Daily Links - 2007/02/25

• Google’s Bosworth: Why AJAX Failed (Then Succeeded) - When it comes to software development, Google’s Adam Bosworth has a need for speed. In a talk entitled “Physics, Speed and Psychology: What Works and What Doesn’t in Software, and Why,” Bosworth, a vice president at Google, discussed why technologies such as AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), PDAs and natural language failed to catch on in the past but are successful today. Bosworth spoke at Google’s offices here as part of the Google NYC Speaker Series on Jan. 29.
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• Alfresco Moves from Mozilla-Style License to GPL - Alfresco Software Inc., an open-source enterprise content management software company, announced Feb. 23 that it will offer its next release under the GNU GPLV2 (General Public License version 2).
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• Solving the 1:10:100% problem - Participation is the biggest challenge to the success of Enterprise 2.0 in an organization — as it is for any knowledge-sharing exercise in an enterprise. If you can’t get the people with the knowledge to participate in whatever mechanisms you build for sharing it, then it’s patently apparent that you’ll fail in that objective.
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