Month: November 2006

According to several blog posts, Opera opens a new office in Poland. Robert Blaut suspects that the company from which new Opera employees were laid off is Simens BenQ.

First of all, congratulations to those folks! Secondly, congratulations to Opera – it’s a sign of your growth, isn’t it? 🙂

I’m wondering about those two models – Opera’s one and Mozilla’s one. Opera is employing so much more people, while Mozilla is still rather understaffed in my opinion. Opera just employed 23 people with a single move, Mozilla is carefully deliberating every step. It seems to have no relation to market share through, nor the revenue of both. I’m curious if Opera really need that many people aboard to compete with peer-production model (I can’t believe that they really need 23 people just to port a browser on to new platform, no matter what Nokia said about their sources ;p), or that they simply can afford it and prefer to prepare their human resources for something bigger.

I’m on the third day of PTI autumn conference. I spent the first day on train, second on Web 2.0 related talks, and today I’m listening to Tom DeMarco right now. Also, yesterday, Krzysztof Kowalczyk had asked me if I could join a peer-production session that he’s chairman of, and give the talk about the motivations and addictions of open source volunteers. Whoa! Sure I can 🙂

My talk was OK. I presented a few short movies from Flock planning meetings, a bit of photos from Flock HQ, bowling 2.0 movies, barcamp, SHDH, etc. My goal was to prove them that being innovative requires being chaotic. requires a bit of energetic chaos that Flock had at the day first and that made it possible to get near 1.0 now with a great product with it’s unique feature set and goals.

Ironically, the most important questions during Q&A session were the ones from polish business angels from Lewiatan, but beside of this I also made first contacts with author of grono.net (polish MySpace), author of szorty.pl (kind’of youtube) and tiver.pl (movies on demand – he promised not to use DRM!!!) and investor of merlin.pl (amazon.com like). We’ll see how far it’ll get 😉
Anyway, I’m totally impressed by Helmut V. Gläser’s talk about communication skills and issues leading to bad communication. It was very interesting, and the speaker made amazing job in playing with crowd emotions. And this is something that most speakers lacks a lot!

During the supper yesterday, I was presented to Dr. Nahum D. Gershon from MITRE, who asked for help in defining the way to activate a community around his projects, and we set up a meeting on today afternoon. I hope to be able to help 🙂

That’s all for now, getting back to my S5 presentation. Off

So, first ranking.pl results after new releases covers 24.10 – 30.10.

So, Firefox 1.x got 1.5% drop but Firefox 2.x gained 2.1%! At the same time, IE6 got 0.7% drop and IE7 gained 0.2%. Woha! 🙂

Overall, Gecko got 0.6% gain in last week, MSIE lost 0.5%.

You can find summary (pl) in their latest newsletter.

Cheers MS! The cake was good 😉