Arrival of the Ipred
Today the new Ipred law will go into action. It was initially a directive from the European Union made in 2004, now interpreted and transformed into a Swedish law.
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Obama inauguration in PhotoSynth
45 years ago, a man named Martin Luther King stood in front of the Lincoln memorial and spoke to 250 000 people. His voice carried the words “I have a dream” across the National Mall.
Azure revealed at PDC08 in Los Angeles
PDC08 kicked off today in Los Angeles with the expected keynote by Ray Ozzie. He presented Azure, a web service platform hosted in data centers all over the world. It will host web applications in “the cloud”, supposedly the best thing since sliced bread if we are to believe Ozzie.
Examining Google Knol
Google is expanding their toolkit every day and this morning saw the release of Google Knol, a service quite reminiscent of Wikipedia where the term Knol refers to a unit of knowledge.
Online life after death
Even though I generally loathe the commercialized term Web 2.0, I believe social interaction on web sites is most often a very good idea. We create a lot of digital content today and it’s a fun thing for others to view and explore.
The modern plague of phishing
Once upon a time, the so-called Nigerian letters were adopted to online versions by devious spammers. They were basically email versions of advance fee frauds and I suppose that a few people fell for these traditional scams delivered by snail mail.
Thoughts on Connection07
Connection07 was held at Stadsmuseet, one of the very few web conferences held in Gothenburg. Compared to the large global conferences such as MIX and @media, this is of course a lot smaller.
Level of fame
What is it that make someone famous in the computer world? Decades ago, that particular area used to concern advanced scientific topics bordering dangerously close to the obscure, which made sure that it very rarely became mainstream.
Why Web 3.0 will fail
Just like Web 2.0, The so-called Web 3.0 is yet another buzzword from the hype machine. It is used to describe a future web environment where simple pages are replaced by documents containing semantic information, which can be processed and further refined.
The ecosystem of Web 2.0
I held a customer presentation yesterday about Web 2.0, the technology involved and some of the social aspects of it. The most common question from the audience was how all this fit in with the real world. That is a perfectly valid question.