About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
Arik Jones, one of the people I’ve asked to try Cullect.com for a week, wrote up his thoughts two-days in: “Unlike Google Reader it doesn’t inundate you with useless UI elements….What I like the most about Cullect is the ability to recommend feeds and then being able to give friends a dead simple url. It …
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I’ve just recorded 3 Quicktime walkthroughs of Cullect: Cullect.com Overview – Unsigned In 10:40 min Cullect.com – Signing in, managing items, inviting curators, adding feeds, posting to blogs & posting to twitter 9:28 min Adding Cullect.com to Other Applications 3:44 min
“If you’d have told me then that by 2007 the state of the art would barely have advanced beyond that of 1998, I’d have wept openly.” – Dave Slusher If you fell into a coma when Business 2.0 had a roller coaster on the cover and woke up today, you’d have one more reason to …
Reading the Strib’s Business section yesterday, I was reminded of Sesame Street’s “One of these things is not like the other” sketch. Here’s the story, can you guess which one doesn’t belong? “Grounds for worry: Trouble’s brewing in the economy, if the news from the nation’s biggest coffee chains is any indication. No. 2 player …
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When was the last time you – yes, you, specifically – thought, “I sure would enjoy [insert favorite publication] more if they inserted more advertisements.” Thought so. A friendly reminder that readers, viewers, fans, etc aren’t the people pushing and demanding advertisements. “‘Deal with it’ doesn’t mean ‘Make better advertising’ or ‘Target your advertising more …
This is an update to earlier post on Performance and MySQL Indexes. While 10-12 seconds per feed is an improvement, it’s completely unacceptable when we’re talking 2,000+ feeds (full parse would take 5.5 hours) and slow down the system to unusable. In an attempt to find the bottlenecks, I loaded up the query_analyzer plugin on …
“…with the corrected China [Purchasing Power Parity] statistics, the whole question is moot. China is just not that big now and will not get that big any time soon.” – Albert Kiedel of the Carnegie Endowment Kiedel’s article put a number of things into perspective for me – namely why I hear ‘China, China, China’ …
Hi. Howareyou? Whatsup? Nothing. Yaknow. PrettyCrappyOutToday TrafficWasHorrible How many times have you had that conversation? Today? Banality in less than 140 characters is the foundation of our social interaction. It safely builds the trust required for a longer, more engaging exchange. If we can’t share the meaningless, what can we share? “Part of the power …
The redesigned Developers.Sun.com, another of the Sun projects I’ve been involved on, launched today. Two things I’m real happy with; links to blogs, video, and other community spaces are at the core of the page, and a directory of development resources at the bottom of the page. The official announcement from Jill Welch, managing editor.
Ed Kohler just broke the low security around my all-but-secret project: cullect.com. “To me, this looks like a community based RSS reader where you’ll be able to read RSS feeds that are recommended to you by your friends.” – Ed Kohler Ed, you’re close. More background on the project here. New screencasts forthcoming.