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Selling the Community-in-a-Box

Friday, August 24th, 2007

Don Dodge coined Web2.0 as “Web App + 2 Founders + 0 Revenue”. Funny, and not too far off the money.
Don goes into detail about the various ways that Web2.0 firms are funding their efforts. This goes from Freemium (free basic membership with paid premium package) to Subscriptions to simple Advertising.
One thing that he doesn’t […]

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Getting your data off Backpackit

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

I have had an active account at backpackit for the last 2 years, I used it for a lot of different collaborative writing I was doing until Google Docs started kicking ass google style and I decided to move to that.
Now that I have several hundred documents in google docs, I am wondering how I […]

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Ruby community discovers annoyance of GPL libraries

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

This interesting post describes one or the reasons why PEAR/PECL doesn’t allow (L)GPL code in the repositories
The problem that I’ve stumbled upon is that Ruby’s Gem repository is full of randomly licensed code, including lots of GPL stuff. At the very least, this information ought to be very visible so that it’s possible to weed […]

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