By Mark on Sep 30, 2008 in Online Community | 1 Comment
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 [...]
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By Mark on Sep 27, 2008 in Free Culture | 0 Comments
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 [...]
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By Mark on Sep 23, 2008 in Marketing/PR | 0 Comments
I thought this was an interesting description of what analysts do and how they like to be treated from Red Monk’s Michael Coté.
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By Mark on Sep 20, 2008 in Geek Chic | 2 Comments
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 [...]
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By Mark on Sep 20, 2008 in LinuxToday, LinuxWorld, Open Source | 0 Comments
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 [...]
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