Cloud computing is all the buzz at the moment, another trendy topic, but it isn’t that new in relative terms, either is the SaaS models, having grown out of the ASP model of the last century.
But you know despite being immersed in all this web “stuff” from day to day, I just have this nagging feeling about the information we put out in the cloud. Is it really that safe!
At the Edge of Web Conference colleague Stephen Collins in his Enterprise 2.0 – A New Age of Aquarius? talk touched on the social aspect of SaaS and that most of his software that he uses is in the cloud. Leaving very little in terms of desktop software.
What the hell has got into Australia in the last few years.
Now we have the railroaded implementation of Labor (right wing christian) Senator Conroy’s Internet filter. In case you have been off the planet for the last month, Conroy is now rolling towards his personal agenda of implementation. Our only hope is that he has to enforce it with a Bill in Parliament.
The filter he proposes is a multiple tier one. The first tier being the mandatory ISP driven automatic filtering of all the web nasties that are illegal under current legislation. The second tier is the the removal of all material that is deemed inappropriate. This effectively makes the internet safe place for children.
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Well a good friend Ben Winter-Giles has tagged me for an interesting meme. You have to document with a simple camera your journey home. I don’t often do memes, but this one is interesting in that it gives a snapshot of our lives in the web industry.
As many of you know I operate out of our home studio. It’s ideal for my freelance lifestyle. Plus all the trendy people are doing it now. So this meme is going to be different, I’m not technically going home from work as that type of photo-shoot would be just two or three pics at best.
From a user experience view we are always looking for the real world interaction that we can translate into the virtual world. The procedure that we can mirror with an element of user familiarity to leverage of a person’s previous experience.
However from time to time you run across something in the real world that just needs to be streamlined before it’s moved into the virtual.
I’ll give you an example.
The National Australia Bank (NAB) have an interesting method for quick cheque deposits, this is from the instructions on the deposit envelope.
