Random Articles

• New Year. New Approach The FeedSeeder Project is awakening from a brief hibernation. While the core ideas will remain (they’ve even gotten more defined), the code is undergoing a rewrite (thankfullly, there wasn’t much to begin with). First item on the To Make Better list: OPML import speed.
• Where to Draw the Line on the Freemium Business Model  I’ve been thinking about “freemium” - Fred Wilson’s Favorite Business Model the last couple days, and sketched up where the boundaries feel right for me. How do these feel to you? Jason Fried on freemium-ish.
• First Invite Out, 20 To Go Over lunch today, I sent out the first invitation to the FeedSeeder project. This is the first real test of the system and I’m anxious. Despite the edges being very rough, the functionality is in there. Finally. Enough to: 1) talk about 2) start polishing. Since I’ve been working on this project about 10 of you have asked
• T-68 and Counting I made enough progress on the core functionality this weekend, that I can actually start thinking about how to implement the interesting bits.
• Rule 1: Be Useful Without an Account Software as She’s Developed bring reminds us about lazy registration, i.e. a system that’s useful to people just kicking the tires, or just don’t want to set up another name/pass combination. I’ve baked this into the FeedSeeder project (see the 2nd screencast). I’m working on the deployment recipe right now, so I should be able