Lean by Design

The Open Source Software (OSS) movement of the past decade and half has encouraged a broader shift towards Free based business models. First popularized by Chris Anderson of Wired magazine fame, freeconomics is spreading within the software business and now dominates the Web2.0 space. The growing influence of China and other Asian economies on innovation [...]

Yesterday, Tim O’Reilly of O’Rielly Media – the company behind the Etel (Emerging Telephony) conference – posted an interesting commentary on Social Networks. His thoughts, were in turn, provoked by a blog post from Jon Udell dealing with challenges faced by new Social Networks in achieving critical mass. The article claims that the large number [...]

Mixed information has come out this week over Cisco’s plans with respect to their CTA (Cisco Trusted Agent) security product. Earlier in the week the CTO of Cisco’s security products group announced that they were planning to Open Source the product. That report was then vigorously denied by Neil Wu Becker, PR Manager, Security Cisco. [...]

Yahoo appears to have generated a lot of excitement with the announcement of their new Pipes service yesterday. So much so in fact, that the service has been down all day due to to the ‘overwhelming demand’. Interestingly, the name they chose seems to be responsible for at least some of the excitement that their [...]