NIST definitions and powerpoint on Cloud

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NIST definitions and powerpoint on Cloud

2 great documents on cloud posted in the document section of this community.

  1. NIST updated definitions on Cloud Services can be found here. This is the godfather’s set of definitions of cloud
  2. NIST updated presentation on Cloud Services can be found here. This presentation includes a section on security, and besides the security challenges on cloud, it also lists the security advantages of cloud. The presentation includes some interesting case studies (for ex GE moving 400,000 desktops to Google Docs / Zoho) and some references to Cloud economics and statistics. Very good primer is you are completely new to Cloud

The original files can be found at: 
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/index.html
NIST is the US National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Innotribe @ Sibos – News Flash 3 – Final Agenda Published

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Also posted on www.innotribe.com:

https://www.swiftcommunity.net/blogs/blogDetail.cfm?id=1525

We have just published the final detailed agenda of Innotribe @ Sibos 2009.

An overview of
– Innotribe Opening and Closing details
– All keynotes
– All Face to Face panels/debates
– All Innotribe Sibos Labs sessions
– All R&D Insights sessions
– Names and business titles of all speakers, moderators, and facilitators.

You can download the PDF here: 
https://www.swiftcommunity.net/communities/download.cfm?id=5114

You can see the on-line version here: 
http://www.swift.com/sibos2009/conference/Forumsandstreams.page?

Enjoy !

2009 State of the Future

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The 2009 State of the Future report, just published by the Millennium Project, a global, independent futures-research think tank.

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The Executive Summary can be downloaded here.

Interesting dimensions in the report:

  1. Two State of the Future Indexes are presented; one without the recession and one based on an extended recession
  2. Emerging International Environmental Security Issues
  3. Future Economic Elements to Improve the Human Condition

The Future Economic Elements receiving the highest average ratings from the international panel for beneficial impacts for the future of humanity were:

• Ethics a key element in most work relations and economic exchanges
• New GNP/GDP definitions that include all forms of national wealth: e.g., energy, materials, ecosystems, social and human capital
• Global commons—air, climate, oceans, biodiversity (bees necessary for agriculture, etc.)—supported by international agreements among countries for very small (less than 1%) tax on selected categories, including currency trading and international travel; the funds collected would amount to several hundred billion per year for global public goods
• Collective intelligence––global commons for the knowledge economy
• On-line and in-classroom educational systems that continually update curriculum on the evolving economic system and its elements.

Interesting quote:

In March 2009 an asteroid missed Earth by 77,000 kilometers, 80% closer to the planet than our moon is. If it had hit Earth, it would have wiped out all life on 800 square kilometers.

No one knew it was coming.

The time between its discovery and close approach was very short.

Few people knew the global financial crisis was coming; fewer still forecast its breadth and depth. We need global, national, and local systems for resilience—the capacities to anticipate, respond, and recover from disasters while identifying future technological and social innovations and opportunities.

The acceleration of change reduces the time from recognizing the need to make a decision to completing all the steps to make the right decision. The number and intricacy of choices seem to be growing beyond leaders’ abilities to analyze and make decisions.

For example, do we have the right to clone ourselves, or to rewrite genetic codes to create thousands of new life forms, or to genetically change ourselves and future generations into new species?

Some experts speculate that the world is heading for a “singularity”—a time in which technological change is so fast and significant that we today are incapable of conceiving what life might be like beyond the year 2025.

Fortunately, we have the means for many people to know the world as a whole, identify global improvement systems, and seek to improve such systems—hence accelerating the improvements of our global situation.

We are the first generation to act via Internet with like-minded individuals around the world.

We have the ability to connect the right ideas to resources and people to help address global and local challenges. This is a unique time in human history.

Mobile phones, the Internet, international trade, language translation, and jet planes are giving birth to an interdependent humanity that can create and implement global strategies to improve the prospects for humanity.

Identity revisited by Google: WebFinger

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Great post on TechCrunch by Michael Siegler. WebFinger from Google.

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I have posted many times in my blog about identity and the uniqueness of the information shadow each of us leaves on the internet.

