Last night I got an invite to the Wix closed beta, and this morning I decided to take it for a test drive while waiting for the caffeine to make me feel human again. Wix is a service that helps non-flash people create flash based web sites and widgets with no programming whatsoever.
Over the [...]
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Ah yes, path dependence. The idea that, well, history matters. It’s the notion that accidents, decisions, and the unlikely are equally valid in explaining the success and failure of a product as quality.
My Keys Keep Jamming
The classic example of path dependence is the QWERTY keyboard. Though not an idea based in reality, the example [...]
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If you have 14 seconds to kill, check out TwitterNothing.com. As advertised, the service is completely unburdened by any feature whatsoever.
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I love twitter. I admit it. Though I was initially reluctant to join and participate, I’ve seen the light, and use it all the time. Since I started using twitter religiously, I’ve noticed a few things that are annoying. There are a 3 improvements that could be made that would make twitter that much better. [...]
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Though we’ve been covering startups regardless of location, we would love to hear from startups in the Boston area. There are several events coming up, and there will be good opportunities for Boston and New England based entrepreneurs to meet and exchange ideas with the community. We are currently working on our second blogstring tweetup [...]
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This morning, I read a story on TechCrunch that got the wheels turning in my head. Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron decided to put his twitter account up for auction on ebay. From the auction:
I really love my Twitter account but I feel like I haven’t been using it the way I want to. Quite honestly, [...]
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A few moments ago, while restarting firefox for the third time today, an idea hit me. I have been using twitter a lot lately, and have been trying out services that use the twitter API. Since many conversations in twitter end up linking to blog posts or interesting articles, I was thinking about about ways [...]
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Today at 9:02 AM, matchmine’s press release hit the wires announcing four new partners and one distribution deal. Though I could pick up my metaphorical pom-poms again and preach the virtues of matchmine (I am their evangelist, you know), I won’t do that here. Instead, I’d rather take a look at the partners.
1. Odeo- [...]
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Yesterday I finally took the time to update the events sidebar here on blogstring to include upcoming events. I asked my twitter friends for events, trolled the usual suspects (going.com, upcoming, etc) and even did some Google searching. This morning, Don Dodge’s post Boston startup events and resources was in my RSS reader. Here’s the [...]
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You’re on vacation. It’s beautiful. You’re on the beach and have no worries whatsoever. Life is great.
All of a sudden, your bare foot brushes against something hard in the sand. You bend down and brush away the sand and find a lamp. The kind a genie comes in. Educated by the many genie in [...]
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