Tales From The Cockpit
I’ll be blogging about various activities of my newly formed company Inevitable, writing tips on running a web based business, and posting special tidbits for (not just) Canadian web entrepreneurs… from the cockpit of Inevitable.
My name is Steve Mallett. I’m best known for owning, running, blogging, and trying to keep servers running at OSDir.com, a +5000! (April24-08) +10,000 Alexa ranking website about open source & linux. OSDir is in fact the main reason for the creation of Inevitable really.
If I hadn’t just sold it in Dec ‘07 I’d be telling you that one of my pet projects, and shit storms, de.lirio.us was a part of Inevitable. Well, it is, but the terms are undisclosed, NO it wasn’t sold for a ton of money. Mercy. I turned it over to some blokes, they’re from the U.K., who have wonderful plans for it, and they plan to send me gifts. de.lirio.us was not a total miserable failure at making a point about community built (“Web 2.0”) websites and who gets to keep all the goodies. Modeled site del.icio.us did end up permitting what is now called data portablity, or datalibre as I called it.
I’m the caretaker for opensource.org, run planetjava.org, was a blog editor and ‘sort of all round idea guy’ at O’ReillyNet for a while, OSDir.com was a affiliate site of the O’Reilly Network, and inadvertently had digg.com create the bury feature after being sport-humped in their first ever lynch-mobbing (wrongly I should add) & subsequent kiss and make up sesssion. Oh, and I co-ordinated the creation of the Google/O’Reilly Open Source Awards with Chris DiBona which turned into an annual thing. blah blah…
So… I’ve been around a little while, seen a few things, learned a few lessons the hard way, and will move forward with one success for every ten failures. Quickly though, I hope.