• Web 2.0
• 14:22 After the internet bubble burst, what was the difference between businesses that succeeded and those that failed?
• 15:00 Hardware, Software and Infoware
• Given in 1997 in Wurtzburg at the same conference where Eric Raymond first presented The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
• The web is what open source ought to be paying attend to, not Linux.
• The Open Source Paradigm Shift
• How many of you use Linux
• How many of you use Google
  
• Dave Stutz
  • On Leaving Microsoft
  • "There's plenty of money to be made building software above the level of a single device"
  • Software commoditization
  • PC commoditized hardware -> value moved to software
  • Open source commoditized software -> value moved to the database
  http://twit.tv/floss73

June 13th, 2009

FLOSS Weekly 73: Tim O'Reilly

Hosts: Randal Schwartz, Jono Bacon, and Leo Laporte

Tim O'Reilly talks about open source and the future of web technologies.

Guest: Tim O'Reilly.

Tim O'Reillyis the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media. He works to spread knowledge on past, present, and future technologies though his company. Beyond publishing is recognized as a leading visionary for future technology trends. He is an advocate of open source, open standards, and is pushing for intellectual property reform.

via http://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/1724767013

via http://twit.tv/floss65

"Kathy Sierra is the author of Creating Passionate Users, and has been interested in the brain and artificial intelligence since her days as a game developer (Virgin, Amblin', MGM). She is the co-creator of the bestselling brain-friendly Head First series (winner of the Jolt Software Development award in 2004). She is also the founder of one of the largest programmer community web sites, javaranch.com. Much of the theory and practice behind "passionate users" began when she developed and taught the first Interaction Design and New Media courses at UCLA Extension's Entertainment Studies Department, and at the IBM New Media Center at Universal Studios Citywalk. A former master trainer for Sun Microsystems, she has spent the last few years helping others learn to apply brain-friendly techniques to inspire and maintain passionate users. Resources Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals, by Salen and Zimmerman"

"The core argument behind the presentation can be summarized by this tweet from Tim O'Reilly On monday friendfeed polled flickr nearly 3 million times for 45000 users, only 6K of whom were logged in. Architectural mismatch. #oscon08 On July 21st, FriendFeed had 45,000 users who had associated their Flickr profiles with their FriendFeed account. FriendFeed polls Flickr about once every 20 – 30 minutes to see if the user has uploaded new pictures. However only about 6,000 of those users logged into Flickr that day, let alone uploaded pictures. Thus there were literally millions of HTTP requests made by FriendFeed that were totally unnecessary. Evan and Kellan's talk suggests that instead of Flickr getting almost 3 million requests from FriendFeed, it would be a more efficient model for FriendFeed to tell Flickr which users they are interested in and then listen for updates from Flickr when they upload photos. They are right. The interaction between Flickr and FriendFeed should actually be a publish-subscribe relationship instead of a polling relationship. Polling is a good idea for RSS/Atom for a few reasons"