Deviant Abstraction

This is one refreshing from something which seem benigm: widgets such as the MySpace player. This post is right and this blog is a good example.

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In the two decade long battle between processes vs threads, here is another post. It states threads shouldn’t scale as well as processes.

The issue is there are not that much difference between a thread and a process.

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Comverse CEO was caught through Skype. A CEO target of a worlwide manhunt… A high tech software (Skype) to capture him… Is this Mission Impossible 3?

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This Tshirt states in arabic: I am not a terrorist

If you want to buy one or get more information

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If you want to get a glimpse of the future of information management, you should click here.

Link (Via Oreilly Radar)

We all know this chart is already obsolete and somewhat irrelevant. However, reflecting upon it is always useful.

What it really shows is the mainstream view of these technology. You can see VoIP or Web 2.0 but not P2P which is an emerging system trends (in the sense that a lot of its potential is still untapped). Some points are senseless (Grid computing: what does it mean? MPI is already there and battle-tested) and mix commercial application (VoIP), applied research (sensor networks) and fundamental research (quantum computing). In a way, this is good: it lays down some frontiers the academic community has artificially created.

Via JdN

… And therefore technology providers hardly earn their life selling technology. They have to exploit it to earn money.

This is a Wired article on how Zune (MS’s music player) is basically a betrayal of PlayForSure (MS’s DRM system).

We can see this scheme in advertising, where Advertising.com according to Startup Review maintained their position through not licensing their technology. On another hand in France where market maturation is really less advanced, AuFeminin precisely maintains their position through licensing of their adServer.

Actually, IT is now so important for business, it can disrupts and create new business model. If the technology is so disruptive (targeting changes the rule of advertisement), you will not be able to sell it (ever see something disruptive in a RFP?) unless using your personal network.

I will not drawn the obvious conclusions here.

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This article is the 101 lesson for online marketing.

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So useless yet useful!

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Amazon EC2(Elastic Compute Cloud) is the next logical step after S3. It is built on top of S3 and allows you to instantiate a virtual machine. You pay by the use (you also need to include S3 costs) and you can use it how you want.

This is a smart move from Amazon. Smarter than Sun’s one. The problem with the grid architecture is to parallelize a computation (whether an addition or a program; for instance how do I parallelize int i = 5 + 8; i++; the answer is it is uselss).

Amazon is creating a really amazing web services stack. Those days Google is all the rage, but Amazon is really creating something much more than their ecommerce shop.

The service is currently in beta. I am subscribed to it and plan to test it. What is sure is that it will provoke a lot of “Schumpeter destructive creation”.

Link to the documentation