Matt Homann and I had a recent conversation about improving conferences. We came up with some very interesting ideas that I’m excited about. It is time to get Dennis plugged in again and see where we can take this upcoming St. Louis technology conference. So many ideas…
Jon Udell: “In the Web 2.0 era, we’re learning how to build and use software that enables us to collectively manage information resources. Those skills will serve us well in Web 3.0, when we expose other kinds of resources — power, transportation — to the same network effects.”
I’m not sure that I like the use [...]
Xooglers is ”a gathering spot for ex-Googlers to reminisce and comment on the latest developments in search.”
Michael Mace: “Why Web 2.0 doesn’t cut it for mobile devices”
While this is a pretty narrow definition of Web 2.0, Michael’s broader point is that we need to think about “smart clients” for mobile scenarios. Makes sense, but the problems there are surrounding platforms. We can’t make smart clients really work well today without having affinity for [...]
I’m in Austin for a customer meeting, but I managed to find a few interesting things in my aggregator. Let me call them out before I retire for the night.
Dave says we’re squabbling- I say we’re talking. What’s wrong with open discussion?
Rogers is doing a new book.
Ted Leung has written a history of how he [...]
Dare Obasanjo: “Is it technically possible to create a ‘common shared office-XML dialect for the basics’ as Tim Bray suggests? It is. It’ll probably take several years (e.g. the Atom syndication format which is simply a derivative of RSS has taken over two years to come to fruition) and once it is done, Microsoft will [...]
Evan Williams in his 10 Rules for Web Startups: “Many dot-com bubble companies that died could have eventually been successful had they been able to adjust and change their plans instead of running as fast as they could until they burned out, based on their initial assumptions. Pyra was started to build a project-management app, [...]
Tim Bray goes through a thought experiment on why we need, or rather don’t need, two open formats for Office documents. I’ve debated this issue with Sam Ruby before (Open Office Wars Pt. 6), but that was prior to ECMA. Microsoft’s position on open formats is obviously much better now than it was 6 months [...]
O’Reilly Radar: “Windows is the dark economy of open source use, the hub of activity that is rarely spoken of.”
Interesting thoughts about JBoss on Windows. I’m sure that this is much more common than the OSDL folks would have you believe.
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