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#2Whatever you think of Github you gotta admit that they are machines when it comes to adding new features to the site, the pace is fast and steady.
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#3I am curious if anyone has any insight as to what GitHub's strategy is with this move?
It seems that they are steadily tracking towards a browser-based cloud IDE. GitHub also seems to be a popular choice for devs hosting their blogs. I wonder if they're hoping to be a more all-round app hosting service?
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#4I am curious if anyone has any insight as to what GitHub's strategy is with this move? It seems that they are steadily tracking towards a browser-based cloud IDE. GitHub also seems to be a popular choice for devs hosting their blogs. I wonder if they're hoping to be a more all-round app hosting service?
I wouldn't overthink it, it may have just been for fun, like something that came out of a hackathon or that an intern wanted to do.
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#5I am curious if anyone has any insight as to what GitHub's strategy is with this move? It seems that they are steadily tracking towards a browser-based cloud IDE. GitHub also seems to be a popular choice for devs hosting their blogs. I wonder if they're hoping to be a more all-round app hosting service?
I think that's what their move is. Having raised $100 million, they are in a spot where they can aim big.
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#6I am curious if anyone has any insight as to what GitHub's strategy is with this move? It seems that they are steadily tracking towards a browser-based cloud IDE. GitHub also seems to be a popular choice for devs hosting their blogs. I wonder if they're hoping to be a more all-round app hosting service?
I imagine their long term vision would be to allow better collaboration for all types of data-based projects (whether code, or geo data, or books).
In the short term, any small project like this that makes GitHub a little cooler is fair game.
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#7I am curious if anyone has any insight as to what GitHub's strategy is with this move? It seems that they are steadily tracking towards a browser-based cloud IDE. GitHub also seems to be a popular choice for devs hosting their blogs. I wonder if they're hoping to be a more all-round app hosting service?
The recent Inc. article [1] about GitHub isn't really deep but the end has some insights:
a shift is taking place: "Now we are finding that it's not just about the code; it's about, 'Hey, I want to work on this with you.' That's really eye-opening to us and gets everyone here superexcited. Working with someone else is just an awesome part of being alive. Creating art, creating tools, creating documents, doing homework, anything--it's not limited to programming. I don't see why musicians wouldn't want to work this way, for example."
Take that, and now consider how much a forward-thinking city could do with its data as GitHub adds features like this. I don't think it's about being just an IDE/app hosting service ... it's (eventually) about collaboration/control/revisioning beyond purely software projects.
[1] http://www.inc.com/magazine/201303/will-bourne/2-reasons-to-...
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#8I'd love to know where these ideas come from. All the way from the top? Product? Developers with a 20% time window? They've always been innovative and despite size/growth/scale seem to be able to keep that up.
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#9I am curious if anyone has any insight as to what GitHub's strategy is with this move? It seems that they are steadily tracking towards a browser-based cloud IDE. GitHub also seems to be a popular choice for devs hosting their blogs. I wonder if they're hoping to be a more all-round app hosting service?
The recent Inc. article [1] about GitHub isn't really deep but the end has some insights: a shift is taking place: "Now we are finding that it's not just about the code; it's about, 'Hey, I want to work on this with you.' That's really eye-opening to us and gets everyone here superexcited. Working with someone else is just an awesome part of being alive. Creating art, creating tools, creating documents, doing homewor…
Can this be a vision that is totally disruptive, not now but but 5 (or 10) years in the future?
It looks like GitHub is looking at allowing collaborations between knowledge domains. Within their blog post, it said "People are already using GitHub to store everything from Chicago zipcodes to community radio stations to historic hurricane paths, and we can't wait to see what the community will begin to collaborate on next."
So I am guessing that GitHub is putting a few small services that folks could use with the collaborations. Mapping services is one of them, another could be public transport information services. I think it all depends on what kind of data are being held in GitHub.
Now, if this collaboration idea is spun off to someone like to DropBox where there are truck loads of data in there, we could see some interesting things.
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#10I'd love to know where these ideas come from. All the way from the top? Product? Developers with a 20% time window? They've always been innovative and despite size/growth/scale seem to be able to keep that up.
It's more organic than you think. Employees want to see something, so they sell others on and work on it themselves if they can. If they can sell others to help, eventually it can ship. If not, then it atrophies and gets killed before it makes it out to the public.