computing

As rumors go, this is a pretty solid one: it seems that Google and Apple will partner, and together, the companies are likely to give .Mac a huge cloud-computing boost.

As I have just mentioned, this is a follow up weblog post from the previous one I have shared regarding some of the highlights from IBM's 2007 Technical Leadership Exchange event held in Paris last week.

I talked with Microsoft’s Surface computing team today. Here’s some more details I learned.

Andy Wilson. Remember the guy I introduced you to at Microsoft Research? Funny, he was at the Maker Faire last weekend talking to everyone and showing off his latest thing. He builds demos for Bill Gates and he was the one who first showed me the PlayTable. Now called “Surface Computing.”

In my grandparent's basement, on the wall, there are pictures of ugly, frowning people, relatives of mine, in that ghostly, milky sepia coloring all those 19th Century photos have. They're dead, those people, and some part of them is part of me - but if they had ever spoken to me through those dusty frames (and I imagined they did), Great Great Grandfather would be dead twice, his second life smashed on the mantle.

(Continuing notes from Forrester Consumer Forum. More here.)

Just as the online retailer expanded its web service offerings with its S3 Simple Storage Service, Amazon now offers the Elastic Compute Cloud, a virtual machine for developers to use.

A number of people have thrown around the word "webtop" - but in doing so, I think they miss what the future of the web might have in store for us.