Posts with keyword: platform

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Held Hostage

Wed Jun 10 10:41:00 2020

We need to replace platforms that intermediate transactions with protocols built on a universal trust framework like Sovrin to avoid a future of hostage taking and retaliatory regulations.
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Platforms and Lock-in

Fri May 27 14:24:00 2011

At Gluecon on Wednesday, Mark Suster said that Force.com & AppExchange are mostly about lock-in. I think that's pretty much an exact quote. I tweeted it and expected to see someone react. No one did--at least on Twitter. But I did have a few people mention it to me with some questions about what Mark meant. The truth is, I don't know and I can't speak for Mark. Any platform provides some degree of lock-in. APIs lock a developer into a particular interaction mode. When I use Flickr's API, I make decisions that lock me into that platform. I
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TPM and Positive ID

Thu Dec 15 09:45:00 2005

There's an article at MSNBC about how Trusted Computing Platform (TCP) chips, already installed in many computers, could be used to provide "positive ID" on the Internet and end anonymity. I find articles dealing with Internet identity in the mainstream media usually scare me--and this one is no exception. What scares me is the willingness people have to sweep aside technical hurdles, privacy concerns, and practicality in wide-eyed optimism about how technology will eventually solve all our Identity problems. With a TPM onboard, each time your computer starts, you prove your identity to the machine using something as simple
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