jclouds I heard about this project at the Open Cloud Meetup in San Francisco last week. It is an abstraction layer for cloud computing, allowing you to write apps that can run on any cloud rather than being locked in to just one. (tags: cloud abstraction Java OpenSource) OpenOffice.org Internship OpenOffice launches its own Summer [...]
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Web Browsers Leave ‘Fingerprints’ Behind as You Surf the Net You may do your best to remain anonymous on the web, you may have cookies blocked, but this research by EFF shows you can easily have your browser uniquely identified on return visits by a fingerprinting technique using the standard HTTP capabilities text that gets [...]
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Software freedom may sound like a line from a revolutionary manifesto, but it’s the key genetic marker for value in the enterprise. read more on my ComputerWorldUK blog…
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By way of explanation for my preoccupation and paucity of publication of late, I finally made it back home today after my trip to the US with ForgeRock. We had a varied and busy trip that included several visits to potential customers and partners. I also had the chance of dinner with James Gosling and [...]
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Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative Privacy is a big word and it's being tossed around all over the place. We discussed this a little at the open cloud meetup in San Francisco on Thursday and it's evident that people are fully aware of the small risk (fully articulated in this article) [...]
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Met Office: Five Day Volcanic Ash Charts Volcano forecasts have arrived. From the looks of these charts it's touch-and-go whether I will be able to fly home on Monday. (tags: Travel Forecast Weather Volcano)
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KEI statement on possible WTO disputes against the EU seizures of goods in transit Very important issue here: Should goods in transit from A to B be subject to seizure in the places they simply pass through rather? Saying “yes” sets a very dangerous precedent indeed for sealed goods, for moving surface and air traffic [...]
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The Apache Software Foundation’s radical and exceptional transparency provides a lesson all organisations need to learn. Read about it on Simon Says…
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FSF launches free software extension listing for OpenOffice.org Pity it came to this. The FSF would have been perfectly happy with proper classification of the extensions on the OpenOffice.org site so that visitors could sort the listing to see which extensions were under which open source license. Setting up their own site is genuinely a [...]
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Starting the week with a new column in ComputerWorldUK and a new job as well.
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