Posts with keyword: live+web


From Personal Computers to Personal Clouds

From Personal Computers to Personal Clouds is a whitepaper that explains why the future of personal clouds will be very different from what you have imagined. As more and more of our interactions move online, we increasingly have need of an online place that operates for us. That requires an operating system so that developers have a framework to work within. Operating systems provide a core set of services around identity and data as well as a programming model.
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The Live Web is Live!

I'm very pleased with how my new book, The Live Web, turned out and extremely excited about the ideas in it. I hope you'll read it, comment on it, review it, and try the ideas out. Undoubtedly, the future will turn out different than I've envisioned it, but I think we have an obligation to try to influence the design the emerges.
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A Live Web Experience: eToll and Avis

The ability to drive in a rental car on a toll road without the hassle of paying tolls is an example of the Live Web in action.
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The Live Web - Cover

I got the final proof on the cover for my upcoming book The Live Web today. I think it turned out nicely and I'm excited to see the book itself.
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Human Leverage

Everyone wants leverage. Getting more done with less effort. Accomplishing what needs to be done easily. Personal Event Networks enable dozens of personal digital assistants that enhance your life.
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Semantic Translation in Event Systems

Semantic translation is a type of event abstract that changes one event into another based on the context of the original event. This blog post explains and shows how to do it in KRL.
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The Evented API Specification

The Evented API specification provides a standard method for APIs to signal events using any programming language or system that supports HTTP. Signaling events from APIs provides a means for them reach out when something happens instead of waiting for a request.
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Personal Event Networks: Building the Internet of Things

An Internet of Things--social products and services--will have as profound an effect on our lives as the changes of the preceding 15 years. I believe that personalized event-driven programming models are a key part of the architecture that makes them real. Events make active participants of formerly passive APIs and make social products a reality.
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A Facebook of Things

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.
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