June 2010
1 post
Kyle Bragger: I have a hard time believing this. →
I came across this Techcrunch article last night when a good friend mentioned it on Twitter.
I have a really hard time absorbing this at face value. Here’s the relevant quote from the article: (emphasis mine)
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Alright, so if you’re looking to evaluate a startup’s chances of success,…
May 2010
1 post
New Property: Done.io
Oh, dear. Teh Blog is still taking a backseat to the @inevitablecorp twitter acct.
Anyhoo, for those of you still in RSS land and such… we’ve purchased brilliant todo task app http://done.io, from @kylebragger, @forrst operator & former @garyvee CTO of cork’d.
April 2010
1 post
updates...
twitter has killed the blog as we know it. you may want to follow @inevitablecorp instead of, or in addition to, this.
June 2008
1 post
“You can’t be normal and expect abnormal returns.”
– The Human Equation
May 2008
8 posts
“The old 8 to 10 second rule has diverged into the haves and have nots. Broadband...”
– The Psychology of Web Performance
“The single easiest way to increase your fees (or ad revenue - Steve) is to get...”
– Seth
“The fast-growing company, which works hard to recruit people to join, says to...”
– Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too
Persistent Storage on AWS EC2
While hoping to get my invite to join the beta program Amazon Web Services has for persistent storage volumes for it’s EC2 instances I’m playing with and doing calculations of costs involved using PersistentFS.
PersistentFS mounts AWS S3 as a live file system you can read/write.
It was rediculously easy to get started (having AWS experience already) following their step-by-step.
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“Challenging the perception of American technology entrepreneurs as 20-something...”
– Dobbs
“The Giffen good is a strange beast from economic theory. For most goods, demand...”
– Is Search Advertising a Giffen Good?
April 2008
1 post
Google Trends Using OSDir News
Ok, this is seriously cool. Google Trends incorporates OSDir news as benchmarks. I knew google news uses OSDir as a source, but this seems much deeper in the Google Brain.
March 2008
3 posts
“Every incentive should have a counter-incentive to restrict gaming of the first...”
– Marc Andreeson on fixing human mistakes made by entrepreneurs in Coles Notes version by Nivi? at Venture Hacks. Brilliant gems here.
OSDir on Alltop
Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop has OSDir as a linux news source. That’s cool.
“Dallas City Hall has idled more than one-fourth of the 62 cameras that monitor...”
– In other words…. they work too well. The Law of Diminishing Returns in action. Link
February 2008
1 post
“Users fell 5% to 8.5 million in January from 8.9 million in December, according...”
– So it begins when the uncool join.
January 2008
8 posts
“Entrepreneurs are, on average, significantly wealthier than people who work in...”
– Harvard Business School
In otherwords if you aren’t wealthy or come from wealth, find someone who is successful & mine them for advice. Listen to their advice. Follow their advice.
My dad has worked for himself forever. I try to learn from his success and failures. I also absorb as much...
R.O.M.
So, as a percentage of the time you spend at work, what percent would you say qualifies as “marketing”?… I know some well-paid people who used to be world-class marketers who are now down in the single digits (less than 10%). Ouch.
Seth
It doesn’t take a marketing guru to figure out that your Return on Marketing is paramount, but why does it take anyone to remind you...
“Neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down...”
– The Atlantic
I'm a hero for fulfilling simple, nice, requests.
I get the nicest email sometimes:
You mean you’re going to…. That’s very decent of you. This is always a painful exercise, and I’ve been through hell with….
You are my hero. I notice you’re in facebook, when i checked my contacts earlier. Mind if I send you an invite?
Why? People ask me nicely to do things for them & I’m small enough to be able...
You're Going to Need a Bigger Boat...
theinfo.org:
This is a site for large data sets and the people who love them: the scrapers and crawlers who collect them, the academics and geeks who process them, the designers and artists who visualize them. It’s a place where they can exchange tips and tricks, develop and share tools together, and begin to integrate their particular projects.
This sort of activity was my major R&D...
“Running a startup is NOT about revenue anymore—it’s about critical...”
– Calacais
*Ev is Evan Williams of Blogger fame & now Twitter.
This is also a pointer to those of us outside of the Silicon Valley “Moneysphere”. Typically we’re playing a different, non-sexy game. Adjust & deal with it.
Tales From The Cockpit
My name is Steve Mallett. I’m best known for owning, running, blogging, and running OSDir.com (est. 2001-ish), a +4000! (US), better world-wide, Alexa world-wide traffic ranked website about open source & linux. OSDir is in fact the main reason for the creation of Inevitable really.
I’m foocamp alumni. (04-05) I think. Here’s a pic of the board from one of those years. ...
