Community, Open Source and PR

Framework Benchmarks Round 10

TechEmpower

APRIL 21, 2015

Since Round 9, 675 issues were opened and 511 issues were closed. Of those issues, 441 pull requests were created, and 321 pull requests were merged , which is roughly one PR merged per day. Going forward, we are working with Travis to more intelligently narrow our work-load based on the particulars of each PR.

Framework

Framework EC2 Caching Java

Cutting Through the AI Noise: How Startups Can Stand Out in a Crowded Market

VC Cafe

APRIL 4, 2024

By the way, this not just about marketing or PR. When OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and Inflection made their LLMs closed, Mistral positioned itself as an open source LLM that can run on the end device (requiring less expensive hardware) and more easily trained smaller, dedicated models.

Generative AI

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Technical Review ChatGPT

Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

This presents a big change for Microsoft , who in a different era would’ve have looked so favorably toward open source — they will sunset internal repository Codeplex in an effort to bring Microsoft tooling to a new cadre of developers.

Acquisition

Acquisition Azure Open Source Seattle

Twitter Link Roundup #37 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

4 Reasons PR Agencies Are Failing in Social Media – [link]. Government releases open source code – [link]. Business Photos For Small Business – From Google – [link]. 4 corporate blogging strategies – [link]. New-to-the-world: strategic marketing for startups and small business – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Twitter Link Roundup #53 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Digg v4: How To Successfully Kill A Community – [link]. A brief history: 35 years of open source software – [link]. Ugly numbers for McDonald’s Foursquare nationwide check-in promo – [link]. Generic call-to-action ads don’t work – [link]. What Designers Can Learn From Hackers – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Twitter Link Roundup #34 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

UI Design Patterns: Open Source Design Pattern Library – [link]. Logo Design: Flowers, Plants and Trees – [link]. Advanced Wordpress Comment Styles and Tricks – [link]. 50 Beautiful Print Advertisements for Inspiration – [link]. 50 New High Quality Icon Sets – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Twitter Link Roundup #34 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

UI Design Patterns: Open Source Design Pattern Library – [link]. Logo Design: Flowers, Plants and Trees – [link]. Advanced Wordpress Comment Styles and Tricks – [link]. 50 Beautiful Print Advertisements for Inspiration – [link]. 50 New High Quality Icon Sets – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Twitter Link Roundup #96 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 28, 2011

Built in Chicago – a Movement, a Mission, a Community - [link]. The top 10 open source web fonts - [link]. The top 10 open source web fonts - [link]. Small businesses err when cutting employee benefits – this impacts employee loyalty - [link]. 70% of U.S. 30 Login Forms with Creative Design - [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Twitter Link Roundup #82 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

This analysis on Facebook open sourcing data center/hardware seems to miss the point – [link]. 2011 edition) – data on crowdSPRING’s community – [link]. Cisco shutting down the Flip business – [link]. Good list of gadgets made obsolete by smartphones – [link]. Who are we?

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Twitter Link Roundup #92 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 1, 2011

Google Web Fonts: hundreds free, open-source fonts optimized for Web – [link]. Google Web Fonts: hundreds free, open-source fonts optimized for Web – [link]. Google Web Fonts: hundreds free, open-source fonts optimized for Web – [link]. Icon design, the ultimate guide – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Most importantly, there is almost no niche or trend that is unserved by this community. In that same spirit, here are some suggestions for tactics you can use to increase the leverage of your product development efforts: Free and open source software (and even hardware ). Open APIs and data-oriented architecture (aka "web 2.0").

Product Development

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product

Let It Burn: For Apple, An Age-Old Analog Practice May Know Best

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2013

As a proud member of the technology community, having recently launched an online counseling platform – TalkSession.com – when Apple hosts their WWDC conferences, entrepreneurs listen. Apple put muscle into reinvigorating their PR. By Melissa Thompson, CEO of Talk Session. We look to Apple as a pioneer of inspiration and innovation.

Artificial Inteligence

Artificial Inteligence Non-Compete PR Cofounder

@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

PR/Marketing. For startups, PR firms are a waste of money. The best early PR is a product that people actually love plus a genuine story to tell from the founder. &# Go direct and network your way to the people you need to meet or find them directly in the local community. Start a blog.

Software Review

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston

Twitter Link Roundup #119 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Rice University And OpenStax Announce First Open-Source Textbooks – [link]. Some May Not Actually Visit – [link]. Those Millions On Facebook? They Actually Visit, And It’s Not A Huge Deal Anyway. – [link]. AT&T, Google Among The Biggest Online Advertisers — comScore – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

10 Essential PR Tips for Startups

mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

10 Essential PR Tips for Startups. Sign up for her course on “ PR for Startups ” to learn more about getting media coverage for your fledgling business. ” “ Skillshare is a community marketplace to learn anything from anyone.” TIP: As a startup – use PR for link building. Erica Swallow.

