Author Archive

The Contribution Revolution »

The October edition of the Harvard Business Journal has a contributed article by Intuit co-founder Scott Cooke on how to build your business using communities. I thought it interesting that he used many of the standard “crowd-sourcing” examples like Skype and Wikipedia but no open source software examples. Given Intuit’s proprietary nature I guess I [...]

Popularity: 5% [?]

Trent Reznor’s “Open Source” Approach to Rock and Roll »

As I mentioned before I really like Trent Reznor not only his music but his philosophy on making music. He’s cut out the record labels makes his music available for free. He does make money by selling tickets to shows and albums he produces himself.
I got this note from him this week (actually everyone who [...]

Popularity: 5% [?]

Dealing with Analysts »

I thought this was an interesting description of what analysts do and how they like to be treated from Red Monk’s Michael Coté.

| View | Upload your own

Popularity: 6% [?]

Technorati Tags: analysts, AR

Popularity: 6% [?]

Garmin nüvi 255W »

This week my wife explicitly told me to go get a new gadget. It doesn’t happen often, actually I think in fact this was a first.
We are getting ready to go on vacation and we are going to be driving around Northern California so she told me I should get a GPS rather than rent [...]

Popularity: 7% [?]

Software Freedom Day »

Tomorrow is the fourth annual Software Freedom Day. A world wide celebration of of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). This is the second year I have been involved and am proud to say that Zenoss is a global sponsor along with Sun, Google, and my good friends at MindTouch.
What’s really impressive is the [...]

Popularity: 7% [?]