I’ve always loved video games. My first non-pen-and-paper RPG was Dragon Warrior for the NES. I got it free with my subscription to Nintendo Power – so it was long after the game was originally published. My next RPG was a step up – Final Fantasy II (us) for the SNES. I loved the genre… Read more »
Year: 2006
Could I run a company on open source?
Here’s an overview of my evening. I booted my Inspiron 630m up in Ubuntu. I activated my bluetooth mouse and then connected my Z22 via USB and synched it with Evolution. I logged in to gAIM and started working on a biz plan with Open Office. I got to thinking about the logo I put… Read more »
How a blog is worth over $9,000 a month.
Disclaimer I’m using the term ‘blog’ as it’s accurate to the subject; however, any source of original syndicated content would apply. To assume that what I present here is limited to the scope of blogging is rather close minded. The Setup As folks who know me are aware, I work at a video game development… Read more »
Citadel, MySpace, and BBS
So, I’m wanting to find out more about this projected called Citadel. It’s a groupware package for lots of important stuff like calendars, email, and chat. I actually found it while looking for a good calendar server solution. Citadel is more than a calendar for sure, the site says it can be used like a… Read more »
It’s time to give Firefox an audio mixer.
The title says it all, it is time to give Firefox an audio mixer. The web is becoming increasingly more multimedia. While the bulk of web content is still text, and will likely remain text for a long time to come; multimedia is here to stay. The curent state of multimedia on the web is… Read more »
How to NOT build community.
Over the past couple of days, I’ve had an e-mail dialog with the organizer of a meetup.com group for marketing. It all began shortly after I added the group to my list. I noticed several very pointed e-mails asking people to RSVP for the upcoming gathering. So, I submitted my RSVP. On the day of… Read more »
Why to NEVER spam! – A Lesson From a 2001 Startup
What We Did Near the end of the first bubble, I joined a cool idea for a startup company. We had a subscription based product to sell online and I was hired as the Director of Web Development. I was stoked; but it didn’t take things long to fall apart. Even if the bubble hadn’t… Read more »
Frappr – It’s like Web 2.0 meets MySpace
I just found Frappr.com tonight. What a surprise! As this post’s title suggests, the best way to sum the site up is as “a Web 2.0 version of MySpace“. It really is kinda nifty. From what I’ve found about the site tonight, it looks like it began as a way of mapping your social network… Read more »
Building better communities by knowing your user.
I was reading Web Development 2.0 and found a lot of really interesting information. One bit relates well to virtual communities. One example: Flickr had a report of users with no contacts in the Flickr social network, which they called the “Loneliest Users” report. What a great report — a way to see who is… Read more »
Community Thunderlizards
I recently hit a couple of interesting posts by Guy Kawasaki. For the most part, I like his content. However, he threw me a curve ball in his last post titled “The Art of Creating a Community“. The curve ball is the term “Thunderlizards”. Sweet, another buzzword! But what is it? My first thought was… Read more »