Archive for December, 2006

Second Life Future

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

“I suspect that if the Cell processor lives up to it’s claims then processing real-time video input from a digital camera will be simple, and that will allow for the display of facial expressions and body language”

Pretty cool non?

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Evolution Of Google

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Someone is going to tell you who he is in small things. A 404 page can be used for this purpose. Using the Wayback machine, this post describes the facts and his analysis.

Link and on Google’s core values

Optical Fiber @home

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

I have just received this letter from Free. Supercool!!!

“Chère abonnée, Cher abonné,

Nous sommes heureux de vous compter parmi les abonnés Free Haut Débit dont
l’accès s’effectue à ce jour par les technologies ADSL sur une ligne
téléphonique.

A compter de 2007, l’offre Freebox telle que vous la connaissez va évoluer,
sans aucun surcoût pour vous, vers un accès en fibre optique via un réseau que
nous sommes en train de déployer dans votre ville. En dépassant les limites
de l’ADSL, la technologie optique vous apportera des débits garantis et
plus élevés permettant d’accéder dans le futur à une multitude de nouveaux
services multimedia qui viendront enrichir l’offre Free Haut Débit.

Afin d’optimiser les délais de raccordement de votre immeuble nous avons
besoin du maximum d’informations pertinentes telles que les coordonnées de
votre syndic, la présence éventuelle d’un gardien, de conditions d’accès.
Vous qui connaissez votre immeuble bien mieux que quiconque pouvez apporter
une contribution décisive au processus de raccordement.

Pour cela, il suffit de vous rendre sur votre console de gestion
http://subscribe.free.fr/login/login.pl muni de votre identifiant
(numéro de votre ligne 01XXXXXX) et de votre code d’accès, et de vous
laisser guider.

Nous vous remercions de la confiance que vous nous témoignez en ayant choisi
Free pour votre accès haut débit avec lequel nous vous souhaitons bon surf !

L’Équipe Free

Plus d’informations sur le déploiement de fibre optique de Free :
http://www.iliad.fr/presse/2006/CP_11092006_cp1.pdf
http://www.iliad.fr/presse/2006/CP_11092006_cp2.pdf”

Craigslist Meets the Capitalists

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

A completely cool blog post on a meeting between Craig Newsmark and bankers discussing Craigslist.

Some things seem to be really changing.

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The End Of The PC Era?

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

The PC era is coming to an end according to Greg Papadopoulos, CTO of Sun. He claims only Amazon, Yahoo!, Google and so on would survive as a computer operator and revives infamous Thomas J. Watson misquote.

PC era is still there

What can we think of his assertion, especially when you read this mostly from your PC?

  • A lot of processes whether computer based or human based are sourced somewhere else from the base company. But a company still needs to create value and cannot do it simply by aggregating different providers. It needs to add something, somewhere, although this can be done from an outsourced data-centers, companies would still need some infrastructure.
  • Most companies have already outsourced most of their IT, stored in remote data-center, so this is no news.
  • Actually, the number of CPU sold is increasing so stating there will be only 5 computers in the world seems contradictory with the facts.

This annoucements look a big PR event. What is behind is commoditization of those hardware and the emerging of a whole new class of applications to manage and use those CPU. Peer to Peer seems the most relevant abstraction for this next revolution.

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Buongiorno As An Emergent Player

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

This study cites Buongiorno as an emergent global player

http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/pdfs/Webtwopto2006.pdf

Ender’s Game Videogame

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

This sounds a lot like Ender’s Game famous videogame.

Link (via Knowing.net)

BABA Of Engineers Management

Monday, December 4th, 2006

A few things to add/substract, but most of the points are there.

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