PR

PR Startup Social Media Technical Review

The Software Developer’s Guide to Building an Online Reputation

Transformify

APRIL 19, 2018

We normally ask our students to contribute to open source to engage with communities and companies with distributed teams and workflows. Open Source. Getting started with open source is really easy! Once your first PR is merged, you can start looking for more complex things to help with.

Reputation

Reputation Software Open Source Portfolio

Twitter Link Roundup #36 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 21, 2010

4 reasons why PR firms are taking over social media – [link]. Government releases open source code – [link]. Is Social Media Becoming Boring? – [link]. Ning discovers after spending tens of millions of $$ that you can’t make money by giving stuff away – [link]. Hulu ad segmenting – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Twitter Link Roundup #51 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

The Case For Open-Source Design: Can Design By Committee Work? Interesting info about the crowdSPRING creative community - [link]. Interesting info about the crowdSPRING creative community - [link]. (nice infographic) – [link]. iCandies Icon Set: 60 Free Icons For Your User Interfaces and Apps – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. And no matter what the latest trends indicate, you will eventually have to spend money on PR and marketing. million in venture financing.

Startup

Startup Social Media RSS Social Network

What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

January has been a very bad month for Ruby on Rails developers, with two high-severity security bugs permitting remote code execution found in the framework and a separate-but-related compromise on rubygems.org, a community resource which virtually all Ruby on Rails developers sit downstream of. Many startups use Ruby on Rails.

Security

Security Software Review Ruby Startup

Changes in Software & Venture Capital – Part 2 of 3

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. The LP Community Hasn’t Yet Caught Up.

Venture Capital

Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage

LinkedIn Explores What It Takes To Be an Entrepreneur [INFOGRAPHIC]

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

With more than 50 million monthly pageviews and 4 million followers across social media, Mashable has one of the most engaged online news communities. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

San Francisco

San Francisco New York City Social Media Entrepreneur

Story Behind “The Secret History” Part IV: Library Hours at an.

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

Bill Perry the founder of ESL, is now acknowledged as one of the founders of the entire field of National Reconnaissance , working the NSA and the CIA in programs to intercept and evaluate Soviet missile telemetry and communications intelligence. It had no PR agency. ESL had no marketing people. It shunned publicity.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley RSS California Washington

90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community. I’m not saying don’t leverage open-source or established platforms. My rule is that conferences are to be avoided unless it’s purely for PR purposes or if you’re in sales. .

Technical Review

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation

From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

A good mentor is someone who has been part of the startup community themselves – someone who has a realistic understanding of some of the basic dos and don’ts of starting up. Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products? And I’m sure they won’t mind community college either.

Technical Review

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review

BizMe2 is Looking to Disrupt Conferences with Turnkey Solution (Interview)

VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

It’s usually hard to figure out who to meet and there’s a range of events within the events, entertainment cocktails, Pr events in restaurants nearby, but there’s no easy way to find out about them. Yair Margolin: I always come back from a conference with 400 business cards, but only end up doing something with two.

Aggregator

Aggregator Caching PHP

CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Indeed, for all the outrage and fury, this is actually common knowledge amongst startups, and I was going to support that with a bit more data to win over the skeptics (at least, those who were open to listening). And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application.

Java

Java PHP Software Review Coder

Twitter Link Roundup #26 – Design, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

How to Prevent a Community From Growing On Your Site – [link]. Nice work from Facebook on HipHop (open sourced today) – [link]. Infographic: The State of the Internet – [link]. Why you should challenge your customers’ assumptions – [link]. Customer Experience More Important than Ever – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Startup Tools

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. I’d like to add [link] as a community for founders.

Software Review

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics

How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Matt Jones (2010-06-20) # Derek: Interesting article - Im not sure if you realize it, but youve basically described what the Agile community calls "User Stories" You may also want to look into tools like Pivotal Tracker for keeping track of stories and prioritizing / scheduling them. BTW: great keynote at Railsconf! Very useful.

CTO Hire

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review

StartUpRoar

Framework Benchmarks Round 10

Cutting Through the AI Noise: How Startups Can Stand Out in a Crowded Market

Trending Sources

Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Twitter Link Roundup #37 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

Twitter Link Roundup #53 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

Twitter Link Roundup #34 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

Twitter Link Roundup #34 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

Twitter Link Roundup #96 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

Twitter Link Roundup #82 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

Twitter Link Roundup #92 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Let It Burn: For Apple, An Age-Old Analog Practice May Know Best

@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Twitter Link Roundup #119 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

10 Essential PR Tips for Startups

The Software Developer’s Guide to Building an Online Reputation

Twitter Link Roundup #36 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

Twitter Link Roundup #51 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

Changes in Software & Venture Capital – Part 2 of 3

LinkedIn Explores What It Takes To Be an Entrepreneur [INFOGRAPHIC]

Story Behind “The Secret History” Part IV: Library Hours at an.

90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

BizMe2 is Looking to Disrupt Conferences with Turnkey Solution (Interview)

CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

Twitter Link Roundup #26 – Design, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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