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Sweet! The more the merrier. I’ll see y’all in line at Mexican Fiesta.
Aaron Roe(bot) Fulkerson Open source entrepreneur and digital viking.
About Me
I am a founder and the Chief Executive Officer of MindTouch, a popular open source business application and collaboration platform used by millions. Read more.
Internet's Black Holes
August 31, 2007 — Aaron Fulkerson
15 Countries are black holes in the WWW. News is not free to circulate there. Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, Libya Maldives, Nepal, North Korea, Saudi Arabia Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
links for 2007-08-28
August 28, 2007 — Aaron FulkersonUncov is dirty
August 27, 2007 — Aaron Fulkerson
Recently Roy turned me onto Uncov. These guys are dirty.
Mahalo, therefore, is one of the seat-warmers who adds nothing to the conversation…and he cries while he masturbates because he will never be as good looking or as successful as Google. – Uncov
Dirty, dirty goodness well deserving of whatever piddly link juice I can muster.
links for 2007-08-27
August 27, 2007 — Aaron FulkersonMobloggin' with an iPhone
August 27, 2007 — Aaron Fulkerson
I’m attending the Office2.0Conference next week in San Francisco. It’s a good conference that always achieves innovative ways for participants to interact. I’ll actually be splitting my time between o2con and the Data Sharing Summit. My interest in the Data Sharing Summit (organized by Canter and Kaliya) should be clear based on mine and MindTouch’s interest in an Open Web Initiative.
Last year at the o2con we all got iPod Nanos that were preloaded with the conference agenda, speaker bios, etc. It was pretty useful and very cool. The iPhone this year totally took me by surprise. I didn't realize these were included until someone else pointed it out to me and shortly thereafter others in my office were asking to attend the conference, Dude, iPhones! WTF. I got home from work last Thursday and found an iPhone waiting for me. Wow, another surprise. I've been using the iPhone to moblog to Flickr and Facebook all weekend. I'll also moblog here once WordPress 2.2.3 becomes a one-click install from Dreamhost. Currently there is a known issue with the blog via email that was introduced in WordPress 2.2.2, which prevents the contents of the email being posted.
For the record, the iPhone is freaking amazing! I really didn't think I was going to be so stoked about it, but after using it all weekend I'm thoroughly impressed. Mostly it's my new ability to moblog that I like. Also, I'm more synched (contacts, calendar, etc) now that I was with my Blackberry, which I did not expect. Finally, The Google Maps application was enormously helpful all weekend too. My mother-in-law is in town and we went to Hollywood and then another day we did wine tasting in Temecula. The maps app was really helpful. However, there are some things that piss me off about the iPhone:
- Copy/Paste. There is none. WTF. This is more useful on a small device than it is on a personal computer.
- GPS. When the iPhone has this…wow. That will be an absolutely magical device. Will someone manufacture an add-on? Please?
- EDGE network is pretty slow, but it actually doesn't bother me as much as I thought it would.
So, now knowing how cool the iPhone is would I have spent my own money to buy one? Hell no. Maybe if it had evdo and GPS.
Some iPhone resources I rustled up over the weekend.
links for 2007-08-26
August 26, 2007 — Aaron FulkersonBadges?
August 16, 2007 — Aaron FulkersonDamien made some MindTouch, Deki Wiki, and OpenGarden badges.
Free Software Sticker book
August 16, 2007 — Aaron FulkersonOpenGarden is now a proud host to Javier’s wonderful Free Software Sticker book. It was getting so much traffic Javier had several mirrors he was hosting from and was regularly running out of bandwidth. MindTouch is happy to host this. Great work Javier! If you haven’t seen this, check it out. It’s super cool.
Facevalue
August 14, 2007 — Aaron FulkersonThere's a new boutique that opened downstairs of our building. I'm all about street level retail. It makes a downtown. However, in general, I don't dig the shi-shi boutiques for myself. However, these dudes are bad ass. The joint's called Facevalue. Check this post about throwing out your kids crocs for some Chucks. Must be inspired by Ashby because we had her in her Crocs when we went in. Well, we didn't throw out Ashby's celery crocs, which are replete with rubber spikes when her mother doesn't remove them, but we did add some bad ass pink Chucks to her wardrobe. Facevalue is "a boutique for all. Specializing in footware, accessories and apparel". My assessment, these guys rule. For the record, I wore Chucks almost exclusively from the 5th grade to 9th grade. At that time I could get them for $15 and no one wore them, but they were great skate shoes.
The dudes in Facevalue have reignited my interest in Converse. I saw this sweet pair of low cuts. The guys saw me eyeing them and said they were John Varvatos designed Jack Purcell's. Oh God, I thought, some lame overpaid American athlete inspiring jingoism and mindlessness. No, it's the Badminton champ and a Detroit born minority designer. And they're cheap! Sweeet… I'll get them later. Facevalue is breaking me of my Birks only snobbism. If you're in Little Italy stop by the place.
LinuxWorld 2007
August 14, 2007 — Aaron FulkersonPete, Corey and I attended LinuxWorld last week. A good time was had by all. I bumped into Ethan, the author of Nagios. It was good to see him again. I was surprised that given his recent modeling boon he doesn't yet have an entourage. Soon I'm sure.
MindTouch had a booth in the Novell pavilion. As always we blew some minds with Deki Wiki and dropped some jaws. Traffic to the booth was great and we set another one-day record for downloads of Deki Wiki. Aside from the big spike we're now averaging around 500 downloads a day and still growing strong.
The show should have been called Novell-World. Novell was every where. I enjoyed re-connecting with Frank Rego and Josh. These guys are great. Also, I got a chance to meet Mattias, the PM for SLES. Seemed like a good guy. Much thanks to Novell for helping us to have a presence at LinuxWorld, you guys are wonderful.
Highlights. Well, meeting the dudes from OpenVZ was cool. Pete and I got a killer OpenVZ shirt. I'll Flickr a photo of it later. It has the commands for creating, status-ing, and taking down a VZ. Cool stuff. In general I did well on the tshirt front. I only made it to a couple sessions. I prefer to man the booth. As always, I really enjoy to folks about Deki Wiki. The best of those I attended was a talk on GPLv3 with a dude from the Software Freedom Law Center. I enjoyed meeting Robin Miller, and Peter Galli from eWeek whom I just happened into lunch with, reconnecting with Ross from SF.net and I was stoked to get a Debian shirt (etcha-sketch model). Pete was super enthusiastic about a couple VMware presentations. If only I had a shot at their IPO.
They have such a compelling technology.Overall summary of LinuxWorld: more suits than I expected, but I'm really glad to have been there. How else would I have met Amazon's head of S3?
Hayes VM Available
August 7, 2007 — Aaron FulkersonI spent last week riding a motorcycle about Florida and watching dolphins. Tara, Ashby, and I had a blast in Daytona, FL with our much needed family vacation. I’ll put up a write up as soon as I have time.
Our new VM is available for download. www.getdekiwiki.com. Based on the big spike in downloads in the last few hours it seems many of you have already noticed. We also have new support plans and pricing. You’ll find these are very affordable. Please buy.
I’ll be at LinuxWorld with PeteE and Corey for the next few days. We’re in the Novell pavilion. If any of you are here. Stop by and see us.
