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Alfresco Software reported record revenues today, providing a signal that open-source technologies are a top choice for the enterprise as the economy moves out of the recession and cloud computing becomes more prevalent.
Alfresco reported both record fourth quarter earnings and record revenues for 2009. Growth is up 61% compared to last year. We look at these results with a grain of salt but in Alfresco’s case it increased its staff 29 percent and also added 300 customer, including companies such as Cisco, Merck and the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development.
In an interview today, Alfresco’s Ian Howell said the growth is coming from companies making the switch from document management platforms. Most of these document management companies have been acquired. And since most of those acquisitions, the market has changed. Open-source content management systems and Sharepoint have disrupted the market, providing a web oriented alternative to document-based, enterprise applications.
The customer is also adapting to an open-source culture. Before, a customer would ask: Do i get source code? Do you support it or do I have to go the forums? Do you scale in an enterprise?
Now, customers ask; How do I roll out? Do you offer 24/7 customer support?
The infrastructure is there. The ISV market and partner networks for open-source companies is growing as are content applications for open-source enterprise technologies. Service organizations are a core part of the open-source ecosytsem.
Further, how can proprietary technology have any role in a cloud environment? It’s the economics that drive open-source adoption in the cloud. That factor alone is drawing the enterprise to open-source.
And that means a bright future for open-source enterprise technologies from companies like Alfresco.
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Floor plans for small houses often look cramped on all sides, drawn furniture crowding each interior space. Not so with the work of Atelier Bow-Wow, an architecture and design group that (as the dog-referencing name suggests) specializes in the creation of extra-small dwellings as well as tall residences on tiny lots that bridge the gap between ‘little’ and ‘luxury’ living.
There is an art to small space living and tiny home design that goes beyond making little lots feel bigger or making the most of what you have. Done right, a small structure can feel downright comfortable and cozy – not just livable or sufficient. These designers have no room for small minds, just big ideas for small spaces.
Take this tower home for instance: the plans above show just how small each level is, but the sectional models reveal a series of interconnected spaces – and photos of the finished structure are the most amazing of all, illustrating the clear visibility up, down and all around inside the house.
Other architectural projects from this firm may look more conventional on the outside by have amazing details, like the wooden walls, shelves and staircase structure of the more conventional-looking house with plans and sections as shown above.
Even their own live/work studio spaces fit into an extremely skinny lot – a simple tower with much more going on inside than you might first realize.
Again: the use of open-tread stairs, warm materials and generously-sized windows make these places more of an adventure than most homes could hope to be. Besides, with all of the new technology available today for building structures we sometimes forget that the best way to go green is to build small.’
If you have a gmail account they you have noticed that buzz is there. You might like it or not (now you can turn it off). If you do, and you are a chrome user (I am when I am not on my mac) then try the Google Chrome extension that adds Facebook into the left sidebar of Gmail, right under Google Buzz. Install the extension, sign in via Facebook Connect, and voila, you’ve got your Facebook News Feed right there with your Gmail inbox and Google Buzz. The extension doesn’t fold the Facebook stuff into your inbox like Buzz. But, frankly, it’s a lot better that way.
I have blogged about evite in the past and now I have to mention it again.
Traditionally people organize events by sending emails to everybody, having private one-on-one conversations for specific things, and at the end, if it is a big event, you don’t know who is going, who is bringing what etc…
There are several online tools that help you out when organising events. The most notable is evite, but there are many others, like mypounchbowl, and other more niche doing specific things like doodle (simple but efficient to decide a specific time) or aimado (if you want to charge for the event/concert or whatever).
Evite, if you have used it through time, you know is a headache with tons of advertising, spamming you often and even you it is powerful because it let you create lists of things to bring to a meeting, for me it is not an option. In fact there is plenty of ads free clones/alternatives like Socializr and Anyvite, and even a site for alternatives.
If most of your friends are in Facebook, then you can organize an event with facebook, it has the familiar interface and it is pretty good.
If you want to try something new, then try paperless post, a with a nice design with visually stunning results.
Paperless Post does not accept advertising.
