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Janos Haits

Do more with less - 12 views

www.cloudo.co

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PostPickr | Social Media Management Tool - 6 views

www.postpickr.com

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Online Project Management, Task Management and Crowdsourcing Software | Smartsheet - 9 views

www.smartsheet.com

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  • Janos Haits on 16 Dec 17
     
    Thousands of companies use Smartsheet for online project management, task management, and many other types of work. Securely share your work sheets, attached files, reports and discussions with team members as well as external contractors or clients. Smartsheet is the only collaboration tool that connects you to an on-demand workforce capable of completing tasks at affordable prices.
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Janos Haits

SocialEngine Social Network Software | Community Software - 7 views

www.socialengine.com

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Janos Haits

PB for Desktop - 3 views

sidneys.github.io/pb-for-desktop

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IdentitySafe.norton.com/ - 3 views

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Janos Haits

me.me | Search Dank & Funny Memes - 9 views

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Janos Haits

Take back the control of video streaming! #JoinPeertube - 4 views

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Janos Haits

MetaMask - 6 views

metamask.io

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  • Janos Haits on 27 Jul 18
     
    "MetaMask is a bridge that allows you to visit the distributed web of tomorrow in your browser today. It allows you to run Ethereum dApps right in your browser without running a full Ethereum node. MetaMask includes a secure identity vault, providing a user interface to manage your identities on different sites and sign blockchain transactions."
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Gordon Herd

The 3 Facebook Settings Every User Should Check Now - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Gordon Herd on 22 Jan 10 - Cached
  • The 3 Facebook Settings Every User Should Check Now function getSharePasskey() { return 'ex=1421730000&en=3377c52164e5c387&ei=5124';} function getShareURL() { return encodeURIComponent('http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/01/20/20readwriteweb-the-3-facebook-settings-every-user-should-c-29287.html'); } function getShareHeadline() { return encodeURIComponent('The 3 Facebook Settings Every User Should Check Now'); } function getShareDescription() { return encodeURIComponent(' In December, a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/fa'); } function getShareKeywords() { return encodeURIComponent(''); } function getShareSection() { return encodeURIComponent('technology'); } function getShareSectionDisplay() { return encodeURIComponent('Technology'); } function getShareSubSection() { return encodeURIComponent(''); } function getShareByline() { return encodeURIComponent('By SARAH PEREZ of ReadWriteWeb '); } function getSharePubdate() { return encodeURIComponent('January 20, 2010'); } Sign in to Recommend Twitter Sign In to E-Mail Print By SARAH PEREZ of ReadWriteWeb Published: January 20, 2010 In December, Facebook made a series of bold and controversial changes regarding the nature of its users' privacy on the social networking site. The company once known for protecting privacy to the point of exclusivity (it began its days as a network for college kids only - no one else even had access), now seemingly wants to compete with more open social networks like the microblogging media darling Twitter. Skip to next paragraph More News From ReadWriteWeb 2010 Trend: Sensors & Mobile Phones Why Facebook Is Wrong: Privacy Is Still Important Nexus One and Android 2.1: Apple Better Watch Out Open Thread: Should Tech Get a Turn-Off? How The Web Is Transforming Personal Finance Those of you who edited your privacy settings prior to December's change have nothing to worry about - that is, assuming you elected to keep your personalized settings when prompted by Facebook's "transition tool." The tool, a dialog box explaining the changes, appeared at the top of Facebook homepages this past month with its own selection of recommended settings. Unfortunately, most Facebook users likely opted for the recommended settings without really understanding what they were agreeing to. If you did so, you may now be surprised to find that you inadvertently gave Facebook the right to publicize your private information including status updates, photos, and shared links. Want to change things back? Read on to find out how.
  • The 3 Facebook Settings Every User Should Check Now function getSharePasskey() { return 'ex=1421730000&en=3377c52164e5c387&ei=5124';} function getShareURL() { return encodeURIComponent('http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/01/20/20readwriteweb-the-3-facebook-settings-every-user-should-c-29287.html'); } function getShareHeadline() { return encodeURIComponent('The 3 Facebook Settings Every User Should Check Now'); } function getShareDescription() { return encodeURIComponent(' In December, a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/fa'); } function getShareKeywords() { return encodeURIComponent(''); } function getShareSection() { return encodeURIComponent('technology'); } function getShareSectionDisplay() { return encodeURIComponent('Technology'); } function getShareSubSection() { return encodeURIComponent(''); } function getShareByline() { return encodeURIComponent('By SARAH PEREZ of ReadWriteWeb '); } function getSharePubdate() { return encodeURIComponent('January 20, 2010'); } Sign in to Recommend Twitter Sign In to E-Mail Print By SARAH PEREZ of ReadWriteWeb Published: January 20, 2010 In December, Facebook made a series of bold and controversial changes regarding the nature of its users' privacy on the social networking site. The company once known for protecting privacy to the point of exclusivity (it began its days as a network for college kids only - no one else even had access), now seemingly wants to compete with more open social networks like the microblogging media darling Twitter. Skip to next paragraph More News From ReadWriteWeb 2010 Trend: Sensors & Mobile Phones Why Facebook Is Wrong: Privacy Is Still Important Nexus One and Android 2.1: Apple Better Watch Out Open Thread: Should Tech Get a Turn-Off? How The Web Is Transforming Personal Finance Those of you who edited your privacy settings prior to December's change have nothing to worry about - that is, assuming you elected to keep your personalized settings when prompted by Facebook's "transition tool." The tool, a dialog box explaining the changes, appeared at the top of Facebook homepages this past month with its own selection of recommended settings. Unfortunately, most Facebook users likely opted for the recommended settings without really understanding what they were agreeing to. If you did so, you may now be surprised to find that you inadvertently gave Facebook the right to publicize your private information including status updates, photos, and shared links. Want to change things back? Read on to find out how.
  • Gordon Herd on 22 Jan 10
     
