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StackExchange Experience: The OpenID Conundrum
Using the new StackExchange platform opened for beta, a few friends and I set up a new cricket question and answer site at http://cricket.kridaya.com. The site has been active for a few days now and it has been an interesting … Continue reading
IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition is Uninspiring
A friend sent over the news that IntelliJ IDEA is going open source with a commercial option. My first reaction was that while it would be helpful to Java developers to play with it, there was a distinct possibility that … Continue reading
The Economics of Content
Paul Graham has a strange take on publishing (emphasis mine): Publishers of all types, from news to music, are unhappy that consumers won’t pay for content anymore. At least, that’s how they see it. In fact consumers never really were … Continue reading
Laptop Hunting
I was amused to read the story of how somebody from Apple wanted Microsoft to stop the Laptop Hunter ads. Because last week, I was with my friend providing moral support while he was hunting for a laptop at BestBuy. … Continue reading
Free is for Users, not Publishers
There has been much debate recently about what free means (see Anderson, Gladwell, Godin, Cuban, Shafeen, Yglesias, etc.) and the meaning of GPL vis-a-vis WordPress (Mullenweg, Jalkut, King, etc.) The primary question is, does a business benefit by allowing consumers to … Continue reading
Meaningless Definitions
OK, take one guess as to what this could be: _______ is a design philosophy that leverages existing investments in the creation of flexible solutions that are more responsive to your business needs. Apparently, this is Microsoft’s definition of SOA … Continue reading
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Hollywood’s Distribution Model
Slate has an article on why we have not yet seen an online subscription-based service for movies: Couldn’t the studios just sign new deals that would give them the right to build an online service? Well, maybe—but their current deals … Continue reading
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A Twitter Novice on Why Twitter Matters
I created a login on Twitter user two years ago, but I would still classify myself as a novice user. I blame Twitter for this because the folks at Twitter themselves seem to have no clue what the point of … Continue reading
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What does “Non-Commercial” in Creative Commons Mean?
The Creative Commons license has different attributes, one of which is “Non-Commercial”. It simply states “You may not use this work for commercial purposes.” The literal reading makes it very clear you cannot profit directly from the work, such as … Continue reading
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When Ads Destroy Branding
The reason why free markets work is that profit is a powerful motivator for economic activity. Supply and demand in the marketplace drive production, encouraging greater investment in goods demanded more by consumers. This is just as true on the … Continue reading
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