cloud

How in-the-browser software should work

I wrote recently about my growing unease with the addiction we have with ever greater convenience with our computing over the necessity of control. A lot of this is driven by cloud, and software-as-a-service (SaaS). The convenience of SaaS is difficult to argue with. No installing software. No upgrades. Files accessible wherever you want them. … Keep reading

Codebunk

Codebunk looks like a neat in the browser editor for writing and testing code. Particularly useful, I think, for those learning to program. Here’s a video that demonstrates how it works.

Clouds v cartels

Interesting article by the erstwhile US government CIO Vivek Kundra, in the New York Times: AS the global economy struggles through a slow and painful recovery, governments around the world are wasting billions of dollars on unnecessary information technology. This problem has worsened in recent years because of what I call the “I.T. cartel.” This … Keep reading

When clouds don’t taste so delicious

There appears to be a considerable amount of uncertainty about the future of Delicious, the web’s preeminent social bookmarking service. Not sure what social bookmarking is? Here’s a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeBmvDpVbWc It seems a shame that Yahoo! have been unable to find a way to make a service with plenty of active and dedicated users pay … Keep reading

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