Here is a little thing that has saved me a lot of work, and which I find quite neat. I use the EC2 as my cloud computer. This page (lovholm.net) is hosted on a shared host, but sometimes it’s nice to have the flexibility to run things that are not supported by shared hosts, such as custom software and all that jazz. When I try out different web-things that are not only front-end or PHP I usually create a subdomain…
AWS – Amazon Web Services – is a great infrastructure cloud service for all IT business from start-ups to full blown corporations. Providing both Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) through the general purpose EC2 and Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) through Beanstalk as well as hybrid solutions such as storage solution S3 and database service RDS. I have been using these services for about half a year now, and I am convinced these services as well as competing equals (e.g. Microsoft Azure) is a good tool…
RSS er super-praktiskt. Enten om du bruker laptop, tablet eller mobil så er aggregerte kilder gull verdt. Hvor digg er det ikke å kunne samle alt du ønsker å lese i en leser (f.eks Google Reader) eller til og med automatisk oppdatere nettbrettet ditt med de nyeste sakene fra dine favorittkilder? Her er en liten oppskrift på hvordan du kan gjøre dette på facebook sider du følger. Det er ikke alltid at social feed plukker opp disse, og dessuten er…
The Internet has now entered its third decennial as a popular medium. In fact it is now one of the most popular medium we are using, the Internet is so popular that other traditional media is building their infrastructure upon its technological basis and within its frameworks. The traditional media are also absorbing pop-cultural phenomena from the net-sphere and remediating these other places. As a Schumpeterian disruption in the immaterial aspects of society, the multimedia-savvy computer platform has with its flexible and, recently…
Recently, while watching 4OD – Channel 4’s Video On Demand service – I saw an advertisement for Google’s ubiquitous web presence. In this video we can see snippets of the life of a little girl growing up, and various information linked to her first years. Pictures, videos, e-mails, but also a caption of Google’s street view was included into this short and emotionally appealing spot from a company that was founded in 1998, and hence is relatively new. Google has…
In the book The Future of Ideas –The fate of the commons in a connected world professor Lawrence Lessig at the Standford Law School introduces us to some issues of contemporary law and its implication on the Internet and creativity. Lessig, who is the chairman of Creative Commons, brings forward the restrictions imposed on the creativity by a hinge for more control on the physical, the code and the content layer. This division of layers he borrows from Yochai Benkler…