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The CompuServe of Things

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Welcome to the Internet of My Things. The CompuServe of Things. Sat Apr 26 12:27:00 2014. On the Net today we face a choice between freedom and captivity, independence and dependence. Online 2.0: Return of the Silos. To understand the difference, consider GMail vs. Facebook Messaging. Because GMail is really just a massive Web-client on top of Internet mail protocols like SMTP, IMAP, and POP, you can use your GMail account to send email to any account on any email system on the Internet. And,...Facebook ...

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Pico Event Evaluation Cycle

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Welcome to the Internet of My Things. 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. In my post on the event-query API. Each pico presents an event loop. We'll discuss the five stages in order. The decode phase performs a simple task of u...

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Tesla is a Software Company, Jeep Isn't

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Welcome to the Internet of My Things. Tesla is a Software Company, Jeep Isn't. Thu Aug 6 18:15:00 2015. The recent hacks of Jeep and Tesla provide a shining example what it means for every company to be a software company. Marc Andreessen has famously said that "software is eating the world.". Venkatesh Rao calls software, "only the third major soft technology to appear in human civilization.". You say. "I'm not in software, what do I care? After Jeep Hack, Chrysler Recalls 1.4M Vehicles for Bug Fix.

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Tesla is a Software Company, Jeep Isn't

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Welcome to the Internet of My Things. Tesla is a Software Company, Jeep Isn't. Thu Aug 6 18:15:00 2015. The recent hacks of Jeep and Tesla provide a shining example what it means for every company to be a software company. Marc Andreessen has famously said that "software is eating the world.". Venkatesh Rao calls software, "only the third major soft technology to appear in human civilization.". You say. "I'm not in software, what do I care? After Jeep Hack, Chrysler Recalls 1.4M Vehicles for Bug Fix.

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The End of Kynetx and a New Beginning

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Welcome to the Internet of My Things. The End of Kynetx and a New Beginning. Mon Apr 6 09:48:00 2015. Last week, the Kynetx shareholders, on recommendation from the Board of Directors, voted to dissolve Kynetx. This article is about what comes next. The short answer is a new birth. Steve Fulling and I started Kynetx in 2008. The underlying technology, a rules engine. And with the Kynetx Browser extension. In this new mode, built a personal inventory system called SquareTag. Along the way we had a lot of ...

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Pico APIs: Events and Queries

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Welcome to the Internet of My Things. Pico APIs: Events and Queries. Wed Dec 11 19:43:00 2013. A pico's API is not RESTful, rather it follows a pattern we might call Event-Query. KRL provides clear distinction in code for handling events and queries in a segregated manner. This has important implications for developers building picos and designing applications that use them. Recently I wrote about the Fundamental Features of Persistent Compute Objects. CQS provides for Command Query Responsibility Segreg...

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A University API

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Welcome to the Internet of My Things. Thu Sep 18 09:52:00 2014. BYU is designing an API that reflects the true business processes of the university and its fundamental resources. This post describes why and how we're doing that. BYU has been in the API and Web Services game for a long time. Kelly Flanagan, BYU's CIO, started promoting the idea to his team almost 10 years ago. The result? That make up the business of the university and design a single, consistent API around them. A facade layer. Mdash;a d...

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Fundamental Features of Persistent Compute Objects

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Welcome to the Internet of My Things. Fundamental Features of Persistent Compute Objects. Mon Oct 7 20:50:00 2013. Persistent compute objects, or picos, are powerful, general-purpose, online computers that can be used to model people, places, organizations, and concepts. This blog post describes the fundamental features of picos. I've updated the CloudOS section to be more complete and better describe the relationship between picos and CloudOS. But I've never really described the fundamentals of picos.

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A Facebook of Things

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Welcome to the Internet of My Things. A Facebook of Things. Wed Sep 21 15:02:00 2011. When we talk about social products and services, the question that naturally arises is: what will be the Facebook of Things look like? Here are my thoughts. Marc says "The car needs to become your friend. How does the car speak to me? How does the car integrate with the dealership and the factory? How does the car help me get to the service station? But as I've thought about it, I think Benioff's vision, while short on ...

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Re-imagining Decentralized and Distributed

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Welcome to the Internet of My Things. Re-imagining Decentralized and Distributed. Wed Jan 21 11:44:00 2015. I'm re-thinking how I use the words centralized, decentralized, and distributed to describe systems. This always feels like an attempt is to place the ideas of centralized, decentralized, and distributed computing on some kind of continuum. In his PhD dissertation, Extending the REpresentational State Transfer (REST) Architectural Style for Decentralized Systems. PDF), Rohit Khare. Plenty of system...