This is my non-technical blog about being an independent Internet entrepreneur in the 21st century.
Personal productivity, mobility, business, marketing, web tool and some more…
This is my non-technical blog about being an independent Internet entrepreneur in the 21st century.
Personal productivity, mobility, business, marketing, web tool and some more…
"We used to call the Internet a sort of Wild West. Now it's more like Chicago in the 1920s with Al Capone." - Keith Laslop, president of Prolexic Technologies
Google.be 28-sept-06 Everybody’s been saying lots of things about the Google.be case, especially that the Belgian newspapers should have used robots.txt to tell Google what not to index. And that the fact they did not use robots.txt clearly show…...
This is one of those examples where a picture is worth a thousand words! Got that from Cedric Giorgi who also points to this PDF from Gartner explaining what the hype cycle is about. Now, the interesting part is comparing the 2006 hype cycle with…...
"Lists and types of bite sized content that offer immediate reward to an attention and time scare audience typically spread further than content which requires more attention. The attention deficit most of us live with is going to constrain the types of…
I recently heard Anil Dash put it in this very simple way: "A blog is a way to connect with people you care about." And it has nothing to do with technology, feeds, etc. It's quite another approach compared to my own (alternative) definition of…...
How do people usually define blogging? They tend to say that it's about organizing posts by reverse chronological order. That it's about writing in the first person. That's it's about being more personal. That's it's a social thing. That it's about…...
Guy 1: I am so efficient I can fold 100 parachutes in a hour. Guy 2: I am so effective I can fold 100 parachutes and every single one of them will open right. Would you rather give your parachutes to the efficient or to the effective guy? Now what…...
Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream. The long tail
Over the last 6 months I have refrained as much as possible from using Instant Messaging, if it was not for scheduled conversations. I mean, IM is cool in a "netmeeting" kind of way. But having an IRC/MSN/Yahoo/ICQ/Whatever Messenger open all day,…...
Oh well... I think it's been too long since I last read some great wisdom like the one on Joel on Software. I read this really insightful peace today about all the important things beyond just the actual software code. Here's a funny quote: Human…...