About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
Rackspace formally announced a project I’ve been working on: NoMoreServers.com is a rally cry of the computing-as-a-service era. The site seeks to empower businesses to acknowledge the decline of in-house computing and the rise of the All Cloud Enterprise (ACE). Covering hosting, cloud computing, SaaS, and the key vendors driving them (eg: Amazon, Google, Rackspace, …
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One of the biggest problems with URL shorteners – aside from being needed at all – is it’s not easy to move from one to another without breaking all the previous links. Culld.us hopes to change all that. Use Your Own Domain Name At Culld.us, you get a subdomain – like grv.culld.us – and just …
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“After a successful beta test this summer, Real-Time Ads is now accepting paying customers, and we have eight so far.” – Joel Kramer, MinnPost In case you were wondering what I’ve been doing this summer 🙂
We don’t shorten URLs just to shorten them. We shorten them for the same reason big box retailers sell flat-pack furniture – greater confidence during transport. With that in mind, I’ve completely rebuilt Cullect’s URL Shortener1 – http://culld.us It’s still custom brand-able. In a way I’m much happier with than in the previous version – …
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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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 …
CagedTweets.com is a Twitter archiving service for businesses. Founder Andy Schroepfer and I designed, built, and launched in 6 weeks (in time to announce it at 140conf). Got a crazy project you’d like to launch this summer? Call me – 612 345 9110. Let’s make it happen.
I dig it when my client’s enthusiasm for the project infects me. And why not – this project has all the qualities of a project I’d really like. It even has that extra bit – an approach I credit to Chad Fowler – of taking something you don’t like and doing it in a way …
The Wege pointed me to an excellent article by Joshua Schachter on the issues w/ URL shortening services. It’s consistent my concerns and my Insecurity of Short URLs post. As I alluded to that post, I see 3 opportunities for URL shorteners, all of them revolve around increasing trust (branding, security, backup). Let’s take that …
This weekend I made some significant head way on one of my key 2009 projects: Kernest.com. Right now, Kernest is also the most likely candidate for my 5 minute Ignite Mpls presentation.