"I happen to believe that webOS is a uniquely outstanding operating system. So there's no reason to believe that the only hardware that can run it is HP's," Leo said. "By the way, they don't have to be 'hardware makers' in the classical IT sense. There are many people who make all kinds of control devices, why wouldn't they want to use webOS for that? Appliance makers can use webOS to create connectivity between their appliances and the Web."
"There are all kinds of other people who want to make whatever device or piece of hardware they make connected to the Internet," he continued. "And therefore, we'd like to make webOS available to these people, as we are going to make webOS available to enterprises, or indeed to SMB's who want to create whatever kind of environment within their own firewall."
"So from that perspective, yes, webOS will be more than just running inside or on top of a particular piece of hardware that HP will make."
That is interesting for sure. And it's really in line with HP's plans all along to use webOS on printers.
Even more reason for HP to go open source though. Why use webOS when you can use Android for free instead? Why try to get ahold of an HP sales rep to discuss licensing terms when the Android repository is seconds away from any desktop. Android is already being used in phones and TVs. Soon it will be in cars and pretty much any other embedded device with a screen for a user interface.
He's not talking about disclosure to the IRS. He's talking about disclosure to readers. It isn't an issue of hiding income from the government in this case, it's about hiding 'who gives me money' from your readers so they can have an informed opinion on what you write (including any potential conflicts of interest).
I've been working for a client on a huge (400K lines) sales/inventory/workflow enterprise management system which was orphaned when the original developer walked away. The origin intent when I started was to spin it off as a separate software company, but the recession has hit the client an they are putting every thing on hold. It's really a shame because it is really at the mezzanine level of financing (released, version 3, real customers), but they dont seem to want to try to raise the money. So I've started looking for another gig.
The overall positive sentiment towards [semi-traditional] ad-based business models in this conversation is very alarming.
The game isn't "improving advertising"; it's "reinventing communication between buyers and sellers".
Those two things are way different.
Think about it this way: the less we all focus on making ads better, the more polluted the mediascape becomes, shrinking the pie for everyone ...instead of growing it.
In my experience, the mom blogs are probably the most active (and interesting) part of the blogosphere.
I think this whole gender is wildly underserved, but especially mothers with kids 18 and under...there's huge money to be made building services/communites around these specific needs. BlogHer, etc, is good but just the tip of the iceberg.
Another similar demo is teachers. Trying to "reinvent education" is great but the the meantime millions of teachers and millions more students are underserved and struggling.
Make sure you take a peep at Hesse too. Narziss and Goldmund is a must-read - the kind of book that changes your perspective on life. He's Thomas Mann's intellectual equal, I would say.
As for Joseph, a word of encouragement: the further you get into it, the more the story starts to come together and pick up pace. The first 300 pages or so, it feels like you're reading random shreds of a story... but keep faith, it's all packed with mental wealth and well worth it!
I read non-fiction related to business strategy, sociology, economics, and technology constantly. In fact I went down the the LA public library and picked up 10 stellar titles just this weekend, I highly recommend all of these:
- Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software [MIT]
- Prisoner's Dilemma [William Poundstone]
- Thinking Strategically [Nalebuff]
- Co-opetition [Nalebuff]
- Cluetrain Manifesto [Searls]
- Open Sources 2.0 [O'Reilly]
- Innovator's Dilemma [Christensen]
- Net Worth [Hagel]
- Democratizing Innovation [von Hippel]
- Fooled by Randomness [Taleb]
Other books I always keep around are "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" (a history of DJ's and electronic music), The Singularity is Near, and some Calvin and Hobbes ;-)
All the reading is most definitely worth it, if you don't feel that way you're not reading the right stuff.
The best book I've ever read is probably Anna Karenina (Magarshack translation, not the Oprah version, which is ironically much drier). Other very influential books on me include The Wealth of Networks, Shaping Things, and Free Culture. In fact, all 3 of those were given to me at different times in my life by the smartest person I know (a family friend of my parents)
Maybe the key to the non-fiction reading is having an agenda. I always feel like I'm downloading knowledge that is going to help me make bank and/or help people so that keeps me riveted (beyond the intellectual stimulation, which I'm a total whore for, too ;-)
Ethan HP Corporate Communications
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"I happen to believe that webOS is a uniquely outstanding operating system. So there's no reason to believe that the only hardware that can run it is HP's," Leo said. "By the way, they don't have to be 'hardware makers' in the classical IT sense. There are many people who make all kinds of control devices, why wouldn't they want to use webOS for that? Appliance makers can use webOS to create connectivity between their appliances and the Web."
"There are all kinds of other people who want to make whatever device or piece of hardware they make connected to the Internet," he continued. "And therefore, we'd like to make webOS available to these people, as we are going to make webOS available to enterprises, or indeed to SMB's who want to create whatever kind of environment within their own firewall."
"So from that perspective, yes, webOS will be more than just running inside or on top of a particular piece of hardware that HP will make."