Open Thread Thursday: Will Netflix kill cable?
Netflix shook up the video rental industry. Now your movies can be delivered to your mailbox or streamed instantly online. The company has used elements of the open source way--a subscription-based...
View ArticlePoll: How do you get your movies?
How do you get the MAJORITY of the movies you watch?Steal it16.2% (36 votes)Download it legally (pay for it) 3.6% (8 votes)Download it legally (I tend to watch to free movies) 5.4% (12 votes)Movie...
View ArticleDoes your organization need a "no policy" policy?
Daniel Pink published an interesting piece over the weekend in The Telegraph about Netflix's innovative corporate policy of not having a vacation policy.read more
View ArticleDeveloping films the open source way
In a world where movies are produced on budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars, at a time when studios expect a huge return on their investment, in an industry where the opening weekend can make or...
View ArticleBook review: What's Mine Is Yours--The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
We live in a consumer culture in the most literal sense of that word. We aren't just making purchases. We are consuming. And more than just consuming, we are obliterating our world's resources at an...
View ArticleNetflix completes the open source giving cycle
Netflix gets it. They understand the power of open source.Kevin McEntee, VP of Systems & ECommerce Engineering at Netflix wrote a blog post about how Netflix does more than just consume open...
View ArticleAn open plea to video content providers
Netflix, Hulu, Blockbuster VOD, Vudu, and a slew of other video streaming services have been popping up left and right. Yet there's a big problem with most of these services: many of them suffer from...
View ArticleOpen source gift from Netflix rains chaos in your cloud
At first blush, the software Netflix open sourced on Monday seems like part of an elaborate joke.read more
View ArticleThe open source culture of freedom and responsibility at Netflix
His adventure started in college with Slackware, lead him to Sendmail, then eventually to Reddit, and now his career is streaming at Netflix. Jeremy Edberg is a Reliability Architect at Netflix and...
View ArticleOpen source tears down inefficiency and redundancy
Open source. What started as a simple description for software source code and a development model has moved far beyond that into a strong culture where presentation of patterns and models for debate...
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