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This is exactly what Google plans to do: link your e-mail address to your information shadow.

Today they think (WebFinger Google Code page) think about:

    • – public profile data
    • – pointer to identity provider (e.g. OpenID server)
    • – a public key
    • – other services used by that email address (e.g. Flickr, Picasa, Smugmug, Twitter, Facebook, and usernames for each)
    • – a URL to an avatar
    • – profile data (nickname, full name, etc)
    • – whether the email address is also a JID, or explicitly declare that it’s NOT an email, and ONLY a JID, or any combination to disambiguate all the addresses that look like something@somewhere.com
    • – or even a public declaration that the email address doesn’t have public metadata, but has a pointer to an endpoint that, provided authentication, will tell you some protected metadata, depending on who you authenticate as.

But to be honest, it could be anything about your information shadow.

Update on Louis Gray Blog: somebody already developed first client.

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The whole thing is just starting: http://webfingerclient-dclinton.appspot.com/ 

Curious what Dave Birch has to say about this on Digital Identity Forum or Kim Cameron on Identity Blog.

Nanohands

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EU-funded NanoHand project uses mobile microrobots equipped with delicate handling tools. NanoHand builds on the work of ROBOSEM, an earlier EU project that developed the basic technologies that are now being put into effect. The robots, about two centimetres in size, work inside a scanning electron microscope where their activities can be followed by an observer. Each robot has a ‘microgripper’ that can make precise and delicate movements. It works on an electrothermal principle to open and close the jaws, much like a pair of tweezers.

The jaws open to about 2 micrometres and can pick up objects less than 100 nanometres in size. “[It is] really able to grip micro or even nano objects,” Eichhorn says. “We have handled objects down to tens of nanometres.”

Bugs from the screen into your arm

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Via Beyond the Beyond:

What’s real and what’s screen ?

What are our boundaries ?

Scary pushing of known boundaries. How will this look in 2030 ? Food for thought for our Think Tank on Long Term Future.

Never say Never

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Ever heard of a Space Elevator ?

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While the idea of a space elevator has been around for about 100 years, the idea became more feasible by the 1991 discovery of "carbon nanotubes," tiny atoms that can come together and make a cylinder. The elevator is built around the idea of a ribbon and tether that could lift people thousands of miles into near space to a destination such as the International space station

Brought to you thanks to The Daily Galaxy:

The Distinction of Past and Future

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Thanks to my subscription to Twine.com, i found this great website of Humansfuture.

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It brings together subjects like Artificial Intelligence, Nano, Genetic Engineering, Transhumanism, etc, etc,… exactly all the subject matter for our Think Tank on Long Term Future.

From there i went on a surf “trip”, and discover The Next Big Thing, an initiative from BBC2 Open University.

They find their stuff at the Vega Science Trust.

Which led me discover the Classic Feynman Lectures that were put on line recently by Bill Gates on Microsoft Research under Project Tuva.

Btw, i wonder what became of Bill Gates new company, a sort of Think Tank.

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Microsoft Research Project Tuva presents Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman’s Messenger Series lectures within a new video player. This enhanced video player features searchable video, linked transcripts, user notes, and interactive extras.

Have a look at the 1964 lecture on “The distinction of past & future”. Dont forget this is 50 years old !

You can of course also google/bing Feynman. Here is a cool video: he starts by saying “I want to investigate everything”.

So, while the title of this post relates to future that is still 30-50 years away, it brings us back 50 years ago !

Innotribe News Flash 2 – Innotribe Sibos Labs

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Also posted at:

https://www.swiftcommunity.net/blogs/blogDetail.cfm?id=1514

Exactly one month to go ! Then Innotribe @ Sibos will kick-off for an exciting week of inspiring presentations, face to face discussions, interactive workshops, and special challenges – all aimed at one single goal: enabling collaborative innovation.

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Feel the heat building up at www.innotribe.com. The community is buzzing of new ideas. As you will see, our Innotribe Leaders have changed gears and are now posting very actively to collect your ideas to work on them during our Innotribe Sibos Labs from 14-18 Sep 2008 in Hong-Kong.

