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Some new hypercubic google hints

mrG — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:36:57 -0400

Some new hypercubic google hints? Maybe I shouldn't be too quick to give up on the Google Cube; although he's still speaking in terms of a Microsoft, IBM, Sun and presumably Apple world, even if he then expands that list, so he still isn't thinking of a transcendent unified meta-layer, nonetheless Eric Schmidt may still have some real hypercubist thoughts percolating in the backrooms:

He draws a series of connected clouds representing the history of the computing industry, from mainframes to minicomputers to PCs to today's mobile devices. The gist of the illustration is that there's practically no money left to be made in computers, not in hardware or software. The money, instead, is all in Web applications, a trend Schmidt had been predicting since his days as chief technology officer at Sun a decade ago. Users won't always be traveling to the Web on the PC, which is why he scribbles lines for cellphones, cable set-top boxes, Treos, BlackBerrys, and so on. Schmidt's most compelling point -- and the most visible glimmer of a method to Google's madness -- is the power behind the not-so-secret data centers Google is building, particularly a 30-acre facility in Oregon
[ Chaos by design - October 2, 2006 ]

It's like playing charades or Jeopardy and the player is just so freakin' close to the right answer and you jump up and down and scream it at the TV (or sit biting your tongue at a charades game waiting waiting waiting your turn to guess) -- and you'd think an ex-Sun man could see that the netork isn't the computer, the computer is the network, yet there he is, back talking outfitting devices with retro digi-isolated gear bits instead of real-ing it all into the personal information ecology. Yes goddam it Eric, people will use all sorts of devices, but it is still just their personal data space!

oh oh .. geez I wish it was my turn to play! Instead, there's Google with its head up its applications.

Or ... do they really get it, and talk like this is just a ruse? Smoke and mirrors to throw the hounds off the trail. So very hard to tell.

Is London 2012 pondering the 'Cube?

mrG — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:04:39 -0400

I think London 2012 is pondering the 'Cube. Honest, I've read it over a few times now, and y'know, maybe it is just the inevitable realization of the inevitable reality of computing, but it still looks to me like the Olympics hostcorp CEO Paul Deighton is describing a business requirements checklist tailor made for the TeledyN Hypercube:

Instead of having information located across individual component systems, the new approach will provide a single repository of recorded information relating to the preparation, delivery and legacy of the London Games and will drive the planning process.
The new approach reflects the importance of capitalising on the latest developments in the integration of software and hardware to create systems that are totally integrated with each other and work from common databases. These developments allow for much more efficient management of data and information, thereby facilitating faster and more effective decision making, and avoiding the need to reconcile duplicative and independent systems.
[ Tender Opportunity: London 2012 ]

A 'Cube would do that. No problem. Unified ubiqitous access, anytime, anywhere, any device, scalable and secure. I wonder if they read my blog ...

I hadn't really thought about mini-cubes, localized closed circuit hypercubic computing environments for specific closed-access installations like an Olympic games, or a motion picture production, or a national government ... Then again, I suppose I have thought of it, it's what I have here behind the (now isolated) TeledyN SOHO LAN, but what I've also thought on is to re-iterate my 1995-era comments about the Rise of the Intranet as a pointless strategy: The hypercube computer, since it is the network, grows exponentially in value as the number of seats increases. As I said back then about the Intranets, "The Berlin Wall failed. There was a reason for that."

Nonetheless, if Mr Deighton would like to talk cubist computing, I'm sure he knows where to find me ...

Ok, maybe it's too early to give

mrG — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 22:23:19 -0500

Ok, maybe it's too early to give up on the Google timeshares ... 'cause look who just bought themselves a major essential component online word processor, and look who's endorsing it! What kinda surprises me, though, is how the un-wow-ness of the thing today is already wow-ing the suit-gurus ...

