-
Full story: What is community worth to you?
I’ve been watching with interest, and some dismay, as a real kerfuffle has broken out in the WordPress community over the past few days surrounding the matter of copyright. At issue is interpretation of the GNU Public License (GPL), the "copyleft" license under whose terms WordPress software is released, how developers of premium themes offer […]
-
Full story: FIR Book Review: Open Leadership by Charlene Li
Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead is the new book by Charlene Li, founder of Altimeter Group and co-author of Groundswell. FIR co-host Shel Holtz and TWI Surveys president Ryan Williams set out to produce a short review of Charlene’s book, but the conversation turned into a longer discussion of […]
-
Full story: Hard to ignore the iPhone 4 design flaw
The influential US consumer advocacy magazine Consumer Reports released a report about the new iPhone 4 yesterday with the bottom-line conclusion: “We can’t recommend the iPhone 4.” The magazine, which has more than 7 million subscribers and an annual testing budget of about $21 million, tested the iPhone 4 to see whether reports of poor […]
-
Full story: XP: The OS that won’t die
Microsoft announced yesterday that a public beta of the forthcoming service pack for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is available for download. In his post yesterday, Brandon LeBlanc, Windows Communications Manager at Microsoft, said that after only 7 months in market, Windows 7 had nearly a 14% share of the global operating systems […]