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Re: The most import thing to understand about new products and startups

Stu Andrews — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:07:27 -0000

Paul,

Thanks for the post. New reader, just fed your blog.

Your use of _humility_ rang a cord with me. Thanks for putting into cohesive understanding what is mostly fragmented in the wider community.

Re: #1 Rule of Running From Zombies…Dont Look Back

Stu Andrews — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:51:41 -0000

Micah,

Ha ha .. Awesome Post, Awesome Site.

Love the writing, fantastic. As a member of the exclusive tech/dev club "We live in Australia so a Startup is what you do with the Dirtbike in the backyard" it's great to get to join in on conversations like this ..

So kudos for the post, and for this site. Fed and Read.

Re: When Tweets Collide

Stu Andrews — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:36:59 -0000

Micah,

Cool post, I like that you gave some good examples of how Twitter is being successfully used in the community. I've added new folk because of you :).

Re: April 1 Reminds Me That I Aint No Fool

Stu Andrews — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:09:09 -0000

I'm glad you are making the right choices Micah .. Kudos! Here's to another 730 days of the discipline of such direction :).

Re: My So Called Startup Life…

Stu Andrews — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:55:12 -0000

no fool.

What you say above is so very true. But in my mind, I'm constantly linking back to the face that you _know_ through experience, not just head knowledge.

Businesses make money. I've been given the best of advice by a dev guru, saying the same thing. Don't spend your energy on the vacuous when the substance is what makes money.

That being said, some people don't seem to care about money. And a portion of those don't have to, because it just comes to them. It's these that spur on the rest. I _could_ possibly become a rockstar, so I'm gonna blog like a frenzy of pirhanas on flesh.

Tortoise and the Hare.

The Hare is cool for some people. He's fast and sexy and always getting attention.

The Tortoise is slow and steady. Rock-solid, but perceived as boring.

I'd like to think there's nothing stopping the Tortoise merging with the Hare in a freaky glorious mashup.

For many years I've not pushed my Identity, partly because I wasn't aware of _how_ to do it, but mostly because I wasn't up to snuff. Now I am. I've never had a Rockstar life, never run off the rails. The Business projects (no startups in the web sense) I've invested time and effort into are not making me rich and wealthy right now. But I push on, dreaming of the Hare and walking like the Tortoise.

Phew. Apologies for the crazy long comment. I think I'll turn it into a post :).

Re: Hi! I am Micah’s Brain Defect. My Name Is Andrew. I Like Coffee.

Stu Andrews — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:12:24 -0000

Hope your first rule is kicking along .. would be a hard one to live, but i imagine well worth it.

Kick that Andrew right in the goolies for me :).

Re: Twitter is awesome - 600 Visitors and 30 new subscribers in 2 days! Also on Googling yourself….

Stu Andrews — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:43:57 -0000

Patrick,

Glad to hear you are having immediate success with Twitter. I'm one (ish) day in, and can see both awesome potential (expanding web presence) and big pitfalls (more time sinking than Diablo 2, heh heh).

Kudos

Re: Twitter is awesome - 600 Visitors and 30 new subscribers in 2 days! Also on Googling yourself….

Stu Andrews — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:59:46 -0000

Not sure why my comment is indented .. did I press the wrong secret handshake code?

Re: Twitter is awesome - 600 Visitors and 30 new subscribers in 2 days! Also on Googling yourself….

Stu Andrews — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:38:58 -0000

@Patrick: (this @ thing is new for me, but I see everyone doing it, so it must be right, right? :))

I do understand. I've been on it for only a couple of days, and the conversation paradigm is a real shift, but a great one.

Cheers

Re: Wow, Twitter + Digg = 1755 New Subscribers over the Weekend!

Stu Andrews — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:18:43 -0000

Patrick,

That's freaking awesome! Congratulations on kicking through to the next level.

Re: http://gary.tumblr.com/post/78887853

Stu Andrews — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:46:34 -0000

Gary,

Inspirational. Thankyou for showing me another medium for getting across the/a message!

Re: http://gary.tumblr.com/post/78889102

Stu Andrews — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:23:16 -0000

I'm in. I like hype, being a monkey myself, and you are the master of hype Gary :).

Re: A few steps closer to bringing it all together

Stu Andrews — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:03:38 -0000

Colin,

Nice site, I really like the contextual photo in the "About Me" in the sidebar. Kudos.

All the best with Viddler, hope your dreams for it come to pass with speed and minimal train-wrecks :).

Re: Poll: Should my site send Twitter notifications?

Stu Andrews — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:56:14 -0000

Colin,

You could get tricky and only Twitter certain categories, or certain tags .. Could write a little "update Twitter" checkbox in the Wordpress Post page (i guess that'd have to be a plugin).

Or you could not, heh heh.

Re: My brain dump after upgrading to Wordpress 2.5

Stu Andrews — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:19:32 -0000

Colin,

Thanks for the update on WP 2.5 upgrade. I like the two reminders, backup and unplug :).

Did you have any other trouble (since coming from 2.2) with the Category/Tag changes? I didn't realise it was as easy as importing. An old blog i recently brought across had a bunch of tags that I just left behind because of Tag Warrior not being available. Should have looked deeper.

