This is a blog from the Open Nordic conference in Skien Norway 19-20 june 2008.
The presentation is on http:// ajaxwidgets.com/opennordic/
About Gaia: Standards, dual licensed javascript library. Works on many things.
What is the open web?
The way forward is to build on standards, and build small stuff on top of that. JavaFX, silverlight etc, is emphaticly not the way forward.
There are a bunch of AJAX framework. Many, many many, in some periods there were three of them every week.
Hmm, this guy is heavy on the ideology, booring. I´m reading Yegge instad ;)
Ok, he said something interesting: "Bill Gates´s last act as an agent of influence in MS was to set the company up for failure" ;)
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Espen Andersen: Disruptive technolgoes, open source and mobile.
This is a blog from the Open Nordic conference in Skien Norway 19-20 june 2008.
Espen Andersen: Disruptive technolgoes, open source and mobile.
Teach at BI, speeches here and there. Interested in serarch right now. Last time he did research on the mobile industry was seen years ago.
The relationship with technology revolution and business. Technologies wishes to make the best technologies.b Examples: Amiga. BeeOs, NeXT, Wankel engine, Betamax, NeXT.
He tells about Microsoft FolderShare that saved him when his computer died, presentation now running on Knut Yrvin´s pc.
The betamax case: Beta had max playtime of 1 hour. VHS worse in every respect, except that it had two hours of . He then tells about the "," and "something" buttons that whites or blacks out the presentation.
Innovation and technology evolution is anything but simple. First of all there is a mix of incremental and revolutional jumps. All the small steps over time do most of the work.
In the beginning of a new technology (in the revolutionary phase), you get a lot of diferent set of sollutions. Mentions weird examples from car industri ;) After a time a dominant design surfaces. For the computers it was the IBM-PC, for the airplane industry it was the DC-3 (Dakota) (mye comment: actually, it was the DC-4 that had the nosewheel, and after that the basic configuration didn´t change). After that you don´t compete on functionality, but on faster better cheaper. The dominant design is never the best technology.
When marketing technology, you have to figure out where you are. He thinks we are in that space with laptops now.
The innovation process is multi leveled: Smooth aggregate growth shadows many levels of variation.
What is a disruptive technology anaway.
Example: Cookbooks. He was talking to a publisher as a consultant to develop a strategy to put DVDs with cooking videos as a part of a cookbok. He said: What about using the internet (typing in the stuff you have in the fridge, see what google makes of that).. He was never invited to that strategy seminar.
Displaying Clayton Christensen´s clasic quality overshoot diagram, talks through the "disruption from below" scenario.
Talks about media monitoring services (meltwater, news.google.com etc.)
Then about speed responsivenes and customization as factors to use when competing against a functionally superior competitor.
Telco: There is a stack: Network operators, virtual operators, service hosts payment providers and social networks. Layered services building on the servies below. The customers need to talk to each other. Claim: Open source has very little to do with this picture. Roaming agreements do some things: Works for banks, sms, phones.
When you get services built on services, the value of those services increase. The services on top pays for the services down. This is called service complementarity. Users like the whole stack better than we like any one of the networks (note: an operator that is not capable of facilitating complementary services may have a problem).
Some advice to opera: Think like a weapons manufacturer. Start with operating systems, go to handset manufacturers, now sells to operators. Go to the places where there are the most wars (metaphorically ;) (btw, this part of Espen's presentation was picked up by the press and reported in digi.no :-)
Showing an image of the iphone. Telling that the phone people in Ericsson or Nokia would probably say "this is a shitty phone", but it is
The evolution of functionality: Problem, Product, Plattform, Protocol.
Refers to an essay by Neal Stephensen ("in the beginning was the command line"). Great essay. go read it!
If you are going to continue being closed, you have to be -way- much better than the others people. Predicts that facebook will have to burst open or it will be outcompeted by googe.
Propositions:
Specifici functionality is what it is all about:
The personal architecture is where the competition will be played out.
How do you make a technology disruptive: Shows picture the Think car. How do you market an electric car? What you need to do is a find a situatio where the drawbacks of the technology is a plus? Suggestion: Sell to youngsters. You have to address one of two targets: People who can´t affort the stuff. Kids around here (Skien) drives tractors and mopeds. Question: Why don´t Think come up with a moped car that can´t run faster that 45 kph? Just an example ;))
Find unique features (good and bad) Find markets where bad features are good features. Fin markets that are overserved by current tehcology, find markets that is not consuming available technology. Mentions: Sony: Hearing aids for deaf people and transistor radios for teenagers. do not try to take the main competitor head on.
Advice to audience: Focus on the service, find someone who really need you.
