Steve Hatch

links for 2006-11-13

  • Podcast content portals — more like strip malls | Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect | ZDNet.com: “If you are producing good content then the Web is your mall, not some VC-flushed directory cum platform experiment thinking they will re-invent media on a $4 million budget and then flip it before the thing implodes.” (tags: Podcasting, media, blogging, Advertising, Business, directory)
  • Techcrunch: Listen To Podcasts On Any Phone: Think about it… call your audio content “Podlinez is a dead simple service … Go to the site and search for a podcast … you can look up a dedicated phone number for that podcast.” (tags: Audio, Mobile, MP3, phone, podcast, podcasts, tech, Technology, Audible)
  • Sun relicenses Java under GPL: It’s about time! The rumors have been confirmed by Sun: Java is going to be released in full under the GPL v2. The initial plan is to release Hotspot and the javac compiler under the GPL v2, with the rest of Java to follow in the first half of 2007. Java (tags: Sun, Java, opensource, Business, j2ee)
  • InfoQ: Presentation: Ken Schwaber on Code Quality as a Corporate Asset: “One uncomfortable truth that Scrum can surface is the existence of a culture that produces unmaintainable, cobbled-together legacy code, or as Schwaber called it in this presentation, “Core Functionality”. (tags: Agile, scrum, development, methodology, architecture, Enterprise, Business)

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