Archive for November, 2006

The Truth of Yahoo, Google and IT Enabled Services

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

This Yahoo internal document by Brad Garlinghouse (a Yahoo senior vice president) is a tremendous read. Brad started by stating his love for Yahoo, for example: I proudly bleed purple and, yellow everyday! And like so many people here, I love this company Then he bluntly outlines the big problems he sees ...

Open Source Java: Neutral for Vendors, Good for Developers and Great for Sun

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

The industry has been talking about “open source Java” for many years and it finally happened (Java goes GPL).. To be honest, I have not been enthusiastic about open sourcing Java. First of all, what does “open source Java” mean? Java source code has been available for many years. What is ...

Mobile 2.0

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Mobile 2.0? While I am dubious about using this “2.0” moniker, there is no doubt that there are significant cultural and technological evolutions are happening that are worthy of at least a conversation. In this post, my intention is to talk about the evolution of mobile computing and “mobile 2.0” ...