Web 2.0 - highlighted by web services, mashups, the explosion of leveraging Google Maps, Wikis & Blogs, RSS/ATOM feeds, REST, etc - presumes that an application is the value-add portion of lots of reusable services. In most cases, the resources are remote and may or may not have had the expected usage.
Moore’s Law assumes compute [...]

The more I read blogs and contemplate what I should and should not blog about, I keep coming back to a series of conversations I had with Alex Morrow, and IBM Fellow, on the topic of on privacy and personal data. Those talks were before all of the blogs, the existence of MySpace.com, personal [...]

Upon reading a commentary from Irwin Lazar, Carl Tyler asks
Is instant messaging the death knell for email?
I think the answer is “no”. What I do believe is that individuals will gravitate to a single interface to whatever content they use most.
Email, IM, Blogs, Web, and applications all have their own user interfaces. When these start [...]

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T60p for work. I have an IBM Thinkpad X60 (refurb) for my personal computer. Given the corporate policies enforced in today’s business world, there I keep my personal content (blogs, personal email, photographic work, money manager, etc.) off my work computer. However, when I travel, I don’t want to carry [...]

Carl Tyler of Epilio recently wrote, “How big is small?” referring to the definition of small and medium businesses (SMB).
This is an interesting question given that large established companies often have very different definitions. Microsoft, who makes the bulk of its revenue from consumers, markets SMB as 25-500 computer seats. Whereas IBM, who makes the [...]

Yesterday, I had a small 40KB program I needed to move to a couple different machines. I figured it would be simplest to just mail it to the various people who needed it. One of the recipients has Gmail. So I sent the file and a couple of helper “BAT” files along with a TXT [...]

Back in the early 1990’s companies like Sun, IBM, and Lotus were talking about and developing solutions for “the network PC revolution”. The idea behind the network PC - for those who managed to escape the hype and disappointment - is that all of your applications and data reside on a server somewhere an [...]

OK, if the title means nothing to you then don’t worry, I’ll blog about something else tomorrow. For everyone else, here is what this means …
If you have lots of old mail that you’ve fetched from your POP3 accounts over the years using Thunderbird or other email client and if that email client also supports [...]

The debate over “cloud computing”, “software as a service”, the “value of mashups”, and “free really isn’t free” will go on for a very long time but the reality is - sooner or later - it all comes down to money.
In a recent telephone interview with Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect, a [...]

I needed to simplify my parent’s PC. The primary tasks include email, reading blogs (not just mine), calendar, and banking. All of these are web applications - Gmail, Google Reader, Google Calendar, and on-line banking.
I was having them use a sidebar that served as a feed reader and had a notification service for Gmail. The [...]