Archive for September, 2008
THE R&D VALUE OF OPEN SOURCE
At the Executive Summit Series meeting in Seattle, Dr. Tom Cellucci, Chief Commercialization Officer for the Department of Homeland Security, discussed his strategy of getting research and development commitments from commercial industry CEOs for developing national security technologies. In return, the department would provide direction so that industry could best understand what the actual market [...]
FOR THE GREATER (NATIONAL) GOOD
There’s a great sense of altruism in the open source community. Ask any founder or developer of open source projects why they are involved and their primary answer will center on the idea of giving something back to the world and making a difference. With the presidential race upon us both parties are asking the [...]
GOOGLES LATEST ATTEMPT TO SHINE
Don’t be confused by the title, Google is a juggernaut. But I’ve seen them repeatedly try to enter the applications market without much success yet. The announcement of their Chrome browser is the latest. Just when most non-technical types are getting used to Firefox as a default alternative to IE I doubt they’ll be looking [...]
BUBBLE 2.0
It feels a bit like 1999 all over again. Maybe a few less extravagant parties and mobile email is passe but the web 2.0 frenzy certainly has a familiar sound, ehrrr, noise. Ten years ago, I jumped into the pool of koolaid with both feet and have many fond memories of the eddy. But I [...]
WHO’S BLOG IS IT ANYWAY?
I’ve been following the election with great interest in how the community is being pulled into the fray. It appears the right is using the word ‘bloggers’ in conjunction with liberal media. The left is doing all they can to position bloggers as just people with their own opinions. Yet, both parties are working hard [...]