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I’m in San Francisco for the seventh VMworld event. It would be unfair to call it a “geek fest” as there are so many business people here. Rather, it would be more accurate to call it a “nerd-o-rama” as there are so many cool technologies being discussed relating to Cloud Computing that you’ll want to [...]
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FOURSQUARE DAY
In the history of holidays, we see new holidays each year. Some are beautiful, some are bizarre. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide which one this is. This year, the latest event for the cognoscenti, for those “in the know,” for the hipper-than-thou, is Foursquare Day.
Four squared is 4 [...]
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IPAD, 5TH GENERATION USER INTERFACE
“In our lifetimes, we have seen at least five generations of user interfaces.”
So started a recent conversation, on the advent of the recent iPad launch.
How is the iPad the 5th Generation of user interfaces for computers?
Before I begin, let me explain that a “user interface” is the way a human interacts [...]
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HISTORY OF FACEBOOK
Yesterday marked the 6th birthday of the social networking site Facebook. What started back at Harvard — and initially only open to college students or those with email addresses that ended in .edu until September 2006 — Facebook is now the fastest growing social network with over 400 million people using it to [...]
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HISTORY OF THE IPAD
Question: How can you have a “history” of a device that was just announced today?
Answer: This has been the longest anticipated unannounced product in history, or at least Apple history. It has been a veritable speculation-o-rama.
Question: I don’t get the iPad. Isn’t it just like a giant iPhone?
Short answer: Yes, it’s essentially [...]
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I wrote the following article over a dozen years ago when I was a technology evangelist at Sun. Back in the mid-’90s, we were experienced the early part of the first wave of “The Web.” Today, with the advent of Web 2.0 technologies we’re seeing an explosion in different dimensions. Wikis, social networking, mass collaboration, [...]
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Today is Facebook’s 5th birthday. Where did it come from, and what is it now?
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