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Apple TV

Ya wanna review on appletv? Google it! :p My opinion? Great little piece of hardware… only once hacked! Once hacked it’s such a great bargain at around €300! If you’re anyway familiar with a terminal session over ssh prepare to be very pleased! Technorati Tags: apple, appletv, harware, hack

2 Points…

Excellent post on data portability and control that captures important issues that we’ve talked about: Different understanding of privacy between generations Recognition of a conditional need for total data control Technorati Tags: control, data, portability, privacy, open

Nice post Andy. Perhaps I need to review my mindset totally, and rather than thinking of the linkages in the tiered approach, go for multi-dimensional modes to map how 2 items relate/interact with one another. Mutidimensional scaling techniques perhaps?

More on Open Data

So Dave Winer opened up an interesting post on the want of controlling your data. Everyone is crying out for “my data as XML” and this is only a partial requirement of open data. Not only do we need access to the data but full control of that data. As it stands my interpretation of [...]

Free Data, Web 2.0 lock-in and more

Had a cool conversation with Gnome tonight. We started talking about Web 2.0, social networks and then Metcalfe’s Network effect. Then we saw this Oreilly post, which took us back to hadoop. And then there’s a call for a Free Data movement, see above. Finally, the Attention Trust sounds rather familiar to a certain manifesto…. [...]