    The 3 Facebook Settings Every User Should Check Now .
elearning6690

Your LiveBinders Shelf - 2 views

www.livebinders.com

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Discover and Read the Best of Twitter Threads - 4 views

threadreaderapp.com

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Janos Haits

tickers - The Personal Liveticker! Your News and Notifications App! - 2 views

tickers.cc/en

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shared by Janos Haits on 18 Dec 16 - Cached
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Gordon Herd

6 Tools To Cartoon Yourself For Facebook and Twitter - 0 views

www.rotorblog.com/...rself-for-facebook-and-twitter

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  • 6 Tools To Cartoon Yourself For Facebook and Twitter January 8, 2010 by Maris Dagis | View commentsComments var fbShare = {url: 'http://www.rotorblog.com/2010/01/08/6-tools-to-cartoon-yourself-for-facebook-and-twitter/',size:'large'} I have seen some cool profile pics for some of my friends over Facebook and Twitter and I always wanted to create my own. As it turns out there are plenty of free online tools to have fun with and cartoon yourself. Below you can find some of the best tools including South Park and Simpsons character generators. Of course that’s not all – you can find many more apps for this online. Feel free to share your findings in comments!
  • 6 Tools To Cartoon Yourself For Facebook and Twitter January 8, 2010 by Maris Dagis | View commentsComments var fbShare = {url: 'http://www.rotorblog.com/2010/01/08/6-tools-to-cartoon-yourself-for-facebook-and-twitter/',size:'large'} I have seen some cool profile pics for some of my friends over Facebook and Twitter and I always wanted to create my own. As it turns out there are plenty of free online tools to have fun with and cartoon yourself. Below you can find some of the best tools including South Park and Simpsons character generators. Of course that’s not all – you can find many more apps for this online. Feel free to share your findings in comments!
  • Gordon Herd on 10 Jan 10
     
