Posted in Suomeksi, Technology on Apr 15th, 2010
Pidin asiantuntijapuheenvuoron 14.4.2010 Digitaalinen Suomi -seminaarissa Jyväskylässä otsikon mukaisesta aiheesta. Tässä 45 minuutin pituinen slidecast-tallenne puheestani. Käsittelen teemoja sekä web 2.0 -ohjelmien tekemisen näkökulmasta että web 2.0 -palveluiden hyödyntämisestä ohjelmistotuotannossa yleensä. Joitain teknisiäkin asioita mukana on, kuten pilviarkkitehtuuri ja NoSQL-tietokannat. Oli ihan hauska välillä puhua ihan teknisestä aiheesta – sisäistä nörttiä pitää silloin tällöin ruokkia. [...]
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Posted in English, Technology on Dec 7th, 2006
I just listened to Greg Gianforte’s presentation on bootstrapping a company. What he says is that the way of starting a company that’s taught in all business schools is not the right way. Of the hundreds of thousands of startups every year, only one percent follow the business school dogma of writing a business plan, [...]
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Posted in English, Technology on Nov 29th, 2006
When I read Moishe Lettvin’s blog entry about the design of the Windows Vista shutdown mechanisms (moblog: The Windows Shutdown crapfest), it immediately connected with the podcast from Open Source Conversations on business benefits of PHP. The main benefit that several companies gained by switching to PHP was reduced time-to-market. The main reason for this [...]
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On the 12th of September the pedagogical faculty of the University of Helsinki hosted a panel talk Siltamat (in finnish) where, among others, Esko Kilpi was talking about how the frontline companies in far east are conducting business. It was refreshing to see someone actually use hype words like “web 2.0″, “blog” and “wiki” in [...]
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Posted in English, Technology on May 11th, 2006
Every now and then these strange connections between seemingly unrelated topics happen. This time it happened yesterday when I was at a Mobile seminar organized by Hetky, and one of the presenters mentioned that even though the IT bubble burst and left thousands of bankrupt companies in its wake, there were still some good companies [...]
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Posted in English, Technology on May 5th, 2006
I had a conversation with a new media student, and was surprised to hear that the curriculum of the Medialab of the University of Art and Design of Helsinki does not include anything about business and open source.
So here’s the 101 of open source business models:
Provide something that has a demand: This applies to business [...]
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Posted in English, Technology on May 3rd, 2006
I’ve been using OpenOffice.org 2 for a few months now, and before that, Openoffice.org 1.x for years. Before that, I’ve used MS Office, StarOffice, IBM Works, WordPerfect, etc. At why.openoffice.org there are references to studies that show that upgrading from MS Office to OpenOffice.org 2 costs like 10% of the upgrade to the newest MS [...]
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Posted in English, Technology on Feb 28th, 2006
Well, nothing momentuous here, I think. Just common sense. A UN inspector has recommended the use of open source software for developing countries, which is of course already happening. Brazil, Peru and Venezuela are pretty much converting all of their public institution services to open source, and specifically avoiding proprietary software and closed “standards”. In [...]
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