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A Prism for Jolicloud: Web-Centric Desktop Apps
He had a vision of devices running an Internet Operating System, influenced by ideas from Tim O'Reilly . You can then customize the app with more desktop-oriented Jolicloud does allow me to customize the interface to those applications (websites) that she needs to use, which is essentially email and maybe Facebook. I recently bought a netbook and installed Jolicloud, a Linux/Ubuntu distro designed as a replacement for, or companion to, Windows. Jolicloud was a revelation, something fresh and new in the seemingly snail-paced world of desktop computing.
OReilly Radar - Friday, February 26, 2010
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Google Buzz: Is it Project, Product or Platform?
I think that it's great that Google is iterating Gmail (read Tim O'Reilly's excellent write up on it HERE ), and actually improving an existing product, versus rolling out a knock-off of something that is already in the market. As a customer, partner or developer, wouldn't it be nice if they could just be clear where they are experimenting, where there's a committed road map with release dates and where the offering ties into a larger vision (e.g., Nonetheless. I am confused.
OReilly Radar - Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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The Minds Behind Some of the Most Addictive Games Around
The first one was: Can you describe your development platform including frameworks and programming languages used and how that relates to target customer platforms? James Turner : So I have a question from Tim O'Reilly. He wants to know, how do you go about getting new customers? The gaming industry tends to focus on the high end products, first person shooters that crank out a bazillion polygons a seconds and RPGs which spend more time developing the plot in cut scenes than in actual gameplay. But for every person playing Borderlands , there are scores playing
OReilly Radar - Monday, November 9, 2009
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  • How Tim O'Reilly Aims to Change Government
    Technologist Tim O'Reilly is spending time in Washington, and bringing Washington officials to San Francisco, to do something different - perhaps something more realistic. O'Reilly is trying to help government become a platform for innovation. Tim O'Reilly is a publisher of technical books, the organizer of a series of conferences on diverse topics, an investor in web startup companies and Some people go to Washington to try to make the government more honest; others try to make it smaller. A "government as platform" would supply raw digital data and other
    ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, August 20, 2009
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  • Five Technologies Tim O'Reilly Says Point Past Web 2.0
    Tim O'Reilly, co-founder of the Web 2.0 It's time for the Web to get smarter, O'Reilly said. O'Reilly asked, rhetorically, if the service was " a tipping point for the web " when it launched and it's still on his short list of key technologies today. As O'Reilly explained on stage tonight, the service identifies CDs by looking at the unique fingerprint created by the duration of songs in any collection Conference, gave a short address on the 5th anniversary of that event at tonight's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco and offered some thoughts on what's going
    ReadWriteWeb - Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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  • How to build companies that matter
    Tim O'Reilly has recently been advocating that as an industry we focus on building stuff that matters . My experience is that startups need to be built from the ground up for learning about customers and what they will pay for. This is one core tenet of the lean startup approach, called customer development . Eric Ries became a Venture Advisor at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, after after co-founding and serving as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU, his third startup.
    OReilly Radar - Friday, March 20, 2009
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  • The Dirty MBA
    couple weeks ago I spoke at Tim O'Reilly's Web 2.0 He explained further that he wanted to get close to the customer, to the cash register, to the moment when something is done for real &#8212 when real effort is translated as real effort and real results. In the last few decades, technology has encouraged our fascination with perfection &#8212 whether it's six sigma manufacturing, the zero-contaminant clean room, or in its simplest form, " 2.0." Given the new uncertainty in the world however, I can see that it is time to question this approach &#8212 of over-technologized,
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, April 20, 2009
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  • Government 2.0: The Rise of the Goverati
    And it includes high-profile thinkers outside of the government who have an interest in a more open, transparent, and efficient government; people such as Joe Trippi, Craig Newmark, and Tim O'Reilly. Numerous policies and customs restrict the government's use of things like commercial websites to host video and cookies to track visitors. 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
    ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, February 5, 2009
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  • Android Isn't a Phone OS Because in the Future There Will Be No Phones
    At least when it comes to portable communication there is a clear need for customers to pay for something, connectivity. Google believes its voice interface is a very important part of its future and Tim O'Reilly identified it at the 5th anniversary of the Web 2.0 T-Mobile is working on plans to build several devices that run Google's Android operating system but can't really be considered phones, according to internal documents secured by the New York Times this weekend. The revelation appears to provide more evidence to the argument that Android isn't really a mobile
    ReadWriteWeb - Monday, April 6, 2009
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  • A Prism for Jolicloud: Web-Centric Desktop Apps
    He had a vision of devices running an Internet Operating System, influenced by ideas from Tim O'Reilly . You can then customize the app with more desktop-oriented Jolicloud does allow me to customize the interface to those applications (websites) that she needs to use, which is essentially email and maybe Facebook. I recently bought a netbook and installed Jolicloud, a Linux/Ubuntu distro designed as a replacement for, or companion to, Windows. Jolicloud was a revelation, something fresh and new in the seemingly snail-paced world of desktop computing.
    OReilly Radar - Friday, February 26, 2010
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  • Your Government Needs You: Re-design Congress Online
    Yesterday on the O'Reilly Radar blog , House Representative Mike Honda (D-San Jose), called out for suggestions and guidance for ways to better utilize technology to get the public involved with U.S. technologies to transform the relationship between citizens and government? Instead of viewing the public as a customer for services, I believe that we should empower citizens to become our partners in shaping the future of our nation. government. His post, entitled Request for ideas: Crowdsourcing the Evolution of Congressional Websites opened with this plea:
    ReadWriteWeb - Friday, March 20, 2009
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  • Google Buzz: Is it Project, Product or Platform?
    I think that it's great that Google is iterating Gmail (read Tim O'Reilly's excellent write up on it HERE ), and actually improving an existing product, versus rolling out a knock-off of something that is already in the market. As a customer, partner or developer, wouldn't it be nice if they could just be clear where they are experimenting, where there's a committed road map with release dates and where the offering ties into a larger vision (e.g., Nonetheless. I am confused.
    OReilly Radar - Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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  • Making Government Transparent Using R
    She'll be talking about R and Open Government at OSCON , the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. Anyway, so we're really happy that O'Reilly is so interested in seeing transparency come to government. When Tim and Jeff Bezos went out to Washington to look at the patent system , what was that eight years ago now? With Open Source now considered an accepted part of the software industry, some people are starting to wonder if we can't bring the same degree of openness and innovation into government. Danese Cooper, who is actively involved in the open source community through
    OReilly Radar - Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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