My first month with the ZTE Open and Firefox OS
Now that the “totally democratic” ZTE Open is about to be released in the U.S. ($80 unlocked at the ZTE eBay Store), I can reveal how truly cutting edge I am. I bought a ZTE…
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The IJEC journal gets a new board member, and a new website
I recently joined the International Journal of Electronic Commerce as an editorial board member, and its new web editor. Which is cool, because IJEC is still the #1 rated e-commerce journal in the universe. But…
“The Future of Open” seminar
Why is everyone in the tech industry claiming they are ‘open’, and their competitors aren’t? Is this merely a war of buzzwords and PR? Or is building proprietary products on top of open technology, while…
Moodle 2.0 is coming – look busy (with a hub strategy)
Using Moodle for my MBA class on Innovation and Technology Management here in the Azores has me thinking about the upcoming Moodle 2.0 release, scheduled for this summer. (Portugal is #6 on the global list…
Three strategies for open source deployment
I’ll be presenting my short paper on “Three Strategies for Open Source Deployment: Substitution, Innovation, and Knowledge Reuse” at the Open Source Systems 2010 conference this May. I wrote the paper because I see a…
Open source deployment paper to be presented at HICSS
Update on the open source ‘miracle’ paper: It has been accepted at the HICSS 2010 conference track on Open Movements: FLOSS, Open Content, Open Access and Open Communities. The paper now features the more sedate…
A month at the Swedish Business School
For most of June, I was a visiting researcher in the Informatics division of the Swedish Business School, Örebro University. Thanks to the group’s rigorous, precise daily schedule of lunch times and coffee breaks (fika),…
Open source platforms: An information systems ‘miracle’
In partnership with the Department of Technology at the City and County of San Francisco, I’ve been studying the deployment of new applications using open source. We looked at three projects (including the recoverysf.org site),…
Open Source Business Applications: Most Active Communities
The open source platforms I admire the most, and are most useful for business, are the ones with the largest communities behind them. For open business platforms, it’s not just the contributions to the core…
Academic blogging and Moodle: Two educational technology talks
I gave two Instructional Technology talks recently, one formal and one spontaneous. The formal one was a presentation to our USF Wikis and Blogs group on “Pro Blogging for Dorks Academics”. I talked about the…