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September 21, 2006
Business Week reports on the escalating war of words between software superpowers Oracle and SAP: "Lurking behind all the talk ... are two fundamentally different approaches to software going forward. Oracle has cast its lot with the movement toward open standards and programming languages, such as Sun Microsystems' Java. SAP also knows how to talk the open-standards talk, but realistically, the company depends much more heavily on proprietary products."
A lawyer provides a quick rundown of some of the key legal implications of business blogging.
Kent Newsome looks at a response to the Dead 2.0 semi-outing and sees red.
Journalism professor Jay Rosen announces that Reuters is providing some money to launch NewAssignment.net, his experiment in "open source journalism, where people collaborate peer-to-peer in the production of editorial goods." "In some respects," comments Ian Delaney, "NewAssignment sounds like a Citizendium for news."
Bruce Schneier writes that the recent "Facebook riots" show that "privacy is more about control than about secrecy." But even though web companies need to respect that fact and "give users as much control over their personal information as they can," in the end users "are just fooling themselves if they think they can control information they give to third parties." He concludes: "we all need to remember that much of that control is illusory."
Larry Sanger responds to Clay Shirky's critique of the Citizendium concept: "I think Clay lacks any good reason to think the Citizendium will fail; but clearly he badly wants it to fail, and his comments are animated by wishful thinking."
Gizmodo reports that Microsoft has already slashed the price of its forthcoming 30 GB Zune music player, from $289 to $229, in response to Apple's cutting of the price of the 30 GB iPod from $299 to $249. Talk about a consumer's dream: a price war that breaks out before a product is even released.
Posted by nick at September 21, 2006 12:00 AM