Bill Gates laid out his strategy in a Fortune article in 1984. Spelled it out how windows was going to do things. The journalist says that this will not happen because there are mch better offerings out there.
www.espen.com, www.tversover.com, www.appliedabstractions.com
Espen Andersen: Disruptive technolgoes, open source and mobile.
Teach at BI, speeches here and there. Interested in serarch right now. Last time he did research on the mobile industry was seen years ago.
The relationship with technology revolution and business. Technologies wishes to make the best technologies.b Examples: Amiga. BeeOs, NeXT, Wankel engine, Betamax, NeXT.
He tells about Microsoft FolderShare that saved him when his computer died, presentation now running on Knut Yrvin´s pc.
The betamax case: Beta had max playtime of 1 hour. VHS worse in every respect, except that it had two hours of . He then tells about the "," and "something" buttons that whites or blacks out the presentation.
Innovation and technology evolution is anything but simple. First of all there is a mix of incremental and revolutional jumps. All the small steps over time do most of the work.
In the beginning of a new technology (in the revolutionary phase), you get a lot of diferent set of sollutions. Mentions weird examples from car industri ;) After a time a dominant design surfaces. For the computers it was the IBM-PC, for the airplane industry it was the DC-3 (Dakota) (mye comment: actually, it was the DC-4 that had the nosewheel, and after that the basic configuration didn´t change). After that you don´t compete on functionality, but on faster better cheaper. The dominant design is never the best technology.
When marketing technology, you have to figure out where you are. He thinks we are in that space with laptops now.
The innovation process is multi leveled: Smooth aggregate growth shadows many levels of variation.
What is a disruptive technology anaway.
- Your best customers don´t want it
- It has lower performance (at least in the dimensions you are used to measuring it in)
- If you did it will loose money
Example: Cookbooks. He was talking to a publisher as a consultant to develop a strategy to put DVDs with cooking videos as a part of a cookbok. He said: What about using the internet (typing in the stuff you have in the fridge, see what google makes of that).. He was never invited to that strategy seminar.
Displaying Clayton Christensen´s clasic quality overshoot diagram, talks through the "disruption from below" scenario.
Talks about media monitoring services (meltwater, news.google.com etc.)
Then about speed responsivenes and customization as factors to use when competing against a functionally superior competitor.
Telco: There is a stack: Network operators, virtual operators, service hosts payment providers and social networks. Layered services building on the servies below. The customers need to talk to each other. Claim: Open source has very little to do with this picture. Roaming agreements do some things: Works for banks, sms, phones.
When you get services built on services, the value of those services increase. The services on top pays for the services down. This is called service complementarity. Users like the whole stack better than we like any one of the networks (note: an operator that is not capable of facilitating complementary services may have a problem).
Some advice to opera: Think like a weapons manufacturer. Start with operating systems, go to handset manufacturers, now sells to operators. Go to the places where there are the most wars (metaphorically ;) (btw, this part of Espen's presentation was picked up by the press and reported in digi.no :-)
Showing an image of the iphone. Telling that the phone people in Ericsson or Nokia would probably say "this is a shitty phone", but it is
The evolution of functionality: Problem, Product, Plattform, Protocol.
Refers to an essay by Neal Stephensen ("in the beginning was the command line"). Great essay. go read it!
If you are going to continue being closed, you have to be -way- much better than the others people. Predicts that facebook will have to burst open or it will be outcompeted by googe.
Propositions:
- Open soure bild little in elecommunications.
- Everything needs a business model in the end
- Open source requires identifiable customers
- The end user does not care about weher the sercie is open or not (except for DRM and then largely about convenience)
- Software vendors are weapons amnufacturers. They need to find uruely areas with many local warlords: Opera os-> handset makers -> operators.
Specifici functionality is what it is all about:
- Always on: Does not need to initiate the session.
- Location aware: Knows where it is.
- Information capture Can capture information such as bar codes.
- Authentication: Can securely identify its user or owner
The personal architecture is where the competition will be played out.
How do you make a technology disruptive: Shows picture the Think car. How do you market an electric car? What you need to do is a find a situatio where the drawbacks of the technology is a plus? Suggestion: Sell to youngsters. You have to address one of two targets: People who can´t affort the stuff. Kids around here (Skien) drives tractors and mopeds. Question: Why don´t Think come up with a moped car that can´t run faster that 45 kph? Just an example ;))
Find unique features (good and bad) Find markets where bad features are good features. Fin markets that are overserved by current tehcology, find markets that is not consuming available technology. Mentions: Sony: Hearing aids for deaf people and transistor radios for teenagers. do not try to take the main competitor head on.
Advice to audience: Focus on the service, find someone who really need you.
