Evolving Trends

I’m not talking about their Surface computing device, which doubles as a nice coffee table. I’m talking about the fact that they still have a dominant position on the PC, which is where most people access the Internet from. I suspect that they’re doing their usual “embrace and squeeze out” dance now with respect to open source [...]

Twice now in the last two years, I have had the desire to blog about music, culture, art, funny stuff, weird stuff, and just about everything that catches my interest. However, the core audience for Evolving Trends is almost entirely exclusively interested in the analysis of emerging trends, ideas, and issues, as related to Internet and [...]

(skip to the Update if you’ve read this before) (skip to One More Note if you’ve already read the update) The Google App Engine (GAE) has the potential of allowing Google to further monopolize the market. Its biggest attractions to me personally are the distributed database (aka BigTable), which removes the database bottleneck common to most centrally hosted [...]

(if you’ve already read this, skip to the Update section) Wikipedia and Web 3.0 Problem Statement: The New York Times’ Web 3.0 article on Web 3.0 from last year, which is basically a re-wording of the popular Evolving Trends’ Web 3.0 article that came out five (5) months before it, was accepted it into the Wikipedia entry on [...]

If you google “Google monopoly” or “is google a monopoly” or “monopoly google” you will get the Evolving Trends article “Is Google a Monopoly?” as the first result. It’s been the case since I published the article two years ago. If the article came up 10th or say on the 3rd page, I wouldn’t have a [...]

According to this report (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.fisa07jul07,0,2783557.story) the majority of people in this country have been subjected to mass surveillance for decades. All of that surveillance and the more recent surveillance of international phone calls (not just the phone records but the conversations, too) have now been given approval by Congress. People may respond in many ways, including: 1) Establish [...]

A massively scalable, highly redundant version of Twitter can be built using the P2P feature of Flash 10. For pennies, too. The devil is always in the details but this is something that can be conquered now, thanks to Adobe. Another way of saying it, building a massively scalable, highly redundant Twitter clone is not exactly trivial but [...]