dW at 10: Dirk Nicol on leading for open standards

Published: Sept. 28, 2009, 4 p.m.

Dirk Nicol, IBM Program Director for Emerging Technology and Web 2.0 Evangelism, started IBM's first Java website over a decade ago and then hatched the plan for developerWorks. Dirk talks about the radical step of moving away from marketing to a more agnostic embrace of developer education and open standards. He also touches on new directions with social networking and cloud computing.