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Can Google's Native Client SDK Fix The Web?

Modern life owes much to the Internet. Many proverbial thanks are due to the inventors at CERN (incl. Tim Burner's Lee) and to Netscape (Jim Clark; the money. Founding engineers; the know-how) for making it accessible to all of us. A recent visit to Google's Boulder,

Fatal Flaw in Cloud Based Social Media Apps?

For the purposes of this post I'm going to define "cloud computing" as a service that allows you to easily run your application on someone elses' infrastructure, and importantly, within their IP address block range. As "web app" web API usage continues to

Tomorrow's Forecast: Cloudy Skies & Sunshine

Tomorrow's Forecast: Cloudy Skies & Sunshine

Our managed hosting solution reach a tipping point yesterday. We hit a environment configuration bump that was going to eat 24-36 of our precious startup development hours. This was second bump we'd hit with our hosted hardware provider, and it caused me to pick up the phone to

Mozilla Gecko Embedding and fresh air

Mozilla Gecko Embedding and fresh air

I'm so stoked to see Chris Blizzard [http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/] resurrecting Mozilla Embedding with full force! I used to manage the Mozilla Gecko Embedding team several years ago, and it's been fun to see how things have progressed, and how much focus and energy

SPOFs and Clouds

I'm really excited about the Cloud computing frenzy in the marketplace right now. So many under utilized CPU cycles within large corporate data centers (eBay, Amazon, Google, AOL, Microsoft, others) are begging for communal use. Amazon leads the pack by far right now, but I'm anxious