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…
Your Online Persona – Owning your Name in Google Search Results
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…
Tagging… For Organization or Findability?
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…
Shortage of Software Developers
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…
Back to Blogging… Will it Stick?
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…