Re: My brain dump after upgrading to Wordpress 2.5

Stu Andrews — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:57:32 -0000

Colin: Thanks for the heads up, much appreciated.

Re: “We just posted loads of clips all over the freakin’ place!”

Stu Andrews — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:33:04 -0000

Although a newb to the video arena, I'll be sticking with Viddler for the moment. If the message is good enough, it'll get around.

Re: Classic photos recreated with Legos

Stu Andrews — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:40:27 -0000

Wow, that picture is kind of eerie. Scary almost.

Very cool!

Re: Milkshake by Eliza

Stu Andrews — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:49:00 -0000

Oh sweet broken candy teeth! What a marvellous looking piece of art .. food .. mmmm .. { goes off in search of food }

Re: Past designs of this site; some made the cut, some didn’t

Stu Andrews — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:48:21 -0000

Colin,

Must have taken some work to put this post together. Kudos for all the hard work. It's a good read, inspires me to do better.

Hope the new design will be glorious and full of awesome.

Re: Writing Effective Blog Posts

Stu Andrews — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:31:13 -0000

Kudos Chris .. nice stuff.

1. Having a picture just makes sense. We are hardwired (most of us) so that our eyes veer straight toward it.

2. Love the final question. Does it work? It's such a simple but so important question for the nature of this post, and of blogging really in general.

I'm glad to hear your community is increasing organically. Hey! I guess that makes me part of that :).

Re: The TechMeme killer or the Google Reader killer?

Stu Andrews — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:18:52 -0000

Robert,

Do you reckon Google Reader would bug out for people who don't have such a huge amount of info on their plate? I've been using NetVibes for a while now, and it's doing the job .. but then, I hardly have fifty feeds I keep an eye on.

Is FriendFeed worth it for small-time feeders? I'll check it out anyway, but, as always , interested in your opinion.

Re: The Disruptive Entrepreneur’s Dilemma

Stu Andrews — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:24:53 -0000

Simon,

Your first point (ease of use) is the big one in my mind. I can see it being _better_, using my mobile to pay stuff .. but how easy is it right now?

I don't know much about the reality of using a phone payment system, here in Australia we seem to be behind even the behind times :).

Well, we do have kangaroos. So that's always a bonus.

Re: The changeosphere

Stu Andrews — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:37:23 -0000

Something else I've been thinking about with blogging is the nature of the Engines that run the blogs.

What is Wordpress planning? Or Drupal? Wordpress seems to be taking Joomla/Mambo space, in a good way. Not sure about Drupal, don't use it. But I think that their direction could change aspects of the blogging world.

Also, all the new Engines popping up. Google "blog engine". There's half a gazillion just appearing all the time. I can just see the buso's thoughts, "Hey, this blogging thing is awesome, let's hire some nerds to build us an engine that we can then on-sell for millions!".

So I think the Engine, while not important in terms of the actual content or the motivation .. will in some smaller way shape blogging's future.

Course, I was wrong about Apes taking over the world, so I could be wrong now :).

Re: Cool alert: Zude, Visual development environment for the Web (adds OpenSocial support)

Stu Andrews — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:41:23 -0000

Robert,

Thanks. Most of my "New Stuff" knowledge comes from your feed.

This looks cool. Like a bundle of other offerings, but still, it's caught my attention longer than a second.

Curious as to whether it's more than just a "bling bling" social networking tool? If there's something durable underneath.

Re: Cool alert: Zude, Visual development environment for the Web (adds OpenSocial support)

Stu Andrews — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:42:47 -0000

I guess it's possible this kind of service could help out the lack of Facebook Business potential that's been going round the blogs recently.

Re: Cool alert: Zude, Visual development environment for the Web (adds OpenSocial support)

Stu Andrews — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:05:35 -0000

Robert: I'm a nerdy Desktop/Web Dev, mostly Desktop, but more and more mashing Web and Desktop together.

So are they talking about having a Desktop run interface into the web services? Or using something like Gears/Air?

Re: First Look: ZigTag, semantic bookmarking service

Stu Andrews — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:35:09 -0000

Robert,

You're probably aware, but this post is no longer in your RSS Feed. At least, that's what NetVibes told me :).

Re: First Look: ZigTag, semantic bookmarking service

Stu Andrews — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:35:47 -0000

Robert,

Ditto for the "55 minutes inside Microsoft Research’s new “#99″ building" post (thought i'd just comment here again instead of there as well).

Re: Where has Scoble gone?

Stu Andrews — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:30:54 -0000

Robert, can you give us a quick post about what you believe to be the reasons we should invest our time into Friend Feed?

I'll check through the archives, might have missed it if you've already done one.

Cheers

Re: Where has Scoble gone?

Stu Andrews — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:35:33 -0000

A search for "friendfeed" on this place revealed everything :).

Re: The Identity Report

Stu Andrews — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:35:21 -0000

Robert,

I've an idea about the idea of a single web Presence. I read anything like it yet. This could be because it's so stupid that everyone but me realises. It could be I just haven't been reading the right places.

Anyway, it's a combination of Desktop and Web working together.

Practical Community Identity.

I know your FriendFeed and Twitter conversations are bearing more fruit, so I'll hit you up there as well.