Open Source in the Cloud Computing Era

The Real Open Source Opportunity Tim O’Reilly March 17, 2010 Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Open Source in the Age of the Cloud Tim O’Reilly March 17, 2010 Wednesday, March 17, 2010

“Major Strasser has been shot... Round up the usual suspects” Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Open Source Web 2.0 Cloud Computing “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Wednesday, March 17, 2010

You may think of me as a book publisher Wednesday, March 17, 2010

What We Really Do At O'Reilly Change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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. Wednesday, March 17, 2010

“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 Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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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 Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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 Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Some of the open source hardware talks at OSCON  Arduino: Open Source Hardware Hacking from the Software Nerd Perspective http://www.arduino.cc/  Plumbing: Parallel Programming for Artists and Makers http://www.concurrency.cc/  Face detection on the iPhone with OpenCV  Environmental Monitoring with Arduino and compatibles  Open Source Data Visualization on Open Source Hardware  Software Control of Home Automation Systems  New Open Source Tools for Creating Embedded Linux Devices Wednesday, March 17, 2010

The smart phone plus local search. Today pizza, Pizelle Pizza, 50 Post Street California Pizza Kitchen, 53 3rd Street Escape from NY Pizza, 333 Bush Street Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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 Wednesday, March 17, 2010

An application that depends on cooperating cloud data services: - Speech recognition - Search - Location data In real time. Wednesday, March 17, 2010

•Search in plain English •Search by voice •Traffic view •Search along route •Satellite view •Street view Wednesday, March 17, 2010

An application that depends on cooperating cloud data services: - Location - Search - Speech recognition - Live Traffic - Imagery Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Open Source Web 2.0 Cloud Computing “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Wednesday, March 17, 2010

The Internet Operating System is A Data Operating System Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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 – ... Wednesday, March 17, 2010

In Real Time Wednesday, March 17, 2010

“Augmented Reality” Wednesday, March 17, 2010

The Yelp Monocle  Find cafes nearby. Wednesday, March 17, 2010

But how do you decide what data to show? Wednesday, March 17, 2010

“We don’t have better algorithms than anyone else. We just have more data.” --Peter Norvig, Chief Scientist, Google Wednesday, March 17, 2010

The underdog is the ally of open source Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Potential open source supporters  Search: Microsoft  Maps: Microsoft, Yelp, Foursquare  Speech: Nuance, Microsoft  Social Graph: Google  Payment: ??  Cloud infrastructure: VMware  Smartphones: Google  Device Operating Systems: Google Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Interoperable web services, open data, and standard protocols are at least as important as open source Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Switching tracks (a bit)... Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Open Source and Scientific Data “With the very pressing issue of climate change, releasing raw data is vital. There can be no excuse not to. Releasing source code is optional, truly great for open source review - but very dangerous if everyone just re-runs the same code with the same baked-in implicit and explicit assumptions and errors. In discussion with our Chief Scientist, we have agreed it's much better to publish the following: - the raw data and the circumstances of its collection - the method and assumptions used to process the data (in words and equations) - the results of the processing - the known limitations on the method and signiﬁcance of the assumptions The computer code should be written from scratch as many times as possible to reduce the chance that it affected the results in any way.” --Gavin Starks, CEO, AMEE Wednesday, March 17, 2010

AMEE - the world’s energy meter Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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 Wednesday, March 17, 2010