Archive for August, 2007

How beer can help pilots

« 30 August 2007 at 11:01 am | No Comments
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In Newark, N.J., U.S. 1 is home of one of Budweiser’s largest breweries. […] On the brick facade of the 12-story-high main building, the word “Budweiser” appears horizontally when viewed from U.S. 1 North; from U.S. 1 South, it appears vertically. The signs were built that way to orient pilots flying in and out of […]



Facebook Appsaholic: Now promote your apps

« 2 August 2007 at 7:00 pm | No Comments
Cool people, Techy | Tags: facebook beta appsaholic »

The Appsaholic app on facebook just added a new feature in the last few days … “Promote your Apps”
Looks like there is a limited release of select few (I was included!) to get the app tested with a sample $50 fund to see what kind of advert returns we get.
Cool!



Making a usable product - nothing’s changed

« 1 August 2007 at 4:56 pm | 2 Comments
Cool people, Ideas/Work | Tags: Entrepreneur customer service »

#3 of seven lessons for startups from Intuit
3)     Your competitor is not other companies, but the way that things are done now.   Forty-six companies sold accounting packages at the time Quicken entered the market.   But Scott Cook found that Intuit’s real competitor was paper and pencil.  None of the other packages could balance a […]



Future of DB design - some light reading

« 1 August 2007 at 3:22 pm | 1 Comment
Cool people, Techy | Tags: database design shard »

Ever since I figured out that what I did to databases was actually called normalization, some of the excitement went away.
It meant that what I was doing wasn’t some genius idea cooked-up in my brain but actually the right way things should have been done.
However, over the years, I’ve come to realize that normalizing is […]




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