Radian6 Overview - Social Media Monitoring Platform

Listening to social media is lot more than just collecting posts and monitoring buzz. You need insights, measurements, and the ability to act on the conversations you uncover.

Apple's Cloud Services - iCloud.com ?

Get ready for Apple’s new Cloud called “iCloud”!
It will definitely change the landscape of Mobile Cloud services!


It was reported in Gigaom that Apple has snapped up iCloud.com.
As we all knew, Apple is gearing up for their upcoming Cloud services. The iCloud.com was a domain name owned by Linkoping, a Swedish-based desktop-as-a-service company, Xcerion. And now, iCloud.com service has been rebranded as CloudMe.

UPDATE: Just received a notification from MobileMe asking to upgrade my calendar to maintain syncing and calendar web access. It seems that the old MobileMe calendar will be discontinued in 7 days.
What does it mean? Most probably Apple is going to start migrating its MobileMe to iCloud very soon, eh? What do you think?

Back to Basics - The Difference between Unicast, Broadcast and Multicast

Unicast
Unicast packets are sent from host to host. The communication is from a single host to another single host. There is one device transmitting a message destined for one receiver.

Broadcast

Broadcast is when a single device is transmitting a message to all other devices in a given address range. This broadcast could reach all hosts on the subnet, all subnets, or all hosts on all subnets. Broadcast packets have the host (and/or subnet) portion of the address set to all ones. By design, most modern routers will block IP broadcast traffic and restrict it to the local subnet.

Multicast

Multicast is a special protocol for use with IP. Multicast enables a single device to communicate with a specific set of hosts, not defined by any standard IP address and mask combination. This allows for communication that resembles a conference call. Anyone from anywhere can join the conference, and everyone at the conference hears what the speaker has to say. The speaker's message isn't broadcasted everywhere, but only to those in the conference call itself. A special set of addresses is used for multicast communication.

The Brutal Decline of Yahoo!

Mobile Virtualization in action

Carrying two or more mobile phones is not unusual. People will often need one device for work and a second for personal use. The virtualization technology now allows a mobile device to act like its been split into two different phones and different usage.

Resources - CloneCloud

Publications

• Byung-Gon Chun, Sunghwan Ihm, Petros Maniatis, Mayur Naik, Ashwin Patti. CloneCloud: Elastic Execution between Mobile Device and Cloud. To appear in Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2011), April 2011. [PDF]
• Byung-Gon Chun and Petros Maniatis. Dynamically Partitioning Applications between Weak Devices and Clouds. Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing and Services (MCS 2010), June 2010. [PDF]
• Byung-Gon Chun and Petros Maniatis. Augmented Smart Phone Applications Through Clone Cloud Execution. Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XII), May 2009. [PDF]
• M. Itoh, E.Y. Chen and T. Kusumoto, Virtual Smartphone over IP, NTT Technical Review, July 2010, Vol. 8, No. 7
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Talks

• Byung-Gon Chun. Dynamically Partitioning Applications between Weak Devices and Clouds. 1st ACM Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing and Services (MCS 2010), June 2010. [PDF]
• Byung-Gon Chun. CloneCloud: Augmented Smart Phone Applications Through Clone Cloud Execution. 12th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XII), May 2009. [PDF]

Press

• Sending Cell Phones into the Cloud. MIT Technology Review
• Intel clones your phone in the cloud (Data center in your pocket). The Register.
• CloneCloud offloads phone tasks to remote servers. Electronista.
• Mobile Phone Processing As A Service? CloudAve.
• CloneCloud: The Power of Cloud Computing Comes to Mobile Phones. ReadWriteWeb.
• CloneCloud: Solving the Problem with Mobile Phones. Phandroid.
• CloneCloud Takes on Heavy Lifting for Smartphones. MobileRoar.
• Fast Mobile Face Recognition Demonstrated using CloneCloud. ComputerVisionCentral.
• The Next Wave of Computing: One Device to Rule them All? Zmogo.
• Intel Concept Marries Smartphones and Cloud Computing. Rethink-Wireless.
• CloneCloud: Is this the New Direction for Mobile Applications? TelecomTV.
• Intel Working on Clone Cloud for MIDs and Smartphones. DarkVisionHardware.
• 3rd Rebirth of Computing: The End of PCs and Game Consoles. TechNewsWorld.
• Inside Intel's Top Secret Lab. ITManagement.
• Intel's Clone Cloud: Increase the IQ of Your Smart Phone. Intel Innovation.
• Clone in a Cloud, A concept of Cloud Computing. Hardware Insight.

Cloud Phone Concept

• It started in year 2007 when Grid Computing was the "buzzword", I have this idea to use the normal consumer phones which utilize the power of grid for high-computation applications. 
• The article "Building the Grid Computing Eco-System - All Users Can Compute" was never published. It was an internal company presentation but at that time nobody was interested about this concept.
• Today - when people realized that even smartphones or Tablet PCs can't emulate the full power of computer, the idea of sending the phones to the Cloud came back.
• The buzzword "Grid Computing" is now changed to "Cloud Computing" and now mobile telcos also embraced the idea of having applications in the Cloud.
• The 2007 original article (PDF) written on July 8, 2007 can be downloaded HERE or HERE.
• The era for "Cloud Phones" begins...

Cloud Phones - The Brain is Now in the Cloud

• One the best example of SaaS (Software as a Service) in Mobile Computing is SoundHound.
• Its a Music Recognition service which is hosted in the "Cloud".
• The smartphones don't have the power and processing engine to process Millions of Music database very fast.
• Thus, a simple command (press of some buttons), music can be easily recognized and you will get the Singer's name, Album, Youtube, lyrics etc.
• No wonder people now coined a new name for smartphone that uses cloud computing - "Cloud Phones"
• What do you think?