So I’m trying to decide whether I’m finally ready to bring my phone into the 21st century. I have, and generally carry with me on trips, a cell phone (Nokia 6200), an iPod (4GB Nano, 1st generation), and a digital camera (Powershot SD200).
These three devices could be replaced with one – the new Samsung Blackjack, available from Cingular (my wireless carrier).
Sorry for the pun in the title – I couldn’t resist.
Earlier this week I came across an article from the UK-based site (and magazine?) Legal Week about legal issues and open source software: “Law In Business: Open Source of Confusion.”
Yikes – it’s almost 2007, and the legal profession is still spreading FUD about open source?
My colleague Dave Gynn recently hosted an Optaros webinar on “Ten Events and Trends That Shaped Open Source in 2006.”
I should really have posted the link to it before the event rather than after it, but better late than never.
You can download just the slides, or the whole webex recording with audio and synched slides.
I won’t recap the whole presentation here – it’s well worth reading / watching – but will point to his five predictions for 2007, which he goes in to more depth on in the presentation:
As you’ve probably already heard, you’ve won Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2006. Well, not you specifically, but “You,” the abstract third-second-person plural pronoun.
(Perhaps really it should be Y’all who were awarded People of the Year, but I don’t think their editors would allow that. Dan Gillmor at the Center for Citizen Media Blog suggests it should be “Us,” so as not to perpetuate the distance between traditional media and end users, but it would be strange to me to see Time declaring itself part of that particular “Us.”)
The “You” in this case wasn’t the abstract American public, though perhaps they could have been given the nod for the recent mid-term elections and the shift in policy it likely will represent, but specifically those of you/us who have contributed something to the Web. Continue reading →
I’m often asked to give a brief definition of Next Generation Internet, since it is in my job title. Unfortunately, that can be a bit challenging, because it’s really a combination of a number of different fundamental changes all occuring in parallel:
These three major trends fit together very well with Optaros’ overall mission of helping enterprises meet business needs by leveraging open source software and an assembly-based methodology.
Recently a few very good presentations / articles have appeared that should help make this easier for me to explain and for all of us to understand.