Drupalcon keynote: Open Source and Open Data in the age of the cloud

Open Source and Open Data
in the Age of the Cloud

Tim O’Reilly

DrupalCon
San Francisco, CA
April 20, 2010

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

“Major Strasser has been shot...
Round up the usual suspects”


Open Source Web 2.0 Cloud Computing

“You keep using that word. I do not think it
means what you think it means.”


Just what does it mean?


“I’m an inventor.
I became interested in
long term trends
because an invention
has to make sense in the
world in which it is
finished, not the world in
which it is started.”
-Ray Kurzweil


You may think of me as a book publisher


What We Really Do At O'Reilly

Change the world by spreading the
knowledge of innovators


O’Reilly Radar Methodology
 “The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed
yet.” - William Gibson
 We “watch the alpha geeks” and think about the
futures they are living in
 We then look for trend data that tells us that a
particular future is becoming mainstream

 I’m going to tell you some seemingly unconnected
technology stories from the front lines of
innovation. Then we’re going to connect the dots.


<1>


Innovation in Action
 Hackers build devices that show off possible
futures
 Entrepreneurs and innovative companies take
these futures and push them to the mainstream


The cloud future includes...
 Devices acting as sensors for intelligent data
collection
 Devices whose UI is on the web rather than the
device
 Feeding data into multiple online services that will
turn into a full-on sensor web
 Setting the stage for robotics, augmented reality,
and the next generation of personal electronics


<2>


What we see here
 Peer-to-peer credit card payments
 Social networks used for risk evaluation

 The PC is out of the loop
 The phone is a sensor platform
– Hardware add-on innovation
– Location based sensing
– Touch screen UI
 Processing is done in real time in the cloud
– Allowing processing that can’t be done on the device
– Big data analysis
– Building new networks on the back of existing ones
 Reinventing a major industry


<3>


The Yelp Monocle
 Find cafes nearby.


<4>


Crowdsourcing includes the use of
humans as sensors


AMEE - the world’s energy meter


We’re moving to a world in which every device
generates useful data, in which every action
creates “information shadows” on the net.


<5>


The smart phone plus local search. Today pizza,

Pazzia, 337 3rd Street
California Pizza Kitchen, 53 3rd Street
Blondie’s Pizza. 63 Powell Street


An application running on a
mobile device whose user
interface is driven by sensors:

- Touch screen
- Motion and proximity sensors
- Microphone
- GPS or cell tower triangulation


An application that depends on
cooperating cloud data services:

- Speech recognition
- Search
- Location data


An application that applies
context-sensitive filters to give
users just the information they
need.


In real time


<6>


•Search in plain English
•Search by voice
•Traffic view
•Search along route
•Satellite view
•Street view


An application that
depends on cooperating
cloud data services:

- Location
- Search
- Speech recognition
- Live Traffic
- Imagery


Cloud Computing

“You keep using that word. I do not think it
means what you think it means.”


The Internet Operating System is
A Data Operating System


The Internet Operating System is a Data Operating System
 It helps applications find out about
– People
– Places
– Things
– Prices
– Documents
– Images
– Sounds
– Relationships
– ...

 and helps people interact with them through services
– Search
– Payment
– Matching and Recognition
– ...


In Real Time


This is the 21st century data challenge
 Not transactions
 Not data warehouses and business intelligence
 Not database-backed web sites
 Not even NoSQL-backed web services

 Real time cloud-based intelligence delivered to
mobile applications

 Algorithmic intelligence


This is the world that Drupal
must be designed to support


A good start, but is it enough?


Who will own the Internet Operating System?


Do we want anyone to own it?


If not, we’d better get busy!


Who Owns What
Chart Title?

Other

Infrastructure As a Service
Storage — —
Computation — —
Hosted SaaS Apps —
Media access
Music —
Video —
Books — — — — —
Web Content —
Photos — — —
Monetization
Advertising — —
Payment
Location
Maps & Directions — — —
Real Time Location Detection — —
Calendaring/Scheduling —
Social Graph — —
Communications
Email — —
Voice — —
Chat — —
Video — —
Sensor Management
Speech Recognition — —
Image Recognition — — —
Mobile Device OS —
Mobile Device Hardware —
Web Browser — —

Strong o ering
Medium o ering
Getting started
— Not on the board yet


“In the future, being a developer on
someone’s platform will mean being hosted
on their infrastructure.”

- Debra Chrapaty, VP Windows Live (2006)


Who Owns What
Chart Title?

Other

Infrastructure As a Service
Storage — —
Computation — —
Hosted SaaS Apps —
Media access
Music —
Video —
Books — — — — —
Web Content —
Photos — — —
Monetization
Advertising — —
Payment
Location
Maps & Directions — — —
Real Time Location Detection — —
Calendaring/Scheduling —
Social Graph — —
Communications
Email — —
Voice — —
Chat — —
Video — —
Sensor Management
Speech Recognition — —
Image Recognition — — —
Mobile Device OS —
Mobile Device Hardware —
Web Browser — —

Strong o ering
Medium o ering
Getting started
— Not on the board yet

Interoperable web services, open data, and
standard protocols are at least as important as
open source


The underdog is the ally of open source


Potential open source supporters
 Search: Microsoft
 Maps: Microsoft, Nokia,Yelp, Foursquare
 Speech: Nuance, Microsoft
 Social Graph: Google
 Payment: Paypal
 Cloud infrastructure: VMware
 Smartphones: Google
 Device Operating Systems: Google


Corporate data sharing
 There’s a lot of data in the world


Switching tracks (a bit)...


What’s wrong with Government today


Vending Machine Government

Vending Machine Gov concept from Donald Kettl:
The Next Government of the United States


We Need to Do More Than Shake
the Vending Machine!

http://image06.webshots.com/6/2/57/50/190125750NgQXwu_ph.jpg


Drupal is a DIY tool! But so is Arduino.
Keep rediscovering the DIY spirit.


Work on stuff that matters!


For more information
 The Open Source Paradigm Shift (2003)
http://bit.ly/cKLSUP
 What is Web 2.0? (2005)
http://oreil.ly/a0zT65
 Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On (2009)
http://bit.ly/kEKgs
 Government as a Platform (2010)
http://opengovernment.labs.oreilly.com/
 Ongoing commentary
http://radar.oreilly.com
http://twitter.com/timoreilly
http://buzz.google.com/timoreilly


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