From the home office in Truth or Consequences, NM… #1: Love this post by Atlassian’s @barconati Connectbeam Connects | Confluence Customers Beam http://bit.ly/5VhY >> why E2.0 integrati … #2: Noticing that my tweets that hit 140 characters are having text cut off well before 140. Anyone else? #3: @twitter A bug. Char. < and > are stored as 4 char. in ur DB, not 1. Means each use cuts max char. of tweet by 3. This tweet’s max=134 #4: One effect of BackType - I am more conscientious than ever about commenting. Comments have the effect of Google Reader shares....
This is a wonderful confluence of two personal favorites: a ShareBrained Chronulator meter clock kit, and the artistic vision of clockmaker Roger Wood. I don't know if this one is for sale or already spoken for. Side note on the Chronulator kit: they've been sold out for a while now, but Jared is hard at work readying version 2. More info on that when I get my hands on the new kit. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!...
Your country, the United States, comes closer and closer to the brink of complete economic and militaristic (but mostly economic these days!) ruination with every passing second. Oh, don’t blame yourself, dear reader. Blame the government — yeah, you know the one! Because, due to a confluence of distant inaugurations, inept lame ducks and quietly ambitious second-tier Washington officials, we’ve got one foot in the Great New Depression II with the other about to step in… and yet we have no idea who is actually running the country! By our count, we have three (3) presidents right now, and they’re...
This is a guest post by Anu Shukla, CEO of Offerpal Media. Offerpal Media is a leading “managed offer platform” for social applications, virtual worlds, games, and community-oriented websites. The Opportunity A new boon is taking place on the Internet. For community-oriented web publishers like social networks, social applications, virtual worlds, MMOGs and other social properties on which traditional advertising has produced such little revenue per user relative to other sites, a new market, led by the proliferation of virtual currency and virtual goods, is rapidly expanding. No one knows yet the exact size or potential of the market, though...
We recently held Atlassian's ninth "FedEx" competition, and it's time to share the results with you. FedEx is an Atlassian tradition that requires a little explanation: Every 3 months or so, we put aside our regular development work for a day and a half, and work on our own crazy ideas. At the end, everyone gets three minutes to present their project to the rest of the company, and we all vote to determine the winner of the prized FedEx trophy. Why do we do this? We see a number of benefits: Firstly, it gives us an opportunity to get...
We love this story. Back in July we wrote about the inspiring experience of Peldi Guilizzoni, a lone software developer who'd built a web design mock-up tool called Balsamiq and who was opening up his financial records on his blog to show everyone how things were going. We'd been following his progress since before he launched, but just 6 weeks after Balsamiq hit the market at roughly $79 per license, we wrote that Peldi had already made $10k in revenue. That was a cute story, but now it's been just 5 months and today Peldi reports that he's just cleared...
We had a great event tonight at the Confluence Networking Corporate Blogging Panel. Thanks to everyone who made it out to the event. It was awesome! I wanted to link some posts I have been concentrating on lately. I thought it would be a good digression from my daily rants! 1. 123SocialMedia: Social Media Politics - How Fast Things Change I have been fascinated with the social media and marketing extravaganza known as the recent political campaigns. Barry Hurd talks about the transition from traditional media to new media by politicians. 2. Andy DeSoto: Social Media Basics Provide Necessary Spice...
I am very humbled to have the opportunity to be part of the Confluence Networking Group of Indianapolis’ Business Blogging Discussion Panel. Check out the information below on what the Discussion is all about. Panel Discussion: Why is Corporate Blogging Critical to a Company’s Success You’ve heard so much over the past few years about the importance of web-presence and dynamic web 2.0 sites and now the latest buzz in the marketplace is blogging. The Confluence panel discussion brings together Indy’s best Blogging talent to uncover why Blogging is a critical component that needs to be prevalent in your...
Today I stumbled on a twitter account [via @howardlindzon] called @stocktwits. Among other things going on there, they are using the dollar sign ('$') preceding corporate 'tickers' (stock market acronyms) to set up an index of tweets on each referenced company's history. Very cool. Example: RT @s_m_i: Final result of $LEH CDS auction - 8.625 cents on the dollar 11:34 AM Oct 10th from web To search the index, you need to visit the companion site: www.stocktwits.com. Here's the search result for $LEH: StockTwits.com - Real Investors. Real Ideas. Real Time., originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd. Stocktwits recasts the historic...
As a developer and some-time designer, I’m always on the lookout for tools to make communicating with customers easier. For many things, the textual tools that web workers reach for are sufficient: email, wikis, project management systems, instant messages, and so on. But sometimes you just need to draw a picture to get your point across. The latest tool I’ve run across for this is Balsamiq Mockups - and it’s a nice tool indeed. When you run the desktop version, you get an empty window that looks like a notebook page (complete with spiral binding) and a menu bar of...
Do it now, do it fast, get feedback, fix do it again. Nowadays the TOTE algorithm is sped up to ludicrous speed -or as fast as our communication tools will allow us to operate. Core 77 shares with us the story of Johnny Lee, formerly of Carnegie Mellon University. His homemade video of how to hack a Wiimote into a VR display has brought him a TED talk, a bunch of job offers and millions of Youtube views. The point of the story is that a perfect storm of user friendly technologies has made it possible for everyday people...
