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It’s time to change
My adventure with Funambol ended. Since January 2008 I’ve been working with an amazing company managing an amazing community. I’m proud to have helped the company increase its download number about 30% every quarter and also am glad to have … Continue reading
Join a community, land a great job
Joining a community not only makes you feel better but can land you a great job. Janet Swisher has been contributing to the online community FLOSS Manuals writing documentation for free/libre software. In a message to the community she wrote: … Continue reading
Getting Funambol 8.5 on Ubuntu Lucid LTS
I wanted to make sure that newest Ubuntu 10.04 being a Long Time Support one would be capable of running the newest Funambol DS Server version 8.5. I can confirm: not a problem there. I downloaded the 32bit .bin package … Continue reading
It’s all about Contacts: who do you know?
When it comes to doing anything, finding a job, an apartment or a used car, what counts most is who you know. In the old times it was the size of your rolodex, now it’s the size of you digital … Continue reading
Posted in business, community, eng, funambol
Tagged addressbook, funambol, innovation, mozilla, social network, sync
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Why free software applications are a priority on mobile platforms (not device drivers)
Bradley wrote about mobile software freedom, a field that I’m obviously deep into because of my work at Funambol. His quite long article Musings on Software Freedom for Mobile Devices contains an analysis of the situation, which mobile platforms are … Continue reading
How to sync Mac OS with Funambol (part 3)
I noticed that my posts about using Funambol on Mac part I and part II are two of the most viewed posts on my blog, so I decided to update them with a new tutorial using the official Funambol Mac … Continue reading
3 ways to get cash over the holidays with Funambol
The winter holidays are a provide a good opportunity to do something useful in that downtime between celebrations. Funambol’s community programs provide three ways to have fun and earn some cash, too. 1. Participate in the Code Sniper program: it … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, code sniper, community, funambol, incentive, l1on sniper, participation, phone sniper
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How To Mix Agile And Software Developed By A Community
Back from Italian Agile Day where Stefano Fornari of Funambol with Marco Abis of Sourcesense animated a debate about mixing Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) and Agile development methods. I used to think that there was no issue because, after … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, codesniper, community, development, floss, free software, funambol, iad, incentives, open source, scrum
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Mobile Cloud Computing, Part II: Where do We go From Here?
Mobile cloud is going to be big, according to a study published by ABI research. And they’re not the only ones to say so. In this second part of my thoughts about mobile cloud — which I hope we can … Continue reading
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Tagged community, free software, funambol, lock-in, locked devices, mobile cloud, open standard, oscon
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