Published on Wednesday, June 20 2007
(If you’ve not seen Don Tapscott present the material behind Wikinomics it is well worth seeing – I’m sure the video will go up in the next day or two.)
Tapscott
Happy to be here. Flew in late last night – but hey, sleep is overrated.
I totally believe there are fundamential shifts underway: from closed hierarchy to the open networked enterprise.
(Which is from my 1992 book – paradigm shift).
We started, in response to some of my debates with Nick Carr, a syndicated project: “Winning with the Enterprise 2.0″ – one of the summary reports has been made available on the enterprise 2.0 conference site.
Four drivers for change:
- Web 2.0
- The Net Generation
- The Social Revolution
- The Economic Revolution
Old web was html, new web is xml.
Kids who have grown up net enabled – see Growing up Digital – it isn’t even technology to them, it is like air. Baby boom echo. Instead of a generation gap we have a generation lap.
World Conference of IT panel last year – video at www.newparadigm.com.
Four startling new principles for running a company:
- Peering
- Being Open
- Sharing
- Acting Globally
What are the new business models for future:
- Peer pioneers – Linux, MySQL, but also in financial services
- Ideagoras – like Innocentive Network
- Prosumers
- The New Alexandrians: The Sharing of Science
- Open Platforms and APIs
- The Global Plant Floor (Mass Collaboration)
- The Wiki Workplace
Final thought: This is a paradigm shift.
Paradigm shifts are almost always recieved with coolness if not worse. Those with vested interests will fight change. The shift demands such a different view of things that established leaders are often last to be won over.
(Marilyn Ferguson?)
Published on Monday, May 7 2007
Carl Howe’s “Microsoft’s Silverlight and Adobe’s Apollo: Web-Killer 2.0” argues that “these proprietary browser extensions break the utility of the World Wide Web in important ways”:
- Put users into plug-in hell.
- Create Web ghettos.
- Don’t provide accessibility.
- Make search a pain.
It’s a great beginning to a real debate about the place of technologies like Silverlight that many others have been fawning over.
Read more…
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 Tuesday, March 27 2007
Tired of having to use the web form based flickr upload process, and uploading six photos at a time?
or, tired of rebooting into windows just to upload photos?
I just discovered kflickr – it’s in the Ubuntu repository for Edgy. (Looks like it is in Dapper and Feisty as well)
(At a terminal, sudo apt-get install kflickr, or use aptitude and look for it by name)
Very nice. Take a look later today or tomorrow for some Zurich photos from today and yesterday.
Published on Monday, March 26 2007
By relying on open source, of course.
This April 26th, Jim Getty’s will be speaking (at MIT) on “How We Built the OLPC (the $100 laptop for 3rd world children)”
It’s a joint meeting of the Computer Society and the GBC/ACM.
He says:
The ability to design hardware knowing that the software can be modified as needed is liberating.
