Way back in 2006 when Amazon released their first enterprise web service, S3 (Simple Storage Service), I immediately wanted in. At the time we were wracking up huge data center and hardware bills (for a small company) and storing tens of terabytes of image files. We got in the S3 early beta but didn't get too far because... Continue Reading →
Twitter and The Hive Mind – Assimilation is Good!
We've all heard the concept of the hive mind, where when one member/node/bee/ant etc. knows something it gets transmitted instantly throughout the hive. The Borg from Star Trek is the hive made evil, with no free will. Twitter behavior is starting to look more and more like a benign hive, where participants have free will... Continue Reading →