5 Tips: Efficiently Communicating Your New Contact Data
A few months ago I received a message from someone I once met. He had moved from one company to another and wanted to let me (and the 400 other recipients in the To: field) know his new contact details. I opened the message and included was a 1.2 megabyte JPG with his new contact details, in an image. Can you imagine how inconvenient that is? Ever since then I have been paying special attention to how people communicate their new addresses and have now decided to write a ‘How to’ about the subject. So, are you planning on moving...
read moreCreationism, metaphorism & Innovationism
I was working on a long post on the problem of planning ahead, outsourcing development and the value of ideas. As I was looking for a metaphor to explain my ideas I stumbled on this one entry in the Hacker Slang dictionary over at Answers.com. It so eloquently described what I was looking for that I’m going to save myself the trouble of writing my own blog post and just quote the whole paragraph here: creationism The (false) belief that large, innovative software designs can be completely specified in advance and then painlessly magicked...
read moreTwones: Developer/CTO wanted!
Diederik and Tim are the founders of Twones. Twones is a very exciting company with a bright future and they are looking for a technical partner. Check out this text they just posted on LinkedIn and if you fit the profile do contact them (Diederik or Tim) right away because they are in a hurry! Seeking developer-architect and co-founder for high profile music 2.0 start-up, based in Amsterdam Twones, an Amsterdam based internet start-up, is embarking upon a new project which has a innovative take on the native library player market (iTunes...
read moreThe Future of iPhoto?
This is a short intro of a userinterface that works well for zapping through fotos, products and so on. Jens Schwoon developed the software and recorded this demo for me to demonstrate the technology. Some informations from Jens: this techdemo is 4 years old and is somehow copied in Microsoft Surface a bit. It is only a techdemo, but there are all things written down how to put a real product out of it. It can be “mashed up” as you like to make a PhotoUploader, a PhotoSharing, a Product Browser or even a NewsletterViewer for...
read moreDeserted Island Strategy
The Deserted Island post was first published on April 23, 2006 at the Fleck.com Blog. Since then I have talked about it often. Today I found out that I never published it here on my personal blog. So here it is. It is a common mistake for start-ups (and people in general) to presume that if they would have more [anything] their product would be much better. More money, more people, more clients, more anything. People complain ‘If only I had the resources’ or ‘If only my boss would support me more’. You see these...
read morePlanHQ.com – A Major Breakthrough
“Battle is a highly fluid situation. You plan on your contingencies, and I have. You keep your initiatives, and I will.” Vic Deakins The reason why I picked this quote is because I applies so well to being in a start-up. It IS a highly fluid situation where nothing goes as planned and all you can do is expect contingencies and keep the initiative. That is also the reason why most business-plans are completely useless. A business-plan is a fixed plan that has to apply to a fluid, constantly changing, situation and it is outdated the...
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