Some quick links:

Mash-up:

https://www.swiftcommunity.net/communities/blogdetail.cfm?id=1512

Corporates needed:

https://www.swiftcommunity.net/communities/blogdetail.cfm?id=1511

So, here is our 2nd News Flash on Innotribe.

Today, more detailed information about the Innotribe Sibos Labs.

The Innotribe Sibos Labs are one of the key components of Innotribe. These are interactive workshops, fully equipped with tools and connectivity, to brainstorm on new ideas but more importantly to make these ideas tangible in application mock-ups or prototypes. These Sibos Labs will be led by the Innotribe leaders helped by professional facilitators from The Value Web. Additional help is offered to the participants by two Venture Capitalists acting as "consultants" to the teams. The Value Web will simultaneously scribe to advice / assist groups in packaging their idea. We will also have a number of PC’s with internet connectivity available to help documenting the ideas and to possibly make some mock-ups of applications illustrating the ideas.

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The objective of the first Innotribe Sibos Lab on 14 Sep 2009 is to generate ideas and selection criteria to be used for evaluating the ideas. First we will create working groups per theme: Cloud, Crowd, Mash-up. Participants are asked to join the group of their "prime interest". "Prime" implies that the topic is not exclusive and leaves space for transversal ideas. Each team goes in a dedicated space, and find an assignment. The groups will brainstorm with the Innotribe leaders on how the Cloud, Mash-up and Crowd trends can transform the industry. "knowledge kiosks" will propose food for thought in free access: Hand-out with ideas from the swiftcommunity.net, any document collected upfront, etc. Groups will reflect on the criteria that would best qualify the ideas proposed. New assignments will be brought in, to shift the focus of the discussion. The challenge is to introduce the filtering process without restraining the creativity of the group. Assignment shall be more of an invitation. Expected outcome is a first draft of idea/ideas and a documented set of relevant criteria

The objective of the second Innotribe Sibos Lab on 15 Sep 2009 is to narrow down ideas to likely candidates to be developed further and “sold” to buyers panel during the Innotribe Closing. The groups will go back in same configuration as day before and iterate and their ideas. The assignment will invite to select one idea before going forward (if not already done). This session will be about refining your ideas – give them spin & shine. The Value Web facilitator will suggest many different tools and techniques to sell their ideas (glossy add, marketing with the public, raising capital, getting developers to mock up, using the VCs etc…). We will also use Guy Kawasaki’s 10/20/30 rule for making good pitches. Expected outcome is to have framed idea(s) – the core of what the teams will present to the buyer’s panel should be clear.

During the third Innotribe Sibos Lab on 16 Sep 2009, we will mock the ideas up in order to get them ready for a presentation to the jury on the next day. The groups go back in same configuration as day before and iterate and their ideas. Facilitation will invite to further refine outside of the time & space that is offered in the Lab.

During the dry-runs on 16 Sep 2009 late afternoon, participants will refine their presentation and prepare for the oral with the buyer’s panel.

The Innotribe Sibos Labs will culminate into the presentation to the buyer’s panel during the Innotribe Closing on 17 Sep 2009. Each team will get maximum 8 minutes to give a condensed power presentation. More on the Innotribe closing in one of our next Innotribe News Flashes.

Innotribe Leaders:

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Practical:

Where: The Innotribe Sibos Labs take place in the Innotribe Dome (located in the Sibos Labs room).

When:

– First Innotribe Sibos Lab: Monday 14 Sep 2009, from 12:15 – 13:45

– Second Innotribe Sibos Lab: Tuesday 15 Sep 2009, from 14:30 – 16:00

– Third Innotribe Sibos Lab: Wednesday 16 Sep 2009, from 14:30 – 16:00

– Dry-Runs: Wednesday 16 Sep 2009, from 17:30 – 18:30

– Idea pitches during Innotribe Closing: Thursday 17 Sep 2009, from 10:30 – 12:00

To let us know if you will be coming to this event, login to www.swiftcommunity.net, go to the Innotribe Sibos Labs event and click I will attend button next to the event. You can also see who else is coming.