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Dwight's blog: Dear Linksys,

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:03:48 -0800

Please do this.

Imagine if by default all wifi access points publish a “Public ” SSID in addition to doing their normal stuff.

- This public SSID is given < 10% of total available bandwidth to the access point.

- It’s outside my real network’s NAT zone and (if there were any) firewall…

Teo Hernandez: Dear SIRI, how could I make Enterprise Software better?

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:00:06 -0800

Teo Hernandez: Dear SIRI, how could I make Enterprise Software better?:

Before SIRI can answer that, doesn’t Enterprise need to adopt a NoSQL or at least a relaxed cap theorem architecture.

teohernandez:

I wonder what the answer from Apple’s SIRI will be. In the meantime and while SIRI is still processing my query, I came across with some thoughts on how I think we could make Enterprise Software better using SIRI.

SIRI is not only about a voice recognition, SIRI is Artificial Intelligence as…

"big data sit in silos. Web browser data isn’t linked to transaction data. Social data is not matched..."

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:00:05 -0800

“big data sit in silos. Web browser data isn’t linked to transaction data. Social data is not matched with search. Direct mail budgets are migrated to digital, sometimes recklessly in that the impact on customer response, store and online traffic, and transactions are not subsequently measured, never mind tested.”

- Idea NoSQL for ERP? Better said as NewSQL, particularity Neo4j flavor. Search does the matching. Comments here: http://smist08.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/nosql-for-erp/

3 Hurdles in the ‘Big Data’ Race « From ATX …with Gary Skidmore

Silos aren’t just databases. They are also segregated by physical datacenters, storage types, and multiple networks. Gotta get it all on one network…

(via abnerg)

Rob Spiro of Aardvark/Google set his attention on Technology...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:00:05 -0800

Rob Spiro of Aardvark/Google set his attention on Technology Accelerating Food’s Transformation to Services Economy. TCHO’s talk at PARC sets examples connecting farmers to technology in 3rd world to customers in 1st world.

Idea on SAP: avoid wearing The Wrong Trousers by Dennis Howlett....

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:00:00 -0800

Idea on SAP: avoid wearing The Wrong Trousers by Dennis Howlett. Wear baggy trousers, relax the CAP theorem. Use NoSQL Neo4j / MongoDB to fold relationships into the business system and gain custom without customization?

When Lawyers Become ‘Trolls’ - a step forward VC-ing...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:00:05 -0800

When Lawyers Become ‘Trolls’ - a step forward VC-ing patents…

Ryan Dahl: The Software Stack and Latency

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:00:05 -0800

Ryan Dahl: The Software Stack and Latency:

Latency from any perspective is the new arms race.

antirobotrobot:

I love this Scale of the Universe graphic. It allows you to compare the sizes of objects in the universe from atoms to galaxies. I got to thinking about how different professions work with objects at different scales and how these professions use very different tools. A particle physicist’s tool…

It’s not up to Google to not be evil. It’s up to us.

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:28:00 -0800

It’s not up to Google to not be evil. It’s up to us. :

Steve Gillmor argues G+ folding results into search via graph can boarder on Evil. I’d counter using graph is unavoidable in order to percolate relevant results in real-time.

“Simply put: we don’t build services to make money; we make...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:00:05 -0800

“Simply put: we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services.”

— Mark Zuckerberg’s Letter To Facebook Investors

Enter the New Canon - via Mike Miller

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:33:38 -0800

Enter the New Canon - via Mike Miller

Passwords: still broken

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:31:31 -0800

Passwords: still broken

Scott Andreas - Garbage, Garbage Everywhere: GC Strategies for...

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:00:06 -0800

Scott Andreas - Garbage, Garbage Everywhere: GC Strategies for Event Processing Systems on the JVM, Boundary Tech Talks 11/17/11

What is Boundary?

Boundary takes techniques and technologies talked about in reference to Big Data, and applies to IT Mgmt. Creating a new generation of IT Management and monitoring solutions to deal with the rapid nature of application change as well as the fact that many apps are hosted in Cloud environments are where you cannot get much access to traditional management metrics.

