Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category
Sunday, April 15th, 2007
Tools of the trade
enourmouse # of technologies
cant participate in all communities - have to pick and choose
can try out all the clones for free or low cost
Not an endorsement of any tech - best tool for him or her - might not work - hosted versus local
tools out there - ...
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Sunday, April 15th, 2007
Deb Schultz and Anil Dash
Philosophy of evangelism
what is community evangelism
Key concepts
Human tools and tech tools
technical know-how
case studies
WHat can you do with a Book? (AD)
concept that informs a lot of what he sees personally
talk to young people - what can they do with a book - read it, notes, cover it, ...
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
Ashish, Manish, Guarav and the rest of the team at Tekriti just turned 2.
These guys are rockstars developers (shipping custom code, CMSs as well as their own project with Broadband Mechanics - PeopleAggregator - and have worked with me in the past on a couple of projects).
The real ...
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Awesome video telling/showing what Web2.0 is all about created by Anthropology Professior Michael Wesch. The video uses Web2.0 sites and technologies (like XML and RSS) to tell a short story using/embedded in the technologies that make it up.
Thanks to Somwhat Frank for the pointer.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Web 2.0 … The Machine ...
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
Isabel Walcott blogs about big telcos trying to crush the VOIP (and other markets) while they are still infants. She is rightfully frustrated. Not because she is a huge fan of VOIP, but because she sees it as both a 'DUH' move on their part and another restriction on ...
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Wednesday, October 12th, 2005
Hugh Macleod spends a little time today discussing the Global Mcrobrand. I love Hugh's commentary - funny witty and his illustrations are a riot (and not always work safe!). Whats really interesting is when he talks about Stormhoek and English Cut. It is less advertising and more conversational. I actually ...
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Sunday, September 25th, 2005
Great interview with Alton Brown from Food Channel's Good Eats on Brian's Belly.
Brown's is my favorits show on Food Network, hands-down (Mon-Fri at 7pm). He has even gotten covered on Slashdot.
"What I do like is adapting vernacular. It is not that I'm a computer geek, it's that I'm obsessed ...
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Saturday, September 17th, 2005
Marc Canter blogs about the new site Netvibes. It is an example of a Digital Lifestyle Aggregator (similar to what Marc is planning on doing with GoingOn).
Check it out here: http://www.netvibes.com/
This is easily the coolest thing I have seen in a while. Its built in Ajax (like Google's personalized ...
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Monday, September 5th, 2005
My favorite-conference-for-life is Gnomedex. Hands down, it is the best. Best speakers, best crowd (Lunatic Fringe), best topics, and I got to do some sightseeing in Seattle.
This week Chris and Ponzi opened up the idea of Gnomedex 2006, and floated the idea that there be 2 Gnomedexes. The response was, ...
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Friday, August 19th, 2005
In-game machinima talk-show with random Halo players shooting guests.
Awesome post from Boing-Boing about "This Spartan Life" an in-game talk show for X Box Live HALO. The best part?
Of course, there are lots of Halo players who aren't in on the gag, crashing through the "set" and opening fire on the ...
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