Enterprisey thoughts – John Gøtze
Netlife
Cory Doctorow
8 years ago
by John Gøtze
in Netlife
Cory Doctorow is talking about making a living out of wat you love to do. Cory as had a life-long dream of being a scifi writer, and recently realised this dream whern publishing Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.
Can creative people make money on the net? Cory talks about how difficult history has shown it is for creative people to make money off new technologies, because they’ve been screwed by the tech industry and big media.
We’re loosing our freedoms in the copyright war. Intellectual property rigts vs. academic freedom. The freedom to copy a CD. And so on.
The solution is compulsary licences that ensures that money your pay goes to the artists.
Tim O’Reilly
8 years ago
by John Gøtze
in Netlife
Tim O’Reilly is the last speaker today. Tim talks about the paradigm shift towards open source.
A change in world view that calls everythng you knwo into question. The last paradigm shift in computing was the PC paradigm shift. There, a key development was the coming of commodity hardware based on an open architecture (“IBM-compatible PCs”). Another important feature of the PC paradigm shift was that software was decoupled from hardware, creating not one, but two (overlapping) industries.
The open source paradigm shift is happening now as part of the wider internet paradigm shift. We’re seeing commodity software with an open architecture, and information applications decoupled from both hardware and software.
The main characteristics, the three C’s:
- Commodisation
- Customisation
- Collaboration
What are the business models? All over. Linux as the BIOS of the internet OS. Many possible new “Intel Inside” possible, such as J2EE. But mainly, the new business models are about services. Both various professional services, but also services to the end users. UUnet, BIND, etc are relevant models. Offer a core service, but also offer “add-on” service, like BIND who could have done domain registrations, or Apache web hosts offering web hotels.
“Jeff, you’re pissing in the well” (Tim to Jeff Bezos of Amazon when they filed for a patent on one-click shopping)
One ring to rule them all OR small pices loosely joined?
Marc Canter
8 years ago
by John Gøtze
in Netlife
We’ve just heard Marc’s Voice live, singing H�ndel. Logical introduction to broadband mechanics and Longhorn and open source.
Tools ain’t what they used to be, Marc says. Productivity software. Unified digital lifestyle. Chanting about communities. It all great. But: It’s really hard to get shit to work together.
Introducing WebOutliner, the ultimate tools for bringing communities and people together.
It’s all done using OPML with a social software wrapper around it. Hey, it’s all very cool, BUT, is OPML an open standard? As far as I know, it’s a Dave Winer standard. OPML is not real qualified XML, that’s the real problem.
Jason Fried
8 years ago
by John Gøtze
in Netlife
First after lunch is Jason Fried of 37signals. Jason is a usability designer. He’s talking about theh importance of putting things in context and perspective. How big is small?
Setting expectations. “Now what? What happens next?” Some nice examples of how good designers are thinking about the user situation. Like Amazon’s buttons with short explanations.
Contingency design. Things go wrong. Oh, they do. Design your error messages, especially the crisis points. Preventative and First Aid. Hall of shame, OMG, what shamefull examples, like Network Solutions’ AskJeeves natural language thing, that’s soooo stuupid.
