Tag Archives: Web Services

Kindle’s Vision vs Execution

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Our strategy with the ebookstore is ‘buy once, read everywhere.’ If you want to read on your iPhone, if you want to read on your BlackBerry. We want people to be able to read their books anywhere they want to read them. That’s the PC, that’s the Macintosh. It’s the iPad, it’s the iPhone. It’s the Kindle. So you have this whole multitude of devices and whatever’s most convenient for you at the moment.
JP Mangalindan, “Jeff Bezos’s mission: Compelling small publishers to think big“, CNNMoney Fortune, June 29, 2010

I also enjoyed Bezos update in the article on cloud computing and the utility model reality..

I love my Kindle 2, and what Amazon.com has done for publishing!

Here though, “read their books anywhere they want to read them”, there is a disconnect between vision and execution. The Amazon Kindle experience on the Mac has a strong unpleasant odor.

Open Source Software Project Management Web Service?

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Wow, the title “Open Source Software Project Management Web Service?” is a mouthful.

Working on a small project with a friend (mentioned in “Learning by doing something else“) is a great opportunity to check out tools in other parts of the web development stack. I’ve been interested in trying out some of the software project management services and software.

(At Automattic, we mostly use prologue and trac. This is a fantastic combination!)

Likely the best approach for this project would be to first identify our needs and wants and then work through the available web services to find the closest matches.

After it being a web service, the next big want is for it to be open source software.

I have not yet been able to find any software project management web service that is open source software. Any hints?