If you have ever had to write a business plan you will remember the part where you need to do a competitor analysis. Who are your competitors? What are their weaknesses and strengths? And so on and so forth. Over the past few days I have been thinking about that question. Who are our competitors …

If you’ve been hanging around the Internet for the past few months then by no doubt you have heard of the new web browser that is taking the world by storm. Firefox, the Mozilla Foundation’s alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, has been gaining momentum in the last few weeks before it’s …

Well we've done it again. This time with a little better audio setup, some topics, and two lemon ice teas. It's a little long and I still don't like my voice.  •  Download the MP3

Sorry for not posting in a while. I've been climbing mountains in NY and NH and fighting off bears...But that's beside the point. Today I rode a Segway. Jim over at Great Hobbies has recently gotten his hands on one (and is rumoured to be a reseller) and let us slices take it for a rip. It's …

Today the Nielsen Norman Group released the winners and accompanying report for their latest intranet design competition. We’re glad to say that the report, the Ten Best Government and Public Sector Intranet Designs, features a silverorange designed and built intranet.  •  The winning intranet …

A few days ago I posted that I would be making the switch to a totally open source system (OS included) by months end. Well….my first ever windows virus in ten years made Christmas come early. I moved over to Fedora Core 2 on Tuesday and have been using it since as my only working machine. Overall …

Working here amongst the open source gurus of silverorange I'm constantly surrounded by Linux users, Firefox proponents, and Thunderbird advocates. After a few months of thoroughly enjoying Firefox as my primary web browser and Gaim as my sole IM client, I've decided to officially make the switch …

Steven, fellow silverorange slice, and his crack team of designers have unleased the new artwork for Thunderbird, the Mozilla Email Application.  •  In my opinion, and I am somewhat biased, this is some fantastic work. The amazing part is the process. Because the team working on the branding and …

Because I'm surrounded by people actively contributing REAL and tangible pieces of work to open source projects I had to ask myself the question, what is my role in the open-source movement? More abstractly, what business is there to give in the open-source movement?