Optaros is supporting this years OSMB conference in Nuremberg January 22nd to 24th. There is a Enterprise Summit, Technology Summit and an Investment Summit.
We are co-running one of the four workshops “Open Source as a toolbox for enterprise IT” Tuesday from 11 am to 1 pm and we’ll have a presentation on OptAM, the Optaros Assembly Methodology.
Find the details here.
Tags: business, open source
A lot of discussions about social networks and Google open social (as usual with people who did not have a clue what they are talking about) have been going on the last couple of days. It took me a while to digest myself, but here is some content that might help.
In general, social networking services, such as MySpace, Facebook and Bebo, allow users to create a profile for themselves. Users can upload a picture of themselves and can often be “friends” with other users. In most social networking services, both users must confirm that they are friends before they are linked. For example, if Alice lists Bob as a friend, then Bob would have to approve Alice’s friend request before they are listed as friends. Some social networking sites have a “favorites” feature that does not need approval from the other user. Social networks usually have privacy controls that allows the user to choose who can view their profile or contact them, etc. (Wikipedia)
Today new networks are being created every day, often leveraging existing technology or white labeled offerings but still each in their own way.
And here comes the problem: when you want to be represented in multiple networks because not all of your friends are in the same site or because you have several interests mapped in different verticals. E.g. you use LinkedIn for professional reasons and have a profile on Facebook to keep in touch with contact from college and a login to MySpace because this is where you find your music. It will be a pain to maintain all of these partly definitely redundant data one by one. This is where Google comes into play and considers leveraging that pain for their own objectives (targeted advertising).
Open Social takes the Facebook platform concept and provides an open standard approach that can be used by the entire web. Open Social is an open way for everyone to do what Facebook has done including Facebook itself, potentially. … Open Social’s API is based entirely on Javascript. If you know HTML and Javascript today, you will be able to immediately use Open Social to turn your web applications and web sites into Open Social apps. You can also use standard web development tools to build Open Social apps. This is obviously a much better way to operate than having to learn a proprietary marketup language or query language. (Marc Andreessen)
So the idea is that you still build or use your own social network but then by adding open social you ensure that it becomes compatible to other networks that also incorporate it. Google open social is the glue to connecting networks. Of course in addition Google will benefit from it by having their hands on the data and the full context…
Probably the best summary is by Joanne Colan from Rocketboom (thank you Hugo for pointing me out to it).
Tags: community, open social, social networking
After a couple of windowsfull years it was finally time to go Mac again. My employers typically give me decent PC hardware and most of my day 2 day job can be done on those quite ok. Also, my personal requirements were easily covered as I did some email, web and pictures, maybe small videos here and there… But here we go: I remember borrowing PowerBooks, spending two full Saturdays at the local Apple retailer, having seen more from the New York Apple store in Soho than from New York itself and having been frustrated about the quality of result you get whenever you want/need to do something nice, smart and easy that in the end will blow the recipient away when none of the above mentioned work arounds are an option. It is that simple.
And as I started to have more an more pictures and videos of our daughter I do not want to clutter my work laptop we needed a ‘home’ computer anyway. So I took the opportunity and went for a 20 inch iMac. It’s what I need and it’s what a lot of people need.
Not sure for how long I will be ok for this during working hours, but my doubts started when I caught myself thinking about a desktop background for my laptop saying “My other PC is a Mac”…
How did it go? Well it went like it goes with Macs. Unpack, plugin, go.
I did have some issue with the migration of my data (surprise, surprise) but they are already almost solved. Here are a few links I used:
Enterprise OSS EOS Directory