Free As In Beer

January 18, 2008 Oliver Widder

Interesting discussion about open source and the recession from Adrian Kingsley-Hughes and Dana Blankenhorn.
And please don't ask me whether and how the cartoon is in any way related to this discussion!

Apple Fan Boys - Part 1

January 16, 2008 Oliver Widder

I'm an Apple fan boy.
Yesterday I purchased the $20 (Euro 17.90 in Germany) apps for the iPod Touch (see ZDNet).
I gladly paid the money. And I know that Apple has to take the money (see ZDNet).

Lovestory

January 16, 2008 Oliver Widder

Friendship 2.0

January 15, 2008 Oliver Widder

Worth reading article from Tom Hodgkinson (seen through Nick Carr).

Bloggers Manifesto

January 13, 2008 Oliver Widder

Slashdot asks whether RIAA could just disappear.
After SCOs demise we (that's just me) have to act.
That's our (that's just me) manifesto:

We (that's just me) call on the RIAA and every evil in the world (major labels, patent lawyers, ...) to stay and do their duty. A world of angels needs no bloggers.

How Time Has Changed!

January 12, 2008 Oliver Widder

Great artice from Stephen Fry (seen through Nick Carr):

"My point is this: what an irony! For what is this much-trumpeted social networking but an escape back into that world of the closed online service of 15 or 20 years ago?"

Web 2.0 In Space - Part 1

January 12, 2008 Oliver Widder

Great post from Joe McKendrick about the dangers of Web 2.0. He quotes David Chapell:

"Some of those Web 2.0 applications will fail, with an important piece of the user interface just not showing up one day because one of the supporting feeds just isn’t there any more. The guy who mashed it up in the first place doesn’t work there anymore, and many will be scrambling to figure out who is supposed to fix it, and who to point the finger at."

(More Star Trek cartoons are here and here)

2.0 Permeation

January 11, 2008 Oliver Widder

Dan Farber says: "All roads lead to the social Web".

The RIAA Principle

January 9, 2008 Oliver Widder

I'm more and more impressed by the wise decisions the RIAA makes. See TechCrunch and Techdirt.

Scoblegate

January 9, 2008 Oliver Widder

To be frank, I'm not sure I've got this Scoble-Facebook-Plaxo-Scripting-Thingy.

Memories

January 8, 2008 Oliver Widder

User Generated Flights

January 6, 2008 Oliver Widder

Great 2.0 features in the new 787 (see Michael Krigsman).

The 2.0 Model

January 6, 2008 Oliver Widder

In the aftermath of the Scoblegate a discussion about the ownership of the data on Facebook has started.
See Nick Carr, TechCrunch, Dan Farber and Steve O'Hear.