Drag-and-drop editing and a spell-checker are available--surprising for a program that lives inside your browser. Writely lets you undo mistakes, and it also keeps track of many of your revisions, so you can return to earlier iterations. And Writely can show you the changes each user makes to a document, highly useful when multiple users edit sequentially.
[ Web Wide Word - Forbes.com ]

um ... er ... ah ... DA- -- Stephen maybe misses how, in the hands of Google, just beyond that oh-wow dazzle curtain of Word-like AJaX would sit the largest fastest most informed, most omni-connected and most chocked full of stuff ultra-computer ever to grace this Earth. This ain't Kansas anymore, it's a prog on the Omniverse. No, Steve, it's not surprising that it does spell-check. Wired into the HyperCube, this thing could do real-time gramatical analysis and suggest stylistic improvements via live for-hire English Ph.Ds tapped in on the Google JabberChat! Or click switch and fan it out for a dozen real-live translators to mull, channelled piecemeal as completed for running legality assessment. Or cross-reference the stream of your writing real-time to every email in your gmail box and index it to every google-juice matching document and bind the resulting tome into a single edition bookstore quality paperback binding delivered FedEx to your Manchester client by 8am ...

Spell-check? It could human proof-reader spell-check in Quakiutl without even trying!

sigh ... I think it was a Gahan Wilson comic

mrG — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:33:51 -0500

sigh ... I think it was a Gahan Wilson comic in the back pages of the National Lampoon circa '75 or so, the little kid reads the ads for The Sea Wolf U-Boat, the now fab gotta-have toy model, be your own submarine commander; he dreams of wearing the Lieutenant-Commander's peak cap and sends his errand-earned dollars to the P.O. Box.

When his booty finally arrives in the mail, the kid wrests the package from his mom, races upstairs, rips open the paper ... it's less than an inch long. It's wobbly. It sucks. In his dream balloon, Herr U-Boat Capitan waves a "So long, kid" and the kid says, "So long, Herr Capitan"

Took me a long time to get up the nerve to actually check to see what it was Google really said that Friday keynote back in LV. I didn't want to know, I couldn't take another crushed dream. Today, bored and procrastinating at the day-job, I thought, heck, might as well, how bad can it be? and my first clue: there is almost no press coverage bubbling to the Google top beyond the second-guess pundit pre-news.

Gates remarked, 'I hear they're coming out with a robot that will cook hamburgers, too. Let's spread that rumour - there's nothing they can't do.'
[ Custom PC ]

So, then, tell us please do, what did he say? What sayeth the Great Page, do tell!

How about endless I Love Lucy reruns, with AdWords instead of vintage Phillip Morris breaks ...

One of the big announcements at the 2006 International CES Show this week came at Larry Page's keynote where he announced that Google is now offering paid video content through their video service. This upgrade to Google Video allows people to rent or buy video content from major content providers, including the NBA, and more than 300 classic television shows from CBS. However, the press I've seen so far overvalues the role the CBS partnership will play in Google's long-term plans for their video service.
[ Sorry CBS, It's all About the Platform ]

Oh, and there's also a brand spanking new now fab gotta-have download pack of Google soft-gear for Gates gear-heads. Mustn't overlook that.

sniff ... goodbye Herr Capitan Page!
'bye kid.

TeledyN hereby universally copyrights patents and trademarks all hints sketches and semblances of the TeledyN HyperCubic Globally Distributed Supercomputing Time-Share Network Application Server,
even if he's the only subscriber,
ever.

Man ... that Lucy. She's a riot!

Welcome to the Google Cube

mrG — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 19:48:47 -0500

As a blogwrite, I could sit in summary over the past year or I could pontificate on the clickworthiness of countless threads of trends, I could even speculate on our upcoming election, if it mattered, but no, I think it's a lot more fun to second guess what Larry Page is going to say in Vegas this Friday at 4 ...

Rumours say that Google is about to launch a dumb, network based computer called the Google Cube. The Google Cube will be a cheap, small box that needs to be connected to a server to be fully working - and that is probably why Google has been purchasing all that dark fiber for almost a year now.
[ The Google Cube ]

I'll take that out a bit further. I think Larry will say the Google Cube will be the last computer you'll ever buy, and if their crack gooO/S engineers are worth their salt, I think there's a slim chance he could be right. Here's why ...