A few quick comments on some interesting posts on Techmeme / other RSS feeds

A few interesting topics on my RSS reader this pm - not got a lot of time, so I will experiment with "centoblogging" - more meat than a "microblog", but not a full post:

GigaOm notes that AT&T and Verizon are going "Open" - or at least talking loudly about it. The point however is that a few years (months) ago this would have been unthinkable, so its clear the market is moving. We noted this trend in our post on the Future of Planet Mobile.

Nick Carr talks about how essential the end to end delivery system is on Amazon's Kindle e-Reader. We'd agree, we were involved in an eReader project earlier this year and it is clear that the overall supply chain, not just the device, is core to the performance of the overall system in the early days, before standards are ubiquitous.

Nic Brisbourne on outsourcing memory - he notes:

This resonates with me and I can easily see how my wife and I divide up the list of things we need to remember between us (it is actually embarrassingly gender stereotypical so I won’t go into it here, but you get the picture). The interesting thing is that as a result you become bad at remembering the things that other people are good at.

I resemble that remark - and was thinking that its transferable to online social networks - in my case this blog - quite a few of the posts here arose predominantly as a way to remember an interesting argument via a link to it, and then comes the inevitable temptation to comment

MIT Tech Review talking about cloud computing at Google and Amazon among others - the discussion is about how much of their personal data people will be prepared to store online.

The FT talking about Apple finally becoming a target for hacks and bugs - but the interesting point was this one on how the attacks work:

As with other attacks against Apple, the Zlob gang relies on tricking users to install its malicious software, rather than on exploiting any inherent software vulnerability.