Marcus Cake

Web architectures and cloud computing provide a tremendous opportunity for evolution and innovation

Marcus Cake — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:52:11 +0000

I just watched a presentation at Gartner called SOA, the Web and the Cloud: Big Decisions about Application Architecture. I encourage you to view the original presentation. It highlights the tremendous opportunity to evolution and innovation by applying Web architectures and cloud computing to the way applications are designed. I will try to outline some of those principles for the non-technical below and then outline the importance of these principles in applying key elements of a Web 3.0 online network to economic development.

Opera browser (now server) could also unleash Web 3.0

Marcus Cake — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:13:46 +0000

A few days ago, the open source browser project Opera released the version 10 of its web browser. This version, called Opera Unite, introduces a major new function that will probably be incorporated into all browsers. Opera Unite extends the browser that reads web pages from the internet, with a web server that publishes information to the web. In short, it facilitates direct peer to peer (or browser to browser) communication between browsers in real-time. Google Wave and Opera Unite facilitate peer to peer in Web 3.0. They do it in different ways. Google Wave appears to have a a superior value proposition, but ultimately it will depend on how, and how many, third party applications are integrated into each platform.

Google Wave may unleash Web 3.0 and achieve 90% penetration in three years

Marcus Cake — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:12:16 +0000

Email was created 40 years ago and provides specific means for people to communicate. It mimics the conventional postal service. Wave is Google's attempt at how we should communicate given technology today. It provides a new means and a new workflow to communicate. Google Wave may be a masterful strategic move by Google that integrates a range of their online technologies and triggers a paradigm shift. The impact of Google Wave is revolutionary. It could render desktop office productivity software obsolete as workflow and content is managed online. It could also render existing open source and commercial email servers obsolete. Corporates will bypass much of the Web 2.0 point applications and implement Google Wave for an immediate productivity improvement.

Protected: Web 3.0 stock exchange (or financial institution)

Marcus Cake — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:43:30 +0000

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I.O.U.S.A is a Web 2.0 online political network promoting Web 3.0 government

Marcus Cake — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:17:24 +0000

I.O.U.S.A. is a Web 2.0 online political network created by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation asking citizens to "encourage" the US government to move beyond Web 1.0 government opportunism and implement a Web 3.0 government that pursues sustainable, solvent and fully funded policies.

The start of Web 3.0 Edemocracy in Australia?

Marcus Cake — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:18:17 +0000

Let’s transform the world in 365 days

Marcus Cake — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:43:24 +0000

We need to build the Web 3.0 online social, industry and political networks on the critical path to Web 4.0 and pull in the next stage of financial markets, economic development, environmental sustainability, awareness, life, work and global governance. We need five online networks to solve the worlds problems by 2012 or we decline into conflict for generations. A global community could transform the world in 365 days by building the Web 3.0 online networks on the critical path to Web 4.0.

Regulated capitalism: replace? more regulation? Web 3.0 tweaks?

Marcus Cake — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:16:33 +0000

Regulated capitalism is the last man standing. We have no choice but to make it work. We must, however, acknowledge that regulated capitalism has failed its citizens comprehensively. The failure of regulated capitalism is equal to the collapse of central planning. The communists recognised their system had failed and chose to implement something else. Will capitalists do the same? Or will we try to save the status quo at any price? Will bailouts move on to other "too big too let fail" activities that prevent the operation of creative destruction?

Knight Foundation’s Newschallenge.org - my five grant applications

Marcus Cake — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:37:24 +0000

I just lodged five applications to the Knight Foundation's News Challenge. My applications can be reviewed here. An overview of the Knight Foundation is provided below. A summary of my applications are available below.

Sunshine in 2009, inevitable depression by 2010, then once in 80 year buying opportunity

Marcus Cake — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:01:39 +0000

Harry Dent recently released two Youtube videos providing some quick thoughts on the impact of the credit (and now financial) crisis on his depression scenario. In essence, there will be a period of optimism in 2009, but the demography underlying the depression will begin to bite and lead into depression. He recommends that people hold cash while the value of assets fall. Investors with cash will be presented with a buying opportunity that only occurs once in an 80 year new economy cycle. I recommend you watch the videos below.

Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and Web 4.0 explained

Marcus Cake — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:24:01 +0000

Web 1.0 delivered the internet and connected large numbers of people. Web 2.0 demonstrated the technology to assemble and manage large global crowds with a common interest in social interaction. Web 3.0 will apply online network concepts to industry, economic development, climate stability, poverty and democracy. Web 3.0 online networks allow people to see through the community or market and facilitate collective matching, learning and consumption in hours (not months). Web 4.0 achieves a critical mass of participation in online networks that deliver global transparency, governance, distribution, participation, collaboration in key industry, political, social and other community endeavours. Web 4.0 delivers community sovereignty to channels and information.

Facebook of global government needed - delivery in 12 weeks!

Marcus Cake — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:57:14 +0000

I just read a Financial Times article which states that the E-Democracy prototype has an immediate application. Please read E-democracy just six weeks away! Political sovereignty exercised directly by citizens through an online political network.

Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn

Marcus Cake — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:52:18 +0000

This presentation was given by Sequoia Capital to their portfolio companies. It provides a visual and graphical insight into the causes of the current financial crisis and how the US became bankrupt. I thought I would embed it in a post for your convenience. Highly recommended!

How to build a web server on the Amazon cloud in 15 minutes

Marcus Cake — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:50:22 +0000

This article discusses how to create a virtual web server on the Amazon cloud and establish a location to install a new web site in less than 15 minutes.

Bailout or investment … the US taxpayer (and others) could make significant profits

Marcus Cake — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:20:42 +0000

The United States government could make a profit on its "bailout". Bailout is an emotive term that is popular in an environment of fear and uncertainty. The primary fear being that the funds will simply replace losses in financial institutions and be government expenditure. The US government would be buying residential mortgages with an exposure to residential property prices that have a recoverable value in the future. Residential mortgages are a safe and predictable asset class (as a portfolio). The US government could make a profit - it depends on three things.

51% of Global 2000 buying Web 2.0 solutions? Probably not platforms delivering enterprise or industry innovation

Marcus Cake — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:14:34 +0000

Price Waterhouse's Technology Forecast (Summer 2008) provides some commentary on the emergence of Web 2.0 type online social networks in the enterprise. The report offers an insight into the elements that drive Web 2.0. It does, however, not identify compelling reasons for the enterprise to adopt the principles of Web 2.0. I have expanded on the concept of Web 2.0 and offer an insight into what Web 3.0 and Web 4.0. A survey in the report also states that 51% of the Global 2000 are buying Web 2.0 solutions. However, it would be interesting to understand the proportion of these projects that are small solutions like "wikis" or disruptive platforms that deliver enterprise innovation or industry innovation.

Make poverty history with Web 3.0 online social networks

Marcus Cake — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:32:44 +0000

Poverty is a complex issue. Poverty is a complex issue. It has a wide variety of causes that include trade, HIV/AIDS, unserviceable debt, investment capital allocation and immigration laws. Many efforts to change the situation rely upon influencing or changing opaque channels. This has proven to be ineffective. The Millennium Goals could be achieved if we act now. However, these goals won't be achieved if we continue to try to influence Web 1.0 opaque channels. We need to transcend "opaque channels" by applying the key elements of a Web 3.0 online network to create online communities that focus and coordinate collective energy.

Beyond terminal US insolvency - bailouts, debt defaults, collapse, receivership committee formed

Marcus Cake — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:57:07 +0000

The US system has collapsed. Failed financial firms are trying to convince the government to invest in them. The selling proposition? - "too big to let fail!" Understandably, the US congress are making further enquiries before writing a cheque for US$800 billion dollars. The US already terminally insolvent - even with unprecedented growth it can not repay its debts. Another US$800 billion won't push it over the edge. It passed the edge a while back. A private receivership committee may have been formed in international markets. It will operate in "opaque channels". A private online political network would be essential coordinate timely international activities amongst US creditors. The aspirations of the average American remain the same. They can be sold a "story" by mainstream media that permits further avoidance of debt repayments or justifies activities that acquire international "leverage". An E-democracy online network and/or a US insolvency online network could be used to inform the US public. Maybe, they will assume responsibility, or maybe they would prefer not to know.

Is Peak oil critical after all? P90 conservatism vs P50 reality

Marcus Cake — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:15:42 +0000

Analysis based upon the more "conservative" P90 estimate may drive up oil prices and may encourage the search for more oil reserves and development of substitutes. The world's oil reserves are very "opaque" - very few know what we actually have. The difference between P50 and P90 means that Peak Oil may not be an urgent problem for the next decade. It remains a critical problem for the next few decades and this century. The management of peak oil needs to be actively managed - more transparent and a global approach to how scarce resources are applied.

IBM report: Outperformers are very interested in industry and enterprise model innovation … online industry networks anyone?

Marcus Cake — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:28:42 +0000

IBM conducted a survey of 1,130 CEO s, general managers and senior public sector and business leaders from around the world. I read with interest the comments that highlighted the potential application of online social and industry networks in facilitating collaboration, participation and information distribution in industries. We turnkey online networks for the financial markets and are also keen to contribute to open source software community that maintains an "Online network Solution" open source software project for any entrepreneur or organisation. I have extracted some interesting comments and recommend you read the full report.

How to setup a server on the Amazon cloud and install SugarCRM in 30 minutes

Marcus Cake — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:41:45 +0000

This article discusses how to create a virtual web server on the Amazon cloud and install/configure SugarCRM in less than an hour. It should actually take 30 minutes if you already have an Amazon account and Elasticfox installed. This is intended as a hackers technical general guide, rather than something a novice could do. I chose to implement SugarCRM and use it to manage contacts, segment the customer base, and conduct campaigns. This provided a platform to restructure the marketing function of the business to be less reliant on redundant Web 1.0 distribution and more Web 2.0 (participation) and Web 3.0 (contribution).

