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- Openness
- I've been privileged to be around some amazing people recently, first at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston and now this week at SuperNova, Wharton Business school's conference, which this year explored "how decentralization and pervasive connectivity are changing our world". My take away word of the...
- Tags: Talent, Mozilla Firefox, Collaboration, British Telecommunications, Openness, JP Rangaswami, Sam, Web Browsers, Groupware, Workforce Management, Leadership, Security, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Could Yahoo's 'openness' be another anti-Microsoft poison pill?
- Could Yahoo's 'openness' be another anti-Microsoft poison pill?Integration issuesThis merger is an integration disaster waiting to happen because of that reason. With Yahoo's reliance on open source, the opening of it's infrastructure and APIs, as well as it's own open source development including Zimbra, it seems any kind of...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Mergers & Acquisitions, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., openness
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
- Windows Server 2008's ode to open source
- Windows Server 2008's ode to open source..."[B]Many of its features, such as the ability to create UI-free scaled down versions of the operating system using Windows Server Core, are obvious nods to the Unix competition.[/B]"More than a nod, more like acceptance to the fact that the Unix way is the...
- Tags: Servers, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., open source, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, openness, ode, server, Unix
- Discussion threads 2008-03-03
- Open source values: openness
- Open source values: opennessOpen Source value = honestyA most refreshing treat in todays corrupt greedy corporate Government mandated society.Openness should and will win.We should hold openness as an important value. Particularly the openness of ideas and software is just an expression of ideas. If Microsoft could keep Linux...
- Tags: openness, Open Source Values, open source
- Discussion threads 2007-11-29
- Why Microsoft deserved to lose the OOXML standards vote
- Microsoft lost its bid to fast track its Office Open XML OOXML file-format specification. (It's next-to-impossible to tell from Microsoft's press release announcing "Strong Global Support for Open XML as It Enters Final Phase of ISO Standards Process," but it did lose.) As readers of this blog...
- Tags: ISO, Microsoft Corp., Standards, OOXML, Openness, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- Apple, Microsoft, and openness
- If you allow yourself to look at big corporations through the filter of conventional wisdom, all sorts of strange distortions emerge.Case in point: Tim OReilly approvingly quotes this snippet from a post by Michael Arrington about Apples new .mac webmail service:What users want is a rich internet interface for email....
- Tags: openness, Apple Computer Inc., Yahoo! Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-02
- Today's Links: SEO your blog, Beer here, OpenCourseWare
- INTRODUCING “TODAY’S LINKS”Welcome to the inaugural edition of “Today’s Links,” a new regular feature presented by this Digital Micro-Markets Blog. “Today’s Links” is an eclectic round up pointing to noteworthy news and worthy analysis from all around the World Wide Web.Know of any other noteworthy news or worthy analysis? SHARE:...
- Tags: OpenCourseWare, blog
- Blog posts 2006-09-07
- Arguing about arguing about China
- Harry Tsao, co-founder of a comparison shopping Web site with operations in China, says in a ZD Net editorial. "It is hard to see anything constructive that will come out of these public discussions." If companies do start spending time lobbying, rather...
- Tags: CHINESE, censorship
- Blog posts 2006-02-15
- The academy vs. open source
- The academy vs. open sourceIn a world......of specialists, the vast majority are uninformed. And Tyranny by the majority is still tyranny. I think the wikipedia issue is most thorny because of a lack of humility. On everyone's side. Wikifanatics and evangalists (a term that SHOULD BE...
- Tags: Wiki, Quality, Openness, open source, quality control, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2005-12-14
- Public discourse under way over definition of "open"
- I've been taking some time to digest the open vs. closed discussion (the context being Microsoft's new XML document format for Word, Excel and PowerPoint) that's taking place in various corners of the blogosphere. IBM's Bob Sutor, whose blog is entitled Open standards, open source, open minds, open opportunities,...
- Tags: IBM Corp., blog, Bob Sutor
- Blog posts 2005-06-17
- Why do we need all this XML stuff?
- Why do we need all this XML stuff?Data ExchangeI believe 8 bit bytes was also supposed to eliminate problems with data exchange. Fat lot of good that did.And XML is proprietary? What about those recent MS XML patents? Patents are as proprietary as you get.Very simple answer, we don'tThe fact...
- Tags: patent, Openness, XML
- Discussion threads 2005-06-06
Additional Resources
- Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hiding
- The Associated Press takes a hard look at Sarah Palin's spotty – perhaps, hypocritical – record on open government and online transparency. She claims to be a reformer who will bring to Washington the government openness she says she established in Alaska. But the AP's review of her...
- Tags: Associated Press, Alaska, Sarah Palin, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Does the Semantic Web matter?
- My business card reads 'Technology Evangelist,' and this is a blog about the Semantic Web. So that should be an unequivocal 'Yes!' then, right? However, it's frequently worthwhile to revisit and question presumptions, beliefs and 'truths,' and the Semantic Web that dominates so much of my working...
- Tags: Web, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Apple lifts iPhone NDA to dull Android's edge
- Apple lifts iPhone NDA to dull Android's edgeGreat to see Google forcing Apple to be more open. Hopefully Apple will beforced to also unlock the applications so you do NOT need Apples approval to offer an application.RE: Apple lifts iPhone NDA to dull Android's edgeApple will only be as open...
- Tags: Branding, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., iPhone NDA, T-Mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- The 'Social Media' Conundrum
- I'm fascinated by '30's depression era attempts to foster business innovation, not least because of the financial challenges that seem likely to dominate our coming years. Surprisingly I've found The Rotary International Club is in many ways a precursor to the looser social media movement which has been a feature...
- Tags: Marketing, Social Media, Brian, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Web 2.0: Unprecedented data liabilities for users and businesses
- Web 2.0: Unprecedented data liabilities for users and businessesAll Cloud based applications have this vulnerabilityFrom what I have been able to tell putting any type of personal or secret business data on the internet is pretty much the same as publishing it on the front page of every major newspaper...
- Tags: Vertical industries, data liability, Internet, Web 2.0, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- With Android it's the software stupid
- With Android it's the software stupidWell, we ARE hoping that Google and TMobile can force other phonemanufacturers to offer completely open phones, and of course force carriers to let them on their networks. Google cares more about getting lots of open phones with features similar to Android and iPhone than...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, fun time, S60, double-standard, phone, Google Inc., software
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Oracle's Beehive: integrated large scale, secure collaboration
- Although Oracle's Beehive (the successor to 'Oracle Collaboration Suite' launched on May the 8th of this year it officially launched at Oracle OpenWorld today. At a price of $120 per user seat this is not a system for most small or medium sized businesses but rather a secure solution...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., BEA Beehive, Obviously Integration, E-mail, Java Development Tools, Collaboration, Regulatory Compliance, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Will Apple help Android succeed?
- I have to wonder how Apple manages to have any sort of developer ecosystem, given how closed the company is and how it regularly treats its developers with what can only be described as contempt. I sincerely hope that Google (and T-Mobile) does a better job with Android's developer community...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Google Inc., Phone, Apple Inc., Android, Telecom & Utilities, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Apple, not Gear, deserves the blame for iTunes crashes
- Apple, not Gear, deserves the blame for iTunes crashesFUD modeEd I am unsure why this issue deserves your third story. Not sure why you feel terms like "tidal wave" are appropriate.You recently accused security software vendors of over egging the problem to help sell their products. So given that this...
- Tags: Digital music, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple iTunes
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
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