http://www.opensprings.org Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:29:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The 34-year-olds are tied for fifth place, behind Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who is worth $59 million; investment mogul Warren Buffett at $52 billion; casino and hotel magnate Sheldon Adelson at $28 billion; and Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison at $26 billion. Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, each ... http://www.opensprings.org/2010/12/watch-out-bill/ A few weeks ago, I moderated a panel at the Graphing Social Patterns conference, about business models on Facebook. The panelists couldn't agree on which models will actually work long-term. So I'm modifying the question and asking it another conference, the SNAP (Social Network Application Platform) confab, this Friday. ... http://www.opensprings.org/2010/12/darryl-eaton-of-socialmedia/ (Credit: technogym) It looks like a wall with a sleek looking pulley system protruding from it. Tucked behind the wall is the technology that enables you to take this pulley system from a piece of art to a fully functional gym. The cable resistance and computerized pulley system enables exercises to ... http://www.opensprings.org/2010/11/the-kinesis-personal-is-the-product-for-you/ The left-right alliance is helmed by Stanford law professor and copyright reform advocate Larry Lessig, and it counts a host of new-media luminaries among its ranks: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, Craigslist's Craig Newmark, Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas, MoveOn founder Eli Pariser, and Redstate co-founders Mike Krempasky and Erick Erickson. In ... http://www.opensprings.org/2010/11/eventually/ Here's the teaser: For this webinar we will have an open panel discussion featuring Zimbra customers Western Illinois University, Georgia Tech and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. You can register here. It should be enlightening to hear how these universities made the decision to go with Zimbra. Zimbra graciously asked me to moderate ... http://www.opensprings.org/2010/11/commentary/ (Credit: George Washington University) FTC Commissioner William Kovacic Which is probably why William Kovacic, one of the Federal Trade Commission's five members, spent nearly an hour on Monday defending the American approach as reasoned and no less thorough than that of its cross-Atlantic counterparts. There is a "tendency on the part of ... http://www.opensprings.org/2010/11/which-is-probably-why-william-kovacic/ Jottit is also part wiki. The review page I just linked to is closed to edits, but it's easy to create a page that anyone can tweak. Here's one, for example (if you try it out, please keep the edits clean). You can also lock a site so ... http://www.opensprings.org/2010/11/and-make-lists-with-lt/ Security vendor Trend Micro's Web site was hacked earlier this week in an attack that spread to hundreds of other sites, according to an InfoWorld report. Trend Micro discovered the attack on Wednesday and took steps to shut it down. It affected about 20,000 Web pages written with Microsoft's Active ... http://www.opensprings.org/2010/09/trend-micros-web-site-hacked-in-massive-attack/ One possible reason, Farmer wrote, is the fact that Facebook isn't the only hub for social-network application developers anymore. Google kickstarted the OpenSocial standard last year, and Bebo, newly acquired by AOL, is currently the only social network that supports both Facebook and OpenSocial applications. "Networks like Zynga and Social Gaming ... http://www.opensprings.org/2010/09/study-developer-activity-on-facebooks-platform-i/ Incidentally, this is why there is some cause for concern in Red Hat's acquisition of JBoss. It doesn't appear that Red Hat has done a good job of driving ancillary value from the JBoss team, many of whom have left for other opportunities. Red Hat may well end up making ... http://www.opensprings.org/2010/09/what-do-open-source-mergers-and-acquisitions-mean/