Gartner 2012 Cloud Hype Cycle

Cloud is definitely maturing!

Digital NIbbles Episode on Canadian Cloud

Challenges and Opportunities for the Cloud - Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 11

Joining Allyson and Reuven in this Digital Nibbles are Julien Coulon (Co-Founder, Cedexis) and Lynn Sutherland (COO, Canadian Cloud Council) and Pano Xinos (VP, Quebec, Canadian Cloud Council). Julien talks about taking a federated approach to Web performance management of the cloud while Lynn and Pano give an update on the cloud in Canada and the driving forces behind adoption. For more info on the Canadian Cloud Council visit www.canadiancloudcouncil.ca and for more on Cedexis visit www.cedexis.com.

Available here http://t.co/eC4nvKQY

This Podcast, recorded June 6, 2012, uses SoundCloud http://soundcloud.com/ which allows users to create their own sound channels for podcasts, favorite musicians, genres etc.  Maybe the ne DIY radio.

Improving Canada's Innovation System for Startups

My article "Improving Canada's Innovation System for Startups" was  recently posted on the StartupCanada.ca web site.

"Startup Canada is Canada’s first-ever, entrepreneur-led, national movement to enhance the nation’s competitiveness and prosperity by supporting and celebrating Canadian entrepreneurship." 

The article covers a few topics:
- is Canada doing well in Innovation?
- how can we measure Innovation?
- a nice diagram of a model of the Innovation System
- the Jenkins report on Innovation
- what do Startups need?

Enjoy!

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Your Blues Name

By now, I hope you have figured out that this is a blog just for my random musings.  I have a more serious blog at somanysites.com (so little time) where I post links and commentary on web sites, apps, cloud, open data, innovation, social media etc.  I have also have a website grokiam.com that holds some of the more permanent ideas that I'm interested in.  I create these blogs and websites, not just for my own amusement, but because I want to keep on top of current technologies.

Most of what I post on this particular blog is very eclectic.

Here's how to find your blues name.

That makes me:  Pretty Bones Davis

Photos to Remember

This was taken in Venice, Italy, Spring 2011.

Bomb Girls

This post has almost nothing to do about Bomb Girls - except that I posted the following in Facebook and Twitter tonight, "Watching Bomb Girls. My Mom's Mom worked in a bullet factory in Montreal around WWII era. The TV show is a drama, but it's scary-interesting to imagine what life was like during those times.".

Got me thinking about various posting media - Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Blogging, Google Apps (sort of was Google Groups) - and now I've signed on to a few more - Klout, FourSquare, Tumblr, Google+, and quite a few more blogging/newsletter-like systems. I think there is a limit. There are tons of interesting 2.0 platforms but once one becomes the majority, it is impossible to move.  First in doesn't mean majority/dominant.  And in fact, to quote what I heard William Gibson @GreatDismal say on George Stroumboulopoulos (I had to look <== this up @strombo Jan 31, "which technologies succeed are random in the way that evolutionary selection is random".

But back to Bomb Girls.  Last show of the 6 series 1st year run of this show tonight.  The show is a bit melodramatic but will appeal to some. I think expensively-produced general-purpose TV is sinking.  But, like music and videos, it needs to find a new distribution channel and then it will be more profitable.  In fact. TV is a distribution channel.  But content production and distribution used to be (still are a lot) connected.  Probably s/b separated.

I said this had nothing to do with Bomb Girls.  But it is a Canadian production and I honour my grandmother in remembering that this represents part of her life as an Irish immigrant in Montreal in the 1940s.

Everything as a Service

Now that we're all getting very familiar with the cloud layering of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, we can move up a layer of abstraction and start thinking about various types of Enterprise as a Service
Different kinds of businesses can have different suites of applications that are specific to their needs.  Many enterprises will have common needs, but some will be slightly different in the kind of services they need.  For example, some enterprises (health, medical, financial) may value security and data privacy as most important.  Others may have a priority on massive data, or mobility, or ease of use.

Eventually the cloud will provide things like:
"Doctor's Office as a Service"
"Municipality as a Service"
"Small Business as a Service"
because these businesses have very similar needs.

Here's a link to thoughts on general government cloud services and this one to Everything as a Service