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 [...]

On more than one occasion I have blogged about content from Kathy Sierra over at Creating Passionate Users. Today, I read something that made me really think (it made me sick too). Before I go on, I should warn you, Kathy has been very open and her post contains some explicit content. She is courageous [...]

There has been a significant amount of blogging and press regarding anonymity on the Internet. I have recently blogged on the subject.
However, now I am taking a look at the issue from the other side. In the back of my mind, I knew there were two sides to “authentic sources” and the Internet but the shock [...]

A news story on NRP’s “All Things Considered” this evening, had an interesting subtext. The initial context of the news story highlighted that students at Virginia Tech have been using Facebook and MySpace as a means of communicating with each other and with distant friends. The subtext was how the news media has used this [...]

I was reading a blog the other day and it had a lot of personal information. At the same time, the author made some conscious choices in what and how he wrote. It got me thinking again about privacy issues - both of bloggers and those they may include in their blogs.
The blogshere is an [...]

The following news scares me something wicked …
Google’s ambition to maximize the personal information it holds on users is so great that the search engine envisages a day when it can tell people what jobs to take and how they might spend their days off.
Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, said gathering more personal data was [...]

I consider myself pretty cautious when it comes to my personal information and financial transactions. Unfortunately, the SCAM’ers are getting pretty smart.

Internet dating has taken a strange but perhaps more optimized twist. Today’s dating scene is tough - at least once you’ve gotten out of the target rich environment of college. A lot of people start developing relationships through email. But, some people are just good writers. What happens when the writing stops and the talking [...]

I will start by saying, “I like what Google offers”. *BUT* I’m not sure I can accept the cost to personal privacy. (And the more I write about “Goolge” and “privacy” the less likely they’d ever offer me a job <snicker>)
A recent 6 month investigation by Research International concluded …
… the decision to place [...]

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 [...]

I’ve read a bunch of hype and speculation on a “Google Phone” and most of the sites are focused on how cool it might be or how it will be better than the iPhone, etc. A Computerworld article is probably closer to the truth - “Google wants your attention” (and the advertising dollars that [...]

GeoEye-1 will deliver higher resolution images and a much faster rate. U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency gets first dibs at the images but Google gets exclusive on-line rights after that. Oh, and if you were curious, there will be a GeoEye-2 a bit later on.
Credit: Vandenberg Air Force Base Media