packing blogging - July 4th, 2009
Today is the day I finish the garage.
And per back into the blogosphere. What did I find?
When I first started on my ‘Open Mesh’ book last year - about a month later Ray Ozzie announces Live Mesh. That book morphed into a manifesto on how dashboards can help facilitate a distributed architecture and…… Vivek Kundra just announced the Federal spending dashboard. Nice start to a new movement of transparency, level playing field and a world where the small guys can participate and have a piece of the pie!
Thanks Vivek (and Macon) - see you in D.C. at the Open Government & Innovation conference! BTW this whole approach to distributed architectures is why I’m headed to Cleveland to teach a class on how to build Digital City. NEO is where we wanna build our pilot project. Here’s a pdf of the textbook and here’s a pdf of the manifesto.
Doc Searls is continuing to kick some serious bootey! Trillian dollar market. Doc’s VRM project is a new approach to driving demand. But this time it’s US telling vendors - what we want rather than THEM trying to tell us what to buy! At least - that’s the theory of it.
I can’t think of a better person to go into the hardware business and lose his shirt - than Michael Arrington. Or shall I say lose his investor’s shirts - cause there’s one thing we all know “Michael Arrington would never spend his own money on anything.” It’ll be fun to watch this cycle. The initial order of CrunchPad will sell out, then they’ll enter into this vicious “features battle” war as the new sector heats up. This contineus for while until and eventually Arrington will simply try and dump this onto some Chinese operator. I’m sure they’ll be several takers, but to keep this real perhaps Arrington will try and pull a Twitter (Evan Willaims) or Facebook (Zuckerberg) and claim that he’ll ‘stay the course‘ (which is code for I want BILLIONS!) So then he tries to stay the course, rasies even more money and Samsung reverse engineers the whole thing and offers it running Android for 1/10 the price. Ooooops - there goes the CrunchPad.
We’ll be awarding points in our Virtuous Circle approach to workforce development so I’m starting to pay attention to anything in regards to ‘virtual currency’. Here’s a post on the banning of virtual currency in China.
I love charts like this via Stowe via satori via IA
Speaking of Cleveland = Worker owned businesses are rising
Scoble goes off the air for an hour. NO! It wasn’t Scoble, just his sponsor - Rackspace.
Speaking of Robert - he’s trying a week WITHOUT Twitter/FriendFeed. His blogging is up.
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