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Code Swarm

Posted in analysis of behavior, economics, product development, software, tagged , , , , , , , on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This is a nice post today on visualizing the participation of users in popular open source projects.
Good lead in for the study I’m going to do on the upcoming N-Brain competition.

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Live Audience Coding Competition with N-Brain

Posted in analysis of behavior, science prizes, social science, software, tagged , , , , , on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

N-brain is back at it with coding challenges.  This time it’s public and not secretive at all.  Over Christmas last year, N-brain launched a stealth coding competition to lure job applications and introduce the dev world to their new software development platform, UNA.  I participated in and analyzed this coding competition, almost simultaneously.  
Since then I’ve [...]

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Anatomy of Software Collaboration

Posted in analysis of behavior, business strategy, jobs, social networks, tagged , , , , , , , on December 24, 2007 | 6 Comments »

Summary (PDF of Draft Analysis)
What started for me as a typical “read Slashdot” for a minute has turned into a full blown research project into collaboration. The participation in solving the N-BRAIN Master Software Developer challenge delivered huge amounts of experiential as well as quantitative information regarding social collaboration on software projects.
This is a [...]

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Brain Real Time Collaboration

Posted in analysis of behavior, business strategy, data mining, jobs, tagged , , , , , , , on December 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Man, whew! had a great last 18 hours DORKING OUT.  i’ll admit it.  i just participated in one of the biggest dorkouts ever.  It’s relevant to business, behavior and media because it represents EXACTLY what is so crazy and different about doing business in a connected world.
Sometime around 10am PST this story hits slashdot.org:
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/07/12/22/1746220.shtml
In this [...]

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