UGC is short for user-uploaded and user-generated audio and video content. And UGC Services means Services providing user-uploaded and user-generated audio and video content. This is probably something we are going to hear more about.
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I remain utterly convinced that before the end of this decade Microsoft will be a major player in the market for open source solutions. Of cource, Microsoft will do all it can to extract all the juice it can from its current monopolized businesses. But they know that this cannot hold and they will want to be a player in tomorrow’s markets for IT.
Ballmer shopping for open-source companies. Who’s for sale?: “
Sometimes I read things like this and I’m relieved to find out that Steve Ballmer isn’t completely deluded by proprietary ideology. Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit today, Ballmer made it clear that his vendetta against open source isn’t as all-encompassing as he sometimes makes it out to be:
‘We will do some buying of companies that are built around open-source products,’ Ballmer said during an onstage interview at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
A refusal to consider acquisitions of open-source developers ‘would take us out of the acquisition market quite dramatically,’ Ballmer said — a tacit acknowledgment of how thoroughly open-source development has reshaped the software market.
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(Via The Open Road.)
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My good friend Erik Ringmar from way back in 1992 at the European University Institute has just published his latest opus: A Blogger’s Manifesto.
Buy it now at Amazon.co.uk
Pre-order it at Amazon in the US (out in November)
Download it for free
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This is really no surprise. Microsoft is becoming an open source player. Maybe not deeply felt in the heart, but Microsoft has been using open source software for a long period internally (I guess). But 15 October 2007 the Open Source Initiative made public that it had approved the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) and the Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL). This is a milestone. Or is it just a another logical step in an embrace and squeeze strategy from Microsoft?
Palamida provides a website that keeps track of how key open source projects opt to change its licenses til GPLv3.
It surely seems that the open source community has warmed to the GPLv3.
What Microsoft does not seem to be able to manage (if not for technical reasons then for political), Apple of course is able to: The new OS X 10.5 (Leopard) due to be released end of October 2007 supports ODF. Check out Leopard’s feature list.
Old dotcom friend Hans Henrik Hoejbjerg Heming aka HHHH has co-founded Connecta with Jacob Boetter. There are now Wemind.
This time from my family’s vacation in Berlin
Lina Krokant Sex & Crime - 70 % cacao
Naturata Panama Edelbitter - 80 % cacao
Rapunzel Bitterschokolade mit kakao aus Bolivien - 85 % cacao
Cacao Sampaka Tafel Bitter Schokolade Venezuela - 86 %
Cacao Sampaka Tafel Bitter Schokolade - 70 %
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(I apologise for the lousy quality of the photo)
Yesterday I attended the first (in a hopefully long row of) investor meeting in the first fund raised by Norventum Capital. Among the portefolio companies presenting their businesses was Mubito (short for “music business tools) previously Touch Play Music. From left to right is Andrew Martyn, CEO; Yannick, CTO, Richard Murbeck, CEO of Seavus and Jorgen Gransoe, CEO of Norventum Capital.
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