Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
David Cancel and I have had sort of a passing vague, same space and thought process, living in the same Metropolitan area kind of distant acquaintance for about the same year.
About 2-3 months ago, he wrote a pair of articles discussing the efforts he has undertaken in order to try and offload some of the [...]
In: Web Performance
21 Jul 2006Dear Flickr:
I have been wondering for sometime why downloads from your site seemed a little sluggish at times.
At first I blamed your unprecedented growth and success. For a little Vancouver startup (I am a BC boy myself), your entrance onto the stage of social networking applications has been phenomenal. The move from zero to infinity [...]
Kathy Sierra once again reminds us that only the truly intelligent employers realize that the Work/Life balance is more important than ANYTHING else. [here]
And her reason for this: clients who abuse startups and small companies who then abuse their employees to work miracles.
The takeaway:
And as the tech employment market starts to tick up ever so [...]
In: smp
5 May 2005alarm:clock has great advice for startups: Fire Your PR Firm! [here]
After the presentation I attended last week with a candidate PR firm my company is interviewing, the five points offered up really hit home.
One of the things that David Parmet and I disagree on. [here]
Jeremy Pepper writes more here.
Jeff Nolan comments here.
In: RANTING
23 Mar 2005Lots of inward-looking thoughts from some of the VC blogs that I read.
Jeff Nolan flames alarm:clock for claiming that VCs are greedy, soulless vampires [my paraphrasing].
A VC and Brad Feld comment on Paul Graham’s Essay, “A Unified Theory of VC Suckage”.
I wonder why so much attention is now being focused on the VC community? I [...]
In: smp
14 Mar 2005A while back, I posted that I had submitted a presentation concept for OSCON 2005. [here]
Got a very nice rejection letter Friday.
Then Dave Winer posts a link to this fantastic quote.
But it’s clearly not the only criterion considered by O’Reilly & Associates for its event lineup. There’s a distinct rock-star syndrome going on with O’Reilly [...]