Welcome to my Open Life site!
Hah!When I finally got home today after a long day at work, there it was. My copy from Lulu.com had arrived and it was perfect. So I've approved it, and now all I need to do is to write the press...
View ArticlePress Release: New book introduces Open Source ideology and business models,...
September 4th, 2006 For immediate publicationNew book introduces Open Source ideology and business models, entertaining and in layman terms'Open Life: The Philosophy of Open Source' is a newly...
View ArticleSelling books
I just checked at Lulu.com and it seems I've now sold my first couple of books. Yippiee! I immediately also noticed a small drawback. With the Finnish book I'd receive the orders into my personal...
View ArticleNow also available in book stores
I noticed yesterday that Open Life has now showed up also at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and presumable available at every other book store in the world as well. So now it's really published!read more
View ArticleBusiness in Open Source, Vaasa, October 6th
When rock stars publish a new record, they go on a tour and have concerts around the world. Publishing a book is kind of the same. You get invited to talk in various Open Source events. This Friday...
View ArticleReport from BIOS seminar October 6th
I'm back home, after flying around Europe last week and ending up in Vaasa on Friday to attend the Open Source seminar arranged by the Vaasa Applied Sciences University and their EU funded Business in...
View ArticleThe making of the book cover (and a GIMP tutorial)
If you've had a look at the fine print you'll already know, the book cover was made using Creative Commons licensed images from the Internet. It is in itself supposed to be a testimony of how you can...
View ArticleOpen Life 2.0: Open Source Around the World (collaborative edition)
I'm glad that somebody has already asked how he could contribute to the collaborative version of Open Life. We came to the conclusion that the collaborative edition will be a completely new book,...
View ArticleIt's a new day, the SUN is rising, Java is free!
Sun has been saying it for more than a year now, but we wanted action, not words. Then they open sourced Solaris, but we were not interested in that, we only wanted Java. Then last week it...
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Summer greetings with a sunny picture plus drinking game
Reader Tomi Nousiainen sent me this sunny and relaxed greeting for Midsummer, which he allowed me to share with all of you.read more
View ArticleLastwear does open clothing, funded via Kickstarter.com
I was recently pointed to a startup called Lastwear, who has gotten their seed funding via Kickstarter.com (also a new acquaintance to me). With an eye to the topic of this blog and namesake book I...
View ArticleKindle version of the Open Life book
Some more recent readers of this blog perhaps never realized that it is a spin-off of a book I wrote years ago. I still write occasionally about open source business models and community stuff, but...
View ArticleBook signing evening at MySQL user conference
There will be a book signing opportunity at the MySQL User Conference, more precisely at the Expo Hall Community Reception on Wednesday evening. You will be able to meet and talk to authors of great...
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