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Mapping and playing games 24 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Personally, I find mapping a useful tool for determining predictable changes (and manipulating the environment accordingly) and anticipating possible but ultimately uncertain changes by narrowing the ...
Why Google Glass will change the world. 10 Aug 2013 | 03:59 am
I've only played with Google Glass a few times (not owning a set) and it takes only a few seconds of use to realise there exists multiple killer applications which will change the way we interact with...
Why would Bezos buy the Washington Post? 6 Aug 2013 | 06:19 am
Well, there's two parts to the business - the news gathering and distribution but also the printing business. Large scale printing facilities cost a fortune to set up. Washington Post's smaller print...
The interface doesn't matter. 5 Aug 2013 | 11:03 pm
Excellent article by @somic on a "Response To Simon Wardley: Innovation in Interface Implementations" and well worth a read. It's an intelligent article with little for me to take umbrage with, other...
Can OpenStack dominate IaaS? 4 Aug 2013 | 06:29 am
tl;dr : only if it embraces ecosystem over egosystem. To understand why, we need to cover some basics regarding the market as it is and examine how to win the space. First, the basics :- Users (as ...
Does commoditisation lead to centralisation? 3 Aug 2013 | 06:26 am
tl;dr Maybe. This question came up again recently, so it's probably worth covering this very old ground. All activities commoditise to good enough components providing interfaces that allow higher.....
The 'Innovation' Battle 30 Jul 2013 | 07:10 pm
For those of us who have accepted that IaaS (infrastructure as a service) is all about utility provision of a commodity then innovation is not about the interface but should be above and below the int...
On Evolution, Strategy, Cycles and Bias 21 Jul 2013 | 12:06 am
On Evolution Many years ago I developed a model of how activities (i.e. things we do) evolve due to competition both demand (user) and supply side from the genesis of the act to commodity and utility...
Where would we be if Linus wrote an MS-DOS clone 20 years ago? 17 Jul 2013 | 07:50 pm
In response to my discussion on the Trouble with OpenStack, I get a lot of questions of the kind "Where would we be if Linus wrote an MS-DOS clone 20 yrs ago" or "Yeah, Linux should copy Windows APIs"...
Could CloudStack, Eucalyptus, Open Nebula and Open Stack all win in the cloud? 17 Jul 2013 | 05:12 am
I was asked a question whether we could follow a different road and have a market of AWS clones with multiple open source systems providing this and hence all the open source systems win? Well, assum...
