I just came across a post by Evan Williams (founder of Blogger & Odeo) titled Ten Rules for Web Startups. Considering Evan’s past success, his list is definitely worth reading. Much of what he has to say certainly resonates in today’s environment. I especially look at #5, #6, and #9 on the [...]
My girlfriend and I have been watching Season 1 of 24 on DVD recently. This is an excellent show and the only thing I’m disappointed about is that I just discovered this show five years after it first aired on FOX. This is the beauty of the recent releases of television shows onto DVD [...]
Today I was thinking about ways to tighten the Burrp.com launch schedule. There is so much we have to get accomplished before we push out an alpha to our set of early release users. I was extremely happy with our progress of content boot strapping. I thought we were extremely well organized, [...]
Though I have been consuming podcasts for nearly two years now, I have yet to blog about it. I was not a fan of the iPod when it came out. And until recently I wasn’t even a big Apple fan (I have terrible interoperability nightmares from the Apple IIc era back in ‘85). I do [...]
This is probably the most I’ve ever been involved with marketing a product. Though I have worked with Google Ad Words, done online demos, etc., none of it compares to what I’m doing at Burrp!. This is new territory to me, but I find the topic to be very exciting and interesting. [...]
I just came across this great article in the Contra Costa Times about how other cities are trying to mimic Walnut Creek’s downtown. For those of you that don’t know, Walnut Creek is situated in the East Bay Area about 30 minutes from San Francisco. It is a great city with one of [...]
I just got a new computer two weeks ago. It is a Pentium D 820 with 2GB RAM and 160GB HD. I also have a decent graphics card - Nvidia Geforce 6800 (I balked at the 7800 at the last minute). But the kicker is my bad ass Dell 2405FPW UltraSharp 24″ wide screen monitor [...]
One of the major issues we are facing with Burrp.com is the challenge of generating enough capitol to expand our content offerings. We are also trying to get things out the door as fast as possible. And that requires surge resources. Fours years ago I read a great book by Jim Clark called Netscape Time. [...]
Though I’m probably a few months late to this discussion, I want to get out my thoughts on Flock. For you non techies, Flock is a new browser centered around the social web. There is integrated blogging and social bookmarking. Yes, I tried the developer preview. Basically Flock is a prime [...]
After three and a half years, I have finally decided to start blogging again. The last time I was at this stuff barely anyone knew what blogging was. Hell, I even wrote my own blog tool using ASP 3.0 and Access. How times have changed!! Though I have set up blogs for several friends and [...]