Archive for February, 2010

Failure, Planning, Interruption, Inspiration, Immutability and Selling your By-Products

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Business lessons from Jason Fried Jason Fried of 37signals.com spoke at BIG Omaha in 2009.  His talk hit home hard.  Here's a sort of summary of what Jason said there. Listen to it if you'd like. (Approximate time: 20 minutes.) Failure "Fail early, fail often." rarely makes sense. Failure only instructs on what NOT ...

Another 2-for-1 error day

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Happened when checking someone's followers the other day, soon after Twitter updated their new mobile site at http://mobile.twitter.com (only looks different from twitter.com on mobile devices natch.) For you search engines out there, it reads: Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing -- we're going to fix it up and have things ...

Readability’s Future Functionality

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

Readability is a simple tool/service for internet readers that instantly removes clutter with the click of a bookmark(let) button -- eliminating distractions and facilitating reading -- as you (will) see below. Before Readability After Readability Making Readability work is cake. After arriving on the Readability project page first select one of five presentation/font styles; ...

Brian Alfred

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Pleasant, thoughtful mix of stop-motion like type stuff, "live action" and animation from visual artist Brian Alfred with a soundtrack heavy on sound design including Columbia, Missouri's own Jon Sheffield. So why no HD version?