Looks like my choice to use WordPress.org on my own servers for my personal blog was a good one. Typepad has been down since 1:50pm. Unfortunately that means both Geojoey and Linebuzz corporate blogs are down. Dear TypePad member, The TypePad service is currently unavailable due to power issues at our co-location facility. This means […]
July 24, 2007 | Startups | No comments
UPDATE: This article generated over 5,000 page views in under 24 hours, so I’ve posted a follow-up interview with Tony Wright, RescueTime’s Founder & CEO. I’m participating in a closed Beta of Rescuetime.com and installed the software on Sunday. Yesterday sat down at my desk for 10 hours and then hit the site. Here are […]
July 24, 2007 | Startups | 6 comments
Rob Malda (aka cmdrtaco), the founder of Slashdot.org has written a rather schizophrenic piece on Slashdot about Alexa. He spends most of the article beating up Alexa, but is sure to include 5 links to the website in the article – two of them specifically asking people to install the Alexa toolbar. A while ago […]
July 23, 2007 | Tech News | No comments
Starting a software business? Looking for a software engineering process? You can spend a month getting your head around one of these: Agile software development Crystal Clear Extreme programming Lean software development ISO 12207 Rational Unified Process CMM ISO 15504 Or.. 2 seconds learning the Nike method:
Don Dodge from Microsoft’s emerging business team summarizes the Patent Reform Act of 2007 that just passed the House Judiciary Committee. Damages are limited to the value added over existing technology. This bill would require the courts to look at the “free market” value of the patent if it were licensed in an “arms length” […]
July 23, 2007 | Startups | No comments
Stats since reviving my dusty old blog last week. Still no SE traffic – in fact I’m still getting traffic for pages from my old blog that don’t exist anymore. What really surprises me is the avg time on site. But I guess that’s how long I spend on most blogs – I like to […]
July 22, 2007 | Randomness | No comments
This little guy quietly spun this masterpiece while I was snoozing on the couch below him last night – and he got me thinking about The Web and what the word really means these days. Perhaps I’ve been in the entrepreneurial game for too long now, but it’s beginning to mean: Design User interfaces SEO […]
July 22, 2007 | Randomness, Technology | No comments
I’m not a copyright nazi and I’m all for sharing. But it really pisses me off when I see people plagiarize my blog entries verbatim without even giving a link back to the source and without adding so much as a single sentence of their own content. Add a couple of sentences of your own […]
July 22, 2007 | Rants | No comments
I just put my wallet through the wash. AAAAAAAH!!
July 21, 2007 | Randomness | No comments
UPDATE: Changed the title after realizing I’m referring to a niche within startups. John Cook, one of my favorite Seattleites, has a post on his blog about yet another home office no money startup that got bought out for a few million. There is a growing realization that getting early funding if you’re a developer […]
July 21, 2007 | Startups | No comments