Posted in All and everything on Dec 3rd, 2006 Comments Off
This is BCG - Time Based Competition
Time-based competition has always been critical, but in Web 2.0 it may be the most important dimension of competition. BCG has worked on this for many years, and has some good shortcuts and visual aids to help an organization focus on time.
Here is a packet of BCG white papers. [...]
Posted in All and everything on Dec 3rd, 2006 Comments Off
copyright.com - Google Search
Lots of action in the online copyright realm. The New York Times now has one-click quick-buy licensing of items from the current newspaper, by way of Copyright.com
Copyright.com is a central old-line player in licensing. It now is going aggressively online with its deal with the New York Times. Note that New York Times [...]
Posted in All and everything on Nov 30th, 2006 Comments Off
Wordpress really has a problem with comment spam.
There seems no way to stop it. Shutting off comments would seem to be the obvious solution, but seems not to be effective at stopping the spam.
I am new to the admin functions, so I may not have shut off comments successfully. On the other hand, it [...]
Posted in All and everything on Nov 20th, 2006 Comments Off
One of the gentlest giants of information and communications technology was John Davis. A leading scientist and executive at AT&T Bell Laboratories, John was a pioneer of digital networks and mobile communications. Dr. Davis began his career at Bell Labs and spent 35 years in numerous positions, culminating in his role [...]
Posted in All and everything on Nov 19th, 2006 Comments Off
Our friend John Davis, a wonderful person, a man of great gentleness, a teacher of young people, a senior scientist of the communications revolution, who worked much of his life at Bell Laboratories, died a few minutes ago.
Posted in All and everything on Oct 20th, 2006 Comments Off
Open Source Risk Solutions | Open Source Risk Management | OSRM
..:: OPEN SOURCE RISK MANAGEMENT SERVICES
OSRM’s proprietary open source risk assessment process can help your organization resolve current risk issues and protect itself from possible license infringements. As a user of open source, some of the issues that you might face include:
..:: Inadvertent distribution of [...]
Posted in All and everything on Oct 20th, 2006 Comments Off
It is not that large companies care about Linux developers per se, what IBM and Dell and HP and others care about is being able to freely use the free software in their multi-billion-dollar global OEM and sytems integration businesses.
O’Reilly Network — U.S. Patent Reform Bill: An Interview with Mark Webbink
U.S. Patent Reform Bill: An [...]
Posted in All and everything on Oct 20th, 2006 Comments Off
Pito’s Blog
a couple of the last few posts started out as threads I followed from Pito’s blog. Pito is a good guy doing OPML and targetable aggregators, and writing a nice, wide-ranging, pleasantly optimistic and humble, but informed, blog. Thanks Pito!
Posted in All and everything on Oct 20th, 2006 Comments Off
Shortbus
Is a film about sex and sexuality..that has gotten good reviews from wise (and wild) people.
Posted in All and everything on Oct 20th, 2006 Comments Off
The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
You should really read this list tonight. I just did, and it was worth it–and hell, I’m 57 years old and have the scars to prove it. It’s just that it also is 1:00 AM in the morning, on a Thursday night, and I’m sitting here at my computer thinking [...]