Did you ever discover a piece of software that is so simple and so useful that it almost seems amazing that it isn’t standard on everyone’s computer? This past weekend while reading Lifehacker, I saw a reference to a free text-replacement tool called Texter that they created and were hyping up. After reading all [...]
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Hello Songbird, Goodbye iTunes
I love open source software. There’s something fascinating to me about a community of passionate developers being able to release highly customizable software that is equal to or better than the commercial alternatives. As I wrote in a post last year, our company uses almost all open source software, both because of the affordability and [...]
Becoming a Web Based Company
Lately I’ve been realizing just how fast technology changes. In December I wrote an article about our company embracing the open source software alternatives:
So we came up with a plan. We would have a set of desktop workstations (one to start) that have the full Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection (the $2,500 one) [...]
Pandora Knows Me Better Than I Do
Sometimes it takes me a while to do things I know I should do. Case in point: in October I read this fascinating feature in Inc. Magazine about Pandora entitled Pandora’s Long Strange Trip: Online radio that’s cool, addictive, free, and-just maybe-a lasting business.
Pandora has developed a proprietary method to analyze music–Westergren calls [...]
Hulu is Changing the Way I Watch TV
When hulu – Fox and NBC’s joint online video venture -was announced I didn’t give it much thought. ABC already allows people to view episodes of popular shows online, so I figured this would be much the same. Mike signed up for the private beta but I didn’t bother. After getting his [...]
Dominating With Our Shopping Cart
In my post earlier this morning I mentioned that this was probably the most productive week of my life. It’s partly because I’ve become an early riser, but mostly because we’ve had such success with the Detailed Image shopping cart that it’s eliminated a lot of the questions we had about our company [...]
Using the Open Source Alternatives
A little over a month ago I posted about using Mozilla Thunderbird as an Outlook replacement, and how our company is planning on transitioning in to using more open source software. As I said back then, we’re anticipating having a staff that grows by a handful of people each year for the next few years, [...]
Using Thunderbird as an Outlook Replacement
In the next five years we anticipate that we’ll grow to have a somewhat sizable staff, probably 10-15 people. A few programmers, a book-keeper, a “secretary” (or whatever the politically correct term is now), a warehouse employee for Detailed Image for packing and shipping, a customer service rep, etc. One of the biggest [...]
