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Creating Vidcasts

18 June 2007, Monday 7:05 P GMT-06
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Man, Can't Microsoft Catch A Break?

16 March 2007, Friday 12:26 P GMT-06

Viacom, Google andYou Tube, Oh My!

16 March 2007, Friday 12:25 P GMT-06

Switch to digital TV to start in October

16 March 2007, Friday 7:46 A GMT-06

Is the Ice Ready? No, Its Still To Hot To Use...

16 March 2007, Friday 7:43 A GMT-06

MIT Entire Curriculum At disposal of e-learners

6 March 2007, Tuesday 11:52 A GMT-06

A cure for e-mail attention disorder?

2 March 2007, Friday 12:51 A GMT-06
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Windows-on-Mac software gets virtualization update

1 March 2007, Thursday 5:08 A GMT-06

EnterpriseDB is/n't Open Source

1 March 2007, Thursday 3:37 A GMT-06

BitTorrent download portal debuts

27 February 2007, Tuesday 9:05 A GMT-06

$45b TXU buyout

27 February 2007, Tuesday 9:02 A GMT-06

iPhone Competitors Got The Touch

26 February 2007, Monday 3:43 A GMT-06
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HTC - Smart Mobility

25 February 2007, Sunday 4:22 A GMT-06

Hard to find 1-800 numbers

23 February 2007, Friday 8:35 A GMT-06

Cuba Embraces Open-Source Software

21 February 2007, Wednesday 3:10 A GMT-06

Vista at the tipping point, Err Dipping Point?

11 February 2007, Sunday 11:11 A GMT-06
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PostgreSQL Open Source And Persistence

3 February 2007, Saturday 10:32 P GMT-06

Blackboard Pledges No Patent Blocks

3 February 2007, Saturday 10:28 P GMT-06

UVU

5 January 2007, Friday 11:58 P GMT-06

Open-source IP PBX software appliance"

4 January 2007, Thursday 3:44 A GMT-06

Asterisk an under-appreciated Open Source Success Story

4 January 2007, Thursday 3:43 A GMT-06

Open Source AJAX Tooling

4 January 2007, Thursday 3:41 A GMT-06

Google MAIL API Secuirty Alert

1 January 2007, Monday 7:37 P GMT-06
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United States Patent Application: 0060288329

26 December 2006, Tuesday 4:00 A GMT-06

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New Design: RedTie by alexisc22

24 May 2009, Sunday
alexisc22's "RedTie" was just added to OSWD! It is white and red and validates XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

New Design: Simple Beauty by dboy

24 May 2009, Sunday
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New Design: Delicious Fruit by Dieter

24 May 2009, Sunday
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New Design: Touching by timmytima

24 May 2009, Sunday
timmytima's "Touching" was just added to OSWD! It is white and black and validates XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

New Design: BlackandGreen by shipping_guy

24 May 2009, Sunday
shipping_guy's "BlackandGreen" was just added to OSWD! It is orange and green and validates XHTML 1.0 Strict.

New Design: Sundark by rotw

24 May 2009, Sunday
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New Design: Cash by alexisc22

24 May 2009, Sunday
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New Design: Greeny blu by heartlessg

24 May 2009, Sunday
heartlessg's "Greeny blu" was just added to OSWD! It is black and blue and validates XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

New Design: Cloudy Water Sports by boilers

24 May 2009, Sunday
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This week at LWN: On GNOME and its Foundation: an interview with Luis Villa

24 May 2009, Sunday
LWN recently posted a brief article on the GNOME Foundation's plea for support to help it get through a difficult year. Some of the comments on that news questioned the role of the foundation and its

Poseidon USB Stack Bounty Reached: Open Source, AROS Port

24 May 2009, Sunday
Another important bounty quota has been reached in the Power2People website, and this time the result comes from a common effort of the whole Amiga/Morphos/AROS Community. The result of this bounty be

Where to buy Preinstalled Linux Laptop/Desktop

24 May 2009, Sunday
Installing any OS can still sometimes be a tedious task and one that scares the wits out of the average computer user. And, it’s just more fun to buy a computer with Linux already on it and not have t

Microsoft and ODF: Bad for Everyone

24 May 2009, Sunday
Microsoft finally agreed to implement ODF support in Microsoft Office, but they didn't do it quite right, hurting both Microsoft and the ODF specification.

