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“We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the Web in a few seconds,”
The plan is part of Google’s bet that a huge shift in computing is under way. In Google’s view, Web connections will become so fast and browsers so powerful that most of the programs that currently run on PCs will be replaced by online applications. That would eliminate the need to install, upgrade and back up software.
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- But Microsoft still has many advantages. It has been able to keep its software partners churning out games, media software, tax preparation software and other applications that rely on Windows. And it puts time and money into making sure that a vast array of devices like printers and cameras work well with its software.
- While Google’s new software will be free, other free products have failed to dent Microsoft’s armor. A handful of companies offer the free Linux operating system as an alternative to Windows, but Linux has not gained enough market share to weaken Microsoft. (The Chrome operating system will have Linux at its core, and like Linux it will be open source, meaning outside programmers will be able to modify it.)
- “Google has a reasonable stab at redefining the desktop,” said Mark Shuttleworth, the chief executive of Canonical, which makes a version of Linux called Ubuntu.
- Rather than buying bulky desktop computers, consumers have been turning recently toward small, low-cost laptops known as netbooks, which serve as little more than gateways to the Web. Google says its operating system will be initially aimed at netbooks, which are generally not powerful enough to handle the latest version of Windows.
- Google’s fundamental business model, too, may play to its advantage. The company says it believes that making Chrome free to PC makers will be worthwhile because more people will spend more time online, using Google’s search service and its other Web-based applications like Google Docs, a Web rival to Microsoft Office.
- Under its model, Google could even afford to pay computer makers to install its software on their machines, essentially subsidizing their cost.
- “If hardware is free and software is free, the only way you make money is off of services, and that is Google,” said Jim Zemlin, the executive director of the Linux Foundation.
- “There are answers for Microsoft, but all of them entail a significantly less profitable business model,” said David B. Yoffie, a professor at Harvard Business School.

22 Jun 09

Piece Books - Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect

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07 May 09

Beth Simone Noveck for Democracy: A Journal of Ideas

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Although political legitimacy demands accountability to an
electoral process, those living in a democracy readily submit to what
sociologist Michael Schudson calls the "permanent embarrassment" of
expertise. We believe that administrative governance by a professional
elite is the best way to organize decision-making in the public
interest.
The justification for this professional decision-making,
articulated by theorists ranging from Max Weber to Walter Lippmann, is
that while citizens can express personal opinions based on values, they
are incapable of making fact-based decisions on matters of policy.
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- Only institutionalized and
  governmental professionals possess the expertise, resources,
  discipline, and time to make public-policy decisions.
- And citizen
  participation is hard to organize and administer, and even harder to
  scale. It is one thing for 10 bureaucrats to debate a policy and come
  to an informed consensus; try getting the same result with 10,000
  people–or 10 million.
- Now, however, new technology may be changing the relationship
  between democracy and expertise, affording an opportunity to improve
  competence by making good information available for better governance.
- Ordinary people, regardless of
  institutional affiliation or professional status, possess
  information–serious, expert, fact-based, scientific information–to
  enhance decision-making, information not otherwise available to
  isolated bureaucrats.
- Partly as a result of the simple tools now
  available for collaboration and partly as a result of a highly mobile
  labor market of "knowledge workers," people are ready and willing to
  share that information across geographic, disciplinary, and
  institutional boundaries.
- Wikipedia is open enough to allow expertise to emerge,
  but it is also structured enough, with outlines and to-do lists, to set
  the rules for a certain kind of group collaboration–and that
  collaboration is producing high-quality results.
- Or take sites that utilize self-reinforcing "reputation" systems to
  improve quality and reliability.
- Making expertise
  relevant for the complex processes of policy-making also requires
  forming communities that can collaborate, but it goes beyond that. It
  demands "civic networking," tools designed for groups to transform data
  into knowledge useful to decision-makers, as well as the concomitant
  institutional practices designed to make use of that knowledge.
- Political philosophers from Aristotle to Rousseau to Rawls have
  suggested that when groups engage in the public exchange of reason,
  they produce better ideas. In practice, however, more talk usually
  slows decision-making and comes with the attendant problem of
  groupthink. Increasingly, however, we are discovering how to use
  computers to enable deliberation without endless talk and without
  having to be in the same room. And those structures–enforced through
  software–are what transform the subjective, free-wheeling, dynamic
  expertise of amateurs into effective communities of experts.
- For example, the Omidyar Network, the philanthropy launched by eBay
  founder Pierre Omidyar, asks the public to participate in awarding its
  grants.
- Or consider New Assignment,
  which was launched to demonstrate that "open collaboration over the
  Internet among reporters, editors and large groups of users can produce
  high-quality work that serves the public interest, holds up under
  scrutiny, and builds trust." The site set forth the social practices to
  elicit collaborative reporting (instead of collaborative
  gossip-mongering), resulting in the publication of seven original
  essays and 80 interviews, as well as a series of stories about
  collaborative journalism for Wired
  magazine.
- Similarly, the Sense.us program at
  the University of California–Berkeley provides public mechanisms to
  allow people across disciplinary boundaries to collaborate in making,
  and thereby making sense of, census data graphs and charts. And the
  United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is taking this idea
  to the next level: connecting experts directly to actual
  decision-making in the "Peer-to-Patent" project.
- This has
  particular application to policymaking: Non-governmental participants
  have something more to offer than voting once a year–namely, good
  information.
- If we can harness the
  enthusiasm and knowledge of "netizens" to the legal and political
  processes generally reserved for citizens, we can produce government
  decision-making that is both more expert and, at the same time, more
  democratic.
- The Problem with Experts
  
