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The Family Fleet Manager 20 Aug 2013 | 02:48 pm
Summary: As the family fleet manager, I need a little help. SquareTag to the rescue! It sneaks up on you. You graduate from high school, go to college, get married, have kids, and they grow up and be...
Decentralized Systems: Thermoregulation in Bee Hives 16 Aug 2013 | 01:35 pm
Summary: I started monitoring the temperature of my beehive a few weeks ago. The result was a deeper appreciation for the beauty of decentralized algorithms. A few weeks ago, I used a Twine to monito...
M2M for People 9 Aug 2013 | 07:56 pm
Summary: M2M has traditionally been about businesses managing the things they manufacturer, with end users only an after thought. But as the price of connecting things drops, much of what has been don...
Standards, Monopolies, and the Quantified Self 5 Aug 2013 | 11:33 pm
Summary: As APIs proliferate, the opportunities for reuse don't multiply nearly as fast because their semantics don't neatly align. Standards could solve this problem, but they're too hard to be pract...
Ambient Connectivity and the Internet of Things 2 Aug 2013 | 03:35 pm
Summary: Until we solve the problem of connectivity, the real potential of the Internet of Things will remain out of reach. A while back, I heard someone say "the Internet of Things will happen once ...
On Complex Problems 27 Jul 2013 | 02:41 am
Summary: Your latest Web 2.0 business idea might be cool. It might even make you rich. But it doesn't prove you're a genius. This article from Panodaily caught my eye and I had to post something abou...
Updated CloudOS Roadmap 26 Jul 2013 | 04:28 pm
Summary: Over the past year we've made substantial progress on building out CloudOS and the underlying engine that makes it run. This post acknowledges that progress as well as laying out future steps...
Sharing in SquareTag: Borrowing my Truck 17 Jul 2013 | 06:39 pm
Summary: The introduction pattern allows one cloud to introduce two clouds to each other. This is useful for sharing and delegating and forms the basis for social products in SquareTag. SquareTag giv...
CloudOS Services 11 Jul 2013 | 08:26 pm
Summary: I took the time recently to update our description of CloudOS services. This is the core of the Kynetx personal cloud platform. Personal Cloud OS Services provide a usable abstraction of the...
Personal Data and CloudOS 29 Jun 2013 | 11:52 pm
Summary: People sometimes ask me about where and how personal data is stored in CloudOS. The "personal data service" or PDS is the foundational element in CloudOS that handles personal data. But it's ...
