June 2010
2 posts
Notes on "Design for Developers" →
A look into video sites
Video on the web is everywhere. But if you are listing a bunch of videos on your website, just using text doesn’t do it. This is personal research that I’ve turned into a blog post.
If you are building a website with video you might find this useful.
What are we working with?
Videos often contain:
Title
Description
Audio
Moving Images (video)
Thumbnail
How do we select what...
May 2010
1 post
Re-made my personal website about me! - ... →
March 2010
1 post
Plans for company culture →
A working document and early plans on what I would base my own company’s culture around. Culture is very important to get right and to build it when you start to expand past founders.
January 2010
1 post
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Ben Reyes's ways to saving money in the UK →
December 2009
1 post
Where I go to be inspired..
Startup Information:
Eric Ries (startuplessonslearned.com)
Venture Hacks (venturehacks.com)
Steve Blank (steveblank.com)
Paul Graham (paulgraham.com)
Magazines:
Fast Company (fastcompany.com)
Wired (wired.com)
Video:
TED (ted.com)
Fora TV (fora.tv)
Vator TV (vator.tv)
This Week In Startups (thisweekinstartups.com)
This Happened (thishappened.org)
Research Papers
ACM...
November 2009
1 post
May 2009
1 post
What is your favorite website? It’s so 1999.
I just was recently asked this by DAVE the branding agency which is involved with a company I am working with. They had asked everyone to come prepared with our favorite website.
Doing a bit of thinking about this. And my response to it is f*** the question. I don’t have a favorite website. I may have websites I use and visit, some more than others. Websites are just another way to consume,...
March 2009
6 posts
Currently Working On: Helping people be creative
What I am working on
A platform/website for creative people. At the moment I’m calling it Log20. My vision is to do what myspace and lastfm has done for bands but for artists/photographers/designers and creative people in general. I’ve been planning this for a long while and it is an incarnation of a project that stalled in 2005 around Internet video (CreateIPTV) due to commitments at high...
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Kevin Rose Broadcasts on USTREAM from Virgin...
Kevin Rose on a Virgin American plane broadcasts live on UStream.TV and Twitter this to all of he’s followers instantly getting 700+ viewers. [Update now 800+]
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kevin-rose
I guess it shows the power of live life streaming and the current nature of the delay on the internet.
Even Virgin America instantly responded to Kevin Rose via twitter saying
This is pretty...
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Reid Hoffman (Linkedin CEO) says "Every Individual...
Reid Hoffman who invested in sites like facebook and digg, was on Charlie Rose. Techcrunch has the full embbeded video. I do believe in what he mentioned that every individual is now an entrepreneur. To add to that, every individual is now a brand. We now have a large amount of information in the public. With our facebook profiles, linkedin and even goggling our own name brings up...
Photos: MobileCampBrighton 2009
- Flickr Album: Photos: MobileCampBrighton 2009 - http://barcamp.org/MobileCampBrighton
Photography: Fuzzy Logic - 31st Jan 2009
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Sketch: Image cut outs makes interesting visuals
On the way back home from Brighton (MobileCampBrighton). I was thinking about image cut outs and how they make interesting leading visuals. So I thought I’d share my random thoughts.
I know a few sites that displays cutout before going into an article. Flickr also displays cutout images of photos in a album format. The sketches probably won’t make any sense. But I thought I post it....
February 2009
1 post
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Agile Business & Bootstrapping
Agile is a well-known development methodology that is used in software and web development. It gets things going and allows for not everything to be planned. The question is can it work for businesses? Its more commonly used in start-ups and web companies where bootstrapping is found. The guys at 37Signals (BaseCamp) use an agile way of thinking in their business. Reading the notes that Robbie...