The five ages of vendor-led open source revenue strategies (1)
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Before I got waylaid with traveling I wrote that each of the various open source revenue strategies might have its place depending on the stage of commoditization and the short- and long-term goals of the individual vendor. I was thinking it might be possible to describe the lifecycle of open source strategies, but I never got around to following up on that… until now. I hereby present the five ages of Vendor-led open source revenue ...
What Sun should do (2)
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…is the title of this post written by Tim Bray a few days ago in which he outlined the directions he would like to see his employer take to improve its fortunes. He also invited others to continue the thought process. Many have already done so (I’ll include the best in tomorrow’s CAOS Links post) and given my recent constructive criticism of Sun’s open source strategy I feel compelled to provide some answers as well ...
Sun’s open source strategy in the spotlight (1)
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There’s been plenty of reaction this week to Sun’s restructuring announcement from last Friday. That announcement included the inevitable (cutting 15-18% of the workforce), the expected (organisational changes), and the surprising (the departure of Rich Green). The conventional wisdom appears to be that Sun is positioning to sell off some of its less profitable product lines and focus on those hardware lines that are currently delivering the goods, as well as its open source software ...
More Analyst Cluelessness (1)
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Yesterday in "the other place" I was berating Gartner for its inability to understand the reality of open source, and now here's someone else from that strange world of "research" that simply doesn't understand the basics - in this case, digital music:Music cannot just be 'for free' anymore than cars or houses can 'just be for free'. If people aren't paid, they don't make the product.Sigh. Once more, then, children - and do pay attention ...
Oldboy Remake (1)
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Oldboy and a Funeral Remake Hell / Dustin Rowles There's a very small, but very possessive number of folks who have seen the 2003 South Korean film, Oldboy, from director Chan Wook-Park. The movie made less than $1 million at North American box-offices, and were it not for the fact that it's foreign-made, it'd have certainly been included on our original The 10 Best Movies You've Never Seen (ooooh. We should totally do a foreign-movie ...
First Look: Zombies from George Romero's Island of the Dead (1)
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It might not officially be titled Island of the Dead just yet, but it is our official first look at a zombie from the film. I wish we had something a bit more exciting to show everyone today than a few random zombie photos, but the entire country is focused on the upcoming election. Thanks to both USA Today and Bloody Disgusting, we've got the first photos and more information about Romero's next zombie lick. ...
MTV和MySpace：请贴上我们的内容 (2)
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原文作者：Rick Turoczy原文链接：MTV to MySpace: Post Our Content, Please翻译：毛心宇从人们能够上传视频内容那一刻起，人们就获得了上传任何内容的自由——无论是不是他们拥有的。不幸的是，这让那些拥有内容版权的人伤透了心，因为无限制地自由传播损害了他们的利益。所以他们诉诸法律，发布通告，还有其他一些法律上的威胁。这样的结果呢？没什么作用。 但是现在，在MySpace和MTV Networks间建立了一种新的伙伴关系，这种关系可能让内容的所有者转变态度——并且实际上可能会鼓励人们上传他们的内容。 是什么使得MTV的态度发生如此戏剧性的变化？Auditude，一种可以让MTV判断来自他们的视频的识别技术，哪怕只是很小的一段视频。 通过Auditude，MTV能够真正判断MySpace上引用的他们的内容——不需要依靠用户添加的关键词或标签。一旦认定是他们的视频，在MySpace上的MTV的视频内容就将成为MTV的一个广告平台。Auditude允许MTV在这些视频上添加一个覆盖层，并显示内容来源、原始发布日期，并可以添加购买完整内容的链接。 通过Auditude的索引库，MTV将有机会识别近4年来在100个电视频道中的超过2.5亿段视频，而这些内容最有可能被MySpace用户贴到页面中——音乐视频、The Daily Show和The Colbert Report等等。 虽然这种识别技术不算新，但这个程序确是非常新颖的。过去，内容所有者通常采用识别技术来判断未经授权的内容使用，并主动出击，追讨责任。 而Auditude技术就聪明得多：判断内容的版权是为了拓展MTV在MySpace用户中的推广渠道。这是一项伟大的创新，可以鼓励网络用户对内容所有者进行回馈。 对于像泡泡糖一样流行的MTV视频来说，这看起来是个完美的结局——双赢。但这会是最重的结局吗？ 谁来分析一下？ 关于Auditude技术，还有一些有趣的事情。 通过在视频节目上添加的自定义覆盖层，MTV获得的不仅仅是更多的推广渠道和后续的销售收入。还有什么？还有每段视频的播放细节数据和点击率数据，而这些在以前完全是个迷。 通过Auditude广告——和对广告的分析——MTV可以建立一个微型的尼尔森式统计系统，观察他们的视频在MySpace上有多受欢迎。他们可以看到任何兴趣和趋势的变化。谁在上传内容？哪段视频被上传次数最多？哪段视频被播放次数最多？有多少人上传过同一段视频？哪个用户获得的点击率最高？ 这个单子可以列出很长很长。 这些数据本身的价值就足够高了。此外，MTV还可以将从MySpace获得的数据同他们在电视和MTV授权发布渠道所得来的信息相比较，并进一步分析结果。 对于一个生死取决于用户分析的行业来说，这些意外收获的数据——从一个以前未知的领域得来的——绝对是一座金矿，将在短期内获得大量分析结果和报告。长期来看，这将给MTV发布内容的方式和渠道带来根本的改变。 这些仅仅来自一个小小的广告，却意味着可以获取并分析大量的数据。一段旧的Duran Duran乐队的视频将重新绽放光芒。添加评论相关文章： 雅虎停止流媒体视频服务测试 比YouTube更强：搜索在线视频的新方法 29首非凡的MV
How Relevant are Relationships? (1)
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One cliche that has made its rounds in education in the past decade is that "rigor, relevance and relationships" are the three keys to a successful high school education. And I guess it would be hard to argue against the idea that a challenging curriculum connected to student interests and delivered by people who enjoy working with teens would produce better results than unrelated fluff presented by militant old women who tracked out ages ago ...
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The convergence of open source and SaaS (2)
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Matt Asay has an interesting post today on how its getting harder to distinguish between open source and SaaS which reminded me of the presentation I was scheduled to give at a recent SugarCRM event in London. Due to illness I was forced to cancel my appearance (and it’s a good job I did as my second child coincidentally chose that day to make an appearance - I at least avoided having to run off ...
Symbian lays foundations for open source (1)
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What happens between a company announcing its intention to license its code using an open source license and the resulting project being launched? Mostly the answer involves a whole lot of legal discussions as the intellectual property and licensing issues are ironed out and the processes and structures are put in place to support the new project. These sort of arrangements might be fascinating to those of us that study open source development and licensing ...
Open source is not a business model (1)
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(Or “freedom of speech won’t feed my children”) Last month I noted that Matt Asay, one of the highest profile proponents of open source software, had changed his position on the use of proprietary extensions as a means of attracting paying customers to software based on open source code. Having previously advocated a 100% open source approach, Matt conceded that “If adding a hint of proprietary software to a solution is done in such a ...
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