2006-12-13
um.. you want me to do what?
renkoo just spammed me with 3 emails about their service. so naturally I went and looked. I heard of renkoo a while back, but can't remember what it was all about.
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2006-10-31
Customers Versus Users
I forgot an important lesson yesterday. Your Customers are not always the same group as your users. This is especially relevant on 'free' web sites, or for people who offer 'free' services, and it sucks if you don't realize this. The customers are the ones who pay you (intrinsically or extrinsically). The users are the people who view your site. you need to remember (and I didn ...
2006-05-27
marketing 101
I'm sure not going to give this justice, but I thought there was a need to blog about this. This is just a summary of the marketing subject I did a while back. first of all.. marketing is not just PR or advertising, although that is what most people think, by the time you hear about it the marketing is about over. ok marketing starts by figuring ...
2006-05-12
Is your project a Hydra?
In a recent post to one of the private member lists inside of the Apache Software Foundation, we were told that one of a project's major contributors (of the project, not the ASF itself.. don't get alarmed) was pulling out, due to the company he is currently working for switching standards.
The poster was a bit glum, about it, but as one of the other members ...
2005-12-20
Bidding for projects
On The "relevance blog":http://www.relevancellc.com/blogs/?p=92 today, Stuart mentions how his company underbids his competitors by 30-50% for projects. and how rails lets him do this. Personally I'm not so sure I would be doing this. (disclaimer: I haven't placed a bid for anything for a long time). why not? *price = quality* for a lot of people, and by being so ...