The Software technology industry is curiously different from most other large industries, in the sense that large Enterprises in this space often lag behind small startups and even individuals in adopting cutting-edge technologies. It is hard to see th…

I see the big search engines in a Semantic Web war, as Google has R Guha, co-creator of RDF (Beckett has guided RDF for many years at W3C).

Google Coop and Base are examples of “labeling information to be shared”, a step towards it, perhaps..

Senior decision makers at Yahoo appear to have a thing for old Commodores songs. Liz Gannes, a staff writer for GigaOM has this scoop for us: Yahoo is in the process of setting up an in-house incubator in an attempt…

GigaOm highlights Yahoo’s new attempt at retaining top talent. Called Brickhouse, the project is essentially an in-house incubator meant to give it’s entrepreneurial employees another reason to stick with the company. Not altogether differe…

Most innovators would much prefer the relatively low risk/reward and abundant resources of a large company given an earnest opportunity to pursue Christensen-esque disruptive innovation. Few innovators are adept, deliberate or even willful entrepreneurs, rather they are beholden to do-it-themselves in absence of a pragmatic alternative.

Go go go!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation

for a truly hot idea, Yahoo won’t be able to pay these guys anywhere near what they’d make externally. Why stay?

for a mediocre idea, well, what’s the point.

while incubating an idea - angel funding + an ok paycheck while exploring isn’t too hard to come by these days.

It’s hard to truly square the circle here.