Archive for Feb 2014

4 entries

Vehicles That Get Better Over Time

Thu Feb 27 10:52:00 2014

As software becomes a bigger and bigger part of everything, the rules have changed for manufacturers of durable goods. They will have to adapt to customers who expect things to be updated and fixed automatically. For car manufacturers, this means that if I don't feel like my car has gotten better in some ways, because the software in it has gotten better, you're going to lose me as a customer.
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Fargo and Personal Cloud Application Architectures

Mon Feb 24 09:06:00 2014

Fargo, a new outliner from Dave Winer is an excellent example of what I call "personal cloud application architectures" (PCAAs). PCAAs have benefits for users and developers alike and are cheaper and easier to build than traditional Web 2.0 applications.
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Pico Event Evaluation Cycle

Tue Feb 11 15:59:00 2014

Events are processed in KRE using an event loop that decodes the event, makes a schedule, evaluates the respond, and finally assembles a response. This post describes the details of the event evaluation cycle in KRE and how explicit events affect rule schedules.
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10-4 Good Buddy! Vehicle to Vehicle Communication

Thu Feb 6 10:58:00 2014

V2V systems will soon be sending all kinds of information about your car to other cars and highway infrastructure. This raises legitimate privacy concerns as well as intriguing possibilities.
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