Something worth hanging on to for rainy days: Kamen … said every entrepreneurial innovator he’s ever seen shares a few characteristics. “It’s not that they’re brilliant or well-educated,” Kamen said. “They work all the time. They don’t let failure demoralize or destroy them. They pick themselves up and keep going and eventually, every once in a while, [...]
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Dean Kamen on Innovators
13Jan09Wow Day
03Aug08I have 3 Wows to give out today. WhyNot.net: I was Googling to see if anyone else was curious about using active noise-cancelling techniques for turning down the volume (in some sense) on babies. There are serious technical challenges (such as that current noise-cancelling devices target a point sink), but it’s a cool idea and even [...]
Avanoo — I don’t get it
09Jun07These guys wrote this, a thinly veiled dig at Guy Kawasaki. It’s a great read, and got me curious as to what exactly it was that they were doing. Their idea can be summarised as Epinions with filtering: people ask questions, which are answered by other people, and then the answers can be sorted and [...]
What I want
19May07I’ve become a pretty heavy del.icio.us user (lookie-loo, my bookmarks for all to see –>). It’s wonderfully convenient having them available from any computer I’m at, and one less thing to worry about backing up; since 2000, I think I’ve lost locally stored bookmarks about 4 times. Plus, they’re tagged any way you want them, [...]
Grr…ClickTale
22Jan07Argh, I’m getting sick of this. I came across ClickTale today, an Israeli startup that provides really detailed web analytics for websites. They offer webmasters the opportunity to track every click and keystroke a user makes on a webpage, and they even compile those sessions into videos that you can watch to see how the [...]
Web 2.0 Business Plans
18Nov05Lots of excellent commentary on Web 2.0 business plans. I’m just going to post the links here — it’s all worth reading! Web 2.0 day three: Silly business ideas Web 2.0: Land of Opportunity, or Land of Absurdity? Flock and Web 2.0: The Leaning Tower of Buzz — the title here is pure genius, BTW. There’s an excellent [...]
Business Plan Generator
18Nov05I’m almost certain this wouldn’t make a workable business, but I’ve been thinking for a while now that I should put a ‘business plan generator’ on my list of projects. It really pisses me off when I have a cool idea (typically in the shower) that I can’t wait to put on paper before I [...]
Web Calendars
17Nov05Web calendars are the social software of choice right now, it seems. There’s a nice round-up of the choices, including the more standard ones like AOL and Yahoo!, here. I finally got a login for CalendarHub, so I spent a few minutes this morning checking it out. Like Kiko, it’s a Ruby-on-Rails app. Kiko has [...]
Django (part 2)
17Aug05Things are looking up so far, but minor points: 1) That after setting the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable, I still have to be in myproject/apps before I run django_admin.py startapp myapp. Why? That setting plus the Django install root should be enough to figure out where the myapp folder should be created. 2) It seems the django_admin.py install [...]
Django time!
17Aug05I’m about to get started on my project with RI. I’ve picked up Python’s new Django framework and have been going through the tutorials the last few days. It looks pretty nice (though I disagree with some architectural agrements, particularly the whole MVC/MTV aspect of things), and I’m hopeful I’ll be able to get the [...]
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