Here is a great example of making your visitors feel like they have found something special from: popurls. Click on the thumbnail to view full image: So, what are the lessons for your startup? Making someone feel special, smart, “in the know”, or that they found “the real deal” goes far A personalized message goes [...]
A new episode of Greg the Architect called “SOA this. SOA that.” reminds me why I help startups get to market and solve problems:
Seth Godin has an interesting post today about how free stops getting attention: The interaction you seek as a marketer often disappears when something is free. The fascinating thing is that it often doesn’t matter if you’re paying or being paid… it’s the transaction either way that changes the posture of the person you’re working [...]
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I’m working on a new project that is using the RESTful Authentication generator with Rails 2. As I started to take advantage of the label references capability in Rails 2, I ran into some problems. The default fixtures provided by RESTful Authentication look like this: quentin: id: 1 login: quentin email: quentin@example.com salt: 7e3041ebc2fc05a40c60028e2c4901a81035d3cd crypted_password: [...]
I hear some founders say that one technology is the same as another when launching a startup. Scott Abel, chief executive of Austin-based software company Spiceworks Inc, says differently: Choosing correctly was key, Abel said. “You pick the right one, and everybody wants to be on your team; the cool, super-smart people flock to you. [...]
A new Reddit page dedicated to Ruby is now available: http://reddit.com/r/ruby/. You can subscribe using RSS. Just keep in mind that it is early.
Seth Godin has a great post about the pricing model for renting digital movies: It’s important to charge something, because the act of paying fundamentally changes the dynamics of the relationship. The question is this: at the start, is your goal to maximize profit or to build a platform that scales? The fact is that [...]
Things not going the way you planned for your startup? I would advise you to read this great post on how a startup has struggled to gain traction, as it contains some great insight when things don’t go how you expect, even with the greatest of passion. Philippe, I wish you all the best as [...]
I have been having poor performance with Samba on my Gentoo-based file server for larger files (videos, 8 megapixel photos, etc). I tried everything, including performance tweaking but couldn’t get Samba to perform for these larger files. When I used scp to move the files across my Gigabit LAN, I’d see 10-20MBps transfer rates, so [...]
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