Sunday, November 19, 2006

Bons ventos em venture capital

Ora, numa altura em que andamos a iniciar a aventura de procurar capital de risco, eis notícias interessantes:
GigaOM - Sevin Rosen Unfunds - why?
The VC investments have started to flow in a different direction, primarily light weight Internet applications and Web 2.0 sector. This doesn't mean that the world doesn't need chips or networking gear; just not that much of it.


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Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Release Engineer

Hoje ganhei mais um bocado de respeito pelos release engineers. Quatro horas do meu dia perdidas^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H gastas a fazer isto:


Merece uma t-shirt: Quatro horas a olhar para código dos outros e a única coisa que ganhei foi este grafo...

 

P.S. A imagem é do grafo de revisões no monotone, com as frentes de desenvolvimento do editor.blog.com.

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Monday, September 12, 2005

Hiring...

So, we're getting into gear for hiring, which directed my random reading internet time into hiring techniques. After Paul Graham's Hiring is Obsolete (an over-scandalous title, leading a very good article), I stepped on this "Reduce the risk, hire from open source".

While Paul Graham's article is probably a bit U.S.-centric -- Europe(ans) does not have half the agility creating new companies -- the idea that open-source work can act as the best of imaginable resumés seems flawless. Hiring a OSS author is hiring someone who walks the walk (even if not talking the talk).
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Monday, September 05, 2005

Blog.pt is finally up!

At long last! Blog.pt has finally emerged from the internationalization development milestone:

blog.pti18n.
This milestone marks the ability to localize messages to any language. There aren't many new features, externally visible, but the under the hood refactoring should allow us to move freely for the next couple of years, adding features. There's lots to put in there!
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Thursday, June 23, 2005

We were spotted

by Evhead...
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Blog.com Account Upgrades


And it is done! Blog.com now has paid account support. Payments through VISA, with an insane gateway that needed to reinvent XML-RPC and provide no support libraries -- it had a well documented protocol on top of HTTP, at least.
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Saturday, February 05, 2005

Folksonomies and tags

in Bokardo.com

Although the two most talked-about folksonomies, del.icio.us and flickr, use tags, we don't need them to create similar, powerful tools. All we need is something that we can aggregate.

So instead of asking "how can I create a tagging system for my site?", we might ask: "how can I aggregate and leverage the behavior of people on my site?". When asked in this way, we recognize many examples of this being done right now.

There's a very interesting series of posts on folksonomies at bokardo.com (found via ssn). The quoted bit really touched a nerve here. The separation of tagging and taxonomy, in the emergent process of ad-hoc classification we now call folksonomy, is pretty obvious a-posteriori. However, the two foremost folksonomies, flickr and delicious, being tag-based may suggest tags are needed for a folksonomy. Not true.

At blog.com we've just started trying to extract information from profile and post category information. An example here. It's an endless fun, surfing blogs using common post categories. More than fun, it is now exceedingly clear that profile info and post category info can be used as the source of a taxonomy, creating as much of a folksonomy as delicious' or flickr's.
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