I’m writing this because Microsoft recently granted a limited license for some awesome intellectual property they acquired two years ago. I want to temper the press accounts that are tending suggest they granted a generous license.
Almost immediately upon the wide spread adoption of patents industries fell into gridlock. In a classic game of mutually [...]
Thursday, February 18, 2010
A few people recommended this long talk by Van Jacobson, one of the many fathers of the Internet where in he argues for the need with a break with the past, something new in network architecture. What he is saying here has some overlap with stuff I’ve been interested in, i.e. push.
He argues that we [...]
In this morning’s batch of bargain shopping news feeds appears this already exhausted offer. For nine dollars Target was selling a gadget from GE that looks like a light switch; you toggle it’s toggle and it then sends a radio signal to a module across the room to turn on a lamp. Since I live in [...]
Google has signaled that they would like to see wave widely adopted. In service of that goal they have a dot-org site which reveals a rough draft for a design that enables wave servers to interoperate so their users can collaborate. But, the whole story is much more complex. There is a lot to do before their [...]
Wave is neat and I currently think it will be very widely adopted. This note is quick summary of what it appears to be. This is very impressionistic. The specifications are amazingly rough! I’m not sure I’d call this a platform but I’m sure other people will. It certainly creates a large option space for building things. [...]
I spent a few years working a few houses down the street from the Semantic Web and I came to have serious doubts about the it. My concerns ranged from irritations with the specifications through frustrations with interoperability and tools, and on into angry critiques about innocence in the execution of the standard’s effort. But yet, I remain a thoroughly enthusiastic [...]
The term “platform” misleads people. The metaphor is flawed. It suggests land, and it can be made to work, if you insist. Accepting the metaphor then applications are built on the platform, like houses on the landscape. I read recently a brief summary of why even if you set aside the housing bubble the [...]
I’m really blown away by how nice a bit-o-work git is.
What Eric von Hippel taught me works both ways. Real innovation requires close contact between a interesting problem and talent. When you encounter innovation it signals an interesting problem and engaged talent. Ignore the story told. Look for that problem and why the talent had [...]
One of the many functions that standards (and open source) play is that they provide a forum for cutting through patent thickets so that an industry can grow. But it’s hard. Players that stay out of the standards making process, but who are active in the industry, are well positioned to poison the well. Of [...]
Brett Porter wrote up a nice summary of his first impressions of that new search engine, Cuil. He had exactly the same experience I had, and my wife had. You ego surf only to discover they have a very odd model of your internet presence. Feeling disappointed you then wander off. We learn from this is [...]
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