Wherever there’s free wi-fi and coffee, there will be binders full of shady sales pitches, suits and ties having day-long meetings to brainstorm out of the box solutions to hitting this quarter’s sales goals and earnest people doing their best to ignore the Kenny G and make that one last, loud, annoying sales call.
Last night we expanded the launch of Google Sites to, well, everybody. Here’s the Techmeme and Blog Search coverage.
Developing with Google App Engine, Part I — the first of two articles I’m writing for Vitamin about GAE — is up. It touches on the basics of GAE through the building of the super simple Startupdown, “where startups throw down.”
Chuck Berry Remembers Call From Cousin About White Kid Playing ‘Johnny B. Goode’. The Onion 1, Rest of Mankind 0.
I bought Fireworks CS3 last night. I’m still waiting for my activation email. Seriously? What, are they hand processing these things?
I found something like FaxIt Nice once a long time ago and could never find it again. Finally, don’t have to pay monthly or go to Kinko’s for my once or twice a month fax needs.
The Caring Capitalist. Short video on Richard Semler’s Semco, the “world’s most unusual workplace”.
Web Developer bookmarklets. Very handy.
Evidently I’m Paul Scrivens’ arch-enemy. Why doesn’t anyone tell me these things?
If either of the people who read this blog are going to be at Startup School next month, I’ll be there too, so feel free to drop me an email at adam at this domain and we’ll do lunch or something.
Digg and reddit boys are spending hours on their comments for this interwebs perfect storm — Mr. T brought boy out of coma.
Funniest so far: “Wait, did Murdoch give that boy a glass of milk just after discussing an airplane or helicopter flight the boy did not want to partake in?”
Macbook self-assigned IP — some solutions. This is by far the most annoying OS X bug. I’ve had it in 4 or 5 different ways with both of my Macbooks.
Caffeine doesn’t work. I wish I could get that through my thick lizard brain and keep to tea, water and only the occasional coffee, like I continually try to do. If only Diet Coke and Red Bull didn’t taste so good.
Since Kevin is a former co-worker and current co-worker Joseph baited me into joining I decided to give FriendFeed a spin. I don’t have half as many things to import as most people do, I’m sure, but I certainly applaud the import process as straight-forward.
Ask.com seeks makeover as women’s site. The algorithm is confused.
Google Sites — the project I’ve been working on since JotSpot got bought by Google — has launched! (yes, finally) I’m tracking the press at Blog Search and Techmeme. So far it’s 90% positive, which is always nice.
Feels great to get it out the door. But, of course, now the real work begins as we fix launch bugs and continue to expand on the app’s huge potential. Looking forward to it.
102 year old Zhou Youguang, inventor of Pinyin, still works in his study everyday. A video well worth watching. Inspiring.
Shawn Blanc interviews John Gruber, money quote:
“There are a lot of people writing for the web today; but there aren’t that many at all who are trying to do great writing for the web.”
An insightful post by Paul Scrivens that closely mirrors my own experience with the early days of web standards and with the way I handled the CSS Reboot. I think refusing to get lost thinking about the past and any old accomplishments you may have made is extremely important for future success. Ever forward.