Congratulations to the entire team on the launch of www.WindingRoad.com 3.0. I’ll be commenting over the next few weeks on some of the lessons learned from the previous site and the ‘reset’ that 3.0 represents.
Interesting starter article “15 Roles Every Startup Needs” makes you take inventory on what ya got and what you need
Collection of screen shots of major os interface design between 1981-2009 (via @andrew_chen)
How White Am I,
“How to build companies that matter” @ericries on O’Reilly Radar
Quote: “The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look [...]
SXSW Interactive 2009 is coming up next month and it looks promising. Here are a few of the panels that look interesting:
The 7 Rules for Great Web Application Design
How Not To FAIL At Web Services
More Secrets of JavaScript Libraries
Microformats: A Quiet Revolution
Emerging Trends of Mobile Technology
Designing the Future of The New York Times
Version Control: No [...]
I took a few hours yesterday and migrated from Drupal back to Wordpress. While Drupal is good platform, it was a bit overkill for my needs. Apologies to anyone that had their RSS sub behave weirdly. Interesting notes from the migration:
It was actually difficult to find instructions online for the migration from Drupal to Wordpress [...]
After many months and countless hours of hard work we’ve finally launched NextAutos into the wild. An evolution of Winding Road Magazine, NextAutos is a new site for automotive enthusiasts. More to follow but thanks to everyone from nFusion and Rain City Studios for bringing it together.
Great post on link building by Adam Auddette.
Jason Fried of 37Signals fame doesn’t dissappoint as a speaker and this was another great presentation with some good takeaways and quotes. While I don’t always agree with him, he does an excellent job of bringing the learnings of his small agile team into the spotlight for consideration. In his very Zen-like presentation Fried emphasized [...]
SXSW 2008 started out great with AJAX and Flash Mistakes: Lessons Learned Building SlideShare presented by Jonathan Boutelle, CTO of Slideshare. Boutelle’s style and presentation were a welcome start to a day of panels and presentations that can always be a challenge.
Presentation Key Takeaways:
Modal Dialogs are seductive
Provides a way to get around links and the [...]
A friend mentioned the other day that I haven’t posted in some time. Truth is that I generally don’t post for the sake of posting and I’ve been pretty busy since starting a new position with NextScreen.
Now that I’ve settled in a bit I will be posting about the activities and challenges of starting, staffing [...]
While I don’t line up with with the total web 2.0 labeling, Tom Scott has a great article that outlines some evolutionary changes in considering web development. As he points out “Site owners effectively thought of their sites as silos – a self contained object, a web of pages, with a handful of doors (links) [...]