Paperless Post makes its money through pricing units called “stamps.” If you buy a batch of 20, they’re 20 cents each; if you buy 300 or more, they’re 5 cents apiece. It takes one stamp to e-mail each invitation. (Using a special “envelope liner,” which looks like the ones in a stationery store, requires a second stamp; affixing a photograph to each invitation requires another.)
Even if you add every conceivable extra to your stack of online invitations, the cost of each remains tiny, measured in nickels.
If Paperless Post succeeds in persuading hosts of wedding parties and other formal events that its e-mail invitations are the equal of printed ones, its future seems bright indeed. This is where the company’s initial efforts are concentrated.
I have been using windows OS for mobile phone for ages. I started with the famous Qtek s100 (magician) since 2003. Then I upgraded to the p3330 (artemis) with GPS included.
From my dear p3300 I changed to the iPhone first generation, then iPhone 3g and currently iPhone 3GS.
Up to now windows mobile has been an OS for freaks like me or business people because it was the best platform to sync with exchange. Then iPhone and blackberries came into play and since then windows mobile has taken a less important role.
Few weeks ago windows announced in barcelona a brand new OS for phones: the windows phone 7 series. A pretty bad name if I have to say… specially when they have to compete with a number one iPhone and second Android with much better names.
The new OS will not be available until the 4 quarter of the year, but you can find some videos and tests on internet.
People would wonder if there is a place for Windows when iPhone is so strong and Android is coming even stronger. A lot of iPhone users are fed up of the limitations of their iPhones (closed platform with a dictatorship filter for development).
Palm has also tried with the Pre but who has heard about them lately? It will probably die. The reason why is because they have tried to be an iPhone killer by being like an iPhone.
Android is similar but much more customizable, and open source, but there was no room for another iPhone-like (closed) runner.
Windows has adopted a different approach. They have not tried to copy iPhone at all, in fact they are bringing something new into the game, something that the iPhone or the android do not have…. and it could be big.
Windows phone 7 series introduces a very nice interface (but so is the iPhone) with a new way of approaching the experience. Windows tries to create a unique phone interface for each of the users. A custom experience.
How?
It introduces a concept they call hubs. People hub, for instance will be about the people you care (your contacts) and how to interact with them, bringing together facebook, all different ways to keep up with them, so no simple address book for phones and contact details, then an app for facebook, another for twitter, etc…
Instead, you go to Peter Smith, and there you will automatically see the pictures he has posted in flickr, the status update in twitter or facebook, etc…
I love the approach. At the end of the day you will not care about so many apps (twitter client, facebook, flickr, foursquare…), you care about people and the idea of putting everything into one place is great.
I did not play with it but thumbs up.
Novatel, maker of some of 3G / WiFi devices has decided to expand to data storage via novadrive. Cloud-based storage accessible through their software for Windows or Apple, but they’re have a nice mobile site so your phone.
Among the features such as remote wiping of your data if someone steals your computer to the ability to mail files to your file server, easy online collaboration for a team, and you can even send folks links to files who don’t have access to your server and track when and if they download it.
NovaDrive also has “unlimited” storage — though, we’d bet they’ll drop the fair use hammer quick if you go too wild — for roughly $50 a year for the personal version and $150 for the team fileserver version. Not too shabby if online storage is your thing, and even if it isn’t, Novadrive has a 30-day demo that won’t cost you one red cent, so feel feel to give it a whirl.
Sabrina Saccocio is a TV, radio print and web producer who has put together a great eye-grabbing resume, looking for a unique and interesting work, a Facebook resume.
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Pocket CV by Temitope Shoda. If you have to go to several jobs interviews in one day, this resume is, besides creative, very easy to carry.
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Michael Anderson’s portafolio not only shows he can create great graphics, it also proves he is able to turn ‘boring’ facts and figures into something exciting.
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Very creative resume from Kristian Leigh Walsh, inspired in Game of Life. Check the video:
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T-shirt resume. Very creative but you won’t be able to sue for sexual harassment if your future boss starts starring at your boobs.
