December 2010
8 posts
Wow, get in the game, #google. http://tcrn.ch/ggqg2z
You can’t possibly underestimate the importance of emerging social to search and ad revenue. Hurry with Google+1 or FacedIn will crush you after it purchases Baidu with its walking-around money.
The Java slap fight…now with more money straps
Myriad picks up a bank bundle and joins the fray.
This feels like a trial balloon for Google, particularly with the shared law firm, though Apache would likely be the larger beneficiary.
At this point, the strategy of the anti-JCP coalition (for lack of a better label) seems to be injecting uncertainty into the Java ecosystem until Oracle cries “uncle”, lest one of its most visible...
Next year’s #linkedin overused words & phrases to include the tortured synonym “oodles of experience”
Apache resigns from the JCP EC
This is hardly unexpected. After Apache issued its challenge to Oracle, it was all but a foregone conclusion that the Java SE 7 would be approved. I think it disingenuous to simply label the “aye” votes cowardly, however. My opinion is that the Java ecosystem was at serious risk in the absence of Oracle dispersing some of the ambiguity. While the justifications for the...
Selective versus nonselective franchise
With the number of security clearances in the millions, I have to wonder what percentage of US citizens hold such a clearance. What percentage of the population has the government determined to be worthy of having access to additional information?
More interestingly, though, is what percentage would make me uncomfortable. Ten percent?, Fifty, or sixty percent? How about ninety percent? At what...
Governments man tells me that #wikileaks has Medusa content, but I can’t know whether I’ll turn to stone until I look
#wikileaks dns troubles
With the loss of its DNS, WikiLeaks has moved to Switzerland (source: @mpoppel).
This raises a few interesting issues, not the least of which is the contention between freedom and secrecy. But is the fight fixed? If the publication of content expresses freedom, and the suppression of content expresses secrecy, the media of publication become points of control. It seems to me that freedom is...