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{ Monthly Archives } November 2007

Vancouver Bits of News

I’m still fight­ing off a bad cold, so blog­ging has been light and will be over the next couple of days. Things have still been hap­pen­ing in the world though… or at least in the part of it I inhabit. Rain­city Stu­dios bought Bryght — the Bryght guys (Boris, Roland, Kris, Richard) have been major […]

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Recyling Computers

I just got back from drop­ping off three mon­it­ors (two big and bulky, the third doesn’t work), two PC boxes (one works: a friend was upgrad­ing so I offered to get rid of the old one, the other doesn’t even turn on any more), two key­boards, a 9600 baud modem, an old router, and assorted […]

Bob Sutor on Privacy

Bob Sutor has a good post­ing on some of the same pri­vacy issues I talked about in my Web 2.0: Issues post­ing, in more depth and with some dif­fer­ent nuances. Worth read­ing and thinking about.

Balisage

I used to, some­times, go to a con­fer­ence in Montreal in August called Extreme Markup Lan­guages. Some­times a bit over-the-top geeky for me, but mostly a good exper­i­ence. There’s now a new con­fer­ence in Montreal in August, run by some of the same people and chaired by Tom­mie Usdin from Mul­berry Tech­no­lo­gies, called Bal­is­age (the […]

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Web 2.0: Issues

There are some issues with Web 2.0, mostly in the areas of pri­vacy, secur­ity, copy­right — all those things you’d rather you didn’t need to worry about. Take pri­vacy for example. On many social net­work­ing sites people sign up and then put in all their per­sonal inform­a­tion simply because there’s a field there for it. […]

Web 2.0: Process

The third aspect of Web 2.0, which is often under-appreciated, is the pro­cess aspect. This has changed people’s expect­a­tions of what soft­ware can do, and how it should be delivered. This cat­egory includes open source, con­tinual beta and quick release cycles, and some new busi­ness mod­els. Pro­cess Cloud Not all of the things that are important […]