Scalr is an open source server farm management application for Amazon EC2 and is a fraction of the cost of Rightscale

Marcus Cake — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:22:02 +0000

Rightscale offers to manage a farm of servers to automatically scale the processing and storage capacity of a web application to service growing, or declining, demand from internet users. Rightscale costs USD500 per month plus a USD2,000 setup fee (last time I checked). Scalr is an open source application that performs the same function as Rightscale. You can implement Scalr yourself from here or use Scalr's USD50 per month paid version (with no setup fee).

From Web 1.0 opaque channels to Web 3.0 community execution

Marcus Cake — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:57:08 +0000

Our society is in transition. It is applying new technologies to create new structures. Proprietary information is no longer necessary to encourage innovation or distribution channels. The internet provides a virtually free distribution channel in a services based economy. Online social networks have redefined how we interact with large numbers of people adopting new behaviours. Online industry network will redefine industry. Online political networks will redefine politics. The following is intended to provide a summary of how our society operating in a Web 1.0 world and the emerging Web 3.0 world. This is one of a series of concepts that explain the evolution toward Web 3.0. I recommend you review the visual overview of these concepts in the Marcus.cake overview presentation.

E-democracy just six weeks away! Political sovereignty exercised directly by citizens through an online political network

Marcus Cake — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:39:20 +0000

An online political network can replace expensive proprietary distribution channels and with a virtually costless channel that provides a superior means to deliver the primary objective of democracy to ensure "political sovereignty [is] retained by the people and exercised directly by citizens". Democracy is entirely based upon information and could be facilitated by an online political network. Our politicians make choices about economic, social and industry policies and implement them with laws. Citizens choose politicians based on information. Online political networks provide internet applications to facilitate the exchange of information, collaboration and the political process between citizens, government executives, politicians and other stakeholders in the politcal process. This article offers a potential structure for this network. I have also developed an initial prototype of this web application that has the global scalability of the Amazon Web Services cloud. The web application may be available in six weeks, but the transition to this online network may take six months or 50 years In Politics 3.0, individual transparency through online networks and internet traffic to a politicians profile may be determine whether a politician gets elected or not.

Online network building blocks: automatic scaling of web servers, persistent storage and MySQL management

Marcus Cake — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:43:56 +0000

Rightscale and Amazon Web Services now offers essential features not previously available - automatic scaling , Manager for MySQL and Persistent Storage. The Amazon Web Services platform empowered the entrepreneur, but advanced technical skills were still required to solve storage and scalability issues to create a truly scalable application. These latest developments are critical building blocks of transformative online networks and bring the power direct to the entrepreneur. This power is available by using the Rightscale dashboard/service. They charge USD2,500 to setup your server and USD500 per month to use the dashboard. This is a fraction of the cost of a comparable web hosting configuration five years ago, assuming a comparable web hosting configuration could be built. Competitive advantage can no longer be derived from the prohibitive cost of web hosting or ability to scale a web application. Unlimited storage and global scalability is now available to the entrepreneur (that is a hacker).

The era of transformative online social networks begins

Marcus Cake — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:47:00 +0000

The era of online networks which manage information of no value is ending. The era of online networks that manage valuable information and reshape industry is beginning. The foundation for online networks has been building for decades. The most recent milestone may have been 90% broadband penetration rates in the major economies. The next generation of online social, industry and political networks will deliver unprecedented transparency, liquidity and accessibility in all aspects of society.

A 10 year world economic depression … demographic and exacerbated

Marcus Cake — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:04:25 +0000

The 2009 demographic depression will be exacerbated by a food and energy crisis, the decline of the USD dollar in value, the decline of the USD as the world's reserve currency, a global credit crisis, the world's central banks pursuing inconsistent policies, competing interests in the Middle East and other challenges now confront the world at a singular point.

Protected: Move beyond Pay per click revenue (PPC) with an online industry network

Marcus Cake — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:41:40 +0000

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Internet trends as at June 2008

Marcus Cake — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:44:00 +0000

Morgan Stanley has released a research report on Internet Trends (June 2008). I recommend reviewing the presentation. It contains some interesting statistics on shifts in online advertising, the movement of market share to Asia and the decline in US relevance to the global economy.

Can a Linux style online network focus the global consciousness and accelerate solutions to global problems

Marcus Cake — Sun, 25 May 2008 06:40:09 +0000

I recently read A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. "At the core of the teachings lies the transformation of consciousness, a spiritual awakening that he sees as the next step in human evolution. An essential aspect of this awakening consists in transcending our ego based state of consciousness. This is a prerequisite not only for personal happiness but also for the ending of violent conflict endemic on our planet" (Inside back cover, A New Earth ). This has prompted the following question? Could a open source style online network, like Linux, focus the global consciousness to accelerate the solutions to immediate global problems. How would the online network be structured? How many people would be needed? Can this right brain global consciousness be just another resource or function of a left brain information distribution and collaboration online network?