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  • What’s a Chromebook good for? How about running PHOTOSHOP? • The Register

    Photoshop is the only application from Adobe’s suite that’s getting the streaming treatment so far, but the company says it plans to offer other applications via the same tech soon. That doesn’t mean it’s planning to phase out its on-premise applications, though. via What’s a Chromebook good for? How about running PHOTOSHOP? • The Register.…

  • From Big Data to NoSQL: Part 3 (ReadWriteWeb.com)

    While I am not a DB admin, I do appreciate the wealth of new database projects spawned by the likes of Google’s MapReduce/BigTables architecture. Similarly the non-traditional Nonrelational DBs are also very interesting and prove that there’s always a right tool for the right job. Though some programmers and developers will continuously try to hammer…

  • JSON Activity Streams Spec Hits Version 1.0

    Whether it is Twitter or Facebook or what have you, each and every new social networking service is starting to slowly pull back from sharing its data with the world at large. Twitter adherents are crowing about the death of RSS/Atom publish and subscribe feeds open for the whole world to see. Now you need…

  • From Big Data to NoSQL: The ReadWriteWeb Guide to Data Terminology (Part 1)

    I don’t know if you have ever heard of Relational Databases or Structured Query Language. They became di rigeur after 1977 in most corporate data centers pushing more power into the hands of users instead of programmers. But that type of structured data can only carry you so far until you bump against its limits.…

  • SPDY: An experimental protocol for a faster web – The Chromium Projects

    Google and other browser manufacturers are all working to create a much faster browser experience. Techniques of late include state of the art javascript execution engines, and Google Chrome in particular really sped up adoption of HTTP 1.1 persistence of connections. along with pre-fetching and DNS caching. All of which quickly made Google Chrome the…

  • Stop Blaming the Customers – the Fault is on Amazon Web Services – ReadWriteCloud

    Amazon has a datacenter that they both use for their own internal commerce website, but also share out to anyone willing to pay hourly rates for access to the Amazon data cloud. Part of the whole constellation of services is a fault tolerant data storage (think a farm of hard drives all in racks) that…

  • OpenID: The Web’s Most Successful Failure|Wired.com

    First 37Signals announced it would drop support for OpenID. Then Microsoft’s Dare Obasanjo called OpenID a failure (along with XML and AtomPub). Former Facebooker Yishan Wong’s scathing (and sometimes wrong) rant calling OpenID a failure is one of the more popular answers on Quora. But if OpenID is a failure, it’s one of the web’s…

  • Dave Winer’s EC2 for poets | Wired.com

    Now I understand that Wikileaks was also a user of the Amazon EC2 service, so I’m a little hesitant to promote them after Amazon dropped Wikileaks from their service. However, I am just so overwhelmingly curious about the application for cloud computing when it comes to personal websites and blogging. That is why I am…

  • Personal data stores and pub/sub networks – O’Reilly Radar

    My data belong to me not to the services I decide to participate in. But that’s not how the services do things generally. What would an ideal world look like where I could keep all my personal profile information in one spot and subscribe to services through that hub?

  • Email is crap: The past is yours, the future’s mine!

    Human-Machine Interaction is one of those multi-disciplinary fields that tries to adapt things to the way people work. Whether that’s User Interfaces or physical knobs and levers or design metaphors, the goal is to make the thing more useful. When a command-line interface was the only way to make a desktop computer do useful things,…