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Samuel J. Mallett folded resume
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Resume in a box by ~Pixcaliba
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Eugene Isaac was trying to land a writing job at a magazine, so he came up with this creative magazine cover resume.
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Tired of writing or typing? How about sewing your own resume like graphic designer Melissa Washin.
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Art director Katen Adolski used pencil tools to show her career evolution.
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(Extracted from oddee)
Facebook confirmed yesterday that it is working on a Location-based product but said that it has re-evaluated its plans to focus more on Places like restaurants.
As part of a larger blog post about clarifying language around privacy controls, Facebook deputy general counsel Michael Richter said that the company now has “different ideas” that are “even more exciting” than what it previously planned to do with location. More details will be available, including regarding privacy, as the company finalizes the product.
I have written several times about my workflows for facebook, twitter using brightkite, one of my favourite apps.
Now with all the location-based apps there is a clear hype, but again we will start experiencing fatigue. You go to a bar and then what… you have to open brightkite, check in write a note and maybe take a photo so you share it in facebook and twitter, then foursquare and you see if someone is there, add a tip or a todo and maybe get a mayor, and then gowalla… uffff
Like pixelpipe allows you to post to all social networks. I use it to upload the photos I take to several locations at once (my server, flickr, youtube (if it is a video), expono…, check.in does the same for your location-based apps.
It is done by the guys of Brightkite so it should be good.
Check.in is an application that lets you check-in with multiple services at the same time. For the time being by invitation only.
I have talked about foursquare in the past.
When I first joined them they were only in a few cities and you were not able to edit places or are new ones.
Now foursquare is a completely different different tool, much more powerful and more looking like the one it had my number one in my list: tellmewhere.
I also tested gowalla and it was more sort of a game, leaving stuff and probably more to meet people. I did not like and it has been a while since I don’t try it.
The fact is that location based apps for smart phones are as I predicted, skyrocketing and looks like foursquare is the winner, even after google buzz, which includes latitude and location as well as thread conversations, but again, as I said by limiting it to gmail users would be an impediment for reaching number one, and in fact I feel the hype of buzz has gone down.
Anyway, I wanted to talk about a very nice mash up of foursquare:
A very nice graphic interface using bing and foursquare to see your friends and places you have been. Very visual and very nice.
Petty that only one of my 600 contacts uses foursquare. I guess here is not that common and I am a strange case.
When it comes to custom motorcycle builders, there’s crazy and there’s really crazy. From the alligator bikte to the Motorcycle Tank. 8 strange vehicles around the world.
Almost thirty feet (9 metres) long, ten feet (3 metres) high and weighing as much as a school bus, the name emblazoned along the side of this menacing two-wheeled beast says it all – it’s the “Monster Motorbike from Hell”. Designed and built in Perth, Australia, by stunt driver Ray Baumann where it’s been wowing fans with its car and caravan crushing capabilities, the Monster Motorbike is powered by a Detroit Diesel truck engine and six-speed Allison automatic and uses a two-speed Eaton differential from a road train to drive a massive chain on each side of the one-metre wide rear wheel.
Taken from a Caterpillar 80 tonne front end loader, the wheels and tyres alone are almost 10 feet (3 metres) high.
Weighing in at 13.6 tonnes (picture 10 family cars or a school bus), the Monster Motorbike is heading to Australia’s east coast where it’s sure to be a star attraction at the Melbourne Motor Show beginning in late February.link
The Kettenkraftrad, type HK 101 is one of the most unique vehicles developed during the Second World War. The “tracked motorcycle” concept was conceived and patented by a German inventor, Heinrich Ernst Kniepkamp, in June of 1939. This was in response to a request for a fast, tracked vehicle capable of moving small loads in mountainous terrain.
The web sites say there were about 8400 Kettenkrads produced during the war and over 500 afterwards. Some collectors keep them going
Specs say they could get up to 45-50mph with the 4 cylinder, 1478cc gasoline engine sourced from Opel, while the vehicle itself was made by NSU..link
There are motorcycle sidecars, and then there are motorcycle sidecars. This particular mash-up is dubbed the “Snaefell” and is the work of Francois Knorreck. It took him a whopping 10 years and over $20,000 to complete. The motorcycle is a Laverda, and the car itself is actually cannibalized from several different vehicles.link
Jim Jablon used the skin of a dead alligator to create one of the strangest bikes ever seen on the roads of Florida.
