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Duane got a PS3 today, doesn’t seem overly impressed at this stage. it might be interesting to try out the home media serving capabilities.

The paradigm which is emerging is the centralizing of all digital media content to large home servers, which could be tucked away in the broom cupboard. Here, families could wirelessly record and view broadcast content, access their own photos, movies and music. All new major game consoles seem to be in on the act.

The alternative paradigm which develops alongside is the outsourcing of information to web services on the cloud;. Services such as flickr, facebook or google docs represents out sourced content on the cloud.

I suspect the former paradigm will be psychologically preferred for certain content as users would rather manage personal content locally, even if this may actually be less robust.

Managing a home server is nothing new and anyone with a computer and some instructions can start serving web pages and content from their home computer. But these technologies should automate the process so that everyone can have a go. The non-general purpose nature of the gaming consoles may make them less at risk to hackers at this stage.

Anyone with a computer can run an apache server and serve up web pages. In fact, anyone with an ipod touch or iphone can do the same! even with php which opens the way for people to serve up dodgy content over your internet connection - WPA!

Why Serve your own Webpages

Because you got a decent connection and don’t want to pay hosting charges when you’re proficient enough to handle it yourself. But be warned, if you intend to create the newest social network site and run it from your home, it won’t be good for business if your business went offline because your ISP was having some down time or your hard drive blows up. . . as they often do.

Tags: apache, iPhone, jailbreak, php

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