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  • Bill Rice 1:19 pm on November 23, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , , , jason fried, , Matt Mullenweg, Philosophy, rss   

    People and Blogs I Get Inspiration From 

    Dave Winer (Scripting.com)-I tune into Dave’s thoughts everyday. This can be challenging at times since our politics are so far apart. When a cross-post to Huffington Posts hits Scripting.com I often want to hit the unsubscribe button on my RSS reader.

    I don’t because that would only make me dumb.

    I most admire his simplicity. His writing style, his projects, and his thoughts are always a quest for simple clarity and elegance. I frequently point our engineers to his blog posts for guidance.

    Favorite Winer ideas: Outliners, Rebooting the News, Editorial tools, Future-safe archives, 2, 3.

    Jason Fried (37signals.com/svn)-Jason has always been a virtual mentor to me. His company is a super successful Micro-ISV.

    I admire his demonstration of scale using the magic of keeping it simple. I guess I like simple, huh? I also like the fact that he writes all his own Web copy.

    Favorite Fried ideas: UI design and feature minimalism

    Matt Mullenweg (Ma.tt)-How could you not pay attention to Matt? His platform and software jujitsu literally seems to power the Internet.

    Favorite Mullenweg ideas: Community building, How he works/managing a virtual company

    Chris Brogan (ChrisBrogan.com)-Chris is another one that I tune into daily. There are lots of things to like about Chris, but mostly he is just a genuine, nice guy (I have met him in person a couple of times).

    I most admire Chris’ way of asking questions and generating open thinking. His power as a community leader is impressive. This is what draws me to read him for inspiration. I often get more value from the discussion he generates than his own daily post(s).

    Favorite Brogan ideas: Trust Agents, Fish Where the Fish Are, Giving Ideas Handles (I am specifically working on getting better at this)

    Joel Spolsky (JoelOnSoftware.com)-Joel is someone I first plugged into via his book (Joel on Software), not his blog. Although, his blog preceded the book by about four years. I subscribed to his software management philosophy long before I bought his software, Fogbugz.

    We have used it at Kaleidico from day one.

    Favorite Spolsky ideas: How to write specs, Paper prototyping, UI Designing, 2

    Interestingly enough there are no sales gurus here. Why? Simple, few sales gurus are as successful as these guys. Sales is only one facet of a much larger business success strategy.

    The point is when you are looking for business ideas and inspiration look for examples, not advice. Each of these people have common trend to their core philosophies–an intense focused on people (users).

    Who inspires you? Who do you follow daily?

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  • Bill Rice 6:31 am on August 14, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Dave Winer is Bringing Back Blogging 

    As Om Malik says, Dave Winer has again sounded a couple of his prophetic warnings. Both of which seem to point back to the importance of the evolution of blogging.

    The common thread to these warnings: the danger of a single company being the sole provider of Web plumbing, infrastructure, or coral reefs.

    Twitter and URL shortening services have been the most recent warnings and both have show their frailty in the last couple of weeks. Naturally this is triggering a rethinking of how this plumbing is provided, maintained, and serviced in the Web ecosystem: Anil Dash’s Pushbutton Web, Google’s PubSubHubBub, RSSCloud.

    The even more interesting trend is that it is bringing people back to their blogs–little corners of the Web they own. Maybe in all the fever of compressed attention spans we had forgotten that humans still need/want context. This is Om’s point that struck me–maybe we just misapplied many of these services function:

    Late last year, following the Bombay terrorist attacks, I wrote about Twitter’s growing influence as a source of breaking news and how, in order to make sense of it all, we need more context. The best place to provide that context is now in blogs. To be sure, most people view Twitter as a microblogging service, but I’ve always seen it as micromessaging service — and the more I used it, the more I realized what a disjointed conversation it can produce.

    It will be interesting as we sort it out. After all we always do. Dave Winer is leading the charge to have that sorting take place on our blogs, with #blogpostfriday.

     

  • Bill Rice 9:11 am on January 16, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Connecting Unusual Dots in Your Feed Reader 

    This is the second time in a couple of weeks that I have noticed treads of significant issues showing in my increasingly International perspective RSS feed reader that are not appearing in the US press I typically read: NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Washington Times, NY Post, Wall Street Journal, memeorandum.

    The first was a tingle I got in reading an Al-Jazeera post about the Iraqi President’s trip to Syria, but that turned to a cold chill when Dave Winer highlighted the full feeling.

    Then last night I got this from my Digg “Banking” feed: “ING Investment Bank Warns Investors of Israeli Strike on Iran.” Notice only 11 Diggs–not near enough to put it above any fold, but it got into my reader!

    This made me remember this post I read on Sunday from Joel Rosenberg’s feed: “DISPATCH FROM JERUSALEM: Bush speech seen as preparing for war with Iran” that included this ominous quote from his interview with Benjamin Netanyahu:

    I asked Netanyahu how much time the West has to stop Ahmadinejad. “Not much,” he said, noting that when he was Prime Minister both India and Pakistan tested nuclear weapons to the shock of all Western intelligence agencies and that Iran could be much closer to getting the Bomb than anyone realizes. “Nothing else matters – not Iraq, not the peace process with the Palestinians – if Iran is allowed to obtain nuclear weapons. They must be stopped.”

    I think this one is particularly interesting in that these are two very different circles of information potentially reaching very obvious conclusions about a very significant future World event without a “top fold” article in any of the US national press. You can find it at the International Herald.

    Lesson: diversify your feeds!

     

  • Bill Rice 6:36 am on February 7, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Secure RSS for Financial Services 

    Ask and you shall receive.

    A couple of days ago as the MicroPersuasion Blog talked about AOL charging a fee to ensure email delivery to their clients and Dave Winer and Fred Wilson talked about making RSS simple enough to become mainstream–I pondered if this was an answer to a major problem I run into with Financial Service clients:

    Email is one of the primary means that financial service companies communicate with their clients. However, terms like mortgage, loans, bank, dollar amounts, and other important terms that banks and mortgage companies need to use in email are red flags for most spam blockers. So, often the clients get bad communication experiences because of their spam box catches these emails.

    My though was if we could devise a way to secure and personalize these individual RSS feeds it would a great way to tune into your financial status–it seems someone is working on it.

    Wouldn’t it be great to get real-time feed on transactions from your checking accounts and credit cards, reminders to pay your mortgage online, alerts when you CD is due to roll-over, or daily quotes on your 401K, or other stock, bond, and/or mutual fund portfolio. How about a feed from your credit report!

    An added benefit, this would complete obliterate identity theft!

     

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