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jason kolb
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10.11.09Looming Disruptions to the Software IndustryI view a major shift in technology, like the one that I see materializing right now with Google Wave (the protocol), as a huge object crashing into a an existing landscape. There's this massive change right in the middle, a new space that has to be filled, and then all these fissures spidering out from the main event where the rest of the world is affected by that event--new spaces that must be filled with something. One of the fun things about technology disruptions is trying to figure out what the landscape will look like after the main event. It's those ...
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09.24.09A Vision of a Post-Wave InternetThis is a follow up to my last post about Google Wave, er, XMPP. That post generated a ton of commentary and questions, and my goal here is to address a lot of them, as well as take a stab at outlining what a post-Wave Internet looks like to the average person. First, there were STILL some questions about why exactly Wave and XMPP are so cool. Well, the short answer to that is that the guys working on Wave did a number of things right.The Conversation The first thing they got right is the concept of a “conversation". This is not some ...
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09.17.09Google Wave: You need to pay attention to this.So here's the deal with Wave: If you deal in technology, and you get this one wrong, you'll miss the boat. And it's a big boat. If, on the other hand, you get this one right, you have the potential to do some incredible innovation.In a nutshell, this is the next revolutionary leap in Internet application architecture. Maybe the first truly revolutionary leap since HTTP itself.I've been wanting to write this post for a while, but first I wanted to read fully thru and digest the specs and available code. I haven't done any posts about XMPP for quite a ...
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About Me
CIO at Shine Lawyers
Non-exec Director of Ozmota
Non-exec Director of Queensland Kids
Ex CIO/CTO of Ozmota, Benefon and Voxson.Education
Executive MBA from QUT
High Distinction average
Singapore Airlines International Business Award
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Computer Science from QUT
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