Clive Boulton: Whole Chain Traceability, pulling a Kobayshi Maru

Whole Chain Traceability, pulling a Kobayshi Maru.

A little background information about how this presentation came to be ....

Clive Boulton made this timely, impressive presentation at a luncheon held in Stillwater, Oklahoma on 6 January 2012. Stillwater is where Oklahoma State University - lead research institution of the Whole Chain Traceability Consortium - is located. The pathway to Stillwater from the Seattle area began with the CCNx conference held at the Palo Alto Research Center in September, 2011. I attended CCNxCon to make one or more connections relevant to the Whole Chain Traceability Consortium. Clive wasn't physically at the conference but he was looking in from north of Seattle via a live audio/video stream. Clive heard me asking a question from the audience about possibly applying CCN to supply chain traceability needs in food safety. Like me, Cliive has a passion for food traceability and so he tweeted "Who's that?" to one of the CCNxCon managers. A Twitter introduction was made.

Clive is currently a co-organizer of the Seattle Google Technology User Group at GTUG - http://www.meetup.com/seattle-gtug. He has a "finger on the pulse" of technology developments in Seattle and Silicon Valley which he commonly blogs about at http://cliveboulton.com/. And Clive has specially blogged there about Pardalis' Common Point Authoring at http://cliveboulton.com/post/12071791931/pardalis-is-banking-on-granular-information.

Clive is particularly interested in enterprise connected consumer solutions at web scale with polyglot technologies. Clive has opinions on how MSFT SQL Azure (or other "Big Data" databases) may be horizontally sharded (i.e., partitioned) with immutable informational objects for massive scalability. He is also very knowledgeable of the need to balance scalability against inherent latency issues that may result, for instance, in slow consumer access via mobile devices. And he has practical ideas about how to syngergistically leverage the resources and relationships of the Whole Chain Traceability Consortium for fostering an ecosystem of API development.

As a result of his visit to Stillwater, I am pleased announce that Clive will be serving as a consultant to the Whole Chain Traceability Consortium a/k/a @WholeChainTrace. This should make for a potent connection between the #CollabEnt (i.e., collaboration enterprise) of Clive's 20th slide and the increasingly critical need for real-time food traceability. Stay tuned.

Update on Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 10:15PM by Steve Holcombe

 New Slide 19 by @iC - #Cloud Application: Partnership model for a neutral #traceability database | http://www.slideshare.net/clibou/wctcevolution

Top 12 Discussions - Data Ownership in the Cloud

Over the first 12 months of the Data Ownership in the Cloud group on LinkedIn, the following are the top 12 discussions as rated in descending order by the number of comments:

“Give Me My Data Back!” or “I want to SEE My SELF, so give me my data back, please.”
Posted by John Brian Hennessy, Entrepreneur, Start-up & Early Stage Management Consultant
54 comments

Why does data ownership matter to you?
Posted by Steve Holcombe, CEO at Pardalis Inc.
20 comments

Project VRM
Posted by Steve Holcombe, CEO at Pardalis Inc.
16 comments

The about tag is immutable
Posted by Steve Holcombe, CEO at Pardalis Inc.
13 comments

What are the security issues regarding cloud computing?
Posted by John Mooney, Information Technology and Security Solution Sales Specialist
12 comments

9th Internet Identity Workshop - Nov 3-5 - Mountain View, CA
Posted by Steve Holcombe, CEO at Pardalis Inc.
11 comments 

Firebombs & sacred cows...
Posted by Joe Andrieu, President, SwitchBook
11 comments 

Google in China - What is Going On?
Posted by Al Macintyre, Volunteer Consultant at Haiti Earthquake Disaster Relief & News
11 comments

Why Not One Big Database?
Posted by Steve Holcombe, CEO at Pardalis Inc.
10 comments

Will the next 'Google' be a traceability portal?
Posted by Steve Holcombe, CEO at Pardalis Inc.
9 comments

Is it the methods or the targets that make a hacker unethical?
From Anthony M. Freed, Director of Business Development, Managing Editor at Infosec Island Network
8 comments

Who owns supply chain visibility data?
Posted by Dirk Rodgers, Sr. Consultant, Serialization & Pedigree at Cardinal Health
7 comments

Thank you Brian, John, Joe, Al, Anthony and Dirk for posting very relevant and interesting discussions, indeed!

Data Ownership in the Cloud networking group

Extending to all an invitation to join the Data Ownership in the Cloud networking group on LinkedIn.

The Data Ownership in the Cloud group on LinkedIn is a global platform for multi-disciplinary networking between technologists and non-technologists interested in examining data ownership in the Cloud.

What technologies and standards (Cloud Computing, Web 2.0, Semantic Web, Enterprise 2.0, Manufacturing 2.0, Social Networking, SaaS, Security 2.0, RFID 2.0, microformat standards, identification standards) will enable data ownership in the Cloud?

What are the non-technological factors (sociological, political, psychological, legal)?

What is the right mix? Where will data ownership first firmly take root?

I will still be posting here at this blog site from time to time, but the greater part of my online activity is now with the Data Ownership in the Cloud group and my related Twitter account (http://twitter.com/Steve_Holcombe).

Kindest regards,

Steve Holcombe
Owner, Data Ownership in the Cloud

Ars Technica: Inside the AP's plan to "wrap" its content

The following was published by Nate Anderson for ARS Technica on 28 July 2009:

The Associated Press last week rolled out its brave new plan to "apply protective format to news." The AP's news registry will "tag and track all AP content online to assure compliance with terms of use," and it will provide a "platform for protect, point, and pay." That's a lot of "p"-prefaced jargon, but it boils down to a sort of DRM for news—"enforcement," in AP-speak.

For the complete article go to DRM for news? Inside the AP's plan to "wrap" its content. And see in particular the technical specifications for hNews, an extension of hAtom.

For a comparable publication, see Author-Level Digital Rights Management and the Common Point Authoring System: Protecting Information Exchange.

Salesforce.com video: What is cloud computing?

Traditional business applications and platforms are too complicated and expensive. They need a data center, a complex software stack and a team of experts to run them.

This short video explains what Cloud Computing is and why it's faster, lower cost and doesn't eat up your valuable IT resources.