What Chrome means for Web startups (10)
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Many stories focus on what Google Chrome means for Microsoft, Firefox, and the fate of the current online world. But what does it mean for up-and-coming Web start-ups? Here are six implications for the start-up world that I can see. These assume that Chrome lives up to its hype. That's a big if. 1. Chrome is to current browsers what Windows was to DOS. Twenty-three years ago Microsoft started its march from being just another ...
8 new habits you need for your microISV or startup. (1)
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Starting a microISV or startup, putting bread on the table and having a life of some sort is definitely a tall order, but it can be done. The biggest step is dumping the habits, patterns and assumptions that may have served your cause when you’re a corporate drone but spell instant failure as a rock and roll Internet entrepreneur. As an alternative, here’s my 8 top lifehacks for getting things done for my clients, my ...
Accomplishing More By Doing Less (1)
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[Editor's Note: From time to time I invite guest posts here by those people, companies and services doing things of relevance and interest to the microISV/startup community. Servoy is one of a growing number of companies providing SaaS support. Interested in doing a guest post at here? Drop me a line.] By Bob Cusick Managing Director Servoy-USA There’s a big temptation when you’re creating a software product: work harder. Do more. More marketing, more features, ...
Don't lose what you've found: WebMynd (10)
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WebMynd (download) is a Firefox extension its developers hope solves a common Web problem: finding again that which what you've already found. WebMynd adds two very useful functions to your browsing: site-by-site recording of where you've been, and integrating your history (plus Delicious bookmarks) into specific Google searches. Webmynd finds what you've found. The site-by-site recording creates a timeline view of your browsing and a photo browser-like display. Want the site you found Friday after ...
Don't lose what you've found: WebMynd (1)
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The Daily Download: Software tips, news, and opinions from Download.com editors (15)
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WebMynd (download) is a Firefox extension its developers hope solves a common Web problem: finding again that which what you've already found. WebMynd adds two very useful functions to your browsing: site-by-site recording of where you've been, and integrating your history (plus Delicious bookmarks) into specific Google searches. Webmynd finds what you've found. The site-by-site recording creates a timeline view of your browsing and a photo browser-like display. Want the site you found Friday after ...
You don’t need 1 blog: you need 3. (2)
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One of my clients last week asked me about beta blogs: why, how and what’s the tradeoffs? It got me thinking both back to 2004 when I first started a blog as a brazen and shameless way of getting some attention for my first microISV product. And it got me thinking forward: If I were a developer in my 20s who preferred being at the top of the payscale instead of the bottom, would I ...
Bubbles and Fluid turn your favorite sites into apps (11)
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I may get fired for saying this, but I miss the convenience, focus, and robustness of desktop apps. Sometimes I just want the clarity of a dedicated app--or the isolation; all too often when I'm in a browser, a rogue JavaScript-heavy site will crash not just its own window but the 20 different tabs I have open at that moment. Building a Site-Specific Browser (SSB) is possible with technologies like Prism from Mozilla, but that ...
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Jamie said:
Might be cool, but I need to spend more time figuring out exactly what it does.
Bits and Pieces (1)
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Busy week, but here’s a few things that I squirreled away you might like to finish your Friday with: Tim Haughton is having entirely too much fun with SSH, posting 3 Things You Didn’t Know About SSH - Part 1. This post is how you can use SSH to tunnel your web traffic to your server; just the thing to get past your boss’s “no facebook here” policy. Let’s talk about money - other people’s ...
Chandler: What went wrong (7)
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Six years in the making, the 1.0 version of Open Source Web and desktop info organizer Chandler finally arrived on Friday. It was not met with thunderous acclaim, nor did it get the kind of press its development cost of $8 million and tens of thousands of volunteer hours was supposed to generate. Chandler consists of the Web-based Chandler Hub, and desktop clients for Windows, Mac and Linux. It is meant to be your everywhere ...
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Is that true? People only work for money? And open source cannot meet commercial software standards because the developers are volunteers or that they have no accountability to fix it in the future? man, I hate things that prove my idealist beliefs are wrong.:-P
Striking a balance of user needs in technology development. (1)
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Melanie Baker Community Manager AideRSS For those of us who live and breathe tech, it can be easy to forget how different our online habits are from those of the average internet user. We at AideRSS, and folks like us, have assimilated RSS into our information processing and now look ahead at how to improve it. Bring us more of what we want to know; save our time and attention (or do those things for ...
The law is the law. (2)
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…and you are far better off knowing the laws as it applies to IT about copyright, trademarks, domain names, software patents, trade secrets, NDA’s, NCA’s, open source licenses, consulting agreements, SLA’s, beta test agreements, EULA’s, SaaS TOS, commercial distribution agreements, privacy, digital content agreements, videogame publishing agreements, foreign distribution agreements, and what happens if you try to sell your encryption software to a Denied Person. Oh my aching head! Fortunately, Gene Landy has summarized all ...
12 Tactics to stop stealing time from yourself. (2)
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My post Monday, Stop stealing, garnered 66 comments - definitely a record for me. As I said Wednesday, there’s both strategic ways to take control of your attention, focus and productivity, and there are plenty of tactics that can improve your productivity. In fact, there’s too many. Way, way too many. Take for example this and this and this and this post. You can liquify your brain with productivity tips on the net. So here’s ...
47 Hats - 5 Strategies to stop stealing time from yourself. (3)
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My post 2 days ago, Stop stealing, seems to have hit a nerve - given 57 comments so far. So, I thought I’d better pony up the big and small ways I and others have found to stop stealing time from ourselves. Two things I want to make clear - I fall off the productivity wagon just as much as most people: it’s a constant struggle to be productive in the online world, but it’s ...
How to Despam Your iPhone Email (6)
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Finding 300 spam messages on your new Apple iPhone 3G on your first day with your new love is not a pleasant experience. If all your email comes through one server that filters out spam before it goes to your desktop, you dodged this bullet. But if you’re like me with email accounts spread over several ISPs and hosted Web sites, you’ve got spam, and lots of it. Apple’s MobileMe synchs each of the email ...
Hard numbers about blogging and social networks. (1)
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Tipped by a tweet by Steve Ruble, I was excited to see a post about new polling numbers from the Pew Internet & American Life Project regarding blogging: 42% of all Americans have read a blog at least once, 33% still read blogs, 11% read blogs regularly, 12% have created a blog, 5% blog regularly. Then I started thinking about these numbers. Wait a minute: more people have created a blog than regularly read blogs? ...
Here comes da Judge! (2)
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Well, sort of! Eric Ly, CEO of Presdo, has asked me to join LinkedIn cofounder Allen Blue, Mike Maples, Jr. of Maples Investments, and social media guru Ben Metcalfe to judge which three developers should win brand spanking new Apple iPhone 3Gs. The catch? You need to do something cool with the Presdo API and enter the contest by August 1st. And what’s Presdo? “Presdo is a tool that takes the hassle out of trying ...
