Deviant Abstraction

This blog is now Diso enabled

My diso profile

(Via OnStartup)

“You have not logged into MySpace since January 1, 2007. That makes us sad!

You’re also holding a very valuable piece of MySpace real estate, which is the username/URL you chose. That makes MySpace users sad! Why? Because you’ve got a URL someone may want, and you’re not really using it!

Since it doesn’t look like you’re an active user on this account, we will be resetting your username/URL so that someone else can use it.

To prevent this from happening, simply login to MySpace before Oct 31, 2007.

NOTE: We are only resetting the URLs of inactive accounts. We will *not* delete your account. We are simply trying to free up the username/URLs for people who actually want to use them. Thanks!”

How many of these emails did they send?

“We’re approaching a transition point in computing (…). It isn’t just the Internet or search or access to movies and music that matter, but all of those presented in a technological context that Just Plain Works. The importance of all our digital stuff along with our fear of losing it will shift us more and more toward central backup and storage. And once you have your life sitting on some company’s server, are you going to move it on a whim? No, and that means there will be a LOT of money to be made providing these services. Storage and automated backup and probably some form of netboot with a fresh OS image every time is the future of computing whether we’re talking about desktops or notebooks or mobile phones.”

This is an informed opinion and I agree with him (and I am not the only one: Fred?).

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How does look like a “user generated” Web 2.0? For the answer, click on the link below.

This is simply a real, smart and cool idea.

I will try it and let you know.

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Is a Joost-like with embedded aggregation features (they “parse” YouTube).

I do not really know what to think about this it, but it looks real cool… Although I do not really understand the research nor the consumer value. I will give it a try and let you know. I do not think we would not hear about it if it was not from Harvard.

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Issuu is something I have not yet fully understood. As always in those case, it looks wonderfully new. It seems to be a kind of YouTube for print.

As you can see, they have YouTubed this document. Both are awesome: the content and the presentation.

Update Issuu reader is destroying my lay out, so click on the link to see it.
Update Thanks to the team support, it is now working. Awesome support!

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Real cool Twittering:

BEING SURE OF YOURSELF MEANS YOU’RE A FOOL 11:56 AM July 17, 2007

Link via BoingBoing (explanation also is there)

I think now everybody know what is discussed on this subject.

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An interesting report from the excellent Read/Write Web blog on an interesting conference.

Two different but interesting thread of ideas have emerged at this conference:

1) Future of Web

• Deportalization or SOA for consumer (remember the original Web services vision?)
• Personnalization (actually those two ideas are deeply coupled)

(source: Flickr)

2) European start-up

• Be ambitious
• Fail if needed
• Think big

(Same remarks those three ideas are corollaries of the think big meme)

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