Tim Reilly

Tim Reilly
cases companies example figure services small trying
I think in most cases it's just an example of companies trying to figure out what they have to do to make their services work. These are small companies. They have to ask, what does it take?
face glue meet people together
People still like to meet face to face. That's how you glue together a community.
hard web
Like many important concepts, Web 2.0 doesn't have a hard boundary, but rather, a gravitational core.
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It took me four months just to learn this one.
heritage yahoo
I still think Yahoo has a heritage to overcome.
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Freshman year we traveled to Jamaica and had our heads turned around by that reggae rhythm. It was just after Bob Marley returned to his home country after the assassination attempt and self-exile; the country was exploding with reggae.
afraid study time
afraid of the future. ... They want more time to study it.
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They are getting closer and closer to a tipping point, ... Let's encourage them to go all the way! Be nice.
close
I keep this on me or close to me all the time.
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This is an area with a tremendous amount of innovation right now.
great internet rallying
It's back to 1995, where the Internet was this great rallying cry,
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It's back to 1995 where the Internet was this great rallying cry. One of the areas where Microsoft has a lead is that they are focusing on non-PC devices. That may be one of their secret weapons.
eventually hackers innovative technology users
You see that technology migrates from hackers to innovative users and eventually to the mainstream.
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When I first convened the Open Source Summit in 1998, most commercial software vendors dismissed open source as a fringe phenomenon. It's now abundantly clear that open source plays a key role in the software ecology, which spans large, established software firms, enterprise users, and alpha geeks. Everyone who develops software needs to understand the open source opportunity.