Living scale
Today is a white stone day for microbiologists, science, and all of us. Craig Venter and team have successfully created a new species “whose parent is the computer” (in Venter’s words). Their...
View ArticleIdentity Abuzz: Notes from IIW10
I spent two days at the Internet Identity Workshop 10. IIW events are set in an open space, unconference style. True to its workshop designation, it’s a place to do work collegially. It’s not a place...
View ArticleStubHub goes Mobile
This week, we unveiled the latest installment in the collection of iPhone/iPad applications by eBay Inc.: the StubHub app. Kudos to my colleagues. They didn’t limit themselves to the traditional...
View ArticleMy other computer is a Utah datacenter
I was recently in Salt Lake City and visited the new datacenter that opened back in May. Quick facts: ~300M$ investment 240,000 square foot building; inside, 3x rooms with 20,000 sqf each of...
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Sports that scale: Soccer
I’m a huge fan of football round kind. Every four years, I take the time to follow the FIFA World Cup and keep tags on nearly all the 32 teams that start off. The FIFA tournament funnels large,...
View ArticleCloud: Dark Side, Good Side
I found some good food for thoughts in Dave Durkee’s article “Why Cloud Computing will never be free” in the May issue of Communications of the ACM (did I ever say how much I enjoy reading CACM,...
View ArticleRedress your apps for Cloud
This week, Alex Stamos of iSEC Partners visited and gave a great talk titled “Securely Moving Your Business into the Cloud”. Much of that material is publicly available here. Alex is a straight...
View ArticleeBay’s Technical Voice
eBay has recently launched a tech blog to give voice to the many technical leaders that are hard at work to advance the world’s largest marketplace. Hugh Williams kicked it off with the first post on...
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Redress apps for Cloud – Netflix
Adrian Cockroft of Netflix (and a former eBay colleague) recently described his journey to run Netflix services off of a public cloud, effectively and efficiently. Along with Alex Stamos’ security talk...
View ArticleInternet Identity Workshop #11
I sampled the program of the 11th Internet Identity Workshop (unconference) held at the Computer Museum in Mountain View (the 2nd this year, see my notes from IIW10, also in MTV). OAuth 2.0: The spec...
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