Monday, August 24, 2009
How Tim O’Reilly Aims to Change Government
Some people go to Washington to try to make the government more honest; others try to make it smaller.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Reinventing the Book in the Age of the Web
There’s a lot of excitement about ebooks these days, and rightly so. While Amazon doesn’t release sales figures for the Kindle, there’s no question that it represents a turning point in the public perception of ebook devices.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Government 2.0: The Rise of the Goverati
Everyone knows how well Barack Obama’s presidential campaign made use of new media to raise money and market the candidate. We also know how big a role social technology played during inauguration week, from handheld flip HD footage appearing on network TV to people reporting on Twitter about what they liked and disliked. But one striking trend has largely flown under the national radar: the rise of the goverati.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Why I Love Twitter
If you care what I think, you know that Twitter is just about the best way to learn what I’m paying attention to. I pass along tidbits of O’Reilly news, interesting reading from mailing lists and blogs I follow, and of course, tidbits from the twitterers I’m following. These are all the things I could never find time to put on my blog, but that I spray via email like a firehose at editors, conference planners, and researchers within O’Reilly.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
The Web 2.0 Show Must Go On, Right?
On Wednesday, about 1,000 of the tech industry’s elite will begin schmoozing at a three-day conference here on Web 2.0 technologies, in what is now a vastly different business climate than a year ago.
At the onset of the Wall Street meltdown, many in Silicon Valley seemed to have their heads in the sand. But in recent weeks, with lightening speed, venture capitalists are suddenly preaching to their portfolio companies to cut costs, generate revenues and become profitable, fast, or die.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Why I Support Barack Obama
In my talks this year, I have been outlining some of the world’s great problems, highlighting some of the things that are being done by technology innovators to solve them, and urging my listeners to “work on stuff that matters.”
Monday, October 27, 2008
What Tim O’Reilly Gets Wrong About the Cloud
Technology publisher and Web 2.0 impresario Tim O’Reilly wrote a thought-provoking post today about the dynamics of the nascent cloud computing business. He makes some important and valid points, but his analysis is also flawed, and the flaws of his argument are as revealing as its strengths.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Why Dell.com (Was) More Enterprise 2.0 Than Dell IdeaStorm
In my keynote at Web 2.0 Expo New York, I made the comment that, cool as Dell Ideastorm is, the fundamental supply-chain approach behind dell.com is actually a better example of how Web 2.0 applies to the enterprise.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Comments Can Be Blog Posts
Yesterday evening I took a quick look at Techmeme and saw that the top two posts at that point in time were Tim O’Reilly and my responses to Mike Arrington’s Yahoo post. I clicked through to see Tim’s post and noticed that Tim had done the same thing that I had done; simply cut and paste the comment I had left on Arrington’s post onto my blog.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Microsoft’s Bid for Yahoo: The Long View
Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo is something that has been rumored for a long time, but it’s really the first of many more consolidation steps for the computer industry. Every new industry starts with a few crazy innovators, who are followed by thousands of entrepreneurs engaged in a fierce Darwinian competition. Some of those entrepreneurs build large companies, but as the new industry that has been created matured, few of them make it to the finish line.
Monday, December 24, 2007
Social Network Signature for Entity Resolution
In the lazyweb department, I had an idea the other day that I thought I’d put out more broadly (lest someone else have the same thought, plus the thought to patent it.) And that is the idea that one side-effect of the “social graph” is to create a unique identity signature.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Bad Math Among E-Book Enthusiasts
The Amazon Kindle has excited a lot of comment from people who have long wanted portable electronic access to books. Amazon has put together a lot of the pieces that make this holy grail seem reachable, even if not yet truly achieved. But in reading the commentary of some of the enthusiastic boosters of e-books, I’m struck by just how much wishful thinking they display.
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