Last weekend I was at Yahoo! Open Hack Day Brazil 2010, an event that gathers people to develop hacks in 24 hours. I’ve created a team with Chester and, after some brainstorming, we’ve decided to create a mash up between SlideShare and Yahoo! Meme, that we’ve called SlideMeme. Chester gave more details about the implementation [...]
Or why products are launched in private betas. A few years ago Eric Raymond postulated the “Law of Linus”, which goes as: Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow So why should a company limit the number of eyeballs allowed to interact with their new products? Clay Shirky gives us an important reason to start [...]
One week ago I was at Open Hack NYC. The keynote by Clay Shirky was great and I plan to write a blog post about it soon. But today I’m here to share what I saw during the Ignite NYC presentation that happened that same night. There were many interesting 5 minutes talk on several [...]
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I’ve been following the discussions about license proliferation that have been going on the past few weeks.I’m really glad that they are bringing up all those issues now because they are very closely related to the subject of my master’s dissertation and it will surely enrich my research.But one thought that crossed my mind today [...]
Just a rant: when you aren’t going to do things right, let other people do it.
Today the Wikia Search team announced something that dramatically changed how easy it is to help build a better search engine. It is a new Firefox toolbar that lets you add sites and metadata about them to the Wikia Search index in a few clicks, without ever leaving the page. You can also add search [...]
Looks like the viral marketing has been working well for Firefox 3. You can keep track of the progression at the download counter page.It would be interesting if they released a graph of downloads per hour.
Two weeks after my last rant, I just would like to say that I feel things are working better in the project now. People are being able to discuss ideas and there is better communication about what is going on.
