Monthly Archives: June 2007

User Group Recap

More photos from the Palo Alto user group! Yesterday's Palo Alto user group was a great success. Of the 80 RSVPs, a little over 60 people attended, and in addition there were a dozen folks from Atlassian there. The presentations from Sony Computer Entertainment, Polycom, Apple, Consulting Toolsmiths and Gliffy were first rate and had people talking during the break, birds-of-a-feather breakouts, and mixer afterwards (and I don't mean to leave out Atlassian's presentations from Scott and Josh —

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Social Network Analysis of Wikipatterns.com

Wiki consultant James Matheson performed a social network analysis of Wikipatterns.com, and recently wrote about his findings. He looked at the relationship between contributors based on common page editing, and the relationship between pages themselves based on the volume of edits and number of editors. The report observed that the home page is frequently edited, but by editors who appear to edit only the home page. This is because when editors tag pattern pages with one of four tags: people pattern,

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Scott Talking about Entrepreneurship and Atlassian

Not to be outdone by Ben's video, Scott Farquhar, co-founder and CEO at Atlassian, was part of a BRW panel on entrepreneurship. His presentation touches on the founding of Atlassian and the business model that makes the company tick. Scott's presentation is the first part of the video, he's followed by presentations from other CEOs. Total length is just over 5 minutes. Check it out now while it's still on the BRW home page.

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Palo Alto User Group Tomorrow

Hope to see you at our Palo Alto user group tomorrow at the Stanford Faculty Lounge! The meet up is open to customers, partners, and anyone interested in Atlassian software. Presentations and birds-of-a-feather go from 1 to 5pm, then we'll serve food and drinks and hope folks can stick around to socialize a bit. Speakers include Jeffrey Walker, President at Atlassian, Welcome Scott Farquhar, Co-founder and CEO, Atlassian, Introduction Ned Lerner, Sony Playstation, on JIRA and Confluence Jeff

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Parleys.com Streams Video on Confluence Wiki

45,000 people in 3 1/2 months have visited Parleys. Are you one of them? If not, you're missing out — Parleys is a website that streams video, allowing visitors to watch and vote on various informational, technical talks. Built on Confluence(!), Parleys is a really cool and innovative way to use and customise the wiki. Many of the presentations on Parleys have actually been recorded at the annual Java conference, JavaPolis. Both JavaPolis and Parleys are creations of Stephan Janssen. This

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Crowd Now Supports OpenID

Today we're announcing a new version of Crowd, our single sign-on and identity management software. Crowd 1.1 contains a whole host of new features targeted at implementing OpenID, along with dozens of core updates to the Crowd Administration Console. Justen summarised well the growing support for OpenID on the Developer Blog: OpenID is currently a maturing technology with decent potential to become the standard mechanism for web authentication. The adoption for OpenID is really amazing considering

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