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	<title>Bret Piatt &#187; Technology</title>
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		<title>Advertising isn&#8217;t the only business model for websites</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2010/03/07/advertising-isnt-the-only-business-model-for-websites/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2010/03/07/advertising-isnt-the-only-business-model-for-websites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bretpiatt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ad blocker]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A post by Ken Fisher at Ars Technica stirred up quite the hornet&#8217;s nest.  Brian Carper replied that, &#8220;Advertising is devastating to my well-being&#8221;.  Rob Sayre chimed in on the Mozilla Blog about, &#8220;Why Ad Blockers Work&#8221;.  All three of these were picked up by Hacker News and became some of the most commented threads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to tell the difference between &#8220;cloud&#8221; and &#8220;virtualization&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2010/02/07/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-cloud-and-virtualization/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2010/02/07/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-cloud-and-virtualization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bret Piatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people seem to think &#8220;cloud&#8221; is just off-premise &#8220;virtualization&#8221;.  Cloud comes in a few flavors and I&#8217;ll argue that you can have &#8220;private cloud&#8221; either hosted off-premise in a provider&#8217;s facility or in your own.  The fundamental difference between cloud and virtualization is the goal of cloud is to automate provisioning (this applies to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public clouds and their features, followed by the future of cloud computing hardware</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/12/20/public-clouds-and-their-features-followed-by-the-future-of-cloud-computing-hardware/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/12/20/public-clouds-and-their-features-followed-by-the-future-of-cloud-computing-hardware/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bretpiatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cisco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloud computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Force.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IBM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juniper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NIST]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OpenFlow]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/?p=153</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m going to break this post up into two sections, the first will discuss public clouds and their features focused on advanced networking as an example.  The second portion will look at the future of cloud computing hardware &#8212; both networking and computing.
Public Clouds and Feature Selection
A discussion started on Twitter today after Werner Vogels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Every developer should learn the OSI model</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/12/18/every-developer-should-learn-the-osi-model/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/12/18/every-developer-should-learn-the-osi-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bretpiatt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[developer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JDBC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[OSI model]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software developer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software development]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/?p=146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The OSI model is a great way to learn to layered design so components can be refactored or replaced without a complete system redesign.   This will also allow for a project to be broken up into separate teams in the future as they&#8217;ll have a clear understanding of their upstream and downstream requirements.  Beyond being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Availability is a fundamental design concept</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/10/03/availability-is-a-fundamental-design-concept/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/10/03/availability-is-a-fundamental-design-concept/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bretpiatt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[availability]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/?p=117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today a conversation on Twitter with Christopher Hoff (@Beaker), James Watters (@wattersjames), George Reese (@georgereese), Benjamin Black (@benjaminblack), and Shlomo Swidler (@ShlomoSwidler) discussed how many people seem to assume that because clouds can scale and rapidly provision servers that they&#8217;re always available and that because of this availability doesn&#8217;t have to be a fundamental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Technorati bring visitors?</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/08/02/will-technorati-bring-visitors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/08/02/will-technorati-bring-visitors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bret Piatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[seo]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/?p=79</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that I have a somewhat decent amount of content I&#8217;m fiddling around with getting the site indexed by more sources.  Right now almost all of my traffic comes from Twitter through the initial posts of the topics.
So Technorati I&#8217;m claiming this blog: 3s4h7akv62
Now we&#8217;ll see if you bring any visitors!  I&#8217;ll share [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud computing makes &#8220;blacklists&#8221; obsolete, now is the time for &#8220;digital identities&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/07/25/cloud-computing-makes-blacklists-obsolete-now-is-the-time-for-digital-identities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/07/25/cloud-computing-makes-blacklists-obsolete-now-is-the-time-for-digital-identities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bret Piatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[access management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blacklist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[identity management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legislation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national id]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oauth]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/?p=66</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A common security technique is to classify attackers by IP addresses or reverse DNS lookup and blacklist the bad ones.  This technique has been falling in popularity with the increased usage of DHCP and NAT for Internet access and cloud computing will be its death knell.
Cloud computing allows attackers to rapidly switch IP addresses for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud Computing, &#8220;For Everyone, Not Everything&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/06/07/cloud-computing-for-everyone-not-everything/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/06/07/cloud-computing-for-everyone-not-everything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bret Piatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cloud computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hosting]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/?p=52</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cloud computing is a broad term that covers Internet based services that provide SaaS (Software as a service), PaaS (Platform as a service), and IaaS (Infrastructure as a service).  SaaS services are the most commonly used cloud solutions &#8212; web based e-mail is the prime example.  The most widely used PaaS offering is probably WordPress.org [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unexpected use cases, what a Service Provider never sees coming&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/05/16/unexpected-use-cases-what-a-service-provider-never-sees-coming/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/05/16/unexpected-use-cases-what-a-service-provider-never-sees-coming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 23:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bret Piatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arbitrage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bandwidth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distribution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online backup]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/?p=44</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Service Providers launch offerings with a particular use case or set of use cases in mind.  Flickr launched a photo/video sharing site, Joyent offers Accelerators to host websites, and Google/Yahoo/Hotmail/etc. offer free e-mail.  All of these services have other ways they could and probably are being used&#8230;.ways the product teams never expected.
Plenty of on-line backup [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s &#8220;Office&#8221; is YouTube</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/04/05/googles-office-is-youtube/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/04/05/googles-office-is-youtube/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bret Piatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[at&t]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hulu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right now Google is a &#8220;one trick pony&#8221; and eventually like Microsoft did with DOS and then Windows you saturate that market and can only grow at the pace of the industry.  The only way to have huge growth again is to find a new line of business.  For Microsoft it was and still is [...]]]></description>
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