About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
“We Make Shitty Software… With Bugs!…We know our software sucks. But it’s shipping! Next time we’ll do better, but even then it will be shitty. The only software that’s perfect is one you’re dreaming about. ” – Dave Winer Kernest, my web fonts service, has been publicly available for just under a month. In that …
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Over on the Twitter I’ve been predicting the Dow will hit 10K by Labor Day, with the deadline approaching, I thought I’d show you where my prediction comes from. The light blue is the DJIA from August 2008 – March 2009 (left to right). The dark blue is March 2009 – Today (right to left). …
Zack Seward from Harvard’s Neiman Journalism Lab and I talked about URL shorteners yesterday – and the responsibility of publishers to shorten themselves… “The really, really big benefit in that case is that it’s no longer a redirect…” …and the additional opportunity for a focused, curated, short URL service…. “he raised an idea that’s been …
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“No business we approached wanted to purchase tr.im for even a minor amount.” I appreciate tr.im’s honesty. From what I understand, tr.im’s business model was similar to bit.ly’s and – what increasingly feels like – Twitter’s business model: aggregate and sell statistics on how information is being shared on real-time basis. Measuring word-of-mouse if you …
” I delegate, work all the time, hardly sleep, totally ignore politics, sports and pop culture, neglect my family too much and probably don’t do any of my jobs as well as I could. But these are exciting days, and if ever these was a time to be overextended this is it.” – Chris Anderson, …
Wow. It’s been an amazing couple of weeks. Kernest.com is public and is getting some nice uptake. Thank you all. I had fantastic weekend in Atlanta at TypeCon2009 talking with font technologists, type designers, and other people building the web fonts marketplace. Unfortunately, Cullect is down. Down for the count. I’m planning a massive rebuild …
Multiple projects have me using Windows more than I’m accustomed to, so I picked up a copy of Parallels and Windows Vista and loaded them up on the MacBook Pro. My relationship with the MacBook Pro has been trying these past few weeks. Like an aged sitcom introducing a new character – this recent addition …
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As I mentioned over at the Kernest blog, I sent out the first batch of emails announcing a sneak preview of Kernest – the @font-face, type-as-a-service project I’ve been working on. If you’d like to check it out and give your blog a font upgrade, drop me an email and I’ll reply with a password. …
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You know I’m a big fan of WordPress. For nearly 5 years, I’ve considered it the only online publishing platform worth considering. I’ve built a number of plug-ins for it over the years(WP-iPodcatter, WP-iCal, WP-GotLucky, and WP-CaTT) of which I only use WP-iCal these days. Since then, WordPress has taken off. While they still have …
I’m pleased to announce the launch of RealTimeAds.com – a advertising product now in beta testing at MinnPost.com Karl and I have been building and testing the system for a couple of months now and I’m quite happy with it on three of fronts; It feels like it makes advertising approachable to people and organizations …