An Operating System for Your Personal Cloud

Everyone has a cloud strategy these days. Of course, when you hear about clouds, you hear questions like “Are we talking about IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS?” This assumes an enterprise-centric view of clouds that is belied by what Robert Scoble calls the …

The Live Web is Live!

My book, The Live Web: Building Event-Based Connections in the Cloud, has been released and is on Amazon. Having the book actually available is great, although slightly anti-climatic after the thrill of just being done last November. :)

The book …

Foursquare and Personal Data in a Personal Event Network

Lately I’ve been exploring APIs that push data and the use of personal data. While we’re proponents of the Evented API specification, there are already a number of APIs that push data in some way. One of those is Foursquare.c…

Notifications in Personal Event Networks

If you’re old enough to remember WordPerfect on DOS, it always came with a stack of disks for the printer drivers. That’s because DOS had no printer drivers. Every application had to handle the printer itself. Every program treated the …