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Programming Contests, Community, and Business

By Simon St. Laurent
June 10, 2009

Attending the TopCoder Open, the final in-person rounds of an intense programming competition, in support of the TopCoder Cookbook, showed me possibilities that go way beyond programming or books into business models and community I came expecting to see a competition, but found a much more inclusive (and compelling) business model which builds and applies an international community of dedicated developers.

Big fish, little fish: the benefits of cycling between start-ups and established companies

By Andy Oram
June 5, 2009

Tacit understandings among companies to refrain from snatching away each other's staff are illegal anti-competitive behavior. But going back and forth between large and small companies is key to cross-pollination.

Programming as Live Performance

By Simon St. Laurent
June 3, 2009

As I'm writing this, twenty people are watching their peers write code. They aren't looking over anyone's shoulders, or doing peer programming - they're watching mirrors of screens at the TopCoder Open, seeing exactly how competitors work their way through algorithm problems in C++, Java, and C#. Is this something we should be doing more of?

FCC discusses broadband: the job is a big one

By Andy Oram
May 27, 2009

Related to a proposal I submitted for local forums to implement high-speed networks, the FCC released "Bringing Broadband to Rural America: Report on a Rural Broadband Strategy."

Local forums to implement high-speed networks (broadband); proposal open for votes

By Andy Oram
May 24, 2009

I've posted a proposal titled Local forums to implement high-speed networks (broadband) to a forum on open government put up by the White House. Voting is currently underway.

Writing a book by competition

By Simon St. Laurent
May 19, 2009

I've worked on lots of collaborative books before. Now, I'm starting on something different: a book written by competition.

Why Arrington is Wrong about Yahoo!-Google Deal

By Tim O'Reilly
June 14, 2008

I was inspired by Fred Wilson's excellent piece on the subject to add my own two cents to Mike Arrington's rant about how Yahoo!'s deal with Google is bad for the industry. I wrote the following in Arrington's comment stream, and will reproduce it here: Let me weigh in as well on why I don't think Google's dominance in search...

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