January 2010
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Why Tumblr is kicking Posterous’s ass « PEG on... →
mirza:
The Short answer: Design.
I also think Tumblr is a more fluid experience — not sure I can describe it beyond that, but it just feels so easy. That might relate back to “Design” though.
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Congrats to my brother Matt for getting...
I’m especially proud of him that it was in the Your Rights Online section. A post of his (linked as “Many people…”) about Tynt was linked to from a post that made it to their home page. His site stayed up under increased traffic load. I’m looking forward to digging in to his web stats to see what kind of effect that had.
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“I ask it for the knowledge I have gained in the work of a lifetime.”
– While being cross-examined during a trial in which he accused a critic of libel, James McNeill Whistler was questioned as to why he charged two hundred guineas for what amounted to two days of work. That was his response.
This quote reminds me alot of a parable in Gordon Macenzie’s Orbiting...
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Google indexing Twitter feeds on your site can...
[originally published 3/6/2009 on my old DotNetNuke blog, moved now to Tumblr & republished]
When this website ran on DotNetNuke, I had a module I created called TwitterDNN that loaded a real-time view of the five most recents posts (“tweets”) I’ve made on Twitter. It did this via a call directly to Twitter’s API at the server level, and rendered the results out as...
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Social Media and its Value
sdk7327:
I have been doing a lot of research on social media and its value, and I think it is interesting how many businesses want to leverage it to make money. The problem they come across when doing this is that they don’t know about the commitment social media requires to make it effective. It is not just about slapping up a blog or facebook fan page, its about building relationships with...
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Watchsdk7327:
thatssodigital:
Interesting, candid interviews from some folks at Google, IDEO and more on what it takes to get a creative job.
(via core77)
(p.s., IDEO hires about 9% of those that apply, so if you land a gig there you’re something special)
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Beware the entrepreneur who is too focused on the...
In the past 14 years I’ve been involved in about a half-dozen start-up companies of one sort or another, and given advice to quite a few others. One thing I’ve noticed during this time is that entrepreneurs who focus too much on the meta of the business, or the things not directly related to getting new business and generating revenue, are the least likely to succeed. I was guilty of...
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What if a bunch of small local web design,...
This town1 has an amazing creative class of young professionals, many of whom have setup shop as independant consultants, freelancers, and small businesses providing their services for hire. Unfortunately I believe this means that alot of this creative talent is also spread thin across the aspects of running a small business that aren’t directly production oriented: marketing, business...
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I want to be a better writer, so I am going to...
“It’s hard for me to write,” I told her, “not the grammar or word usage, it just doesn’t come easily for me.” I pondered this admission over coffee with another consultant the other week. I enjoy writing, but for some reason I have a hard time keeping up with it on a regular basis, other than what is required of me for professional email communication (which...
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Gmail tip: Develop a naming system for your email...
To make the most of Gmail’s system of labeling your emails instead of using folders, it helps to have an organized system of label names. Here’s what I’ve found works best for me. To start with, I use several “prefixes” to my label names, such as:
a- (action) c- (client) mp- (internal emails, mp is the initials of my company) p- (people) ref- (emails with very...