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I just re-read “Getting Real” over my most recent trip to New Zealand. If you’re not familiar with it (you should be), it’s 37Signal’s manifesto on making simple web software. They are simply fanatical about making software that is as simple as possible.
It’s delightfully amusing when someone counters with the inevitable response of, […]

Ten years ago a very small set of public figures had to care about their “public persona”.
Increasingly, everyone (or at least everyone with professional aspirations in the white-collar world) needs to start paying attention to the “face” they are presenting online.
Over the last year there have been plenty of articles about people who have botched […]

I’m a huge fan of tagging as a means to organize data. It’s powerful and flexible– and it oftentimes has some pretty exciting social ramifications.
If you aren’t familiar with tagging (and you want to be), you could get up to speed fairly quickly by checking on the wikipedia entry on Folksonomy. If you’re […]

Jobster is hiring! We’re having a devil of a time finding solid software developers (though we do have a new one starting Monday).
In my recent participation and attendance at Seattle Tech Startups meetings, our problem is not unique. I would say fully a third of the self-introductions I hear are along the lines […]

So I’m diving back into blogging.
My longest stint as a blogger was for a few months while Brian Fioca and I were working on Jobby. My blogging efforts there were pretty pragmatic and business-centric. My reasons were limited to communicating to users (to let them know that we were frantically responding to their […]

In the web 2.0 world, user-generated content is king. Blogs, Forums, YouTube, Flickr– all have armies of users who are giving away content (some of which is actually compelling).
Regardless of the poor signal-to-noise ratio in user-generated content, it’s certainly turning marketing on its ear. It’s no longer what you (or your high-priced advertising firm) say […]

One of the things that always strikes me about the jobs space is that most people think it’s decidedly unsexy when compared to the other “Web 2.0″ stuff that’s going on. It isn’t photosharing, it isn’t social bookmarking, and it isn’t an AJAX-infested online office suite, so why would someone want to be involved?
I myself […]