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On GNOME: Gruber’s Wrong, But That Doesn’t Make Me Right
Tweet “The big win is saying ‘screw you’ to KDE and Gnome and all those crap Linux interfaces and APIs.” – John Gruber, Daring Fireball Just last week, I mentioned that when it came to Apple, there...
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Tricking Dropbox
Tweet While I’m entirely sure that I’m not the first to have thought of this, I confess to being entirely unaware there was a mechanism for incorporating external assets into your primary Dropbox...
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The Friday Grab Bag: iPhone Headsets, Voting, and, Yes, The Election
Tweet Another interesting week in the books. Sunday, I watched my little brother running the New York Marathon. Thursday, my ZipCar threatened to kill me. In between, there was a conference, two full...
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The Post-Thanksgiving Grab Bag: Favtape, Kindles, Hulu and More
Tweet Things were supposed to be different this week. After a relaxing Thanksgiving weekend, which saw the family travel to me here in Maine, I expected to roll into this week recharged and...
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Embedding Your Way to Collaboration: Not There Yet
Tweet Little known fact: over on the baseball blog that you people forced me to create, I do a bit of math. Where a bit can be read as more than I did my senior year of high school and in four years...
View ArticleWhat Does Interoperability Mean?
Tweet The primary challenge to marketing a complex product, at least in our industry, is education. Communicating to a customer just how your wonderful offering will solve their problem is a...
View ArticleWhat is an “Open Source Company?” The Billion Dollar Question
Tweet Way back in the dark ages of 2006, Alfresco’s Matt Asay and I debated the revenue potential of open source businesses; particularly the potential ceilings therein. Here’s how I framed the basic...
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RedMonk and America’s Most Livable City
Tweet Fore St in the Old Port Originally uploaded by sogrady I’m tempted to say I told you so, actually. I mean, this is hardly the first time you’ve heard me talk about real Portland – better known...
View ArticleWhat Would the Operating System Look Like if It Were Designed Today? The...
Tweet “I think the real question is (that) if you were going to design an OS today, what would it look like? The OS that we’re using today is kind of in the model of a ’70s or ’80s vintage...
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And With That…
Tweet I’m Quite the Artist, originally uploaded by sogrady. …I’m officially on vacation through the New Year. Sadly, we have no plans to be somewhere warm, but neither will I be in the office or...
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Should Red Hat Buy or Build a Database?
For a decade, at least, observers of the company have speculated about whether Red Hat would or should enter the database market. The primary argument, one made in this space eight years ago, has...
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Perfect Headphones are Never Going to Get Here
For years, I waited for hardware manufacturers to produce the perfect laptop. Lightweight, powerful and battery life enough that I could stop thinking about the battery life. Sustained by rumors of...
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What’s Next for Google?
One of the inherent tensions of product marketing is that of push versus pull. On the one hand, product companies tend to want to push their news on the market. On the other, markets have their own...
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Lighting Out for the Territories
Months ago when scheduling my annual block of August vacation time, I made the curious decision to split up my three weeks with a work week in the middle. There was some rationale for this, I’m fairly...
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