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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: Software, Second Life, Mitch Kapor, IBM Corp., Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance, Professional Development, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, 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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CubeTree launches enterprise social networking suite; Can it stand out?

CubeTree on Monday unveiled its enterprise collaboration suite, which mimics popular social networking tools such as Facebook, Twitter and FriendFeed. In addition, CubeTree said that SAP has deployed the software among 4 percent of its workforce.  CubeTree's aim: Port social networking to create an enterprise collaboration suite. ...

Tags: Software, Network, SAP AG, Twitter, Tool, CubeTree, Social Networking, Productivity, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-11

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

News to know: Microsoft patches; Vista SP1 speed; Firefox 3; Mobile World Congress

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Microsoft delivers 11 patches, 6 critical Firefox 3 Beta 3 steps up its security game Firefox 3.0 beta 3 is out John Morris: The battle for the soul of your smartphone Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Some systems showing incredible SP1 performance boost...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Mozilla Firefox, Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., U.S. Congress, Patch Management, Microsoft Windows Vista, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Web Browsers, Handhelds, Internet, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-02-13

News to know: Microsoft's new language; Yahoo saga; Apple; Vulnerability counts

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft declares its modeling love with a new language, ‘D’ Larry Dignan: Yahoo's conundrum: White knights are hard to find Dan Farber: Mitch Kapor: Microsoft+Yahoo, major integration challenge David Morgenstern: Will Microsoft support Windows on Macs?...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Advertising & Promotion, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-02-06

Ten Future of Tech bets- and you can vote here on all of them!

All the way back in 2001, the Long Bets Foundation was established. The goal was to put forth several technology-related propositions about whether specific events were going to happen within a specific time period.Even more intriguingly, these bets were articulated by two-person teams of generally well-known technologists. People such...

Tags: Google Inc., VoD, Voice Recognition, Bet, Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-08-06

News to know: Google Apps; iPhone Watch; Golden Rules

Notable headlines:Danah Boyd: Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpaceTechMeme coverageDavid Berlind: Google improves ‘Apps’, offers organizations clear path off Exchange, Notes, etc. to GMailiPhone Watch Dan Farber: Steve Jobs goes 'all in' with the iPhone Bloomberg: iPhone Euphoria May Lead to Investor Disappointment Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: iPhone - The bets are...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-06-26

Is Microsoft and innovator or follower?

Dave Winer and Robert Scoble debate the topic of whether Microsoft is an innovator or follower, often playing catch-up with rivals, in the Wall Street Journal. The fact the two friends and rabble rousers are debating the topic in the bastion of business reporting, the WSJ, is a good sign...

Tags: General, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, Entertainment, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2006-12-01

Second Life and social responsibility

Mitch Kapor keynoted at the Second Life Community Convention last weekend. He is also an investor and board member of Linden Lab, Second Life's progenitor. Mark Wallace has a comprehensive write up of Mitch's remarks, which places Second Life in context of the last 40 years of computing and Kapor...

Tags: Second Life

Blog posts 2006-08-22

EFF's sender pay email debate ends in draw

Last night Mitch Kapor, Esther Dyson and Danny O’Brien debated the pros and cons of sender-pay email at a fundraiser for the Electronic Frontier Foundation held at the Roxie Film Center in the Mission district. Actually Mitch was the moderator, but the co-founder of EFF and Chair of the Open...

Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Goodmail, e-mail

Blog posts 2006-04-21

I'm a homeless guy, but without all the smelly craziness

Second Life is a place generated by microprocessors and built by people. The service, a massively multiplayer economic and social system (heck, let's just call it a MMESS), has attracted a lot of attention in recent weeks. I've beenSecond Life will be around for a long time, because it is...

Tags: Second Life

Blog posts 2006-04-04

When 2.0: Video chats on calendaring and events

I blogged at When 2.0 on Chandler, calendaring interoperability and sharing and Google's calendar. Other coverage: Oren Sreebny has the play-by-play, also coverage from Rob Hof, Ramesh Jain,, Mike Langberg, Stefanie Olsen and Dave Needle.We have a few video clips from the event. Here's a clip from a panel with...

Tags: calendaring, Ray Ozzie

Blog posts 2005-12-07

Patent reform bill may raise questions for agencies using open source

Government agencies relying on open source software may be particularly interested in patent reform legislation introduced by Rep. Lamar Smith. While the bill largely satisfies the needs of the pharmaceutical industry, it does make a number of changes to software, as well. And...

Tags: patent

Blog posts 2005-09-13