I have worked with several print designers whose clients happened to want a web presence, so they hired me to translate their designs into functional sites. They are all awesome people, but working with them has often been a rough ride with a a few disconnects. That’s because the web and a piece of paper [...]
Webbies rejoice. I was a little skeptical at first, but really, it is as easy as grabbing the installer here. Thanks to TredoSoft you can run IE6 and IE7 and test your site in both browsers till the cows come home. Weee!
Today I had lunch with a friend in Kista, Sweden’s Silicon Valley, and he shared some great ideas for a new dating site. A few weeks ago I had a prospective client tell me about a cool concept for a niche social networking site. Both, however, are thinking of subscription fees as the planned revenue [...]
Let me preface by saying I love Skype dearly. The poweful little program and a headset gets you: free calls to, and conferences with, other Skypers worldwide; cheap calls (couple cents a minute on average) to landlines worldwide; the ability to rent a very cheap SkypeIn number that landline users can call you through; [...]
I have to say, Facebook has some pretty good revenue models. For instance, I think their ad engine is brilliant. An advertiser can post really cheap “flyers” that will be visible to only selected schools or networks; so, for instance, a Greenwich Village bar can advertise only to NYU students. This is truly targeted advertising [...]
This is pretty unrelated to anything, but I’ve been in Stockholm for almost two weeks and before getting my Mobilt Bredband (one of those absolutely sweet mobile wifi cards, meaning I can now do my work on like, a boat) getting online was absolute hell. I knew all the Swedes, inhabitants of one of the [...]