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- Why front-end developers are so important to the future of businesses on the web - paulcarvill.com paulcarvill.com
"A [front end developer] is responsible for everything that sits on the client side of the web stack — the content, presentation and behaviour layers. Few other roles touch so many other key aspects of a business as does a [front end developer]’s." Amen to that.
- 10 things to do for digital agencies « digicynic digicynic.wordpress.com
Most of which are fairly obvious. Still, useful to point at.
- The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Monkey Boy's three-legged race fakesteve.blogspot.com
A classic quote from last time round: "The Borg-Yahoo merger won't work. Here's why. It's like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they'll run faster."
- Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule paulgraham.com
When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in. Plus you have to remember to go to the meeting. That's no problem for someone on the manager's schedule. There's always something coming on the next hour; the only question is what. But when someone on the maker's schedule has a meeting, they have to think about it.
The way we do this is by having a 1-hour meeting every Tuesday morning where my manager presents a PDF report that outlines these figures and colours the report either Red (we're in trouble and we better do something about it), Yellow (We're in danger, but it's fixable) or Green (we're on track to achieve our goals).
At no. 1, "Max Tundra’s Limited Edition Kosher Chicken Soup". Ah, Ben.
- Seth's Blog: The art and skill of working with bureaucrats sethgodin.typepad.com
Have you noticed that most airports feature the same restaurants? It's not an accident. The people who run these chains have organized themselves to be good at dealing with municipal organizations. Same thing goes for design firms, creative firms, accountants etc. that deal with large corporations. In my experience, 40% of the fee goes for the work and 60% goes to pay for the do-overs, staffing, project management and hassle that comes from working from big organizations and committees. A lot of small businesses get burned when they charge just the 40% and the client expects that the other 60% comes for free. It doesn't.
- Engineers Are The Best Deal - So Stock Up On Them techcrunch.com
"Software engineers today are about 200-400% more productive than software engineers were 10 years ago because of open source software, better programming tools, common libraries, easier access to information, better education, and other factors. This means that one engineer today can do what 3-5 people did in 1999." And so say all of us.
Custom M&M's. Feels like we've done the custom sweets to death already but you never know.
- Milton Glaser - Ten Things I Have Learned miltonglaser.com
- The Three Sexy Skills of Data Geeks : Dataspora Blog dataspora.com
Statistics, data munging and vizualization.
- Rypple - A little feedback goes a long way rypple.com
Handy-looking feedback tool.
- Dear Dustin Curtis | Dustin Curtis dustincurtis.com
If the UX architect at AA.com is actually pretty good, then why does the site suck so much?
- Report Paints a Painful View of Ad Agencies « FUEL LINES Fueling Ad Agency New Business Through Social Media fuelingnewbusiness.com
"Forrester Research believes today’s ad agencies are not well-structured to take on tomorrow’s marketing challenges, needing to move from making messages to establishing community connections." What, really?
- GigPark gigpark.com
Discover the trusted service people your friends use
- Launch a Business, Not a Side Project | Think Vitamin thinkvitamin.com
I’ve seen a lot of web apps launched recently which haven’t succeeded. They’re not failing miserably, and they’re not wild successes. They’re just kind of puttering along, sapping just enough resources to be a problem, but not succeeding enough to really take off. The majority of these apps were built by small web design firms or freelancers who bought into the dream without really understanding how much time it takes to make an app succeed.
- Kickstarter kickstarter.com
A funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, bloggers, explorers...
#design #music #business #social #work #creativity #startup #ideas #entrepreneurship#fundraising#funding #art - Shopp — plugin ecommerce for wordpress shopplugin.net
An e-commerce plugin that adds a feature-rich online store to your WordPress-powered website or blog."
- FAQs - Change Of Company Name Resolution | Companies House companieshouse.gov.uk
"How do I change my company’s name?" Why, by passing a special resolution at a general meeting or by having all member sign a written resolution, then paying a tenner to Companies House.
- Interview: Mr Best Buy goes looking for bargains in Britain | Business | The Observer guardian.co.uk
"[Bob Willett] says it is wrong for analysts to focus on store openings, as the internet is key to growth - web sales are rising faster here than in the US. "Up to a third of our business will be done on the web, so you don't need hundreds of stores," he says."
- CoTweet™ - How business does Twitter cotweet.com
"Designed for businesses using Twitter to engage existing customers and attract new ones, CoTweet is a comprehensive Twitter business platform that supports both proactive marketing communication and response-driven customer support." Wow, way to make it sound really boring.
If you're Home Depot, and you've got 150,000 employees, half of whom are on Facebook, you had better be thinking about this. Social media is no longer experimental.
- Getting Real: Have an Enemy (by 37signals) gettingreal.37signals.com
When we decided to create project management software, we knew Microsoft Project was the gorilla in the room. Instead of fearing the gorilla, we used it as a motivator. We decided Basecamp would be something completely different, the anti-Project.
