March 31, 2007 – 10:19 pm
…and would like to highlight some amazing Canadian startups as well as Canadian contributions to the Web world, in general. I’m hoping that my friends at the Globe and Mail will see this and understand the importance of the media in really highlighting and helping their homegrown companies.
(if I’ve missed your company, please [...]
RE: Calling Chris Locke a sad soul who blames others in the SF Chron.
I really need to watch what I say to reporters. I have a knack for making statements that either get hyperbolized or, more likely, are printed exactly how they came across and what I should realize is how awful they sound in [...]
Our client, Carlos Garcia of Scrapblog proved this week that embracing the chaos can expose exciting opportunities for a startup.
On Tuesday afternoon, Chris and I stopped by the Adobe booth at ETech to chat with Michelle Turner about Apollo. Adrian Ludwig was also there, preparing for the hot Apollo demo they were going to do [...]
On Saturday, whilst working on our last minute changes to our ETech presentation, I received a frightened email from Kathy Sierra that read in the subject line:
“I may just have to quit”
I quickly opened it up. It wasn’t the first time Kathy had sent me an email on the content, but the subject line really [...]
A necessarily numbered list of tips from our experiences…
How to Receive & Integrate Customer Feedback
1. Listen to expert users, but don’t (often) integrate their suggestions.
I know many experts who will violently disagree with me here, but I think that just justifies my position. Probably one of the worst things you can do is to [...]
March 18, 2007 – 11:12 pm
There are two types* of people in this world: the first believes everyone’s lives are inherently interesting and the second is Nicholas Carr.
Yes, it is a terribly narcissistic mistake to believe that anyone gives a flying snake about what you ate for breakfast (it was Mintz Blintzs from Trader Joe’s and they were amazing, [...]