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I promised Bryce not to blog this until the round closed, and it's been painful. I think OpenAds is one of the coolest applications of open source in some time. I'm glad to see Danny Rimer and Bryce Roberts, two of my favorite people and VC
Or maybe I should say a lack of guile. But naivete works, too. I just spent an engaging hour talking with Glyn Moody, author of Rebel Code and Digital Code of Life (which I had not heard of but which sounds fascinating - talks, at least in part, abou
Tim just released a preview of this year's Executive Radar at OSCON. I helped put it together last year ("helped" being the operative term - Tim completely overhauled my anemic efforts to make the program into something worth listening
This is the question that Peter Yared asks in his blog, and it's fascinating given that he founded a company (ActiveGrid) based on the premise that Java was going to get shunted aside, as Stephen O'Grady notes. My company, Alfresco, is Java
As BetaNews reports, the US Patent & Trademark Office is taking widespread complaints seriously in how it approaches a crush of patent applications:As urgent appeals for lawmakers to finally address multiple defects in US patent law appear to fin
I remember once asking Marten Mickos to participate on a panel - "The Battle of the Databases" - for Linuxworld a year or two back. He declined. At the time, I was mildly annoyed at his sense of camaraderie - he didn't think it was pro
I spent some time talking with Michael Osterman of Osterman Research, which today announced a survey it completed dealing with enterprise email. The survey was conducted with 100+ enterprises that have an average of 6,636 e-mail users. It was commiss
It's happening on TV, too. It turns out, as Paul Kedrosky captures, that news doesn't happen on TV anymore. It breaks first on the Internet.Some fascinating stuff going on when you get beneath the respective hoods of CNN's decline and
Paul Kedrosky showcases this this interview with IDEO founder David Kelley. I found this particular comment fascinating and appropriate for how open source works:We don't believe in this notion of a bunch of smart people sitting around being cle
I am, quite possibly, the most anti-social person on this planet. This makes it all the more surprising that I bumped into Rick Statile, counsel for Red Hat, while in line at Passport Control at London's Gatwick Airport on Sunday. Rick and his w