Month: June 2008
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Jeremy Zawodny + other news
Jeremy Zawodny Leaving Yahoo! (by Jeremy Zawodny) – this is big, as Jeremy bleeds purple. Jeremy Zawodny is to Yahoo! what Matt Cutts would be to Google. Jeremy was active in the MySQL community. The Jeremy Zawodny blog one has helped build relationships for Yahoo! in the developer community and attract potential employees to the…
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London Bloggers event
Hidden upstairs in West End pub (like an Victorian anarchist’s meeting in a Joseph Conrad story) is the monthly London Bloggers Meetup. The pub had an old world feel to it and still advertises Double Diamond beers (at least that’s what the in-pub signage said). Up the tight winding stairs and into a friendly room…
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Microsoft alternatives + more news
Microsoft alternatives EU stumbles on buying Microsoft alternatives – The European Commission, a thorn in Microsoft’s (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) side for its antitrust campaigns against the software giant, is falling short in its own internal attempt to promote Microsoft alternatives – this isn’t surprising. The open source community have failed with desktop…
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Here comes everybody by Clay Shirky
Here Comes Everybody – The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky is the book of the moment. It is an on-trend now in 2008 as Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point had been previously. Shirky writes a book about the way that productive, collaborative groups form–groups that are larger and more distributed than at…