- List of UK retailers on Twitter | Blog | Econsultancy econsultancy.com
Not a bad start.
Digital had been seeping into our world for about three years and the Napster effect was apparent. Being a small company and working directly with artists, we could really hear and see what was starting to happen. It was a realization that fighting it wouldn’t work; understanding it and being able to grow it was what was going to work. It was a psychological shift for us.
- Made By Many » Blog Archive » “What Is a Social-Media Agency?” madebymany.co.uk
The old digital agency model is not helpful today. Instead, the industry can learn a lot from social start-ups (like Vimeo - who I am in love with, or SoundCloud) and work as fast as possible, being entrepreneurial, pragmatic, and nimble [...] People in traditional agencies - ‘old new media’ and our cousins in advertising - say they find all of the above quite challenging - which is weird because these agencies are stuffed with really smart people.
- CR Blog » Blog Archive » The Designers Republic Is Dead; Long Live The Designers Republic creativereview.co.uk
Designers Republic goes under. "I’ve never liked that agency model - it’s not where creativity lies. DR accidentally ended up there in order to service bigger clients. I’m not being ungrateful to the people who ran the business side at DR – it wasn’t their fault. I’m glad we did it - it took getting there to make me realise that it wasn’t where I wanted to be."
- 2009 - The Pull Music Paradigm Shift Emerges - MTT - Music Think Tank musicthinktank.com
Interesting, but sort of scary and wrong at the same time.
- Contemplating the Consumerist sale and the adpocalypse arstechnica.com
What advertisers buy when they purchase a magazine or TV ad is slice of the attention of some subset of that media object's audience [...] A web page, in contrast, is typically festooned with hyperlinked visual objects that fall all over themselves in competing to take you elsewhere immediately once you're done consuming whatever it is that you came to that page for.
- this is sippey.typepad.com: project management lingo sippey.typepad.com
“Is there Project Management Lingo?” Yes. Yes there is. My favourite in the comments: "What Would McGyver Do?"
- 7 Marketing Lessons From Derek Sivers - Music Think Tank musicthinktank.com
- The ugly man behind the curtain in music publicity... - Music Think Tank musicthinktank.com
- Rumblefish | Sonic Branding and Music Licensing rumblefish.com
Find and license music for any project—TV shows and advertisements, movies, websites, video games, podcasts, and more."
- adaptive path » blog » Peter Merholz » One way for surviving the downturn - delineate your business value (#7 and #10 in a series of 16) adaptivepath.com
By understanding a business’ problems or opportunities, we can figure out what behaviors we’re hoping to engage, and then connect that behavior to a financial outcome.
- Impress Music Ltd impressproductions.co.uk
- EMI's £700k taxi bill • The Register theregister.co.uk
The report says that costs at EMI Music were out of control, and that reporting structures were so dysfunctional, management struggled to find out the true picture.
"I have been asked by my work place to provide my passport." Not just employers; looks like it's becoming standard practice for recruiters to ask even if trading as a limited company. Something to do with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.
- THE FEATURED ARTISTS COALITION featuredartistscoalition.com
The Featured Artists' Coalition campaigns for the protection of performers' and musicians' rights. We want all artists to have more control of their music and a much fairer share of the profits it generates in the digital age.
- Present.ly - The Constant Awareness Communication Tool presentlyapp.com
Twitter revolutionized public communication by creating organic networks for one-to-many updates. Present.ly brings this revolution to your business with tools and features custom tailored for a work environment.
- Time to invest or invest in time? internetworld.co.uk
What would I do if my business allowed me to do in a downturn? Keep ahead of the curve. Get myself to any and every relevant show, event and conference, meeting and networking opportunity. Get up to speed with what’s coming down the pipe from all of the technologies. Understand their priorities and where they think we will be in the coming months and years.
- Make Money Online: 101 Top Ways of Doing It experienced-people.co.uk
For PH.
- siliconroundabout siliconroundabout.ning.com
- FT.com | Tech Blog | Silicon Roundabout: Is this the heart of the UK’s new dotcom boom? blogs.ft.com
Heh, funny.
Merlin is a non-profit organisation charged with representing independent music companies in enhancing the commercial exploitation of their copyrights on a global basis.
- Web Worker Daily » Archive Busyness vs. Burst: Why Corporate Web Workers Look Unproductive « webworkerdaily.com
"The busyness economy works on face time, incremental improvement, strategic long-term planning, return on investment, and hierarchical control. The burst economy, enabled by the Web, works on innovation, flat knowledge networks, and discontinuous product
- Auctions on eBay: A Dying Breed businessweek.com
As consumers opt for fixed-price purchases, what happens to the company that perfected the art of online bidding—and the scores of e-auctioneers?