- Google Abandons Standards, Forks OpenID — The NeoSmart Files – Ahhhhh … embrace and extend. Sound familiar?
- A Little Shack – A Case Study of Harley-Davidson Business Practises – "With the growing global economy, companies are looking for ways to improve their market share. Many excellent firms have learned how to beat their competitors through the implementation of new management, marketing, and/or manufacturing techniques. Harley-Davidson is one of those excellent companies whom has challenged traditional ideas. We intend to show through this case study that any company can follow Harley-Davidson's techniques and lead themselves to excellence." – found via 37signals
- Learning from Harley-Davidson's comeback – (37signals) – "From 1973-1983, Harley-Davidson’s market share went from 78% to 23% as Japanese manufacturers flooded the market with high quality, low priced bikes. Unable to compete on price against the Japanese producers, Harley had to establish other market values and improve quality."
- Twitter squatting | NetworkWorld.com Community – Article that goes through the evidence of Twitter id "squatting".
- Hostile takeover of Open Source Project TWiki – WikiRing Blog – "TWIKI.NET announced unilaterally that the best for the TWiki.org project would be for them to take over governance. With it comes a complete lock down of the community site. From that minute on, all long-time contributors have lost access to their code. Counter-reaction: the community has left the building, leaving TWIKI.NET without a contributing community."
- InfoQ: Working Group Formed to Produce Reusable Agile Contracts – "The working group on OpenPlans currently has a work in progress Agile contract titled ‘Money For Nothing, Change For Free’ which places strong emphasis on customer participation"
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