Toni Schneider – Automattic As A Distributed Work Force Lots of Automattic employees within 7-9 months tell Toni that they can’t imagine going back to a regular job. Automattic has been 100% distributed since day 1. 180 people, 28 countries, 138 cities make up the Automattic workforce. Interesting point about people working from home. The … Continue reading Toni Schneider – Automattic As A Distributed Work Force
Today, June 30th, is the last day of Google Reader availability. Â If you completely ignored all the noise around the matter, run quickly, export and backup your feeds. Â Tomorrow Google Reader will be no more. Of course, I’ve been on a quest for the Google Reader alternative. Â Of course, I found plenty. Â And, of … Continue reading Goodbye Google Reader
Remember Google Wave? Â Yes, quite a handy collaboration tool that mostly failed due to a silly invitations-only policy stretched over way too longer than it should. Â Well, apparently, even after Google gave up the idea and most of its code as Open Source, there are still people who work on making it succeed. Save Google … Continue reading Google Wave alternatives
GitHub, being a massive data store, is constantly looking for new and improved ways of extracting knowledge from its data. In April we announced the second annual GitHub data challenge. […] After receiving some amazing entries in the previous challenge, we were excited to see what people would discover with another year of data. The … Continue reading GitHub’s Data Challenge II winners announced
I’ve been keeping an eye on this Quora question for a while now. Â Indeed, we mostly hear about all the greatness of the Silicon Valley, but there are much be a few downsides to living and working there. Â What are they? Â There are many great answers in the thread. Â Some are more insightful than others. … Continue reading What’s the dark side of Silicon Valley?