Reading for the weekend.

Pile of books

Pile of books

While I await for my ipad to arrive from its world wide tour event (San Francisco to Sidney to London to Lisbon) I have to resort to reading hard copies versions of books. Below is a short list for this week, courtesy of LQ, @loic (from Seesmic) and the 451group @caos.

- If you are out there raising money better read this Harvard Business Review article as it gives you some insight into how VC´s reason. How Venture Capitalists Evaluate Potential Venture Opportunities

- Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us - Seth Godin

- Trust Agents by Chris Brogan

- Engage! by Brian Solis

- Rework by Jason Fried & David Hansson of 37 Signals

On the Open Source front reading, the following reads are quite interesting:

- OSS Industry Savings - This report investigates the use of open source software libraries in proprietary software developments. The results show that open source libraries are widely used in a set of over 300 proprietary systems, and their usage has introduced estimated savings in excess of 1 million EUR per system. Download here: OSS Industry Savings – SIG report on software industry savings resulting from use of open source software
- Free 451 Group report on regional differences in attitudes to open source adoption – This reports on a survey of 1,700 open source software users and the reasons why they adopt open source. Hint, it is not about cost cutting! Download it here
April 23rd, 2010 | In Featured, Readings, Video

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  • Laura
    You can also get a free download of the Tribes audio book on Audible.com. It's a good listen! btw, I'm jealous about the iPad...I want one!
  • Actually it's San Francisco -> Sydney -> Melbourne -> LA -> London -> Lisbon ;-)
  • Ah,
    The iPad will be even more travelled than I was initially expecting. When will you be back in London? We need to talk and arrange for me to visit you and pick it up?
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