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#5. The Impact of Blogging (2005.12.20)

I was approached by an editor at What Matters, an MIT alumni opinion column, to write an article about how blogging has impacted society. I wrote it and they subsequently cut it in half of due to “length” restrictions. Posting it here in its entirety.
#4. Web 2.0: Hype, Reality, or the Future? (2005.12.13)
by Dharmesh Shah, Ilana Davidi, Yoav Sharpira, and Robbie Allen

A lot has been made about Web 2.0 recently. In this essay, a few classmates from my Software Business class at MIT and I try to make sense of it all and assess if there are any viable business opportunities.
#3. The Missing Piece of the Open Source Puzzle (2005.11.19)

Open source advocates keep waiting for Linux, Firefox, and other open source software to take over the consumer world. It hasn’t happened and it won’t happen until the open source community starts doing something the proprietary companies do really well.
#2. The Ongoing Search for Silver Bullets (2005.10.20)

Fred Brooks wrote about it 1987, yet the IT world still seems to be in constant search for the next silver bullet that will solve all of our problems. I wrote this for one of my classes at MIT.
#1. The Web Desktop – Replacing Windows, Linux, and OS X on the desktop (2005.09.30)

Here is my spin on the topic of replacing the computer desktop environment with a web-based alternative.