Category Archives: Ideas
A space to share, cooperate and collaborate
Seth Godin has shared some lessons from his Alternative MBA. Has it really been six months? Apparently so. The Alternative MBA was a six month, free, unpaid, learning exercise based out of Seth’s office in New York City. It’s amazing … Continue reading
Announcing my retirement
I am going to retire on 1 July 2009. In a little over 2 months, less than 2 months after my 27th birthday, I will retire. retire v.intr. To withdraw, as for rest or seclusion. To go to bed. To … Continue reading
Thinking bigger
I think Seth Godin’s is my favourite blog. His posts are short, concise and usually thought provoking. Seth avoids the mistake of writing too much, too often, and writing crap just to keep the content flowing. Today Seth talks about … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Seth Godin, startups, straightpress, thinking big, WordPress
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A vision for Lonely Planet
Lonely planet publish books. They’re a book publisher. Books, in their traditional paper form, are dying. I attended a talk by Frances Linzee Gordon on Wednesday night at Gleebooks. Frances is a travel writer for Lonely Planet. She’s a great … Continue reading
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Tagged book publishing, Frances Linzee Gordon, Lonely Planet, publishing, publishing trends, trends
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Idea: alternatives.to
I’m always looking for alternatives to sites, for one reason or another. An alternative to Google because of their politics. An alternative to CouchSurfing.com because of it’s unreliability. An alternative to RentaCoder.com because it’s good to spread the reptuation. This … Continue reading
Open source and adding value
There has been an interesting shift in Intellectual Property over the last few years. Particularly, the rise in popularity of open-source software. Companies like MySQL, Zend, RedHat, and others are pioneering a new way of doing business. Their core “product”, … Continue reading
Incremental Backup on Amazon EC2 / S3
Somebody suggested using Amazon EC2 to provide an incremental backup interface to S3. For the likes of rsync to be truly effective, you need to have an rsync program running near the data store. It struck me, you could use … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon backup, amazon ec2, Amazon-S3, ec2, rsync, s3, s3 backup, s3 incremental backup
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Affiliate Revenue Sharing
A friend recently told me about rakeback poker sites. When you play poker, you pay a small fee to the casino for the use of the table, this is called a rake. If I introduce you to Poker Website X, … Continue reading
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Tagged Affiliate, Affiliate-Revenue, Callum, Callum-Macdonald, Facebook, MySpace, Rakeback, Revenue-Share
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21st Century Communal Living
For a few years now I’ve been considering the balance between sharing a flat, as most students do, and living alone, as young professionals tend to. I’m sure there’s an in-between option, combining the personal space and independence of your … Continue reading
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Open Plan Productivity
I’m in the process of writing a functional spec, and one of the things I read while researching it is Joel on Software – The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code. It’s an article that lists 12 steps to … Continue reading
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easyDesks
Standing in the shower (as you do at 12:30 when you’re a self-employed, home worker!) I’ve just had one of those “bing!” moments. I’m travelling to Malta on business Thursday and it involves a 3.5 hour stop in Gatwick. Being … Continue reading
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Your online identity
Following on from my earlier Treo post, I’m at my PC (as I was then, just checking if it worked! ) and figured it was time to let the cat out of the bag on my wee idea. Currently there … Continue reading
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The nightmare of registering
I’ve had an idea… There’s a great requirement to register with web sites these days. To download a software demo you have to register, set up a username and password and then receive and respond to an email in order … Continue reading
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Free creates social noise
The proliferation of “free” is creating a society in which we are exposed to ever more content. It may seem at a macro level like just more crap on YouTube, but at a micro level it’s more crap our friends … Continue reading →