One nice way of helping your startup customers is to use GoToMeeting.com. But if you do, there’s three things you want to keep in mind: Your screen sizes will differ. That means your customers – unless they are also developers – will probably have a smaller screen. Sometimes a very much smaller screen. Be sure [...]
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Community News: Charles O’Dale, Senomix Software Inc., has released a networked time tracking application for BlackBerry which ties directly in to a company’s (or sole freelancer’s) Windows or Mac OS X server computer. Senomix Timesheets links directly over the Internet to the server program and, once time tracking information is saved from a BlackBerry, it [...]
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[Danger - rant against politicians and non-voting "net citizens" ahead. Skip if you are easily offended.] I used to care a great deal about how people voted. In fact, at various times in my life I’ve worked on local, congressional and national campaigns. I can cite you chapter and verse, argument and counter-argument on just [...]
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Community News: Steven Cholerton, Arten Science, just keeps cranking away: not only has he a major new release of ContaxCRM 2.0, his cross platform CRM app, but he’s scored a big win by getting it and another of his products into Amazon. How did he pull this off? “I was approached by an agent in [...]
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Pat and I were interviewing Jeff Haynie, founder of Appcelerator yesterday and something he said in passing stuck in my mind: “We don’t get lost anymore.” It’s true – between maps on our phones, GPS, everyone a cellphone call away, when’s the last time you relied on a published printed map to move spatially from point [...]
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Having written a GTD-centric app for Windows, interviewed David Allen more than a few times and being more than a little, well, obsessed, with productivity, I’m trying something new out this weekend, and it’s looking very, very good: http://www.smartytask.com. I’ve been using Things from Cultured Code on my Mac, iPad and iPhone for while, but [...]
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Louis Grey had a great post Thursday - Information Streams Accelerating the Attention Crisis – on something a growing number of people I respect are worrying about, like Tom Foremsky, and Hutch Carpenter. This isn’t the old run-of-the-mill “information overload” issue people have been whinging about since Gutenberg started printing books, or since big honking ”mini-computers” started spewing reams of [...]
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Community News: Paul Morey, founder of MiddleClick has just started releasing demos on the Tutorials Page of his Windows app launcher program – one per fortnight for two more months. Paul thereby demonstrates 3 things: How nice snappy videos can sell a good product, how to keep prospective customers coming back to your site and [...]
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(Editor’s note: It’s high time I restarted the MicroISV Digest, so here goes. But this is only going to be interesting if you send me your microISV, startup, indie, whatever-you-call it, news. News like in you’ve launched, you’ve gotten your 1,000th customer, every microISV should read this post kind of news. Not I do PR, [...]
Continue reading...In case you missed it, yesterday I was more than a bit pissed off at Amazon AWS S3. Actually, I hope you did miss it, because I was wrong and they were right, and I lashed out in frustration. Here’s what I though happened: Out of the blue, Amazon S3 changed something so and neither [...]
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