Link: Testimony to the New York City Council on Intro 991, Proposed Legislation for Open Data Standards
Beyond a permissive regime around the availability of data, the City will also need to allow companies to make a market, and to charge, for the value-added services they build on top of the public platform. Certainly, companies should [...]
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Testimony to the New York City Council on Intro 991, Proposed Legislation for Open Data Standards
June 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Collaboration, Content, Community, Politics
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Teaching This Fall
June 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Collaboration, Content, Community, Teaching, Web/Tech, Work
Big news! The University of Victoria’s program in Business, Management and Technology has asked me to teach a class. This will commence in September of this year and will be repeated in January 2010 (assuming I don’t totally cock it up). The course I’ll be teaching is Web Design and Management I, a very basic [...]
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Google vs. the “Tyranny of Data”
May 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Collaboration, Content, Community, Google, The NY Times Valiantly Attempts To Report on Technology
Link: Should Design Be Held Back by a Tyranny of Data?
The Times’ “Bits” blog today chased the two-month-old story of Doug Bowman, who left Google for Twitter in March. Bowman’s story wasn’t particularly remarkable aside from the fact that he has a great reputation and was expected to have quite an impact when he joined [...]
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Let’s Talk
May 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Collaboration, Content, Community, Work
Just realized I hadn’t replaced the “Book Now” widget after moving this blog to new (virtual) hardware over the past week. It’s back up now, so if you want to grab some time to talk about work-related stuff, click the link and let’s set up some time.
The Book Now widget is a neat idea and [...]
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Facebook To Let Others Play In Its Stream
April 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Collaboration, Content, Community, Platforms, Programming
Link: Facebook To Let Others Play In Its Stream
If true, this could be huge. It looks like the premise is that third-party developers will be able to get access to Facebook data (including photos) through new APIs.
This could make Facebook much less of a walled garden and give them a more compelling competitive response to [...]
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Thoughts on Oracle/Sun
April 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Collaboration, Content, Community, MySQL, Web/Tech, Work
Interesting quote about the Oracle/Sun acquisition from EETimes.com:
“Acquisitions have strengthened Sun’s position in the enterprise storage and business integration software markets, but have not positively affected the company’s business or financial profile.”
To put that another way: Sun has been attempting to achieve incremental successes at a game that nobody else really wants to play anymore. [...]
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About CodeIgniter
April 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Collaboration, Content, Community, PHP, Programming
I think I’ve mentioned here before that I picked up PHP at the beginning of last year. Almost immediately I started doing projects for clients with it. Aside from the very infrequent bug fix to Approver.com and my VSLive demos, I hardly did any C# coding last year.
As I was coming up to speed on [...]
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Why Well-Run Developer Programs Matter
April 12th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Collaboration, Content, Community, Work
Outstanding post over at TechCrunch with a great roundup of comments on the state of the mobile developer ecosystem.
The original premise was that mobile developers were blowing it by focusing exclusively on the iPhone (which seems plausible) and not on developing for Nokia (which seems far-fetched, at least for North American developers).
It’s amazing how many [...]
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More on the Trevails of the Associated Press
April 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Collaboration, Content, Community, News
I couldn’t have guessed that I’d be weeks ahead of the curve in slagging the Associated Press in my Feb. 26 post, but the AP has managed to place itself at the forefront of the debate over the future of the news business. At its core, it strikes me as bizarre that this kind of [...]
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Clay Shirky: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
March 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Business, Collaboration, Content, Community, News
Link: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
When reality is labeled unthinkable, it creates a kind of sickness in an industry. Leadership becomes faith-based, while employees who have the temerity to suggest that what seems to be happening is in fact happening are herded into Innovation Departments, where they can be ignored en masse. This shunting aside [...]
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