Archive for the ‘Success Stories’ Category

The Value of Open Source Developer Communities: $1 Billion

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Open source software is developed by communities. Geeks from around the world come together and build incredibly useful tools like WordPress and Drupal. Those technologies rely on even more open source technologies -- the components of the LAMP stack -- each with their own dedicated communities of developers. Technology products created ...

Three Real-World Examples of Business Utility in Online Communities

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

As I was sifting through my Google Reader this morning, three posts came to my attention. Each raised an example of why online communities and the technologies that support them are so critically important to business interests. The first article was by search guru John Battelle explaining why nobody comments on ...

Steve Interviews Noah Kagan of Community Next

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Community Next was an incredible conference. We were so pleased to be there and we met lots of interesting people. Our very own Steve Broback interviewed Noah about what it takes to put on a conference like this: