The Southwest Venture Forum is holding their Venture Capital Update 2006 on Thursday, January 19, 2006 (7-9AM) at 5954 Luther Lane, Dallas, Texas.  You can register online at their website or call 214.768.3689.  The keynote speaker is John S. Taylor, VP of Research for the National Venture Capital Association.  SMU/COX Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship is [...]

Dallas is home to open source guru Raven Zachary (an editor for Enterprise Open Source Journal and founder of o*rev and Ofo).  Raven and I are getting together to talk about how we should release SimpleTicket (more on that tomorrow) we got together and he helped us pick the right license.  Anyway, I was reading [...]

Interested in getting in the open source software game?  Are you located in Dallas?  There is just one guy you need to talk to: Raven Zachary.  He is the senior technical editor for the Enterprise Open Source Journal (EOSJ) and runs an open source consulting firm called o*rev.  Check out his blog for updates on [...]

Using open source software for your business?  Here are Dennis Kennedy’s ‘Best Legal Practices for Open Source Software‘: 1. Understand the Different Approaches That the Open Source Licenses Take. It is important not to think about the Open Source licenses in monolithic terms. I divide the Open Source licenses into four families: GPL, BSD, Netscape/Corporate, [...]

While most of the Web 2.0 world is running from the term, here in Texas I still get the question, "what is this Web 2.0 stuff I keep hearing about?"  I thought I would repost the Wikipedia definition here: The term "Web 2.0" refers to what some people see as a second phase of development [...]

Britain is the first country to monitor EVERY car journey.  The government will be able to track the movements of any car for a period of two years – i.e. by using license plate numbers they can create a track of all movements throughout the country for every minute of every day for two full [...]

Previously I blogged that Architel was considering using a Wiki to replace it’s existing ‘client info database’ residing in Lotus Notes.  The Notes systems was used for both client info and ticketing.  Now that Architel is migrating to SimpleTicket (Ruby on Rails based ticketing system) that does not have a client info module yet they [...]

Two of our projects were mentioned in the Seattle Times yesterday.  The article titled, "Web 2.0 mania revives dot-com investing" explains my little elfURL idea and how it spawned the Big in Japan project (FYI – elfURL is currently undergoing a redesign and retooling – but the old version has had over 600,000 visitors since [...]

Kevin issued a SimpleTicket update today on the Architel blog.  Check it out here.   

The date for BarCampNYC has been set for 1/14 and 1/15.  BarCampDallas has been scheduled for 1/28 (one day only).  Brian arranged for Chris Messina to attend the Dallas event (he is one of the Flock guys and a co-founder of BarCamp). Still working on the schedule for the Dallas event.  Check out the wiki [...]