From Personal Computer to Personal Computing

More "Personal"

2008-06-01T14:33:00.000-07:00

Chris Saad's post "My Vision for Social Media - Personal Reality" reactived my interest to write about this topic.

Personal Reality, Personal Media, Personal Computing! A name is just a name. The theme is to be more Personal.

Facebook: Initial State and Culture

2007-12-02T09:25:00.000-08:00

In many systems, initial state has huge impact to the later development. Facebook’s initial users are students. They are relatively fine to disclose their real information, fine for others to know what they are doing.

Question is whether broader users are ok with this culture, when Facebook wants more users to join. At least I’m kind of hesitating.

Nick Carr's New Book: "Big Switch"

2007-12-01T08:15:00.001-08:00

Thanks to bloglines.com. It allows me to be the first readers of Nick Carr's latest posts. And since I read his post Attention bloggers: "Big Switch" giveaway earlier than many other readers, I got his new book!

I'll try to write a review after reading his book. Initially, I can imagine data storage, data transportation and CPU cycles will become utility. One of the things that cannot become utility is business logic. Later, the difference of business logic, includes business process and business rules, will differentiate companies.

About Facebook

2007-11-30T19:38:00.000-08:00

On most web sites, what people can do is quite limitted. Facebook provides much more for people to do. It does not provide all those can-do by itself. It allows other to develop such can-do. More than that, people are filters for those can-do.

Artificial Intelligence Agents: One Possible Physical Realization of Personal Computing

2007-11-27T09:44:00.000-08:00

In Web 3.0 Artificial Intelligence Agents will be Conversation Agents, Valeria states: "Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents will pull information for us on the basis of parameters we establish and control.".

AI agents could be one possible realization of persoanl computing.

Time to write our own rules: How?

2007-11-25T16:27:00.000-08:00

Doc Searls Says: "Time to write our own rules". Question is how. For the Web, ultimate goals would be it's completely programmable and everybody can write code. I meant everybody, who has not has not had any training to write code. That's why I name this blog "personal computing". Certainly, personal computing is not under the context of the personal computer, but under the context of the internet and web. At this stage, it's time to make the web partially programmable and allow users to write their own rules. But the question is how.

About GGG (Giant Global Graph)

2007-11-23T17:52:00.000-08:00

As a level of abstraction, document is physical: on the Web, documents are HTML pages. Giant Global Graph will mean different things to different people, untill it has a physical representation.

About this blog's title

2007-11-23T09:36:00.000-08:00

There are many discussions about what's next for the web specifically, and information technology in general. For example, Tim Berners-Lee's Giant Global Graph. Another perspective is "Personal Computing". Personal computing is all about how I can mamage information that is personally relevant to me. If we look from this perspective, we'll find we really cannot DO too much yet. Certainly, personal computer is a great tool for personal computing. But perosonal computer is definately not equal to personal computing. Internet, web, mobile phone and other electronic devices clearly makes the personal computer as only a physical level implementation. Personal computing is a logical concept and we need to see how this concept to be implemented physically.

This blog will monitor the progress in this space and also show my personal thinking.

Test

2007-11-23T09:07:00.000-08:00

Hello, World!