links for 2007-06-29

• Ten Questions with Scott Berkun (How to Change the World)

  I’m about to read the book, these are some nice extra answers on good questions.

  (tags: book innovation scottberkun myths)

• A Little Head Trauma…: Offline Django?

  I just thought of this today, and of course, somebody else already thought of it too. Curious to see if this will get into Django anytime soon. Cool stuff!

  (tags: django googlegears javascript python offline webdev google)

• Software companies are building their way to a very material future (Guardian Unlimited Technology)

  Insightful column by Nicholas Carr on the changing nature of computing companies. Not only do they have to think about elegant code, but also about huge datacenters: “The management of atoms is becoming as important as the management of bits.”

  (tags: google datacenter web2.0 software future ssoffice)

• Opening the LinkedIn kimono – API Style (Marketing Nirvana)

  Great news, LinkedIn has announced that they will open up their site with an API within the next 9 months. This posting gives some ideas of how it can be used. I’m pretty curious what will be part of the API, and what not.

  (tags: linkedin api automagic mashups semanticweb)

• Cloud OS and the Personal Server (innovation Creators)

  We keep seeing more desktop applications move to the web. Although, many are a very barebone equivalents. This post lists the requirements for the apps in a online ‘cloud os’ before it can replace the desktop.

  (tags: web2.0 office2.0 enterprise future desktop applications collaboration)