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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 contributors [...]

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2007 11 21 Vancouver Comments (1)

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 [...]

2007 11 14 Technology
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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.

2007 11 14 Identity and Privacy Comments (1)

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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2007 11 13 Conference Comments (1)

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. [...]

2007 11 13 Identity and Privacy
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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 in [...]

2007 11 12 Presentations
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