Gliffy: bootstrapped in San Francisco
It’s rumored that a Web entrepreneur only has to walk down the street in downtown San Francisco to attract VC funding these days. That’s probably an exaggeration, but even so, you can’t help but admire the grit of Gliffy’s co-founders, Chris Kohlhardt and Clint Dickson (pictured in their new office, below). They’ve chosen to bootstrap […]

Shhhh… PKI Wiki Is Up
I’ve been a bit quiet on the Process Knowledge Initiative front lately due to other commitments, and lack of much public-facing progress in spite of the progress that we’d been making internally. That’s about to change, because we have a public wiki up and running for the draft Body of Knowledge, and will officially be […]

Atlassian: Fully Funded. By Customer Revenue. Oh, and the $60M T-shirt
It was 2006, the first Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco and I just met Jeffrey Walker, President of Atlassian. I had followed the company for a while (OK, I admit, had been a fan), met Mike, but this was the first time with Jeffrey, so we took our box lunch to a cozy little […]

Atlassian Security Breach and Warning >>> Update: Apology and Disclosure
Well, well, hours after telling you not to change passwords, now I am telling you to change it… but this time with good reason. Minutes ago I’ve received a email from Atlassian: We are sending you this message because we experienced a security breach and suspect that your Atlassian customer account password details (only) may […]

Wiki Tuesday: Wikis at RBC
Yes, I know that today is not Tuesday, but this is about our previous Toronto Wiki Tuesday, a monthly meetup where we have a presentation on wikis, lift a few pints and hobnob with wiki specialists such as Martin Cleaver (who also organizes Wiki Tuesdays) and Mike Dover (co-author of Wikinomics).
The presenter at this session […]

How Cloud Collaboration Changes the Way Software Developers Work
Listen to my conversation with Michael Knighten, director of hosted services at software development and collaboration vendor Atlassian. In this podcast, discover why developers are choosing to move their projects to cloud-based collaboration platforms, and learn how the availability of shared services and code in the cloud is changing the way development gets done. Listen […]