03-Nov-2005

Innovation and free software. Joserra in Najaraba.com writes that when he has looked at innovation in the past, it was only innovation from the point of view of the product. He posts a link to the article, Sobre el arte de identificar modelos de negocio (About the art of identifying business models) by Mario Lopez de Ávila, who identifies five areas in which a business may apply innovation: financial, infrastructure, content, human relations, technology. The innovation strategy firm, Doblin, has described The Ten Types of Innovation, giving examples of companies using each type. Although free software isn't new as it has existed from the beginnings of computing, there is plenty of scope for innovation in the business of free software.

Does Visual Studio rot the mind? mig21 in Yet Another Programming Weblog posts a link to the article, Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? that has been much discussed in Slashdot recently.

Usability above all. Mario Renato Uriarte Amaya in The New Cult of Dead Cow posts a link to the list of events in the World Usability Day on 3rd November 2005.