Recently in my field there has been a lot of talk about cloud computing, a possible solution to my dilemma.  Cloud computing is the increasingly common occurrence of accessing computing applications via the Internet.  Cloud computing separates the software from the logical functions of the local hardware, so instead of needing computing power or specific applications locally (e.g. It’s both good and bad that I can’t take my work home.  These days my biggest limitation is technology.

Warning: this is a bit of ramble that also takes in the RSA, NCVO, cloud computing and the local government knowledge hub. An associated development is cloud computing , explained at the event by Robin Gear of PAconsulting . It means, among other things, that you can have all of your email, documents, networking etc handled by Google and other big players, storing your stuff in massive data warehouses in California. A meeting in London with Peggy Duvette , chief executive of WiserEarth, and also with Ed Mitchell, sparked some thoughts about networking - global, local, and organisational.

Hoy he pasado el día en el IE asistiendo a un seminario sobre cloud computing (por aquello de que a) Uno vende consultoría de estrategia tecnológica y hay que contrastar y actualizar ideas en un terreno tan importante, y b) Este es uno de mis temas de interés porque va a ser uno de los puntales de la evolución que estamos viendo hacia la “ vida iphónica “, y eso toca muchas, muchas facetas en la práctica… pero éso es otra historia . Dio una buena descripción teórica de lo que es cloud computing y los distintos “sabores” de servicio que pueden resultar

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Cloud Computing risks undoing the gains of the free software movement in ‘owning and controlling our own code”. Thomas Lord examines the potential for achieving software and user freedom in the world of ‘cloud computing’ (a concept he rejects, preferring ‘utility computing’, see below). Thomas Lord: “The term “cloud” is too vague. Thomas is writing within the context of the ‘free network services’ movement, which gathers around the autonomo.us mailing list .

But the day has come, Google Reader has turned into a simple newsmastering service. Over two years ago I was whining ( point 5 in this post ) that Google Reader lacked an OPML file for each tag/folder, which it still does, but it has gone one better anyway, well kind of… Use case is if I import my OPML into a Google CSE , and then add/delete a feed from Google Reader, my Google CSE will not know about it, which is a pity because it means I can’t use Google Reader as It’s sometimes such a drag being an early adopter because you are ready for features years ahead of when regular users will ask for them…you just have to be patient.

His idea, called RSS Cloud, is technically complex, but it boils down to this: When you send out an update, it’ll go to a set of servers in the Web cloud. Pushbutton technologies—including PubSubHubbub (seriously, that’s its real name), an open protocol developed by programmers at Google—let sites notify you whenever they’ve been updated. But as technologies like PubSubHubbub proliferate around Twitter — or, rather, the idea of a pervasive, public short messaging network — could be too important to be left under one entity’s control. The people behind the OpenMicroBlogging

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Google has been the dominant web Darwin Awareness Engine does by comparing it to the well-known Google Web Search. First, let’s review what Google does. phrase into Google. 0160; Google decides what is important I want to share this post I first wrote for the Darwin Awareness Engine blog last week to see what you think and what questions you might have. web search engine for years now for good reason.