Tonight there's a Ruby meetup at the SF offices of SlideShare. There's pizza and beer, and plenty of parking in the scary-looking-but safe alley behind our office! Here's...

I just arrived in the Silicon Valley to work here for a month and synced up with the local colleagues to compare our notes on how we organize developer days,...

Yes, that’s right! If you folks have been checking my Dopplr account recently, I am going to be on the road tomorrow afternoon, once again. This time around to...

Last week I had the pleasure of presenting once again at the London @media conference, this time on the subject of Content Management. It was the first time I’d...

Amazon Web Services is having a major outage since the last couple of hours. The outage has affected a bunch of services. Simple DB, S3, SQS - all are down. Check out the...

We're now in hour 4 of an S3 outage that is effecting the entire startup ecosystem. SlideShare is down, as is MuxTape, SmugMug, and almost every other site you can think...

The techcrunch article lays out the details. We are really happy with how things worked out! Many thanks to everybody out there who played a part in making it happen. We...

I've just committed Sociable version 2.8.1, which, next to fixing some bugs and xhtml compliancy issues, brings a pretty cool new feature: the ability to add the social...

Here are the slides from my talk at XTech 2008 in Dublin this morning. View on SlideShare Hopefully they'll make a bit of sense without the accompanying...

One thing I've been working on in the last month is accelerating the serving of SlideShare content using a "content delivery network" (or CDN). You use a CDN so your...

The SF Javascript meetup is a brand-new institution ... only on it's second meeting. But BOY has it started with a bang! Last time Douglas freakin' Crockford (inventor of...

As I wrote in my last post, we've been going through the process of adding a content delivery network (PantherExpress) to SlideShare. Since there isn't a lot of...

I just gave my first-ever presentation. From what I’ve been told, it went ok despite running 15 minutes short. I’ve uploaded the code to the microapp I...

Calma pessoal, o Techbits continua aqui. Acontece que no último mês o volume de trabalho triplicou e fiquei sem tempo pra postar. Claro, estou me reestruturando para no...

Social ToDo Another one of my ideas that I don’t need to do, because someone else did it: Hiveminder. A wonderful presentation and introduction over on SlideShare...

The Second Annual SlideShare Contest is underway, and it is improved, interesting and invaluable. Three reasons: SlideShare is a unique website which is: furthering...

FriendFeed has been out for just a few months and has already established itself as a solid startup with an indefinite amount of potential. Founded by four ex-Googlers,...

Now that this blog has turned itself into A KM Blog Thinking Outside the Inbox, I thought I would keep things going further by commenting on interesting links I have...

I gave a presentation at the InfoTech for Pharma and Biotech conference last week, in a symposium dedicated to text mining, titled "Bringing a publisher's content to the...

Congrats to Rashmi, Jon, Amit & team... SlideShare just raised $3M from Venrock :) I can't begin to say how proud i am of the SlideShare team, and what an honor it...