    6 Tools To Cartoon Yourself For Facebook and Twitter.
anonymous

49 Best Youtube Tips,Tricks and Resources - 3 views

fourblogger.com/tube-tips-tricks-and-resources

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  • Youtube is the second largest search engine. As a blogger, I drive more traffic to my blog from my Youtube screencasting videos.
  • To check Youtube speed Have you noticed this? Videos take more time to load. At that time, you can check the speed of your Youtube videos with bar chart in the specification of world, country, State, city, Your ISP.
  • Comment search in Youtube Before creating and uploading any videos on Youtube, just type the keyword of your niche or video content in comment search and find out what’s being said about your keyword and your niche. For example, I searched for SEO. http://www.youtube.com/comment_search?q=seo
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  • While submitting your videos as video response to other video or even in your video, Do remember, you can submit a video only once as video response. If you submit the same video into many places Youtube will take it as a video response to only the last video to which you submitted as video response.
  • Are you creating video episodes or video in series? If yes, then the new Youtube design helps to you. Submit your next part video as video response. For eg: If you are creating video series as part 2, 3, 4, etc…  Then submit the Part 3 video as video response in part 2. The new Youtube will show your own video in video response as separately and other Youtube user submitted video responses as together.
  • Keyword search only in title In Youtube, type any word and hit search button. It will show the results based on the keyword used in title, description, and tag. Sometimes when it shows the unrelated results, it will be annoying to user. If you want the results only from title then, You have to type as “allintitle:keyword” Eg: allintitle: wordpress. It will show videos only the keyword wordpress presents in title.
  • To Exclude some of the term While searching in Youtube to exclude some of the keywords type – and followed by your unwanted keyword. For eg: wordpress –tutorial. You will get wordpress videos but not the videos have keyword ‘tutorial’.
  • Automatically fill in the blanks Put asterisk in middle of the keyword sentence. For eg: “thesis * theme”. Youtube understands that the user needs content related to the keyword thesis theme and for all the keywords filled something between them. Click here To know more about Youtube search
  • Tag Give all the relevant tags to your videos. Don’t try to give duplicate tags. For example don’t give all these as tags: video blogging, video blogging tips, video blogging guide, and video blogging benefits. Youtube automatically removes some of your duplicate tags.
  • Create playlist Do you have the series videos like Part 1, Part 2, etc. If yes, then collect all your videos and create a playlist for your videos. It will be very helpful for viewers to see the series of Youtube videos.
  • Title Add the words “Exclusive” or “Leaked videos” in video title. (Don’t spam).
  • Left Most Title Give the important keywords in the left most of your title. It will increase your views as Youtube search gives more importance to left most part of title.
  • Submit in video sharing sites Distribute videos on popular video sharing sites and drive more traffic to your website/blog. See our Google profiles to view which video sharing websites Fourblogger is using.
  • Brand your videos Whenever you upload a video, add your own logo in videos. It builds brand value.
  • Email signature Add your channel link in the email signature and send your videos to friends and relatives.
  • Share videos on twitter share your videos in Social media like Twitter. It helps to drive more traffic to your site. Use the following links to use social media for videos. 10 ways to share videos on twitter
  • How to embed your channel with subscribe button using gadgets? You can embed your Youtube channel with subscribe button in your blog sidebar or Footer. Get the Youtube channel widget.
  • How to embed Youtube Playlists in your blog?   If you like any Youtube playlist, you can embed the playlist into your blog as you embed the videos. Use this video to see how to embed playlists in your blog.
  • Know RSS feed of your Youtube channel The below link is the RSS feed for your channel USERNAME/videos.rss
  • Ping your Youtube channel By visiting the pingoat.com you can ping your channel Visit www.pingoat.com or  watch this video about ping to your channel.
  • Direct subscriber link to your channel Instead sending your blog readers to your channel link to subscribe, you can use this Direct link http://youtube.co/subscription_center?add_user=fourblogger. It asks confirmation alone. There are more conversions than sending readers to your channel.
  • Use Annotations Differently – Think Out-of-the-Box You can use YouTube annotations efficiently with your creative idea. You can use “Don’t Click here” text as annotation text. When people watch your videos, they often wants to click on it as it is human nature.  You can link the “Don’t click here” annotation to your channel or any of your particular videos. When more people clicks on annotations, that videos automatically get selected as “Related videos”.  But remember don’t use your think-out-of-the-box ideas for spamming purpose. User may dislike or flag your video.
  • If you are a person who wants to drive traffic to your blogs or websites through videos, then you may want to check my Five Video Traffic Techniques video which I have submitted recently for Darren Rowse’s Problogger Blogger Group Project.
anonymous

