I’m pretty hesitant to post this. This is really really old (in MindTouch time, it’s actually only a year old) and is a throw back to when MindTouch was solely focused on building community and adoption. Well, we nailed that out of the park and have since layered atop our community-centrism a business and sales unit. Nonetheless, these are our roots and I’m sharing this Microsoft produced video against my better judgment, after all I think I sound like a total wanker…

I should point out that the message in the video about being the best open source wiki is qualitative and stale. In fact, MindTouch is the MOST popular open source enterprise collaboration platform in the world. MindTouch Deki enjoys millions of users and hundreds of thousands of installations…all in less than three years of a public product wow… According to Sourceforge.net (the most active open source repository) MindTouch Deki is the top .001% of all open source projects.

Here is the Bitrock video. I like there video better. 🙂 Daniel and Erica are wonderful…oh and they have a great product too.

UPDATE: For whatever reasons it seems Microsoft took the videos off YouTube. Got me. Here’s another instance of the MindTouch “documentary”.

Audible.com is so painfully slow. Nonetheless, it is the cheapest way to get audiobooks and I love me some audiobooks. Currently, I’m reading the classic “Stranger in a Strange Land” a recommendation from my buddy Darin R. McClure. I don’t usually read fiction, but this has been pretty good so far.

In addition to “Stranger in a Strange Land” I have on my iPhone:

• “Spark” by John J. Ratey, which was recommended by @MiikoMentz
• “John Adams” by David McCullough

I recently read “Guns, Germs and Steel“, which I thought was fantastic. For more information on books I’m reading or those that I have read recently look me up at www.Shelfari.com (I’m Roebot as usual). An interesting note about Shelfari, large parts of this site is actually built on MindTouch. 🙂

This is so funny! I release my Flickr photos under Creative Commons Attribution. Many of my photos have been picked up by various reputable publications including the Wall Street Journal. My new favorite is Building, a publication based out of the UK. The article: “World’s tallest tower to have ‘gravity free’ terrace” used a photo of me from my Flickr stream.

Note the text:

Visitors – or astronauts as the backers of the scheme hope to label them – will need to wear special protective suits

As if this outfit I’m wearing, a child’s NASA costume, were this “protective suit”. LOL. By the way, This is an April 1 article.