Ironically enough, Jim Jablon’s ‘Gator Bike‘ was created using the skin of an alligator killed by authorities, but it’s now used to raise funds for a wildlife foundation. Alligator are constantly culled, in order to keep their numbers under control, and most of the skins end up pinned up in people’s yards. So Jim thought to put one to good use and get some exposure for his Wildlife Rehabilitation of Hernando (WROH) foundation. That’s basically how the Gator Bike was born.
The Gator Bike took Swedish leather expert Benny Ohrman a full year to complete. The skin and tail come of the bike, but the alligatorhead is fixed in place and has the speedometer and the rest of the gauges in the back of the head.
It’s worth mentioning the Gator Bike comes with a powerful Ultima engine, and over $86,000 to make. link
When Andrew Fishel, the owner of New York restaurant RUB, wanted “the sickest, baddest thing in the world,” he commissioned Orange County Chopper (of the American Chopper TV show fame) to create a mobile BBQ pit.
Was it really that good of an idea to have what amounts to a giant wood oven inches from a gas tank? But the RUB guys have already cooked ribs, brisket, and pork butt on it, and they aren’t dead yet. When asked if it was dangerous, Fischel replied breezily, “I don’t know. No one’s ever built one of these before.” Let’s hope we don’t find out the hard way. link
This VW sidecar was built by Jason Dyer of Resto-Tec out of the UK, which makes sense since the side car is on the left side of the Lambretta scooter. It was featured in July 2007 issue of Scootering magazine. link
Everyone knows the biggest problem with motorcycles is that they lack a trunk, which makes it hard to take them very far since you have no place to put your stuff. Well, that’s no longer a problem with this crazy motorcycle motorhome which has the front end of a chopper and the back end of an RV. Of course the RV part has flames on the side so you can maintain your street cred with the biker
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The Dodge Tomahawk, powered by a Dodge Viper V10 engine that produces 500bhp / 525 lb-ft torque, is claimed to be the world’s fastest motorcycle, rocketing from 0-60mph in just 2.5-seconds. It has an estimated top speed of 300mph. To maintain traction, the bike has two custom made Dunlop P120/60R-20 tires up front and two P150/50R-20 in the rear. link
The new gadget, available in Google Calendar Labs, is called Smart Rescheduler. And it is very simple. Once turned on, you can select an event and click “Find a new time” and the machine does the rest, offering up multiple options for folks to chose from.
As you can imagine, those of us on the Google Calendar team spend a lot of time thinking about scheduling. We regularly talk to people who schedule and reschedule a lot of meetings: administrative assistants. Talking to them, we understand just how much time they spend looking at schedules, investigating other people’s calendars, finding replacement conference rooms and rescheduling conflicts. And then some manager’s travel plans change and everything starts over again.
If you’re searching for something on the web, you don’t just start randomly visiting pages looking for relevant content, you use a search engine. So we decided to apply some of Google’s search experience to the problem of scheduling. We experimented with using ranking algorithms to return the most relevant meeting times based on specified criteria like attendees, schedule complexity, conference rooms, and time zones. Just like Google search ranks the web, our scheduling search algorithm returns a ranked set of the best candidate dates and times.
Today we’re launching the result of that experiment, a gadget called Smart Rescheduler, in Google Calendar Labs. Once you turn it on, just select an event you’d like to reschedule, then click “Find a new time…”:
You’ll see ranked list of possible times for your meeting. By investigating the calendars others have shared with you, Google Calendar can make some educated guesses about how easy it might be to reschedule a conflicting meeting and even find you a replacement conference room nearby. This process is 100% automated — no Google employees are doing any work behind the scenes. You can refine the results by marking people as optional, changing the meeting duration, ignoring certain conflicts, or specifying the earliest and latest times you’ll accept. The results will immediately update to reflect your new requirements.
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