Published on Friday, May 4 2007
(Via Slashdot) I came upon a story from USA Today which announces that the powers-that-be at Yahoo! plan to shut down the long running #1 or #2 site in the photo-sharing category (Yahoo! Photos) and ask users to migrate their photos to Flickr (which Yahoo! acquired in March of 2005) instead [1].
The irony for me is that, having been a Flickr user for a long time, I was only last week looking into using Yahoo! Photos because TiVo offers built in access to Yahoo! Photos (top service on that page).
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Published on Thursday, May 3 2007
There seems to be a renewed interest from proprietary software vendors in the use open source to create vendor lock in.
This week, add Microsoft’s Silverlight 1.1 and Dynamic Languages Runtime to the mix alongside Adobe’s Flex SDK.
Jeff Gould argues that open source has “jumped the shark,” and that:
the magical words “open source” have come to function as the software equivalent of carbon offsets. . . . some software vendors are cleverer than others, and have learned to buy indulgences for their sinful profit-craving ways by selectively building open source components into their stack. . . . Their own software remains every bit as proprietary as the Microsoft products they compete with.
Interestingly, his argument comes the same day that Microsoft announces the Dynamic Language Runtime at MIX 07.
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Published on Wednesday, May 2 2007
Today Joyent announced the public release of Slingshot, a framework for (their words) obliterating the distinction between the web and the desktop.
Slingshot lets developers take Ruby-on-Rails applications and deploy them to desktops (Windows, Mac OS X).
Is it just me, or does the red rock in the slingshot graphic look a bit like the Adobe Apollo logo? Ok, so maybe not a direct version of the logo, but certain the Adobe Apollo red.
Is this a cheaper faster way to get to sent to the moon and back, or just another David vs. Goliath myth?
More on Slingshot, including a quick tour.