[Video] HootSuite Tutorial 2012 - Connecting Instagram, YouTube, and Tumblr Using the A... - 10 views

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  • If you watched my last HootSuite Tutorial, you should already be pretty well versed in adding social media accounts. But what about those other “smaller” social networks such as Instagram, YouTube, and Tumblr?
  • In order to manage those accounts with HootSuite, you must use the App directory. If you go to your HootSuite Dashboard, hover over the wrench icon (tools), and then click “App Directory”, you’ll be able to add several third party apps that allow integration into HootSuite.
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      anonymous on 11 Sep 12
       
      HootSuite Tutorial 2012 - Connecting Instagram, YouTube, and Tumblr Using the App Directory - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwyX0WvoJvs&feature=share&list=PLF7A9DC9BD82103F8
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  • In order to manage those accounts with HootSuite, you must use the App directory. If you go to your dashboard, hover over the wrench icon (tools), and then click “App Directory”, you’ll be able to add several third party apps that allow integration into HootSuite. UPDATE 9/18/2012 – HootSuite Changes access to the App Directory
  • I noticed that you now have a puzzle piece icon on the left bar in HootSuite. This will allow you to access the App Directory without having to navigate through the settings menu.
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Ako Z°om

blog.aysoon.com :: Blog professionnel sur le Web innovant - 1 views

blog.aysoon.com

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  • de hebiflux.com, la vidéo ci-dessous est une compilation des derniers services web sortis récemment est utilisant de la 3D grâce à Flash. Un vrai bonheur qui nous rappelle que tout est encore à inventer en termes d’interface !

    Retrouvez les URL de tous les services montrés dans cette vidéo dans l’article de Galdric.

  • Ako Z°om on 06 Jul 08
     
    about illsutrating in 3D interfaces ... add the whiteboard, and you get the next gen presentaion !
Janos Haits

Experience a new Hulu - 1 views

www.experiencehulu.com

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shared by Janos Haits on 09 Jan 17 - Cached
  • Be one of the first to experience it.Sign up for your chance to preview the new Hulu. We’ll also keep you posted about the launch.EmailThis is not a valid email address.Thank you.You’ll be receiving an email soon about the beta program. In the meantime, you can log in or sign up for your free trial to watch what’s available now on Hulu.Hulu.comBy accessing and using experiencehulu.com, you agree to Hulu’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. By submitting your information to experiencehulu.com, you agree that Hulu may contact you about its products and services. Requesting an invite on experiencehulu.com does not guarantee that you will be selected to participate. Additional terms and conditions may apply.
  • Janos Haits on 09 Jan 17
     
    Be one of the first to experience it. Sign up for your chance to preview the new Hulu. We'll also keep you posted about the launch. You'll be receiving an email soon about the beta program. In the meantime, you can log in or sign up for your free trial to watch what's available now on Hulu. (.com) By accessing and using experiencehulu.com, you agree to Hulu's and . By submitting your information to experiencehulu.com, you agree that Hulu may contact you about its products and services. Requesting an invite on experiencehulu.com does not guarantee that you will be selected to participate. Additional terms and conditions may apply.
Eloise Pasteur

