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Mitch Kapor: From Lotus 1-2-3 to Second Life: Mitch Kapor: From Lotus 1-2-3 to Second LifeFirst PC sreadsheet?"From Lotus 1-2-3 to Second Life In this Super Techies video interview, Mitch Kapor discusses his tech career from work on the first PC spreadsheet"First PC spreadsheet, eh? Lotus 1-2-3? As if...RE: Mitch Kapor: From Lotus 1-2-3 to Second...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, VisiCalc, Mitch Kapor, Lotus 1-2-3, IBM Corp., spreadsheet, PC spreadsheet, first PC spreadsheet, Second Life, PC; Discussion threads 2008-02-12
Mitch Kapor: From Lotus 1-2-3 to Second Life: In this Super Techies video interview, Mitch Kapor discusses his career as a tech entrepreneur. He discusses his early experiences working on the first PC spreadsheet, Visicalc, and his subsequent founding of Lotus Development, creating the most ubiquitous business tool of its time. He also talks about competing with tech...; Tags: Second Life, Mitch Kapor, IBM Corp., Productivity, Wiki, Corporate Governance, Entrepreneurship, Professional Development, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Career, Marketing, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-02-12
Mitch Kapor: Software tales from Lotus 1-2-3 to 'Second Life': In this Super Techies interview, software veteran Mitch Kapor talks with ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about his career as a tech entrepreneur. Kapor discusses his early work at Lotus Development, creating the most ubiquitous business tool of its time; sparring with tech titans Bill Gates and Steve Jobs;...; Tags: Mitch Kapor, Corporate Governance, Entrepreneurship, Professional Development, Productivity, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Career, Super Techies, Personal Technology; Videos 2008-02-11
Mitch Kapor: Microsoft+Yahoo, major integration challenge: Watch the video Veteran of software wars Mitch Kapor shared his views on the cultural challenges facing Microsoft in its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo with me. Mitch, a founder of Lotus as well as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Open Source Software Founder, thinks...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Mitch Kapor, Integration, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-02-05
Mitch Kapor: Does Microsoft-Yahoo make sense?: Mitch Kapor, president of Kapor Enterprises, shares his views on the cultural challenges facing Microsoft in its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo. He also discusses Google's involvement in the proposed deal, and how Facebook fits into the technology landscape.; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mitch Kapor, Personal Technology; Videos 2008-02-05

Mitch Kapor: Why Wikipedia is the next big thing: Mitch Kapor: Why Wikipedia is the next big thing$50 M a year from Google?In 2004, according to Mozilla Foundation's Form 990 ( available at www.scroogle.org/mozilla.html ), they took in only $4.4 M from "search revenues." The clincher is that they considered this part of their exempt function and purpose,...; Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Mitch Kapor; Discussion threads 2006-02-14
Mitch Kapor: Why Wikipedia is the next big thing: At the close of the first day of the Open Source Business Conference, Mitch Kapor explained why he thinks Wikipedia is the next big thing. He first deconstructed the online encyclopedia, which is one of the top 20 Web sites, and punctured holes in myths, such as “someone has to...; Tags: Mitch noted.After, Wikipedia; Blog posts 2006-02-14
Mitch Kapor: What's up with Chandler: At the When 2.0 workshop, Open Source Application Foundation Chair Mitch Kapor addressed the status of Chandler, OSAF's evolving Personal Information Manager (and answer to Microsoft Exchange and Outlook) that will integrate calendar, email, contacts, task management, notes, and instant messaging. Kapor seemed keen on explaining why Chandler, which...; Tags: Chandler, Mitch Kapor; Blog posts 2005-12-06

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News to know: Office 2007 SP1; Microsoft security; KVM vs. Xen; AMD: Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Mark your calendars: Microsoft to push Office 2007 SP1 on June 16 EIC podcast: SAP; JavaOne; AMD, Microhoo Larry Dignan: Microsoft previews three critical bulletins; two for Office Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft shares...; Tags: Security, Microsoft Office 2007, Xen, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Data Portability: Social Infrastructure still very much wanting: In a penetrating analysis of the Facebook developers forum, 20bits shows that the participation of programmers in the discussion about the Facebook platform is rapidly dwindling, which suggests the platform itself is incompatible with the needs of the market. The fewer programmers writing for the Facebook platform, the less relevant...; Tags: Facebook, Data Portability Standard, Social Networking, Development Tools, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mitch Ratcliffe; Blog posts 2008-05-08
