Comments on: Leo Laporte on Open Source http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/07/29/leo-laporte-on-open-source/ Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:07:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: JZA http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/07/29/leo-laporte-on-open-source/#comment-5286 JZA Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 #comment-5286 <p>I think Opera is a great example of companies triying to get into the next big thing. If you listen to Laporte's TWITcast he interviewed Opera's CEO and even though he spend most of the time ranting about IE. Opera as a product is very forward looking on what would be the next big thing. Opera has included speech recognition (limited), high level contrast display (CSS themes) and just a whole lot of ways to interact with the web content.<br /> Again I suggest an old podcast from IT Conversations and Doc Searl talking about the way Open source see the technology and how is almost the same as civil engineers see construction materials.</p> <p>People build, construct, APIs, interfaces, they are all bricks and steel to develop things. This things build more things on top and so on. </p> <p>On Web 2.0 and with technology such as DOM becoming an actuall open/comptabile building block, IE stuff is quickly diminshing and standards are actually rising. Construction seem to finally to finally has shapen up.</p> I think Opera is a great example of companies triying to get into the next big thing. If you listen to Laporte’s TWITcast he interviewed Opera’s CEO and even though he spend most of the time ranting about IE. Opera as a product is very forward looking on what would be the next big thing. Opera has included speech recognition (limited), high level contrast display (CSS themes) and just a whole lot of ways to interact with the web content.
Again I suggest an old podcast from IT Conversations and Doc Searl talking about the way Open source see the technology and how is almost the same as civil engineers see construction materials.

People build, construct, APIs, interfaces, they are all bricks and steel to develop things. This things build more things on top and so on.

On Web 2.0 and with technology such as DOM becoming an actuall open/comptabile building block, IE stuff is quickly diminshing and standards are actually rising. Construction seem to finally to finally has shapen up.

]]> By: www.nblavoie.com http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/07/29/leo-laporte-on-open-source/#comment-5287 www.nblavoie.com Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 #comment-5287 <p>I would like to say that the interview is very interesting. People need to bookmark this as soon as possible. And by the way, JZA got a great comment too :)</p> I would like to say that the interview is very interesting. People need to bookmark this as soon as possible. And by the way, JZA got a great comment too :)

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