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The tribes of open source gather at OSCON

If every show is a trial, users are the jury. You make your decisions signing support contracts, ordering online, in stores, in what you tell your friends. Without you there's no show. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Geek, OSCON, Wannabes, Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-22

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Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaught

Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaughtwhat a bsis it really journalism when just copy and paste somebody else's BS?RE: Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaughtRussia is doing an amasing job in protecting the people in he break away regions.RE: Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia...

Tags: Government, Recruitment & Selection, Blogger, Georgian, extremist, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

Martha Stewart's parlor seeks open source writer-flies

Building an open source bridge between the great writers and the wannabes, like me. What a clever idea. But that company name is faintly familiar, Martha Stewart! by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Journalist, Martha Stewart, Intellectual Property, Open Source, Research & Development, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 - Fastest browser yet!

Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 - Fastest browser yet!Amazing what you get with competition!!!Keep going guys!!News ticker java script bug not fixed yetOne thing is not fixed yet: a news ticker based on java script sends CPU usage skyhigh, like on this newspapers portal:http://www.kranten.comNasty little bug. I have reported it on...

Tags: Web browsers, Scripting languages, Mozilla Firefox, Fastest Browser, Firefox 3.0 Beta 5, Web browser, Apple Safari, Firefox 3.0, JavaScript, Safari IS

Discussion threads 2008-04-02

Microsoft wasting no time rejoicing in its OOXML win

Microsoft wasting no time rejoicing in its OOXML winLong live the Microsoft Zimbabwe standardIn recognition of ISO adoption of IS 29500 it will hence forth be formally known ans the Zimbabwe stand.Microsoft vote riggers sorry I mean keen standards followers were quoted as saying "we learnt all about ballot...

Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, Sanity, Microsoft Corp., OOXML

Discussion threads 2008-04-01

The Eternal Floppy Disk: The Icon that Never Dies

When was the last time you had a computer with a floppy disk drive? Five years? Six? If you're a Mac user, it could be ten years or more. Safe to say the floppy disk has been a thing of the past for eons, at least in computing years. And,...

Tags: Floppy Disk, Disk, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-03-25

Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Semantic Web is open for business

Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Semantic Web is open for businessInventor of the WWW?Tim "...inventor of the World Wide Web..."Not really, in simple terms all Tim did was come up with the DNS system, the rest already existed and there were already other schemes in place which may well have been better...

Tags: Engineering, JUST LIKE, Tim Berners-Lee, Semantic Web, Ontological, G Wells, Tim, inventor, natural language processing, algorithm

Discussion threads 2008-02-27

Smartphone makers, mobile operators still baffled by iPhone

A report about a panel session on mobile user experience at Barcelona's Mobile World Congress shows that only Apple "gets it." And if the industry's experience with the iPod is anything to go by, this situation will only get worse for the competition. According to an EE...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Patent, Apple iPod, Mobile, Wireless Communication, Apple Inc., Smartphone, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-02-14

iPhone unlocks demonstrate promise of Android

iPhone unlocks demonstrate promise of AndroidAn Apache Web Server in the palm of your handIf anyone thinks Google/Android doesn't have competition, think again ([url=http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1185531]Nokia to acquire Trolltech[/url]).Google or any other bidder can own open spectrum Block C if they can pony up the quid, but if not, it reverts to...

Tags: Web servers, Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, Nokia Corp., Nokia N95, PC

Discussion threads 2008-01-30

Don't believe the low bit-rate 'HD' lie

Update 6:00PM - Here's what fake HD video looks like. Last week at CES, Comcast announced their "HD" video on demand download service over its future DOCSIS 3.0 that allows 4 minute downloads of entire HD movies.  Attendees at MacWorld this week were told that disk-based HD...

Tags: Apple Inc., Video, Blu-ray, Mbps, HD, Microsoft XBOX Service, Corporate Communications, Hd Dvd, Marketing, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-01-18

Open source keiretsu

Keiretsu, like sushi, is a charming Japanese concept which Americans have adapted, and transformed, nearly beyond recognition. (The explanation from which this was taken is in Italian.) In Japan, sushi is a set of appetizers, enjoyed with sake and friends, which eases the salaryman's way between the...

