Aaron Oliver points out that knowing about the “Pick two” triangle is not as much the issue as what people do with that obvious bit of knowledge. The “triangle,” if you are wondering, is a regular triangle with three named corners: Good, Cheap, Fast. Quite often, when faced with unreasonable demands, project managers/team leaders will draw this triangle on a [...]

Winners: ribbit Innovative Technology tubemogul Video weardrobe Social Network popcuts Music High hopes: moontoast Very nice concept for remote learning. zoomorama Very useful technology. klout Great concept but there are concerns over cost. Neutral: spawn labs echodio Impressive technology but confusion regarding their business model. gigotron Cool app but suffers competition from turn2live mugasha Lukewarm: otherinbox Another inbox? Why? Does [...]

For all the poor saps who are not able to attend SXSW this year ( including me this time, no more smug scoffing at all the “non-SXSW jealous masses” ) here is a list I compiled of people who were nice enough to put online transcripts of the panels they’ve attended so far. In some cases they may have blogged [...]

Somehow, seemingly out of nowhere, Twitterers have started to notice Twitterified. I guess a few positive reviews help. But would Twitterified have received these positive reviews, had it not moved to open beta? I think not. The service was in closed beta for a couple months, which allowed me to kill a few gremlins I found in the system, but [...]

I read Nick Halstead’s “10 Reasons Why I hate Recruitment Agents” with interest. I would like to add two more reasons, that I have personally experienced: 1. Asking me to come meet them This is my favourite one. Nick wrote about agents asking to come meet him. I can see why they try to push for a meeting, this makes [...]

When things start smelling “funny” in the open-source community, they tend to go to the dogs with the haste of a drunk marching band. Today’s drama is brought to you by your friendly ExtJS community. For those of you not familiar with ExtJS, it is a professionally made Javascript library that allows web application developers to create very elaborate desktop-like [...]

I uploaded a few photos to Flickr…click below to view my ‘SXSW 2008′ set. #flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif; color:#666666;} #flickr_badge_icon {display:block !important; margin:0 !important; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;} #flickr_icon_td {padding:0 5px 0 0 !important;} .flickr_badge_image {text-align:center !important;} .flickr_badge_image img {border: 1px solid black !important;} #flickr_www {display:block; padding:0 10px 0 10px !important; font: 11px [...]

Do you have any idea how much disregarding basic SEO (Search Engine Optimization) rules can cost you? I have the answer and it’s “a lot“. And take my word for it: I am not an SEO consultant and have nothing to sell, here. Up until last year, one of my sites was wildly popular: militate.com. Note that after achieving success [...]