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stephen – October 20, 2009
Phil McKinney’s blog and podcast can be found at www.killerinnovations.com. Phil shares a career’s worth of tips and tricks to innovation and bringing products to market. I listen to the podcasts and find them to be insightful, informative and very easy to listen to. Phil breaks the shows up into segments so you can skip to what you’re looking for if you are in a hurry. I really recommend checking this out and I doubt you will be disappointed if you are looking for ways to come up with new innovations, or looking for help bringing your idea to market.
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stephen – October 20, 2009
Here is a quote from Brian Prentice’s (Gartner) post entitled “Open Source’s Dying Narrative” (read the whole thing here):
Big software vendors and VCs throwing money around is not particularly interesting – that’s just the nature of the beast. But the fact that there are so many members of the “open source community” ready to sell out – now that’s interesting.
Well, actually, it’s interesting only to the extent you still believe the romantic narrative that commonly circulates around Open Source. That story involves bands of fiercely independent geek-heroes. Armed only with an Eclipse IDE, a weekend’s supply of Jolt Cola for energy and a poster of Jean-Luc Picard for inspiration, they set out to usurp the big software companies in their attempt to control the software universe.
Who would have thought such esprit de corps would be so easily bought…
Does such a “romantic narrative” really exist? Is it the norm or do most managers have a more updated view of open source? I thought we had gotten to the point that many managers and top management teams had a much better understanding of what open source is and how it works. Let me know what you think.
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Open Source’s Dying Narrative
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stephen – October 19, 2009
I have talked about the changing face of open source here and here. Zack Urlocker of Infoworld recently wrote about the evolving nature of open source. Check out his post here.
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Gartner on the evolving nature of open
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stephen – October 14, 2009
Today I attended the IBM Academy of Technology’s annual meeting and saw Prof. Barry Wellman’s keynote talk entitled “Networked: The New Social Operating System”. Wellman’s talk (based on his soon to be released book of the same title) was centred around pervasive social networks and their effect on society, culture and everyday life. In this post I am going to summarize some of Wellman’s talking points and add some of the thoughts I took away from the lecture.
A quick note on Barry – as you might have guessed based on his research, Prof. Wellman is well connected and posts a lot of interesting information and papers. Check out his website, or follow him on twitter.
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stephen – October 9, 2009
Ian Skerret of the Eclipse foundation posted some info on the keynotes for the Eclipse Summit Europe conference happening later this month. He also links to a podcast by keynote speaker Antonio Bailetti. Bailetti was my thesis supervisor and research mentor while I was working on my masters in Technology Innovation Management. In this podcast he speaks about the OS maturity curve that I posted about here.
Check out Ian’s post here, or go directly to Bailetti’s podcast here.
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