News to know: SAP; Hacking NASA; Apple; OpenSolaris: Notable headlines: Nate McFeters: Hacking NASA: One small step for man, one giant leap for hackers? Common misconceptions about database security Sapphire 2008: Dennis Howlett: The changing SAP culture Larry Dignan: SAP's Apotheker: Business ByDesign costs led...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., OpenSolaris, Hacking, Yahoo! Inc., T-Mobile, SAP AG, Apple Inc., Security, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Two product quickies: Mophie Juice Pack good; Simple Tech stranded: I've been using the Mophie Juice Pack, an external battery that slips onto the Apple iPhone, for the past week and recommend it highly. The battery is about half the weight of the phone itself and fits neatly and securely onto the iPhone to provide a full day's charge for...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Battery, Engineering, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software, Mitch Ratcliffe; Blog posts 2008-05-05
Which stock to buy today: YHOO, MSFT or GOOG?: Which stock to buy today: YHOO, MSFT or GOOG?MSFT because they're a big famous successful companyMeanwhile, back in the real world :1) Google because of the ad revenue growth which will accelerate as the economy picks up again following the foreign forays2) Yahoo, because they have a lot of stuff...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Investment, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Yahoo! Inc., stock; Discussion threads 2008-05-05
Which stock to buy today: YHOO, MSFT or GOOG?: The Microsoft-Yahoo deal implosion was a near certainty when the talks began. Two cultures as convinced that they are superior to one another can never coexist, so forget blaming anyone for what was inevitable. At least it didn't take two years and billions of dollars in real losses, as compared...; Tags: Google Inc., Stock, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Operational Accounting, Business Structures, Finance, Mitch Ratcliffe; Blog posts 2008-05-05
How much can Internet-powered consumers demand?: I'm thrilled to report that Mitch Ratcliffe (right) is feeling much better. The author of our Rational Rants blog had some terrifying neck problems, but found relief (in the form of an experimental treatment) after blogging about it. It's a great example of the...; Tags: Medium, Mitch, Internet, Blogging, Federal Government, Government, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-04-22
How this blog saved my life and saved me $100,000: How this blog saved my life and saved me $100,000Great story and God Bless You and this BlogntI agreeHow many times have you been to the doctor only to have him/her say, "I don't know what's wrong. Let's try this..."I was once diagnosed with a brain virus That...; Tags: Blogging, Insurance, blog; Discussion threads 2008-04-21
How this blog saved my life and saved me $100,000: A few months back, I told you about how my neck had gone bad, really bad. At that time, I was in the middle of a six-month dive into pain, alleviated only by gobbling unwholesome quantities of Percoset. Three weeks ago last Friday, I had an amazing surgery that relieved...; Tags: Blog, Doctor, Disc, Health Care, Surgery, Healthcare, Mitch Ratcliffe; Blog posts 2008-04-20
Hot new open source ISVs, projects make the grade at OSBC: Hot new open source ISVs, projects make the grade at OSBCEnglish pleaseWhen something/someone gets notice it is told to quit what this writer means is "got noticed".Please can we have these items in English not some 3rd grader's perception of the languageRE: Hot new open source ISVs, projects make the...; Tags: ISV, open source, open source ISV; Discussion threads 2008-03-28
SlideRocket - the king of presentation applications - raises $2 million in funding: Update: Sorry about the link. Fixed. SlideRocket (Screenshots) is on the short list of my favorite Flex applications and it sounds like TechCrunch is pretty impressed. I've been following SlideRocket's development since almost the beginning and I'm a huge fan of what founder Mitch Grasso has been...; Tags: Rich Internet Application, SlideRocket, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-03-19
News to know: Apple; Hakia; EclipseCon; ActiveX security: Notable headlines: David Morgenstern: Did Microsoft beat Apple to dual-sided touch technology? Jason O'Grady: Apple bumps Airport Express to 802.11n Paul Miller: hakia licenses OntoSem technology to third parties Paula Rooney: Run-time rival for Java, .NET? Dana Gardner: EclipseCon debuts...; Tags: Security, Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., ActiveX, Data Centers, Semantic Web, Storage, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-03-18