Second Life®, First Person: Throwing in the Web 2.0 Towel - 0 views

kitmeredith.blogspot.com/...throwing-in-web-20-towel.html

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  • I started uploading my photos into Picasa because it’s run by Google, just like Blogger is. And now I think I’m stuck. I certainly don’t want to move everything I’ve got in Picasa over to Flickr, and I don’t want to just start putting the new stuff on Flickr because the idea of scattering my photos across two hosting sites just bothers me.
  • There are too many people to follow, and it just got sort of overwhelming. I had a hard time following conversations between people, and before long I was spending huge chunks of my workday just trying to catch up on friends’ Tweets. On top of all that, I also had a hard time coming up with things to say in my own Tweets. Frankly, I can’t imagine why anyone would find the daily minutiae of my life to be worth reading, and the 140-character limit on each Tweet seemed to prevent discussion of anything more deep.
  • I never got into thesixtyone. I think it’s a neat idea, and I like how artists can theoretically become “discovered” if enough people bump them, and how the users who are good at picking popular artists are rewarded. But it just doesn’t work for me. I can’t listen to music at work because my brain tends to focus on the music instead of the work at hand.
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  • All of a sudden, it seemed like everyone moved over to Plurk. This was about the time I took my little summer vaca from SL, and so I haven’t even given a serious look to Plurk, but my superficial examination has left me thoroughly confused. I guess it’s like Twitter on steroids, with all the pressure to microblog and keep up with other folks’ microblogs, but with the added pressure of a reputation rating called “karma”! No thanks.
  • I don’t Skype, for the same reasons I don’t use voice. I’m not much into machinima, so I don’t post videos to YouTube. I’ve given Lively a quick try and it crashed for me about ten times in half an hour, and besides I’m not happy about the fact that you can hit and slap (assault) other avatars without their consent. I still use Google chat occasionally to talk with Lanna when we can’t be in-world, but as I’ve noted before it’s a sorry substitution for SL. I belong to a few Ning groups, such as SL Bloggers and Fashion Finds, but to be honest I rarely use them.
  • Then there’s Facebook. I will admit, I have two Facebook accounts, one for RL and one for SL. (And no, my Second Self is not friends with RL me, so don’t bother checking!) I enjoyed using Facebook as Kit at first, but what I’ve since realized is that what I really enjoyed was using the Scrabulous application on Facebook to play Scrabble with friends, and that’s it. Which, besides being a time-waster and a huuuuuge copyright infringement, really doesn’t have anything to do with Facebook as a platform in and of itself. And the platform just started to annoy me, with all the invitations to install new applications, half of which I don’t understand and don’t really care to. (Why do I care to be a zombie? Or buy and sell my friends?)
  • Eloise Pasteur on 23 Jul 08
     
    Blog about web 2.0 and why it's unsatisfactory for one user. She goes on to say that Second Life, although it doesn't do any of the jobs as well as specialist sites, overall does all of them well enough.
chelfyn Baxter

Management and Virtual Decentralised Networks: The Linux Project - 0 views

www.firstmonday.org/...dafermos

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  • A mechanistic management system is appropriate to stable conditions. It is characterised by:The Organismic form is appropriate to changing conditions. It is characterised by: Hierarchic structure of control, authority and communicationNetwork structure of control A reinforcement of the hierarchic structure by the location of knowledge of actualities exclusively at the top of the hierarchyOmniscience no longer imputed to the head of the concern; knowledge may be located anywhere in the network; the location becoming the centre of authority Vertical interaction between the members of the concern, ie. between superior and subordinateLateral rather than vertical direction of communication through the organisation  A content of communication which consists of information and advice rather than instructions and decisions
    • chelfyn Baxter
      chelfyn Baxter on 10 Apr 07
       
