Doc Searls’ latest post points to a post by Louis Ray defining the third wave of the Web (a.k.a. Web 3.0) as the Personal Web. The value of the first wave was in the information itself (static Web, a.k.a. Web 1.0); the value of the second wave was in the sharing of information (social web, …
So, Amazon is launching an online music service, where you can store your music on their servers and then stream it to your devices. This is impressive, and as mentioned by some, we are getting closer to the mythical GDrive. Amazon’s announcement gives us a very cheap online storage: by just buying one album on …
The sentence It can’t happen here is the latest motto of the French government, to which they add because our nuclear plants are the safest in the world. My point is not here to discuss politics or nuclear engineering, but to focus on risk analysis. I only did a few risk analyses, but it taught …
Android and iPhone have in common the fact that they define an operating system, an application execution platform, an applicatoin development platform, an application distribution framework, and probably many things that I forget. This consistent and wholesome experience probably participates to their success, but it also makes the analysis more difficult. The recent announcement of …
One of the discussion topics at this week’s Mobile Security Barcamp in Sophia Antipolis was mobile malware, with some people claiming that 2011 will be the year of mobile malware. I agree with them that, as mobile takes more and more power, and as platforms like iOS and Android become more and more common, they …
Mobile banking in Africa is becoming a well-known example of how technical and business innovation can benefit poor people around the world (on NPR, for isntance). Such systems now existing in other countries, but they are all more or less based on the same technical and business models. On the technical side, these financial applications …
Beside Motorola’s Atrix 4G and the many tablets, one of the very nice announcements of CES is LG’s Thinq, with significant press coverage. Connecting home appliances sounds kind of obvious, and the ubiquitous availability of smartphones and tablets makes it even more obvious. I have many times left my clean laundry sit in the washer …
After way too much time, I finally upgraded WordPress to a more recent release. I now feel modern and clean. However, the main change is philosophical, as I have changed my way to get revenue. I have removed the Google ads, which were in most cases completely irrelevant, and I have replaced them with a …
A new year is beginning, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people who have been reading this blog, commenting on it, and basically supporting me throughout these years. Although I have not been very active, the year has been tough, and this blog has brought some support at crucial …
It took me a while to write something about it, but at last Cartes, some ex-colleagues were showing something refreshing that made me feel a bit younger at Cartes: a new virtual machine, whose specification is available here. I got a demo of the VM, as well as a detailed speech about all the features …
