links for 2006-12-17

• SaaS in 2007: reaching out to offline users
  (tags: offline saas dev business toread)
• Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive The Downfalls of Online Applications «
  What happens when the storage co you use in the cloud falls over or gets sold?
  (tags: saas servicemanagement web2.0 offline)
• Wired News: My Data, Your Machine
  (tags: security mobile dev toread)
• Mobile Opportunity: Will flat-rate pricing make mobile data take off? (No, five other things required...)
  Provide a consistent architecture that works offline/Kill security certificates/Unlock the user's data/Make it easy to discover new content and services/Get ready to go to a flat rate for everything
  (tags: mobile mobbu dev business offline)
• SANS NewsBites - The Ten Most Important Security Trends of the Coming Year
  1 and 2 are mobile: laptop encryption will become mandatory for many gov agencies; theft of smartphones/pda will grow, motivated by content as well and handset value.
  (tags: mobile security future 2007predictions)
• The 30 Most Important IT Trends for 2007
  (tags: future 2007predictions)
• Agile Journal - Hyperproductivity In Large Projects Though Distributed Scrum
  (tags: offshoring agile dev russia starsoft)
• It's all Greek to me
  Starsoft VP Alex Adamopoulos's blog
  (tags: offshoring dev russia startsoft)
• How Not to Run a Business - The Leafy Host Story.-- Digital Meanderings
  (tags: servicemanagement saas customerservice)
• W3C: WICD Mobile 1.0
  Web Integration Compound Document - combines multiple formats
  (tags: mobile standards dev)
• Google patent search
  (tags: search patents google)
• alwaystouchout.com - Crossrail
  news on current plan for Crossrail, which still isn't definite.
  (tags: london transport)
• no, 2 self: Architectural Advent Day 1
  Rob Annable's excellent advent calendar: small architectural nuggets. It starts here - go read them.
  (tags: architecture)
• jason brown » Switch v12: Paranoid Machines
  D&Gian reading of Tron, though no mention of body-without-organs.
  (tags: sf tron deleuzeandguattari)
• Scientific American 50: Research Leader of the Year (Anglea Belcher breeds virii as nano factories to grow/output/encrust elements)
  "The aim is to work our way through the whole periodic table and be able to design materials of all kinds in a controlled way. My biggest goal is to have a DNA sequence that can code for the synthesis of any useful material"
  (tags: science nano rapidprototyping)
• Creating Passionate Users: The Asymptotic Twitter Curve
  (tags: im attention presence twitter toread)
• Composite: thoughts on poetics by Liz Henry: Trivium, twittering, gregarious behavior
  (tags: social im attention presence twitter toread)