Let me clarify why I'm posting this video: it's not comparative advertising or speaking bad of a competitor. I'd just like to revitalize the discussion on one of the points from which the itsme project stems: control over personal data.
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Speaking at the Digital Landscapes conference at UCD, John Herlihy (Google Sales Chief) said:
“In three years time, desktops will be irrelevant. In Japan, most research is done today on smart phones, not PCs”
We are wella ware of Google's vision (and approach) about cloud computing, but still we think personal computing (on local hardware and software) will still have a relevant role in three years.
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During my daily check of latest news and articles I found this interesting post on ArsTechnica , describing how and why Google is working on Chrome OS. It's a four-page article that I absolutely suggest you to read because it's very interesting. What really hit me is the workflow Google adopted to create Chrome: instead of spending millions in researches over "human-trends", an area that is everything but precise and measurable, they simply created a prototype and let it being adopted by 2 hundreds googlers. It sounds great: simple and smart and it's more or less the strategy that itsme...
I've recently received some feedback from people who have perceived the itsme emulator as a standalone application we are proposing beside or in place of our operating system – e.g., we got an extremely interesting comparison with Facebook and Google Wave. At the moment, this is far from being true, and I'll explain why in a few moments. Meanwhile, I also received a request for opinion on G.ho.st (see picture below).
My first reaction has been firing out an email saying
"This stuff is old, I've been seeing things like this around for years now: e.g., EyeOS and all others mentioned on...
A couple of days ago I went to the Better Software conference.
The conference was aimed at developers, managers and entrepreneurs - and there were plenty of all three categories. Most of the speakers - especially in the main track - were interesting people, with a ton of experience to share. Having them at hand, ready to answer questions, has surely been one of the major successes of the whole thing.
As with most conferences, you really had to be there to enjoy the speeches (not to mention the lunches and dinners). Anyway, if you couldn't manage, the next best thing is...
