There are some good lessons to take from Richard’s story of the death of a Web 2.0 company: Actual lessons from Kiko

Paul Graham thinks you’re screwed if Google comes into your space. I don’t agree. Neither does David at 37Signals. You will need to differentiate and play harder and smarter though. Just do it better. [...]

Hot-tubbing

Interesting method (though harsh) way of keeping a community healthy. Reminds me of pruning a rose or the ‘cruel to be kind’ saying.

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Just an aside thought – del.icio.us and other social bookmarking sites should add a way to state where you found a link. This would allow some interesting possibilities such as direction analytics of a URL and how news sites influence social networks. Maybe bookmarking sites other than del.icio.us do offer this? I’ve really only played [...]

A big missing piece of blogging is was how on earth does one keep track of all the URLs of blogs you commented on.

I’ve been using co.mments.com the last month or so and it’s been working great. It makes this task smooth once you add a bookmarket to your browser and subscribe to the [...]

Keith Lang (aka Songcarver) from plasq has a short piece of music over on his blog. Lovely. Check it out.

I was awoken this morning grasping for pencil and paper to write down a dream I had. Funny thing is, it was 2 UI ideas for a new app we are working on. One of the ideas was growl notification for a particular feature and a dialogue with 3 options on it. These will likely [...]

Found a great story over at OS News about GEOS. I used to use GEOS on my C64 in the late 80’s for word-processing (geoWrite) and graphics (geoPaint), despite its slowness compared to text based environments. Copy/paste and fonts that looked like what would be printed out.. oh baby! I remember just fiddling with the [...]

“Don’t check your email when you wake up, or before going to bed”

Before you do, knock off a task or 2 before getting sucked into the rabit warren that is… email. This gets you on a roll for the day – even after checking what is waiting in your inbox.

This one is a tip of [...]

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You know how weather is the universal ice breaker? In Australia, we have a new one… Bananas!

This is thanks to Larry, the Cyclone who ate wiped  out many crops.

Small talk of the exorbitant prices and amazement when one is seen is common place. “Ohhh, you have a banana?!”

Reminds me a little of a bleak [...]