Wednesday, 30 August 2006
Red Cog
Announcing Red Cog.
Red Cog?
Red Cog is a social software development and support business. Red Cog will offer paid development and support contracts for blojsom and other projects such as del.icio.us Java, Akismet Java, Simpy Java, and future projects. In the past few months, I've had interest in paid development and support for blojsom from a number of companies. And ... well ... why not get paid to further develop and support your software?
What's with the name Red Cog?
The hardest part about forming a company is, IMHO, choosing a company name and a logo. I racked my brain for quite awhile trying to come up with an appropriate name. Of course I tried using anagrams with my name, my software projects, etc... and nothing really clicked. The name had to be simple and be applicable across projects and future work. blojsom could work as a company name, but would be specific to blojsom development and support.
It wasn't until I stepped back and looked at the redesigned blojsom logo that the perfect name hit me. I wanted to re-use the new "gear" in the logo, except it wasn't a gear. It was a cog, as I saw it ... albeit a futuristic looking cog. And it was red. The rest, as they say, is history. I checked for the company name, Red Cog, in the state's company database and the USPTO's trademark database. A few online forms and Red Cog was officially a company.
My business card on Flickr.
Does this mean those projects such as blojsom are now non-free or closed source?
Absolutely not!
All this means is that if an individual or company wants to pay Red Cog for development and/or guaranteed support for blojsom and other such projects, they can do that.
What's next?
Release blojsom 3.0. Roll out the Cog Blog. Announce clients.
