if they want to take home an iPhone, and they're also now limited to just two units, as they were on iPhone Day, according to The Associated Press. The AP quoted an Apple representative explaining the move as a way of making sure there are enough iPhones for the holidays and to prevent unauthorized resellers from flooding the market."

"The catalyst for Mobile Firefox is the move to mobile devices for Web access, Schroepfer says, citing industry statistics that mobile devices outsell personal computers worldwide by a margin of 20-to-1."

"One reason why there has been so little critical scrutiny of Google is that it has been the leading corporate supporter for such key media reform goals as network neutrality and open access to wireless spectrum. But while seemingly on the side of the public interest, Google has taken such positions for its own reasons, principally to expand its online advertising business (including ads delivered on cell phones). Another reason why so few questions are being asked is that policy-makers have failed to keep up with the fast-moving changes transforming the interactive media marketplace."