I’ve written a piece on my work blog which may interest some readers: AttentionTrust: why not everything that seems like a good idea is. In it I argue that many of the principles set out by AttentionTrust.org are not the wonderful ideas they seem.
(Thanks also to my fellow antipodeian Richard MacManus for the link love [...]
Judging by the reaction to last week’s release of Elastic Computing by Amazon one might think they had done something that will redefine computing as we know it. In fact, it looks more like they have built a nice provisioning model around VPS hosting. Solving operational issues is worth noting of course, but I think [...]
Unless you have been living under a rock you are probably aware that AOL released 2.2 GB of their search logs to the general public in early August. Obviously there were some fairly serious privacy implications which AOL apparently failed to consider before releasing the data. Now the AOL research site (research.aol.com) has been shut down, [...]