Comments by Lance Wicks

Hi Andy,
great post! I was a O2 customer and left them as they always played the “new customers only” game. I went back purely for the iPhone and would not be with them otherwise.

I want the iPhone 3GS, but that Pre is looking pretty darn good right now.

The charging for tethering is mad, I remember downloading from the web via my mobile about 10 years ago! Modem function has been there on pretty much every mobile I’ve had, so why are we suddenly going to be charged £15/month for this “new feature”.

Great post, I’ll Wuffie++ you in my HUD…

Lance

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Sounds a bit like how I use NoseRub; as a aggregation point for my own activities. It would be interesting to add tagging, including integrating tags from Delicious or Flickr. Post a photo on flickr tagged Christmas and have the tag cloud on NoseRub automatically include Christmas.

Lance

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I don't think this is a Cloud specific problem. I have seen it in pretty much every area I have worked (except maybe that mailroom).

I have seen it even from vendor provided "experts", who show up and proceed to read the manual.

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Hi James,
excellent news, I have just subscribed via iTunes and shall be listening to the first show shortly. :-)
Lance

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Awesome little video, I miss Napier!!!

Lances last blog post..Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes…

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Ken/James... good points.

That question of what will VMware look like in 5 years is key. With being acquired, founders leaving and competition nipping at there heels, will VMware stay as they are? Will the hypervisor remain their core business? I guess time will tell.

Lance

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Hi Kirsten,
just to echo what Jason and Dirk have already mentioned. Unlike aggregator "services" Noserub is open source, and distributed. For example, I have a NoseRub installation on my own server yet I can add people from the identoo site as contact and have all their updates show up automatically in my "social stream", and vice versa.

I can export my data from one site (like I did from Identoo.com) and import it into another Noserub site (mine in my case). You are not locked into Identoo as the "service provider".

Obviously, as Jason pointed out, this is not a mature "product", it is a ongoing project.
Dirk hosted the recent DevCamp and lots of changes/improvements and new ideas have come from it.

Just my two cents worth.

Lance.

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LOL... liked the tale.

The cloud is ldefinitey the home of personal servers/applications in the future. Once people like you mention (and of course www.rightscale.com ) make it that bit easier for "Joe Public" to use it'll be interesting to see how it develops.

I have taken to building test servers on EC2, as it is cheap, easy, fast and when I am done with it... it just goes "Poof!" and is gone. :-)

Enjoy the Mac, it's been how long now?

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Have you looked at NoseRub.com?
I have used it to centralise my decentralised web presence, www.lancewicks.com/noserub/lancew

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Hi,I played with the API last year at HackdayLondon and wrote a quick hack that used the MyBlogLog API to make a Nabaztag WiFi bunny tell me who visited my blog.It was A) well documented, B)So simple I could use it and C)Kent was there to help out! :)Shame it is still not public. :(

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