Archive for May, 2006
Tuesday, May 30th, 2006
I am looking forward to this book. Guy Kawasaki just gave a brief review on his blog.
The inspiring bit, I guess, is Woz??????s thoughts on being a great engineer:
Don??????t waiver.
See things in gray-scale.
Work alone.
Trust your instincts.
I sometimes think I am too negative in my attitude towards ideas. (Sorry Aidan, I ...
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Monday, May 29th, 2006
I got an odd call today which reminded me of an odder conversation last week.
Last week, an ex-employee in my day job called by and told us that the CEO one of our partner/competitors was swanning around one of thir clients telling them how he was going to buy us ...
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Sunday, May 28th, 2006
I've been looking at houses. Totally depressing experience. Back when I bought my first house, it cost me ???79K - for a two bedroom converted church in a rural area in the middle of a field bounced by rivers on two sides. These days I'm finding it hard to find ...
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Saturday, May 27th, 2006
Apple lost the recent case against some bloggers
There's a certain amount of triumph especially from Dave Winer's corner of the blogosphere that this was some sort of strike back for free speech or recognising blogging as a legitimate medium.
It's not.
This tells people they can divulge trade secrets and get away ...
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
This long article comes on the heels of the last one and is based upon a CNN Money article about mistakes small businesses make. Here's some of my take on it.
1. Too Little Cash
Being under-capitalised is a pain. I've seen this in my day job. There's jobs we simply couldn't ...
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
Business 2.0 has an article on how to start your startup.. It's never been a better time to start a tech startup according to them and the costs for doing it have more than halved compared to Bubble 1.0. They do say that it's as hard as ever to succeed ...
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
Daniel Jalkut channels John Welch in some harsh criticism of the user interface to Videator, the CoreVideo app from Stone Software.
While I think the UI to Videator (and their previous CoreImage app, Imaginator,) was pony, I have to say that Andrew Stone has some great design ideas. Sure, his UI ...
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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
So what's the current status of SyncBridge? Barring any major issues, we'll be conducting another round of testing of a release candidate within the next two weeks. If you're interested in participating, please mail me and we'll contact you when we're ready to go.
Once that round has been ...
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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
Some of you are wondering why SyncBridge is taking so long. After all, we initially thought we would be able to release in April. There are a few reasons, so I thought I'd outline them.
Details
The sync engine that powers SyncBridge has been working well for some time now. ...
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Saturday, May 20th, 2006
We're gearing up for release now. Fine-tuning the app. Making it prettified in the web admin GUI. Adding some UI feedback in the app. Building the Production server in the final configuration and taking it out of Debug. And of course planning a release party. Aidan has been an absolute ...
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