  In his award-winning book On Political Judgment, social
  psychologist Philip Tetlock analyzed the predictions of those
  professionals who advise government about political and economic
  trends. Pitting these professional pundits against minimalist
  performance benchmarks, he found "few signs that expertise translates
  into greater ability to make either ‘well-calibrated’ or
  ‘discriminating’ forecasts." It turns out that professional status has
  much less bearing on the quality of information than we might assume,
  and that professionals–whether in politics or other domains–are
  notoriously unsuccessful at making informed predictions.
- And more
  participation does not mean better participation. How should
  administrators deal with individuals who carp but offer little useful
  information to improve decision-making? Or interest groups that
  electronically submit tens of thousands of identical "postcard
  comments"?
- Scientific peer review provides an alternative mechanism for
  oversight and quality control.

09 Apr 09

The Next Wave of Open Innovation - BusinessWeek

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Open innovation has value within companies
While the practices and platforms designed to support open innovation initially were focused on reaching beyond the enterprise, these same practices and platforms have application within the enterprise as well. The company has developed a specific offering known as InnoCentive@Work that allows companies to post challenging research problems solely to its own employees. Again, it is difficult to specify in advance which individuals, teams or even disciplines are likely to generate successful solutions, so executives are finding that solutions often arise from unanticipated parts of the firm.

01 Apr 09

Implementing the Social Web

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02 Mar 09

Getting Started: gadgets.* API - Gadgets - Google Code

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For Fans of Drupal, a Time to Meet and Talk Code - NYTimes.com

“We’re throwing out the idea of software as a commodity and replacing it with the idea of labor and participation being valued more than ownership,”

So, 50 beginners gathered in Room 204, illuminated only by the glow of laptop screens and a beam from an overhead projector as one of those volunteers, Peter Dowling, 43, of Stamford, Conn., led them though the steps of installing Drupal on their computers.

Down the hall, in Room 200, about 20 advanced users listened to David Burns, a consultant from Philadelphia, describe ways to speed up a sluggish Web site. The audience clapped, and Mr. Burns, 27, announced that he could be found later at a nearby bar, the Zombie Hut.

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27 Feb 09

Government levels the playing field for Open Source

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24 Feb 09

Welcome to the microformats wiki! · Microformats Wiki

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23 Feb 09

Community-as-a-Service | ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon

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19 Feb 09

apophenia: licensing your dissertation under Creative Commons

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18 Feb 09

Project New Media Literacies

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13 Feb 09

PBwiki: Free Collaboration, Intranet, Extranet, Education, Business Wiki

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