Tim Oren and Jeff Jarvis vamp to the same Tim O’Reilly note at today’s O’Reilly Radar talk.
“User contributions are the key to market dominance.”
I’m reminded of the famous Camus quote — a favorite of Dee Hock, the original motivating force behind Visa.
“Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope.”
It’s amazing how the tech media whips certain trends into a frenzy. Most of the writers seem to have severe tunnel vision! 18-24 months ago it was web services. For the last six months, it’s RFID. An article in Information Week citing a Meta Group report throws a little cold water on the current partying.
A new browser from the folks at Mozilla. Very cool…and cross-platform.
Doug Kaye’s discovered HotSpotVPN — which looks like a great $8.88/month solution for securing wireless access from public hotspots.
Cynthia Flash reports in the Seattle Times on a course on Google being taught by University of Washington Information School professor Joe Janes. The course syllabus is available online
O’Reilly’s new book Security Warrior by Peikari and Chuvakin arrived today. Great book — but the book has zero coverage of the current hot topic among financial services companies: phishing. Chapter 7 on Social Engineering comes closest. That being said, this book is still an incredibly valuable security resource.
Daniel Pink reports in Wired about migration of tech jobs to India.
What begins to seep through their well-tiled arguments about quality, efficiency, and optimization is a view that Americans, who have long celebrated the sweetness of dynamic capitalism, must get used to the concept that it works for non-Americans, too.
Brings back memories of my younger days at IBM which had a huge focus on hiring locals in each of the countries in which it did business outside the US. To me, a young American, it seemed odd — wasn’t IBM an American company (even with that “International” in its name)? Yet over and over again during my IBM career the benefits of hiring local were demonstrated. (There’s a story about IBM and India that also deserves to be told — but that’s for another time).
Is globalization dragging America down to the quality of life elsewhere — or is globalization pulling everyone else up in the opposite direction?
Just posted on the Glenbrook web site a recent analysis of phishing attacks and some implications for financial institutions, etc.
Jeremy Zawodny has a opinion as to why Google is playing with Orkut: to build a base of users.
Interesting to see Albrycht McClure is now providing RSS feeds on behalf of its clients for news items — as an alternative to email distribution. Thanks to Elizabeth Albrycht for pointing that out to me!
One of her clients, IS3, has a new security focused weblog available.
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