February 2008
24 posts
Moving To Media Temple (mt)Get ready for OddlyZen 2.0 I made the switch. I decided after ruminating long and hard that Tumblr just isn’t cutting it for OddlyZen’s content and future growth. So, I joined the modern-day cult that is Media Temple (mt). After being wowed by the admin feature and kick-ass webmail (Thanks, Scott!), I now think there is not a better hosting provider on the...
“An operating system should be completely invisible. To Microsoft and Apple (it...”
– Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux
“Emergence is one of the founding principles of agility, and is the closest one...”
– Getting Real: Lower Your Cost of Change (by 37signals)
I just had to re-post…The 10 Steps to a Huge Web 2.0 Company Solve the smallest possible problem (that is still big enough to matter) for the user and know exactly what problem you’re trying to solve. Google’s first and primary job was very simple: Help people find stuff. They didn’t start layering on everything else until much later. Brad calls this the “narrow...
“There is no code that is more flexible than no code!”
– Brad Appleton’s ACME Blog: There is No CODE that is more flexible than NO Code!
David Greiner, founder of Campaign Monitor →
Freely sharing our knowledge has also helped position us as experts in the industry and strengthened our relationship with existing customers. They know we care about the quality of their work. Finally, we get loads of targeted inbound traffic from search engines and bloggers who share our articles with their readers. These are people that would never have heard of our software had we not written...
“If programmers got paid to remove code from sofware instead of writing new code,...”
– Nicholas Negroponte, Professor of Media Technology at MIT (from And, the rest of the (AIGA Conference) story)
“What should you include in a helpful blank slate?
Use it as an opportunity to...”
– Getting Real: The Blank Slate (by 37signals)
“Another reason to design first is that the interface is your product. What...”
– Getting Real: Interface First (by 37signals)
“When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied.”
– Kevin Kelly — The Technium
sitting on the couch in the den — finished a new proposal; smiling. daydreaming at night. about to doze off.
reading the opensocial api specs from google; heading out the door for the road. 2.5 hours ‘til home.
Factory Joe (Chris Messina) posted about hashtags (and in particular, one very popular one — #themeword) on his blog: At Lifecamp on Monday, (incidentally held at Tantek’s Port Zero) we had a session where the small group of us brainstormed what Erica Douglass called “theme words” that might help us focus our goals for 2008. I posted mine on Twitter, originally, so this is a cross-post. ...
my #themeword for 2008 is ‘emerge.’ (http://tinyurl.com/28vaaw)
WatchThe Existential DiSo Interview from Chris Messina on Vimeo
is thankful that the ideas keep on coming; and typing furiously.
Getting ready to get back on the road to Tulsa; after organizing my notes for a showcase application - MOUTHR BETA! FREE ACCOUNT! SIGN UP…
Google Code Blog: Interview with Steve Yegge on... →
Last year, Steve Yegge posted about Rhino on Rails, his port of Ruby on Rails to the JavaScript language on the Rhino runtime. It garnered a slew of interest, and I have been wanting to talk to him in more detail about the project.
Google Code Blog: URLs are People, Too →
Here’s how it works: we crawl the Web to find publicly declared relationships between people’s accounts, just like Google crawls the Web for links between pages. But instead of returning links to HTML documents, the API returns JSON data structures representing the social relationships we discovered from all the XFN and FOAF. When a user signs up for your app, you can use the API to...
