May 2007
26 posts
When 37signals launched Highrise, a contact-management tool, in March, customers...
– A TIME profile of 37signals
[W]hen a company reaches the height of its success, a good leader will shake...
– Ed Zander, chairman and CEO, Motorola (via Life 2.0)
Semantic tagging with rel="tag" →
An article from my new pre-beta website.
Profile of a $300M domainer: Kevin Ham. →
JS-Kit offers damn easy-to-use JavaScript widgets... →
Marketing by interrupting people isn’t cost-effective anymore. You can’t afford...
– Seth Godin in Unleashing the Idea Virus (2000)
So lately I have invested some of my valuable time into an RSS-based news aggregator called World News Planet. It was the first website I made with the intention to sell and the first one I sold. After I finished the designing I bought a $2.88 .info I had in mind already and wrote the auction text. I bought a SitePoint Marketplace listing for $10 and posted a cross-promotion at Digital Point. The...
Microsoft, although proclaimed dead by many, needs... →
On January 1st, 2008 you start making one site per day that earns $1 per day. On December 31st 2008, you will have 365 sites, $66,430 and a passive income stream of $133,225 per year.
What if architects had to build houses like web... →
The boss of Coca-Cola wrote to his friend... →
Dear Michael, Every year I attempt to boost my students’ final grades by giving them this relatively simple exam consisting of 100 True/False questions from only 3 chapters of material. For the past 20 years that I have taught Intro Communications 101 at this institution I have never once seen someone score below a 65 on this exam. Consequently, your score of a zero is the first in...
Google analytics design really improved; goes... →
Real Magic?
Writer: I'm writing a book on magic.
Dude: Real magic?
By real magic people mean miracles, thaumaturgical acts and supernatural power.
Writer: No, conjuring tricks - not real magic.
Real magic, in other words, refers to the magic that is not real, while the magic that is real, that can actually be done, is not real.
Shift Happens won SlideShare’s World’s Best Presentation Contest. It’s definitely worth watching.
$11k/mo from a (niche) blog - now that's... →
Dogbert explains stock investing →