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Monthly Archives: April 2007
Getting Nearer to the ‘Obvious’ Web 3.0?
I can recall a time when using a Web browser and accessing the Web (I guess ‘Web 1.0′ in those days!), was the domain of the specialist alone. And I can recall a time when everyone I knew used the Web as if it was entirely natural. Trying to remember exactly when the change happened is more tricky – but I guess that’s the point – it was a transition supported by underlying conditions and …
Unlikely Love
Sometimes, life is not so bad at all. Writing a blog-item on the balcony of a Paris hotel on a sun-drenched day in spring: doesn’t feel like a prison camp. Especially not with a panoramic view of the Eiffel tower, just a stone’s throw away. Did the Open Group have a metaphorical brainwave when they organised their next Architecture Practitioners conference at exactly this place? One would think so, with hundreds of IT-architects from all …
Rocket Science
Is there always something new to wish for? In some cases, you are inclined to think not. Take for example Charles Simonyi, an above average gifted programmer from Hungary who joined a modest start-up company in the beginning of the eighties that would later headquarter in Redmond. But not before working at Xerox Parc with IT legends legends such as Alan Kay and Robert Metcalfe on some, well, interesting projects (the first WYSIWIG text editor …
Does the desktop matter anymore?
It seems that Web 2.0 has entered the business main stream now that established business dailies—such as the Australian Financial Review which had an article on wikis (light weight, online, blackboards) the other day—are publishing on the topic. For a phrase coined by O’Reilly Media only in 2004, referring to a perceived second-generation of Web-based services that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users, Web 2.0 seems to have already established itself as a force …
Is Copy Right necessarily the same thing as Digital Right?
I cannot understand why there should be an apparent gap in the debate between the rising concern over Copy Right on file sharing sites and the work that has been done on Digital Rights over the last few years. To quote from a recent newspaper article; ‘YouTube can identify spam, porn, and hate speech, but not copyrighted material. Come on!’ The point is obvious with two threads to the discussion; the motivation; and the technology; …
6-word IT Stories
No doubt many of you are preparing for the Easter weekend. And just to prevent that you have to spend it in boredom and lethargy, I would like to invite you to join us in publishing your personal 6-Word IT Story. Hemingway once did it: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn” and he claimed it was his best story ever. Wired did a nice round last autumn (including a good story from Eileen Gunn: “Computer, …
Update on Politicians and the democracy of the Web
Way back on 29th Jan in a blog post called ‘SecondLife shows Government a new way’ – seems an awful long time ago, but then that’s the rate of change we are seeing these days – I speculated that SL might just become a new ‘town square’ and open up a new opportunity for democratic gatherings to listen to, and question politicians. There are some clear lessons in this for business too, in what can …
Do Penguins have Long Tails?
Am I part of the Long Tail? I guess so, given the fact that I recently found – after a profound search – a German website on which I could order Schlagende Wetter. This is a long lost CD from 1982 by Kowalski, a band from the industrial Ruhr area that played so loud during concerts that I’m still missing pieces of conversations. Still at the beginning of the cycle is the writer Philip Pullman. …
Look no data? Or is that the cue for Web 3.0?
Let’s start with a quote from one of the most influential people in the industry. ‘The big innovation happens at the top, the data base and operating system become less and less visible, you don’t build to the database as you did before and you don’t care about the Operating System as much as you did before’ Shai Agassi on SAP using SOA. Strong words, but very much in line with the seven principles of …