Tags: Turkey, IBM Corp., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-12

Oil and water and politics do mix. But don't drink it, or put it in your car.

Today one Democrat running for President captured some headlines by calling for taxation of polluters. Not a new idea, but one that gets little specific endorsement from other Presidential wannabes in either party. A quick survey of other candidates' websites found some interest in alternative fuels, lots of...

Tags: Oil, Beverage, Global Warming, Energy, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-08

News to know: XP SP3; IE7; RIM shines; RIAA's victory

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft releases beta of XP SP3 to Vista, Windows Server testers. Internet Explorer 7 update: Now WGA-free. Ryan Naraine: MS Patch Tuesday: 7 bulletins coming, 4 critical. Sun issues patch for 'highly critical' Java...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, RIAA, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Sales Strategy, E-mail, Social Networking, Sales Force Management, Security, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion

Blog posts 2007-10-05

New iPhone wannabes: LG Voyager and Blackberry 9k

New iPhone wannabes: LG Voyager and Blackberry 9kVerizon is more abusive to it's customers than AT&T...However the phone does look good, to bad they treat their customers poorly.Haha, I KNEW it wouldn't take long!!!Suddenly the iPhone was the first phone to have a touchscreen. We'll just ignore 4 years of...

Tags: Handhelds, Keyboards, network coverage, Blackberry 9k, NEW IPhone, RIM BlackBerry, Voyager, LG Electronics Inc., phone, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-10-04

New iPhone wannabes: LG Voyager and Blackberry 9k

Have you seen the new crop of iPhone wannabes? First up is the LG Electronics Voyager which Verizon Wireless Chief Marketing Officer Mike Lanman says "We think it'll be the best phone … this year. It will kill the iPhone." The Voyager, exclusively offered...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Keyboards, Touch Screen, Verizon Wireless, Apple iPhone, 3G, RIM BlackBerry, Monitors & Displays, Cellular Phones, LG Electronics Inc., Handhelds, Wireless, Keyboard Option, Components, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2007-10-04

Symphony plays on in Notes 8

It's the morning after IBM's Lotus Collaboration Summit, at which IBM announced that the reincarnation of an ODF-compliant Lotus Symphony is integrated into Notes 8 -- as well as being offered as a free download. The media coverage conveys that IBM is trying to win over the Microsoft Office...

Tags: Microsoft Office, IBM Lotus Notes, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Media Coverage, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Maurene Caplan Grey

Blog posts 2007-09-19

Open source in its boom phase

Open source in its boom phaseBoom? Is that what happens when it goes up in smoke?If there is a boom in open source I can't tell. The numbers in the market haven't changed much at all. Unfortunately with some open source moving to the GPL-3 we'll never...

Tags: UNIX, open source, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-09-13

Open source in its boom phase

Sometimes Matt Asay makes me laugh out loud. (To the right, the logo of a Sand Hill Road VC, Leapfrog Ventures.) Matt's piece yesterday, dissing the open source wannabes now beseiging Sand Hill Road, reminds me so much of where I was 10 years ago. ...

Tags: Open Source, Money, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-09-13

This is your brain on video games, ads

This is your brain on video games, adsJust a gimmickSounds to me like another gimmick.Yep, more wannabesGranted CoD is a damned good FPS, but they're all pretenders and will never get near the clasic MOHAA series. Definitely just a gimmick, but as i say pretenders and wannabes all the...

Tags: Games, Corporate communications, gimmick, video game, video, game, advertisement

Discussion threads 2007-08-21

MostFun Magic Ball 2 (exe)

Magic Ball was so successful that it's no surprise that the creators of Magic Ball 2 decided to make the updated version even more dynamic than the original. In this iteration of the online gaming classic, you'll use your ball, paddle, and array of bonuses to navigate 100 levels of...

Tags: Weapon, Paddle, Games, Mice, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2007-08-10