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Nice to see friend and erstwhile colleague Nigel start blogging externally, gently wondering about the markets that are mushrooming around the Global Warming theme. Welcome, Nigel.

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Over the last few months, I’ve been hearing this term quite a bit: “search fatigue”. Since I had absolutely no idea what it meant, I thought I’d check. So I Googled it.
Until I saw what came up, if I’d been asked to guess what it meant, I’d have tried some variant on information overload or [...]

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It’s getting more and more fashionable to buy an opensource company. Quite often, the buyer is a closed-source company.
For about a decade I earned a living as a salesman, selling software services. And when I started, I remember being told “a salesman is only as good as his next sale”.
I think that something similar needs [...]

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I said I would revert to the theme with which Dan Farber ended his opensource post: the inevitability of hybrids.
Why are hybrids inevitable? I think it all boils down to what Stephen Smoliar and Gordon Cook have been talking about recently, both in the shape of comments here as well as in their own blogs. [...]

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As you would expect, I spent a lot of time with my wife and children over the Easter break. And then stayed up to watch the golf. When I wasn’t doing either of these things, I was catching up on my reading.
Dan Farber’s True Nature Of Open Source post got me thinking. Go take a [...]

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Both Chutki (at Cuckoo’s call) as well as Nandini (at Travelling Light) pointed me towards Patrick Ghose’s post about a very special reunion.
Sadly there’s no way I can make it to Cal by Thursday. Much as I’d like to.
So Bertie, Mel, Fuzz, I hope it all goes well. Wish I could be there.
Here comes the [...]

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