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WPBook 1.5 Released – Let the Streaming begin!
Veröffentlicht 07 Mar 2010 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

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WordCamp NYC, WPBook, WordCamp Boston
Veröffentlicht 14 Nov 2009 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

Here’s the slides from my presentation this morning at WordCamp NYC. It was in the “beginning developer” track so I tried to focus on the overall structure of how the plugin does what it does and the hooks/actions/filters used. Hard to fit the talk into 30 minutes with time for questions and roadmap – there’s so much more I want WPBook to do – hopefully I can find the time soon. + Read more

Free as in What, Exactly?
Veröffentlicht 02 Oct 2009 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

Free Software advocates have for a long time worked to draw a distinction between free of cost (“Free as in Beer”) and free of restrictions (“Free as in Speech” or as I prefer “Free as in Freedom”). The challenge stems from the fact that we use, in idiomatic English, the same word “Free” to refer to both concepts, whereas in romance languages (based on latin) there’s a clearer distinction between gratis and libre. + Read more

The Assembled Web: Notes Toward a Manifesto
Veröffentlicht 22 Sep 2009 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

In the spirit of (and heavily inspired by) the original Cluetrain Manifesto and the recent 10th anniversary edition, I offer the following definition and 10 principles of what we at Optaros have been calling the Assembled Web. + Read more

Who Pays for Content? What’s in it for Me? Vote!
Veröffentlicht 02 Sep 2009 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

Pardon the brief, self-promotional nature of this post, but I just realized if I don’t get one up soon I’m going to miss the deadline – voting for SXSW Interactive 2010 ends this Friday! + Read more

Open Source and Design: Ideologies Clashing (SXSW Extended Content)
Veröffentlicht 17 Jun 2009 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

One of the panels I proposed for SXSW Interactive 2009 was on the intersection of open source and design: Thesis: Open Source and Design are fundamentally philosophically incompatible. Antithesis: Open Source and Design are profoundly similar in core beliefs and approaches. This talk works to articulate a meaningful synthesis between these two positions. + Read more

Weaving Identity into the Browser
Veröffentlicht 14 May 2009 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

(via Dion Almaer and ReadWriteWeb) Mozilla Labs posted a screencast yesterday of a new feature as part of the Weave project, which enables OpenID at the browser level, which will have potentially significant impact on adoption and use of portable identity technology. + Read more

What are Communities Made of? Northeast User Group Leader Summit
Veröffentlicht 05 May 2009 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

    Making Ice Cream (Photo by Rachel J) + Read more

Zeldman on the maturity of Open Source CMS
Veröffentlicht 20 Apr 2009 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

Quick excerpt from an interview with Jeffrey Zeldman which includes some discussion of the impact of Open Source, and particularly open source CMS’s, on the process of designing and building web applications: Although I think it’s important to draw a distinction between simple, relatively cheap licensing (the Expression Engine model) and Free and Open Source software, I generally agree that + Read more

An Online Community is More Than a Place
Veröffentlicht 16 Apr 2009 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

Community minus people = empty (Photo by marilynpratt) + Read more

Multiple Communities, Multiple Platforms?
Veröffentlicht 13 Apr 2009 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

Found this interesting comment in a blog post by Tony Byrne from CMS Watch on the social software marketplace and the fact that Intel leverages multiple community software vendors: + Read more

Media Cloud(s) On the Horizon
Veröffentlicht 11 Apr 2009 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society launched Media Cloud in early March, though it had been quietly available for a few months before that. It’s an exciting concept, limited in its current implementation but sure to grow in utility as more features get added. + Read more

Groundhog Day – Joining Facebook Network
Veröffentlicht 08 Apr 2009 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

Early last year I wrote about the complete opacity of the Facebook network process (see “who do I have to poke to get a network?“). You can request a network be created, but you have no real sense of what actually moves the request through any process. + Read more

Tracking Keywords in Twitter
Veröffentlicht 04 Apr 2009 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

Tracking the occurrence of keywords in twitter through one of the automated tools is a quick way to add value to your experience. Brands often use this approach to track mentions of their products and companies, developers can use it to track mentions of their favorite languages, frameworks, and open source projects, and anyone can use it to track mentions of their hometown, their own twitter username (to make sure you don’t miss any @replies). + Read more

BostonPHP: MediaWiki in Production
Veröffentlicht 18 Jan 2009 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

Earlier this week, I was happy to have the chance for Optaros to host a BostonPHP meeting again – we used to do so in the old Canal St. offices but hadn’t done so in a while – certainly not since moving to Milk St. + Read more