Teens migrating to Twitter — sometimes for privacy

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:20:00 -0800

Teens migrating to Twitter — sometimes for privacy:

My intuition Facebook social networking design has peaked and will need different products for post IPO growth. The FB design suffocates with the past, felt most by the young ready for the new.

neoclipse more convenience for neo4j

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:00:05 -0800

neoclipse more convenience for neo4j

SQLAzure LittleBigPaaS with Michael Rys @SQLServerMike Best with...

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:14:00 -0800

SQLAzure LittleBigPaaS with Michael Rys @SQLServerMike

Best with the Microsoft SQL Azure event at the Seattle Hadoop meetup was Michael Rys live demo coding 4 SQL Azure database shards using federated SPLIT AT (user id kv). Learning how SQL Azure’s splits shards for elastic scaling, and the state of folding shards back again into main without losing any consistency at all. Essentially by taking SQL and NoSQL learning to date and architecting the Azure Platform to relax the cap theorem.

The principal business impact I am concerned with is the ability of big data business apps to elastically scale up and back down again. Ideally without DevOps or IT interventions.

Currently the cloud biz apps platform market leader, both on revenues and thought leadership is Salesforce.com. Setting a context for comparing SQL Azure and Force.com platforms. Compare say a ticketing application to handle scalability needs when Lady Gaga tickets go on sale (recall the Google IO 2011 tix slashdotting effect).

Seattle Hadoop meetup audience drawing heavily from the Scalability and NoSQL community, Mike pointed out what’s obvious to this community, scaling has mostly been achieved by relying on applications to scale. Not on the platforms. In my experience many client server business apps, even mature apps, scale poorly, often topping out at 300 concurrent users or less. Big data biz apps need to scale to 30,000 or more.

By learning internally and from observing the NoSQL vendors, SQL Azure has been engineered as a platform for scaling, rather than relying on applications to do the scaling. Thus putting more power in the hands of smaller development teams without rock star architects experienced at scaling 1 to 30,000 (and to 300,000…)

The Force.com platform, engineered a solid 10+ years ago on database-on-a-database pattern locks scalability into the rate limiting allowed in the multitenancy layer. For business developers suffocating in IT bureaucracy, rate limiting for internal apps, is not a worry. Still don’t use these apps on public web projects like selling really hot tickets. Provisioning business developer convenience over developer sophistication (still is a real moneymaker for Salesforce.com).

How will SQL Azure and Force.com compare going forward?

The next version of Java, now driven by Oracle after Sun acquisition, is slated to include capabilities for multitenant applications to sense database loading. Presumably to allow provisioning of additional Oracle SQL database capacity. This may allow Force.com chief architect Parker Harris to re-engineer and remove rate limiting. But when the primary Oracle market is on-premise enterprise applications, what incentives does Oracle have to make cloud applications big data business scalable?

Where as Microsoft Windows client platform, under competition from iOS and Android, predictably has huge incentives to provision a Cloud PaaS platform for developers to create new little and big data business applications with scaling provisioned by the platform, not in the application itself. Ushering in the PaaS Developers properly.

A double check on this strategy Saleforce.com omnipresent Cloud Blog thought leadership — Gillmor Gang — already signaled a shifted up the application stack to the Social Enterprise applications by way of the Heroku platform (polyglot services, not Force.com)

Microsoft SQL Azure perhaps doesn’t push Force.com aside, Salesforce already moved.

sfh: How to Buy a Pencil in 9 steps and 4-12 months. :D

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:00:06 -0800

sfh:

How to Buy a Pencil in 9 steps and 4-12 months. :D

Ryan Freitas, designer/founder About.Me interview with...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:00:05 -0800

Ryan Freitas, designer/founder About.Me interview with @500

Iterations
We probably re-did the user experience for the signup process six or seven times before we got it to a very minimalistic two-step…

API-centric architectures business strategy

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:00:05 -0800

API-centric architectures business strategy:

Amundsen’s Dogs, Information Halos and APIs: The epic story of your API Strategy »

Security Email from @zappos CEO - Tony Dang! Internets security...

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:00:05 -0800

Security Email from @zappos CEO - Tony

Dang! Internets security is hard.

Are Free Customers Better Than Captive Ones?

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:00:06 -0800

Are Free Customers Better Than Captive Ones? :

“acquiring,” “capturing,” “locking in,” “owning” and “managing” customers as if they were slaves or cattle. Yet as customers we yearn to be free. Doc Searls @ SXSW 2012