For the past year, Cullect has been live wrapped in a subscription model based this “freemium” model I drew up back in the middle of 2006. For Cullect, the benefit of this model have been obvious: even with a small number of paying customers – the servers are being paid for from subscription payments. For …
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Cullect Got 3rdPartyFeedback.com-ed
Ed Kohler1 has a new mechanical turk project – 3rdPartyFeedback.com. For $25, Ed will ask 10 people 3 standard questions about your website and send over their responses. Obviously, I ran Cullect.com through Ed’s gauntlet. Here are some of my favorites: “I like the fact that the website design is spare and not flash heavy.” …
Profile of Garrick & Cullect @ Minneapolis MetBlogs
Big thanks to David over at Minneapolis MetBlogs for a very nice write up on me and Cullect, check it out: Minnesotans Making an Impression – Garrick Van Buren
9 Things Cullect Taught Me About Software
Forcing people to create an account to use your software is a bug. if you’re not scared to deploy, you’ve stopped caring. Murphy is alive and well. Google and a bookself of technical books can be equally useless. Good software is like an iceberg. if you ask for money, people will give it to you. …
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How To Cache Highly Dynamic Data in Rails with Memcache – Part 1
There are a number of ways increase Ruby on Rails performance through caching. Caching works because things don’t change….or don’t change frequently. In Cullect, almost everything is dynamic, even Cullect’s HTML presentation format has 3 different states depending on access privileges and there are 8 other presentation formats available. The standard page, action, and fragment …
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Presentation for MIMA’s Info Overload Panel
4:30 minutes of my own back channel. Quicktime Here’s the recording of the full event: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/563535
Diversified Rhino Guarding
“If you’re building on someone else’s platform, whenever they are down, you are down. There is no way around that.” – Brian Breslin on why TwitBin development is stalled. A year ago, I wrote about my hesitation of building on someone else’s platform. Since then, I launched Cullect. Which is nothing if not built atop …
Cullect Demo, 10am April 4th, U of M’s Emerging Digerati Week 2008
As part of the U of M’s Emerging Digerati Week New Media Showcase, I’ll be demo-ing Cullect.com at the Weissmann Art Museum, 10am Friday, April 4th. That’s just Friday. The entire rest of the week is filled with presentations on technology innovations from throughout the university (traffic management, virtual reality environments, etc).
Cullect.com – Moving Servers
Cullect was fast out-growing the Lifetime M Accelerator it started out on last summer, so this weekend I moved it to a bigger, 1GB Accelerator. As I write this, the database is migrating. After that, Cullect will be faster and have room to grow. As part of this, I’ve started a proper blog for Cullect …
Cullect.com for Curation
As I’ve mentioned before, our lives are multi-faceted. Each facet has its own community of trusted experts. Some are friends, other are colleagues, or simply authoritative in their field. If you’ve been following my development of Cullect, then you know early on, I switched from the label ‘Editors’ to ‘Curators’ to describe the people behind …