Workday, Inc. is an on‑demand (cloud-based) financial management and human capital management software vendor. It was founded by David Duffield, the founder and former CEO of the ERP giant People Soft, and former People Soft chief strategist Aneel Bhusri following Oracle's hostile takeover of People Soft in 2005. It targets the customers of rivals Oracle or SAP by offering them "online services at a fraction of the cost of upgrading from their incumbent vendors". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workday,_Inc.

David Duffield (born 1941) is an American businessman in the software industry. He is the co-founder and former chairman of People Soft, the co-founder and co-CEO at WorkDay, Inc., and has been on the Forbes World's Richest People list. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duffield

Open Source Software Forge developed at FaceBook. (more)

Software idea Of The Day: tool to help during Musical Instrument practice session. (more)

the retro end of my Personal Network Architecture. (more)

aka CTO

When CoFounder-s and investors start to get some money back out of a Start Up. (more)

PbWiki has changed its name to PbWorks. Founder and Chief Product Officer David Weekly says the name change reflects the company's expansion into offerings and functionality that extend beyond just a wiki. Or is he just trying to differentiate himself in-name from a category that puts him in competition with every Open Source WikiEngine? (more)

Zendesk, inc. is a software development company based in San Francisco, California. The company provides a cloud-based Customer Service (User Support) platform, also called Zendesk, that includes ticketing (Issue Tracker), self-service options, and customer support features. Founded in 2007, the company now employs roughly 500 people[1] and serves more than 40,000 customers[2] in 140 countries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zendesk (more)

Customer Service for software

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popular Javascript Client Framework backed by Google

Engineering Your Start Up, by Mike Baird ISBN:1888577916 - 2002 (more)

Patrick McKenzie on designing Viral two-sided Sharing incentives. The biggest single thing about their referral program is that it has a two-sided incentive for sharing: the person who signs up for Drop Box through your referral link gets a better deal than they would have gotten from the homepage, and you also get a free bonus yourself. That is marvelous, marvelous psychology there: it gives both parties a benefit so the email seems less like spam, and social relations being what they are, the person receiving the gift feels a wee bit obligated to accept it... So I decided to test out a version of this for Bingo Card Creator. Historically, I have given free trial users 15 bingo cards for free. (This neatly segments my markets between parents, who very rarely have 16 children, and teachers and professional users, who rarely play bingo with under a dozen players.) I’m allowing them to invite friends: each successful invite gives both parties 3 extra cards, with a cap at 12 gained from inviting. (more)

Chris Hughes, co-founder of FaceBook, bought a controlling interested in The New Republic (TNR) Magazine. He wrote a letter to the readers. A belief in Long Form Journalism. (more)

Bookish.com is a content discovery and ecommerce website devoted to books which launched in February 2013. The site allows users to browse an extensive database of books and authors, add books to user-created digital "shelves", get custom book recommendations, read editorial content and purchase physical books, ebooks, and audiobooks.[2].. Bookish was founded in 2011 in a joint venture backed by three of the "big six" Book Publishing companies - Hachette Book Group, Penguin Group (USA), and Simon & Schuster - with the goal of increasing the presence of book publishers in the book-buying industry (which was becoming increasingly dominated by Amazon.com due to the increased popularity of online bookstores), as well as to expand the overall book-buying market. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookish

Patrick McKenzie app

does it lead to MultiVerse thinking? (more)

*VisualBasic for Applications (VBA) is an implementation of Microsoft's event-driven programming language Visual Basic 6 and its associated integrated development environment (IDE). (more)

(I originally created this breakdown in early 2014 for a friend whose son: is a High School grad who's not going to be getting a College Education; whose ADD/Aspey nature makes it hard for him to land a DayJob for Making A Living.) (more)