April 2006

Separate the Skype Engine From the GUI

April 25, 2006

Skype’s Developer Blog has an interesting post this morning from Peeter Mõtsküla asking for comment on a proposal to separate the Skype GUI from the underlying Skype engine.  Cool!  As I have said many times in the past, softphones are platforms.  The future role of the softphone is an integration platform for desktop applications. Skype’s platform [...]

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Barcamp: A Long Tail Phenomenon?

April 25, 2006

On the Barcamp.org wiki there is a feature which allows you to track all of the changes to the wiki.  I turned it on, accidentally, a couple of days ago, and started seeing the flow of traffic.  Barcamp is clearly a global phenomenon.  Two which caught my eye are Blogcamp, which bills itself as south [...]

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Get Your Blog Noticed!

April 24, 2006

Last August I began a serious effort to try to increase the traffic to my blog, after switching from Radio (where it had been for three years) to WordPress.  Since then, I've gone from an average of 216 visitors per day, to 3400.  March was the first month I had more than 100,000 visits, and [...]

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Internal Communications Trends

April 24, 2006

The Top 7 Macro Trends in Internal Communications is a piece documenting seven trends which are changing the way the workplace communications.  Some quotes: On the democratization of communication: "Technology has transformed the world of internal communications. Information is no longer a precious resource but a widely held commodity.  With access to email, wikis and [...]

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Deleting Posts

April 24, 2006

I did something this morning which I haven’t done before, and which I have said in the past that I wouldn’t.  I deleted several posts from this site.  The posts in question concerned a specific individual’s business. Some time ago, I wrote an uncomplimentary opinion about some aspects of the way this business was being marketed.  [...]

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Barcamp Ottawa Was a Roaring Success

April 23, 2006

Barcamp Ottawa wrapped up yesterday, with a lot of smiles and a what looked like a unanimous vote to do it again.  Cool! We had 90 people turn out, exceeding even our own expectations.  There were probably a dozen folks from out of town, including several groups who drove up from Toronto.  There was also [...]

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Open Source and Business Issues

April 22, 2006

I was very pleased to be able to have a joint session with Tom Marlay of Gowlings on Open Source, and Business.  The session was well attended, and was a quick overview of open source issues.  For my part, I covered mostly the issues in this story which I wrote some time ago.  Tom covered [...]

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Blogging About Blogging in Ottawa

April 22, 2006

This is a recursive post.  I am blogging about the Blogging in Ottawa Panel.  We had a lively discussion, but the real value of the session was to agree to continue to build a blogging community in Ottawa.  At the end, I volunteered to begin to maintain a list of Ottawa bloggers.  Here’s the first [...]

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Building Open Source Communities

April 22, 2006

Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, is giving a talk on building communities around Open Source.  For Mike, the key elements of creating an open source platform are: Great Technology Broad Adoption Architecture of Participation Hijacked by a Fanatical Community His talk is excellent.  Eclipse is a cool blend of traditional hacker-driven open [...]

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BarCamp Ottawa: 45 Minutes to Go

April 22, 2006

I am sitting in the car outside Bitheads facility on Carling Avenue, waiting for the Ted to come and open the doors.  In a little less than 45 minutes, we’re going to be underway.  It’s been a lot of work for the last few weeks for David Keys, Ross McLeod, Craig Fitzpatrick, Peter Childs, and [...]

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