Category Archives: open source

Open source grid computing takes off

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Matt McAlister

This has been fun to watch. The Hadoop team at Yahoo! is moving quickly to push the technology to reach its potential. They’ve now adopted it on one of the most important applications in the entire business, Yahoo! Search. From … Continue reading →

Posted in grid, jeremy zawodny, mapreduce, open source, scale, search, video, yahoo | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

How to offer simple RSS badges for your users

Posted on November 25, 2006 by

The key breakthrough that made it possible for YouTube to ride on MySpace’s heavy traffic coattails into its current state as a mass media service is the concept of widgets, often called badges in related contexts. Although offering widgets or … Continue reading →

Posted in aggregation, flipbait, how to, marketing, open source, pligg, rss, widgets | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

A human-powered relevance engine for Internet startup news

Posted on November 20, 2006 by

Here’s a fun experiment in crowdsourcing. I’ve been getting overwhelmed by all the startup news coming out of the many sources tracking the interesting ideas and new companies hunting for Internet gold. Many of these companies are really smart. Many … Continue reading →

Posted in aggregation, collaboration, digg, flipbait, innovation, news, open source, participation, peer production, pligg, publishing, recommendations, social media, startup | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Scaffolding web sites with Ruby on Rails

Posted on October 24, 2006 by

I started messing around with Ruby on Rails for the first time on Sunday. This was after spending all day Saturday tearing down kitchen cupboards, tiled sinks and entire walls for a friend who is remodeling his house, so I … Continue reading →

Posted in creativity, design, development, fashion, innovation, open source, programming, rubyonrails, web services | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Open source software as a customer capture tool

Posted on July 23, 2006 by

I just started messing around with a product called SugarCRM which is an open source sales contact management tool much like Salesforce.com. They’ve done a really clever thing which is to build a revenue model around the added services rather … Continue reading →

Posted in All, crm, marketing, open source, salesforce.com, software, sugarcrm | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments