Month: January 2006
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Waterfall Conference
I rarely attend conferences due to budget. Most of them aren’t worth the price and are a very expensive flight from Boston. However, this year I’m quite interested in Waterfall 2006. Looks like the topics and tutorials will be well worth the cost of travel to Cascade, Illinois. Anyone else going?
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micro-ISV Releases New CRM Product
Dimitris Giannitsaros of Rapid Signal has announced the first release of his new Customer Relationship Management product Magna CRM. Congratulations Dimitris!
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Company Logo: A Designer’s Take
Mike Rohde has posted a nice detailed follow-up to my Designing a Company Logo post from yesterday. What intrigues me is how fun this process can be, particularly for clients. All of the clients who have collaborated in their own logo process have commented on how much they enjoyed it. Knowing clients get a logo…
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Procrastination
Paul Grahm on Good and Bad Procrastination. Technorati Tags: GTD, procrastination
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Company Logo
Back in November, I hired Mike Rohde of Makalu Media to design my company logo. Outer Level has been a legal corporation since 2000, but until now I have put off creating a logo. Since most of my business has historically come through consulting agencies and personal contacts, I neglected the company image. I have…
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Bullfrog in the News
(Originally Published on Make Mac Games) Bullfrog has received some press over the past few weeks from a couple of French websites: January 14, 2006 – Mac à l’école (Mac at School) Original French Text: Des jeux intéressants à utiliser en classe issus du concours idevgames 2005… Encore plus de choix cette année (36 logiciels),…
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New micro-ISV Site
Bob Walsh, blogger, micro-ISV owner, and author of the recently released book Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality has launched a new website focussed on the needs of the micro-ISV or the startup software company: My Micro-ISV. He’s promising a Question & Answers section or FAQ, interviews, and resources along with a new blog. Looks very…
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WordPress 2.0 and MarsEdit 1.1
Posts now brought to you by WordPress 2.0 and Ranchero/NewsGator’s MarsEdit 1.1.
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Will Leopard be Intel Only?
I wonder… now that Apple has announced the Intel-based MacBook and iMac and plan to have the rest of their machines switched over by the end of 2006; will the next version of Mac OS X (Leopard) be an Intel only release? It certainly would be one way of pushing people to upgrade their hardware.…
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Lessons Learned in 2005
CodeSnipers has up a list of 14 lessons learned in 2005 for starting and running a micro ISV. I’m still a bit new to the micro ISV side of my business, but I did learn a few things over the second half of the year: Time is your most precious and valuable resource. Money is…