I hope those who know me wouldn’t peg me as an alarmist. So take my title with a grain of salt but also, because of that same optimism, with a sense of sobriety.
I’ve followed “cloud computing” for a while (before it was called that), most often in the context of Amazon. From my position, it’s [...]
No, this has nothing to do with strange anthropological experiences it’s even more fascinating…
I watched a great video from iTunes U (my new favorite pastime) and it made two (of many) interesting points;
Wal*Mart, which would be China’s 8th largest trading partner if it were a country and is the United State’s largest business, doesn’t [...]
I was watching a presentation on my iPhone on implementation of MapReduce for multi-core and multi-processor systems…
You can find out more about it at the project’s website.
Before you go.. note the “~christos” part of the URL. In UNIX-speak it means “the home directory of the user christos”. That little “squiggle” is called a tilde and [...]
Just a quick post before the holidays, I’ll be traveling quite a bit so we’ll see how everything holds up.
While planning out this trip, I was thinking about making a “My Maps” Google map. I tried this technique while I was in Philadelphia but unfortunately it wasn’t successful.
While the iPhone’s built in map application is [...]
I really appreciated the thoughts in The Next Social Network: WordPress - GigaOM. I’ve been on Facebook for a while now (and prior to that LinkedIn) and despite my initial misgivings, I’ve been surprised at how much value social networks have provided, for a relatively low amount of effort.
On the social side, Facebook has provided [...]
I intended to try my hand at making some videos for this post, but it didn’t happen after a day and I’d rather post out the experience while it’s fresh, then wait. It’s likely a benefit for you as well because my poor video skills might distract from the content, however “seeing is believing” so [...]
I often think I have good ideas, but I tend to be a “thinker” and have problems “doing”. It’s not that I can’t “do” it’s usually the familiar feeling of saying “Wouldn’t it be nice if…” quickly followed by “yea, and it would also be nice if I had time for that” which I’m sure [...]
So it’s probably not catchy enough to be a clothing line but I really agree with the proposed concept of an “opensource community grid”, or “grid for us, by us”. Groups like Folding@Home, SETI or other distributed computing activities are a start. However, you either have to get community buy in for assistance in solving [...]
