Over the last few years there has been a lot of fanfare around open source companies and their liquidation events. Most of the news has been around Sun’s billion dollar acquisition of MySQL or the Citrix acquisition of Xen and even Yahoo’s acquisition of Zimbra. In contrast there was little attention paid to the SourceFire. [...]

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Tonight at 7:00 p.m. there’s a Triangle Tweetup at the Capstrat in Raleigh (near the RBC Center) to discuss Twitter and to network with other Twitter users.
Here’s the venue:
Capstrat, Inc.
1201 Edwards Mill Road, First Floor 102
Raleigh, NC 27607
http://www.capstrat.com
More information can be found on the wiki.
If you want to get together at the event hit me [...]

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Today I am attending Blog Carolinas a social media conference being held in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park (that’s halfway between Raleigh and Durham). I am particularly interesting on hearing Andy Beal’s session on Online Reputation Management. Andy recently launched Trackur, an online reputation monitoring service (which I am interested in using for Zenoss).
Here’s what [...]

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I met Black Duck CEO, Doug Levin back in October 2003 at the Enterprise Linux Forum in Washington D.C. I instantly liked him. He was just starting Black Duck Software and as a ex-Microsoftie talking about IP assurance I wasn’t convinced about the bright future of his business. However, I enjoyed meeting Doug and [...]

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Gary Vaynerchuk has a very passionate video on giving to relationships and not just glossing over but making at least an 80% effort. 

Ironically I was just thinking about writing a post on the, Confessions of a Social Media Slacker. More on that later.
[via Scoble on Twitter] 
 
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