Archive for May, 2008

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Gartner Identifies Top Ten Disruptive Technologies for 2008 to 2012 | eHomeUpgrade -

Multicore and hybrid processors
Virtualisation and fabric computing
Social networks and social software
Cloud computing
Web mashups
User Interface
Ubiquitous computing
Contextual computing
Augmented reality
Semantics

The Meaning of Open Source | Linux Journal - It’s something of a truism that a strength of the [...]

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Do you know this Whale? »

If you know what this picture is from then you are probably a Twitter user. There’s a lot of discussion on how their success might be killing them, at least they will have $15 million bucks from their investors to shore up their infrastructure. I suspect that Twitter doesn’t suffer from their user base as [...]

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Triangle Tweetup 2.0 Tonight »

Tonight at 7:00 p.m. there’s a Triangle Tweetup at the Capstrat in Raleigh (near the RBC Center) to discuss Twitter and to network with other Twitter users.
Here’s the venue:
Capstrat, Inc.
1201 Edwards Mill Road, First Floor 102
Raleigh, NC 27607
http://www.capstrat.com
More information can be found on the wiki.
If you want to get together at the event hit me [...]

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Creative Commons Publisher »

Today a story hit the front page of Slashdot about Matthew Newhall who posted a draft of his novel on the web in late 2005. Eventually it was downloaded over 6000 time and edited by his readers. The book, “Thicker than Blood” is still downloadable under Creative Commons but for sale at Lulu.com (a [...]

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Are Google and Amazon the Next Great Hope for the (Linux) Desktop? »

There was a time when I thought the Linux desktop was going to take a market share at least equal to Apple’s. Maybe even 5% or 10% of the total desktop market. I had high hopes that the One Laptop Per Child Initiative would put Linux laptops in the hands of impressionable young minds who [...]

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