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This blog is about startups, blogging, Ruby On Rails, virtualization and cloud computing, photography, customer service, marketing, ux and design, git, and lots more.

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on Twitter, IRC, and the history of Internet chat

When I first got online in 1993, there wasn’t a whole lot to the web. In fact, I remember that year or shortly thereafter, buying a book called the Internet Yellow Pages. This book basically listed all the best sites on the web in something like 300 pages. Imagine how ridiculous this concept is today–yet [...]


GitHub is leading us to an opensource renaissance

Before GitHub, if you had something to contribute to an open source project, you basically had to worry about tracking your changes against someone else’s remote repo, which was usually svn or similar, which was difficult and cumbersome. And even if you did manage to have enough motivation to properly track, format, and email the [...]


Ponoko brings product design to the masses

The printing press, the photography studio, and the movie set are already in the hands of the people thanks to products like wordpress, flickr, and youtube. Now Ponoko is looking to revolutionize product manufacturing by providing a direct channel for users to create designs, have them manufactured to order, and distributed via an online storefront [...]


The security of working at a startup

I recently had an interesting conversation with my grandfather, who was concerned about the economic downturn (recession?) and the impact it may have on my having a job. As I tried to explain to him why I choose to work in startups over big companies, I came to realize that I feel there’s a certain [...]