Check out ”The Open Company - Running your business as if it were an Open Source Project. It describes a radical approach (at least from my POV) on how to operate a business. I’m not a business operations person, so I don’t have the chops to completely evaluate the proposition here ahead of time. However, there are some intrigiung ideas in this article and I love where this could lead (not to mention the potential to upset the apple cart).

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I’ve always wanted some simple ‘personal relationship manager’, i.e. the problem is that I’ve got friends and acquaintances I want to keep up with - but I am lousy at reminding myself to follow-up when I don’t see them regularly. I want a way to: get a dashboard that shows me what’s new with people in my social networks organize the dashboard based on some heuristics on what social networks are more important than others (e.

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Open source “evil genius” whurley has announced he will be writing a column for InfoWorld on cloud computing, and it appears that his initial focus will be to help bring clarity to ‘just what cloud computing means’. I’m looking forward to reading it.

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Ok, so why are my friends and co-workers noticing my minor obsession about CouchDB? There’s a few reasons. First, I have a long-term unlove-affair with RDBMS. Why? I started off working in the UNIX kernel (V6 anyone?) and there’s no stinking databases in there… just some filesystem stuff After learning and using C, I jumped to Smalltalk and like a newborn duckling, I was imprinted by the Smalltalk view of the world - which forever set my idea about persistent data + behavior.

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housekeeping on my blog. remember blogs? so last … decade? years? # @juliegomoll - more of a tweak at those who ‘left behind’ long-form-blogs and now only do short-form-tweets in reply to juliegomoll # @danbenjamin for SXSW, it’s nearby and very cool: San Jose on S. Congress in reply to danbenjamin # A tough week here: http://tinyurl.com/57dkpy # @wbruce I thought “naked red & green machine” was phase 0 for you?

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@juliegomoll - more of a tweak at those who ‘left behind’ long-form-blogs and now only do short-form-tweets

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housekeeping on my blog. remember blogs? so last … decade? years?

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not sleeping. the day is still running through my head.

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With the economic downturn, financial pressures increases on technologuy budgets (whether commercial, large / small enterprise, startup or non-profit).Increased productivity + open source + prevalence in the ‘cloud’ (regardless of your definition of ‘cloud’) bodes well for the Rails + Ruby eco-system.I’m biased, as are the rest of us at FiveRuns - but we’re not the only ones saying this.Â

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Hot off the press - an iPhone app to accelerate the Obama ‘08 campaign! Thanks to my friend (and open source guru) Raven Zachary, I had the privilege of beta testing the new Obama ‘08 for iPhone application. The idea, the potential and the implementation is tremendous - create grassroots opportunities to participate at the ‘edge’ of the internet. In other words, let people participate in the campaign from their perspective, instead of uploading their data to a central place or getting anonymous instructions from a central place.

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