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May 07 2008
The third Ignite Boston will be on Thursday, May 29, from 6 to 10pm in Harvard Square. read moreIgnite Boston, Free as in Free Beer
September 04 2007
The Second Ignite Boston is taking place this Thursday, September 6, from 6 to 10pm at Hurricane O’Reillys. If you have already RSVP’d your name is in our list and you will be entered into a drawing for $300 worth of O’Reilly books, and a Free Beer, or drink… read moreIgnite Boston - Free, as in Beer
September 04 2007
The Second Ignite Boston is taking place this Thursday, September 6, from 6 to 10pm at Hurricane O’Reillys. If you have already RSVP’d your name is in our list and you will be entered into a drawing for $300 worth of O’Reilly books, and a Free Beer, or drink… read moreIgnite Boston - Free, as in Free Beer
September 04 2007
The Second Ignite Boston is taking place this Thursday. If you have already RSVP’d your name is in our list and you will be entered into a drawing for $300 worth of O’Reilly books, and a Free Beer, or drink of your choice. If you have not RSVP’d or if… read moreAugust 21 2007
Let's show our tech colleagues around the country that Boston/Cambridge have a vibrant tech community that gets involved in talking about cool new technologies and ideas.... Another reason we wanted to announce this event this early, is so those of you who would like speak for five minutes on something… read moreAugust 07 2007
Summer is flying by and as we usher in fall, we wanted to give all New Englanders a heads-up that we are having a second Ignite Boston. The second Ignite Boston will take place on Thursday, September 6, from 6 to 10pm at Hurricane O’Reillys. Yes that is right,… read moreAugust 03 2007
Summer is flying by and as we usher in fall, we wanted to give all New Englanders a heads-up that we are having a second Ignite Boston. The second Ignite Boston will take place on Thursday, September 6, from 6 to 10pm at Hurricane O’Reillys. Yes that is right,… read moreOpen Source vs. Proprietary -- Category Perspective
June 11 2007
One of the dimensions we watch at O’Reilly is the “platform” category. At a high-level in our taxonomy, the Platform category can be split into two groups — Open Source and Proprietary. The following charts represent the “platform” world for the first five months of each year [January thru May… read moreOpen Source vs. Proprietary -- Category Perspective
June 11 2007
One of the dimensions we watch at O’Reilly is the “platform” category. At a high-level in our taxonomy, the Platform category can be split into two groups — Open Source and Proprietary. The following charts represent the “platform” world for the first five months of each year [January thru May… read moreIgnite Boston is filling up Fast!
May 25 2007
Our first Ignite Boston is filling up fast. Since we have limited space at Tommy Doyle’s, please RSVP for the Thursday, May 31,[6 to 10pm] event by sending email to IgniteBoston [at] oreilly [dot] com. With your RSVP, your name will be entered into a drawing to receive $300… read moreMay 18 2007
The first Ignite Boston will be on Thursday, May 31, from 6 to 10pm at Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. From 6-7pm, mingle and talk tech with your fellow FOOs, alpha geeks, and techies from the greater Boston area. Join a MAKE challenge team and participate in building… read moreMay 17 2007
The first Ignite Boston will be on Thursday, May 31, from 6 to 10pm at Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. From 6-7pm, mingle and talk tech with your fellow FOOs, alpha geeks, and techies from the greater Boston area. Join a MAKE challenge team and participate in building… read moreMay 15 2007
The first Ignite Boston will be on Thursday, May 31, from 6 to 10 pm at Tommy Doyle’s located at 96 Winthrop Street in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. From 6-7, mingle and talk tech with your fellow FOOs, alpha geeks, and techies from the greater Boston area. Or, join a… read moreMay 08 2007
So we all know that both Ajax and Adobe’s Flash/Appolo have been getting lots of attention in the web development space. The following trend line shows how many developers are buying books on Rich Web Interface programming topics. As you can see the trend is growing steadily upward, so the… read moreApril 24 2007
I did some analysis of our audiences who purchase books. This is a time-oriented graph. If you notice the spikes on the “Consumer” trend line, those represent the end of each year. Consumer purchasing reaches a peak at the end-of-the-year holiday period. Consumer means people who buy computer-oriented books like… read more