      This is very similar to many Web 1.0/2.0 analogies
  • Structurehierarchicalnetworked Scopeinternal/closedexternal/open Resource focuscapitalhuman, information Statestabledynamic, changing Directionmanagement commandsself-management Basis of actioncontrolempowerment to act Basis for compensationposition in hierarchycompetency level
  • However, "the Linux movement did not and still does not have a formal hierarchy whereby important tasks can be handled out ... a kind of self-selection takes place instead: anyone who cares enough about a particular program is welcomed to try" [54]. But if his work is not good enough, another hacker will immediately fill the gap. In this way, this 'self-selection' ensures that the work done is of superb quality. Moreover this "decentralisation leads to more efficient allocation of resources (programmers' time and work) because each developer is free to work on any particular program of his choice as his skills, experience and interest best dictate" (Kuwabara, 2000). In contrast, "under centralised mode of software development, people are assigned to tasks out of economic considerations and might end up spending time on a feature that the marketing department has decided is vital to their ad campaign, but that no actual users care about" [55].
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  • Industrial AgeInformation Age Focus on measurable outcomesFocus on strategic issues using participation and empowerment Individual accountabilityTeam accountability Clearly differentiated-segmented organisational roles, positions and responsibilitiesMatrix arrangement - flexible positions and responsibilities Hierarchical, linear information flowsMultiple interface, 'boundaryless' information networking Initiatives for improvement emanate from a management eliteInitiatives for improvement emanate from all directions
  • There is only one layer between the community of Linux developers and Linus: the "trusted lieutenants". They are a dozen hackers that have done considerably extended work on a particular part of the kernel to gain Linus' trust. The "trusted lieutenants" are responsible to maintain a part of the Linux Kernel and lots of developers sent their patches (their code) directly to them, instead of Linus. Of course, apart from Linus that has encouraged this to happen, this informal mechanism represents a natural selection by the community since the "trusted lieutenants" are recognised [by the community] as being not owners but simple experts in particular areas [57] and thus, their 'authority' can always be openly challenged. This does not mean that Linus has more influence than they have. Recently, "Alan Cox (one of the "trusted" ones) disagreed with Linus over some obscure technical issue and it looks like the community really does get to judge by backing Alan and making Linus to acknowledge that he made a bad choice" [58].
  • In 1991, Linus Torvalds made a free Unix-like kernel (a core part of the operating system) available on the Internet and invited all hackers interested to participate. Within the next two months, the first version 1.0 of Linux was released. From that point, tens of thousands of developers, dispersed globally and communicating via the Internet, contributed code, so that early in 1993, Linux had grown to be a stable, reliable and very powerful operating system. The Linux kernel is 'copylefted' software, patented under the GNU GPL, and thus, nobody actually owns it. But more significantly, Linux is sheltered by the Open Source (hacker) community. From its very birth, Linux as a project has mobilised an incredible number of developers offering enhancements, modifications/improvements and bug fixes without any financial incentive. Despite the fact that an operating system is supposed to be developed only by a closely-knit team to avoid rising complexity and communication costs of coordination (Brook's Law), Linux is being developed in a massive decentralised mode under no central planning, an amazing feat given that it has not evolved into chaos. Innovation release early and often: Linus put into practice an innovative and paradox model of developing software. Frequent releases and updates (several times in a week) are typical throughout the entire development period of Linux. In this way, Linus kept the community constantly stimulated by the rapid growth of the project and provided an extraordinary effective mechanism of psychologically rewarding his co-developers for their contributions that were implemented in the last version. On top of this, in every released version, there is a file attached which lists all those who have contributed (code). Credit attribution if neglected, is a cardinal sin that will breed bitterness within the community and discourage developers from further contributing to the project. According to conventional software-building wisdom, early versions are by definition buggy and you do not want to wear out the patience of your users. But as far as the Linux development stage is concerned, developers are the users themselves and this is where most innovation is created (Figure 8). "The greatest innovation of Linux is that treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging" (Raymond, 1998a).
  • chelfyn Baxter on 10 Apr 07
     
    It's a great article
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