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By Deepak on Feb 21, 2008 in Computing, Industry Analysis, Rants n Raves, Startups | 1 Comment
Many years ago, we had desktop operating systems. The ones that succeeded were the ones that were able to develop an ecosystem of applications and developers around them. That worked very well for a long time. Then along came the web, and as the web has matured, the platform that developers build [...]
By Deepak on Feb 1, 2008 in Computing, Industry News | 1 Comment
I am pretty much assuming that the Microsoft/Yahoo deal will go through, much to my chagrin. The first question I had was, what about Yahoo’s open source projects. Much as I like Google, Yahoo has always been a super open source friendly company and has pioneered support for projects like Hadoop (the open [...]
By Deepak on Dec 6, 2007 in Computing, Industry Analysis, New Media | 0 Comments
The problem with the “Web 2.0” phenomenon is that it constrains innovation by perpetuating the assumption that the web is accessed through computing devices, whether PCs or smartphones or game consoles. As broadband, storage, and computing get ever cheaper, that assumption will be rendered obsolete. The internet won’t be so much a destination as a [...]