Opera has been striving to break 1 percent of the browser market for years. Firefox 3 did four times that amount in just one week, according to Net Applications.
This not to criticize Opera but rather to laud Firefox 3. If you haven’t downloaded it and tried it out, …
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According to Apple Support documents, personal domains will be kept intact with MobileMe. Blogger Sean Sperte noticed a “personal domain” option while watching the MobileMe swift tour. That prompted some investigation which led to this support document. Sure enough, it confirms that .Mac personal domains will remain untouched by the change:
“…If you’ve a personal domain setup for your iWeb site, it will continue to work without changing any settings at your registrar.”
Thanks, Apple!
[Via Geek&Mild]
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On Monday, Orbitz Worldwide plans to announce the creation and release of two open-source projects, Extremely Reusable Monitoring API (ERMA) and Graphite. Though there were hints of these projects at JavaOne earlier this year, Monday’s announcement will add significant context to the work Orbitz has done to create two highly compelling open-source projects, whose applicability extends far beyond the travel industry.
Orbitz's operations center
(Credit: Orbitz Worldwide)
On Friday, Orbitz gave me a preview of the announcement and the opportunity to talk with its sponsors, Winthrop Short, senior director of Orbitz Worldwide, and Matt O’Keefe, senior architect of Orbitz Worldwide. In speaking with Winthrop and Matt, it’s clear to me that Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst’s vision for enterprise collaboration through open-source communities is going to be led by companies like Orbitz, companies for whom technology is not necessary drudgery but rather competitive advantage.
Think about the following: Orbitz employs 1,600 full-time employees and has another 500 contractors. So, 2,100 people total. Half of this total number is made up of technologists. As Brian Hoyt, Orbitz Worldwide’s vice president of corporate communications and government affairs told me, “We have always been a technology company, one that just happens to be really good at selling travel.”
But why open source? What benefits does Orbitz derive from open-sourcing these projects? Why not keep ERMA and Graphite to themselves?
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On Monday, Orbitz Worldwide plans to announce the creation and release of two open-source projects, Extremely Reusable Monitoring API (ERMA) and Graphite. Though there were hints of these projects at JavaOne earlier this year, Monday’s announcement will add significant context to the work Orbitz has done to create two highly compelling open-source projects, whose applicability extends far beyond the travel industry.
Orbitz's operations center
(Credit: Orbitz Worldwide)
On Friday, Orbitz gave me a preview of the announcement and the chance to speak with its sponsors, Winthrop Short, senior director of Orbitz Worldwide, and Matt O’Keefe, senior architect of Orbitz Worldwide. In talking with Winthrop and Matt, it’s clear to me that Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst’s vision for enterprise collaboration through open-source communities is going to be led by companies like Orbitz, companies for whom technology isn’t necessary drudgery but rather competitive advantage.
Think about the following: Orbitz employs 1,600 full-time employees and has another 500 contractors. So, 2,100 people total. Half of this total number is made up of technologists. As Brian Hoyt, Orbitz Worldwide’s vice president of corporate communications and government affairs told me, “We have always been a technology company, one that just happens to be really good at selling travel.”
But why open source? What benefits does Orbitz derive from open-sourcing these projects? Why not keep ERMA and Graphite to themselves?
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Remember the long tail? It was the omnipresent theory that recommended there were oodles of cash to be made by monetizing a market’s disparate tastes via the Web.
Why sell a million duplicates of Led Zeppelin’s Coda, when you can make a thriving business of selling two to three copies of your neighbor’s garage band to Rick, two duplicates of a Nigerian band’s tunes to Susan, and so on?
As new research highlighted in Harvard Business Review suggests, the answer might well be that the real money is in the blockbuster, not the long tail, after all:
Meanwhile, our research also showed that success is concentrated in ever fewer best-selling titles at the head of the distribution curve. From 2000 to 2005 the number of titles in the top 10 percent of weekly sales dropped by more than 50 percent–an increase in concentration that’s common in winner-take-all markets. The importance of individual ideal sellers is not diminishing over time. It is growing….
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