Linux MMORPG Game Engine Sees Major Update

23 May 2009, Saturday
Regnum Online, a Massively Multi-player Online Role Playing Game that has a native Linux client offered by its developers (NGD Studios), has received a major overhaul. Regnum Online is one of the very

Discovery: The Ultimate Linux Device - The Kickfire Appliance

23 May 2009, Saturday
Discover the Kickfire appliance--if this isn't the ultimate Linux device, one might not exist.

Some Funny Linux/Computer Pictures

23 May 2009, Saturday
More funny pictures from the "world wide interweb" - I think that's what Mr. Monk calls it ;)

The Acer Debacle - Closing the Chapter

23 May 2009, Saturday
Michelle Minkin, a friend of this effort and an all-around nice lady; suggested that we auction off the opportunity to destroy these computers. We were almost ready to start soliciting the community f

Cisco Settles, But Where From Here?

23 May 2009, Saturday
Until September 20, 2007, nobody had ever sued anybody for violating the General Public License (GPL) — not a single company, project, or individual developer in the license's then-eighteen

OpenBSD 4.5 update: Reinstall goes quickly, X still in trouble; still running Ubuntu 8.04

23 May 2009, Saturday
I'll keep this quick. I followed the advice of Nathan from OpenBSD101 and replaced my upgraded OpenBSD 4.5 installation with an entirely new, reinstalled system. That took all of 10 minutes. I followe

Desperation, Scare Tactics, and Happy Memorial Day!

23 May 2009, Saturday
I love to poke fun at tech vendors who continually boast of their innovation, when in fact they're scared to death of real innovation, if they could even recognize it. Today I poke fun at the anti-mal

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GoogleWave: In Theory It Seems To Be A Great Idea; In Practice Google Launched 1000 Ideas

posted 9 November 2009, Monday

I recently have been working with GoogleWave and as fascinating as it seems in practice it appears to be very hard to manage.  Waves that are public are subject to all Wavers' input.  Now this is not a bad thing, the more participation the better.  For example, if one enters a problem/conversation or document to review, collectively speaking, the  more eyes on the issue the more inaccuracies are exposed with the problem, conversation or document overall.  The result is the participants can discuss, traverse and provide solutions.

Overall, the GoogleWave is open source for content and as a result, the truth always bubbles up.  If that error is in software code, legitimacy in authoring of documents, events, historical accounts, discussions on governmental decrees/treaties/laws etc...  The more eyes, the more exposure and truth can be set free...

However, following a GoogleWave over a week with 100 people or more engaging through their input of words, plugins, links, images, makes it very difficult for anyone to come up to speed quickly and comprehend the Wave.  Complaining about forums for loss of meaning over weeks of input has nothing on the confusion above the GoogleWave.

Further, most people whom have listened to the GoogleGuys explain the GoogleWave during demonstrations hear one thing loud and clear "GoogleWave" is complicated!!  That makes it "Dead on Arrival".  Its not ready, too many plugins, too many authors and not enough bandwidth.  There is only two positive take aways from the current state of the GoogleWave, what it will become, and where it will lead us. The success GoogleWave will achieve will be in the future and a different beast than what was unleashed in October.      

So, what do you do?  Well, GoogleWave is here, and its good, its young and under experiment.  It is good because Google believes, funds and houses the GoogleWave  for the research good it brings them and the users at large.  Clearly, this is an exciting tool!  its not going to go away, its certainly going to morph.  

Morphing into a tool that may influence in the way humans communicate.  The only way, this can be accomplished is using Artificial Intelligence tools picking out relevancy, identifying accuracies/inaccuracies, summarize total/monthly/weekly/daily/etc meaning, identifying the problem domain experts and tone (hostile, angry, healthy, positive, etc) and semantic matching/alerting/following and harvesting the most relevant and accurate content on a subject in as real-time as you can get it!

The google wave bot http://code.google.com/p/wikifier-wave-bot/ http://withwaves.com/ maybe the answer to the list above.  

The current problems as I see them are below with the caveat, GoogleWave is young, it's teaching and somethings (1,2,...,n) good will come!

 

  1. Bandwidth
  2. Too many users Too much input
  3. Too many users Too many plugins  
  4. Irrelevant conversations (BLIPS) from the original context of the Wave
  5. Topic comprehension about as effective as a Tweet #List
Clear these things up and a new space is born.  Simply the frontier that GoogleWave opens up can be astounding!  Who knows what the next generation of the GoogleWave will be...
 
Is this where Web 3.0 will get it's fertilizer? 

 

GoogleWave In practice may launch 1000 ships carrying ideas that will succeed and fail in their own right.  In any case something is sure to spawn and live that will impact the ways we communicate. 

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