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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

However, there are lots of companies that are making money from open source and freemium models. A friend of mine has a company that builds open source applications in spaces that are a bit less innovative than Elgg, but they do very well financially through the packaging and support models. I understand his frustration.

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

In general, at the time, you had to be an engineer to even think about creating a website. 2 nd decade (early 2000): The First Content Management Systems (CMS). You didn’t need a hardcore engineer to set up a website for you, but you still could not do it on your own. Similar stuff is happening in the e-commerce arena.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. Social Chaos Will Create New Business Opportunities.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . Some early open source projects include Whatsatt and Juggernaut. 6) Identity Issuance .

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The End Of The Road For Web Services

blogs.computerworlduk.com

Simon Phipps Subscribe to this blog About Author Computer industry veteran Simon Phipps is now at large in the open source movement and sending dispatches with the latest news from the inside. It led to software applications that by default were complex, brittle and heavy. It took many, many years for that doom to be made reality.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. The payoff: in this bubble, a startup can actively “engineer for an acquisition.”

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. Daily builds are giving way to true continuous integration, in which every checkin to the source control system is automatically run against the full battery of automated tests. At IMVU, our rule was that a new engineer needed to push code to production on their first day.