The Portable Consultant

My morning commute today featured the net@nite podcast netcast interview with Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales. He had some interesting points about software design supporting communities such as Wikipedia. He draws the obvious connections between the Wikipedia community and those that produce open source software. His commercial initiatives are building on the expertise on community management gained [...]

Steve Jobs’ already famous Thoughts on Music probably marks the end of DRM.
Certainly it will take time, but when a major force like Apple iTunes’ boss suggests that the world would be better off without DRM you can be sure they are also working behind the scenes to promote this vision.
The statistics on the percent of [...]

The Economist in agreement with The Portable Consultant
Back in January of 2006 The Portable Consultant mumbled something about YouTube and wondered online why Fickr hadn’t added video, suggesting that their acquisition by Yahoo had sucked the innovation out of them. Now, many months and several video startups later, it appears that Webshots and Flickr are [...]