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Author Archives: Bill

Anil Dash makes a case for the ways networks can transform our lives

Anil Dash from Expert Labs spoke recently at the Fast Company Innovation Uncensored event in New York in April.
In addition to introducing the audience to ThinkTank, a tool in which Dash30 has been involved, Anil articulates a great case for using networks for the common good. In this 12-minute video, he talks about how people, [...]

Don’t try designing your Web site on a computer

Not only does she make a great point regarding the importance of expanding the process to as many people as possible, but she is spot on when it comes to the idea of using light-weight sketches to explore as many ideas as possible.

Teaming up on the open source ThinkTank project

Starting with this post, I’ll walk through some of the thinking behind the work Dash30 has done on ThinkTank and our experiences contributing to an open source project. We’ve learned some lessons, met some very talented people and enjoyed contributing in some small way.

Lemonade

Not only is this an inspiring video, it is beautifully done.

Kevin Rose and his path from 1 to 1 million users

Taking your Site from One to One Million Users by Kevin Rose from Carsonified on Vimeo.

The case against paywalls is about more than business models

In recent weeks I’ve had a seriously hard time convincing paywall advocates of the larger implications of such a move. Why retreat into the old print model? Find new digital business models to replace the flagging print revenue.
To lock content behind paywalls or, worse, keep it offline altogether, merely casts a newspaper’s destiny into the [...]

Jason Fried on the business of software

I had lost the link to this video of Jason Fried of 37Signals discussing the business of software. It’s a fascinating insight into the Chicago firm’s operations.

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Keep your crises small

Dr. Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar, discusses the company’s secret sauce, including developing great teams of people.

The history of the newspaper industry in a nutshell and how to turn it around

I’m going to sum this up:
Newspapers enjoy a monopoly brought on by the high cost of entry in the form of printing presses and legions of delivery boys.
Internet emerges.
Newspapers shovel their content online without regard to ways to exploit the emerging medium. They view it as another channel/platform for publishing the same content that they’ve [...]

Understanding the job key to finding the perfect tool

When I moved into my first house I had a raft of home improvement projects but little money and few tools. The size of each project got magnified by my inability to buy the tools that would have dramatically reduced the time needed while increasing the quality of the work.
Fortunately, as my ambition for home [...]