{"id":1044,"date":"2014-11-24T16:54:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T16:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2014-11-24T17:49:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T17:49:36","slug":"open-source-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2014\/11\/open-source-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Cutts on the scarcity of open source services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattcutts.com\/blog\/open-source-services\/\">Matt Cutts on the scarcity of open source services<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Open source is really good at creating products. Almost any commercial software package or product like Word, Excel, Windows, or Photoshop has a great open source equivalent. However, open source has been less successful at creating services. Where\u2019s the open source version of Google, or Facebook, or Twitter, or Gmail, or Craigslist?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I (unsurprisingly) think the answer looks a lot like <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/automattic.com\/\">Automattic<\/a>, with\u00a0a combination of distributed and centralized systems complementing each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Cutts on the scarcity of open source services: Open source is really good at creating products. Almost any commercial software package or product like Word, Excel, Windows, or Photoshop has a great open source equivalent. However, open source has been less successful at creating services. Where\u2019s the open source version of Google, or Facebook, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Fostering open source services","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[163],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-open-source","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G65p-gQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}