Bill Gates laid out his strategy in a Fortune article in 1984. Spelled it out how windows was going to do things. The journalist says that this will not happen because there are mch better offerings out there.
www.espen.com, www.tversover.com, www.appliedabstractions.com
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Terrence Barr: The future of java on mobile plattforms
This is a blog from the Open Nordic conference in Skien Norway 19-20 june 2008.
Terrence Barr: The future of java on mobile plattforms
Listening to Terrence Barr talking about the future of java on mobule phones. I got in a little late, but this is a few notes from what I did get what I got:
PhoneME is an open source implementation of java for small machine.
Can run midlets, can run on Sun SPOT & Squawk VM and PSP. Can be used to make your own consumer device :-). It has a number of persistence frameworks. A bunch of IU toolkits.
GUI stuff
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is a part of MSA (Mobile Service Architecture), and should be available on most newer phones.
LWUIT -> Lightweight UI Toolkit. Quite interesting.
One example is the blueRay runtime (which is quite capable), that makes it possible to mesh static content (DVDs or whatever) with dynamically updated content. Imagine a DVD that contains an up-to-date list of stuff relevant to the content on the DVD, it´s possible today or so the man says ;)
Sun has a kind of vision about it being possible to create content that is cross-plattform for just about all kinds of screens: Workstations, phones TV etc.
JavaFX:
Questions and answers:
Terrence Barr: The future of java on mobile plattforms
Listening to Terrence Barr talking about the future of java on mobule phones. I got in a little late, but this is a few notes from what I did get what I got:
PhoneME is an open source implementation of java for small machine.
Can run midlets, can run on Sun SPOT & Squawk VM and PSP. Can be used to make your own consumer device :-). It has a number of persistence frameworks. A bunch of IU toolkits.
GUI stuff
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is a part of MSA (Mobile Service Architecture), and should be available on most newer phones.
LWUIT -> Lightweight UI Toolkit. Quite interesting.
- Swing inspired
- Matisse will be integrated with LWUIT (a specific widget set).
- Doesn´t have a HTML renderer, but that would be nice ;)
One example is the blueRay runtime (which is quite capable), that makes it possible to mesh static content (DVDs or whatever) with dynamically updated content. Imagine a DVD that contains an up-to-date list of stuff relevant to the content on the DVD, it´s possible today or so the man says ;)
Sun has a kind of vision about it being possible to create content that is cross-plattform for just about all kinds of screens: Workstations, phones TV etc.
JavaFX:
- Rich content should be simpler. Flash does a lot of intersting things.
- At its core it is the JavaFX scripting language.
- Targeted towards designer/consumer segment.
- Hope for cool tools to be developed, but they don´t exist yet.
- Java 6 has scripting extensions, and FX is just one more of these.
- Is a runtime that is layered on top of java.
- The idea is to run one JavaFX application, and then let tools deploy it to various platforms, very close to a final version.
- Question: How easy will it be to run JavaFX on an Android platform :-)
- The FX runtime and SDK will be out this summer (beta). Player available. Coming to more mobile devices spring 09. Will be an application to be installed on top of the phone.
- openjfx.dev.java.net, open source version of some FX stuff.
Questions and answers:
- Java on the iPhone: Some legal wrangeling going on, nothing determined yet. Need to distribute things from the apple store. Have it running internally at Sun, but it cant´be released. The prototype is running, they hava both jamvm (java se) running, a clean room implementation. Can be run on a jailbroken iphone. The core VM was ported in two days. phoneme alred support
- What about a newer java than 1.4 on phones: Sun is thinking about updating the CDC/CLDC (Connected device configuration / Connected Limited Device Configuration). Terrence is not reallyb certain that you need a more fancy language, claims it requires more resources (I´m not so sure about that). CDC now has a fairly modern Java except for the java 5 language features: CDC now has reflection but still don´t have generics and autoboxing.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Stuff that works, and stuff that doesn't.
A (too large) part of my job seems to be finding out what pieces of software works together and which doesn't. So here is a short list of the last few day's findings:
- Jboss tools doesn't work with MyEclipse, but do work with the J2EE distribution of Eclipse 3.2.2.
- Google AppEngine doesn't work with the ZSI web services library, and as far as I know there is no tractable way of getting web services in to or out of the AppEngine.
- Ubuntu Hardy Heron:
- a) Is incapable of seeing the disks on my spare workstation (which is surprising since both XP and the BIOS is perfectly capable of seeing them).
- b) Has a network configuration utility that seems broken beyond what simple twiddeling can fix: It is impossible to set a static IP address when running as a vmware appliance!! (this is actually quite mindboggling)
- jBoss 4.2.2 and jBossSeam installs and runs quite nicely under Ubuntu 7.10.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Mac OSX Freeze, mega frustration!
Today I installed a routine upgrade of OSX from Apple on my MacBook, and now the beautiful machine won't boot. It is black, utterly black. This is so frustrating!
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
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