Archive for July, 2007
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
When I am not hacking, I'll likely be either reading, thinking or entertaining myself on Digg.com. When I'm on the road, my xv6700 Pocket PC keeps me connected to the Internet. While there is DiggRiver.com to make viewing the stories easy, my Pocket Internet Explorer does not allow me to ...
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007
"Thembid has a very attractive business model in a large market and we spoke to Elmer Thomas, CEO regarding this exciting business."
You can read the full interview here.
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Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
At ThemBid.com, they allow developers 30% of their time to work on side projects similar to Google. For me, I use that time playing with the Digg.com's API using Ruby on Rails.
One of the tools I developed has become very useful to me on a daily basis, so now ...
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Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
For ThemBid.com we use dedicated servers; however, we have hosted over 200 clients through a sister company, using virtual servers through Layered Tech. Before Layered Tech, over period of six years, we have utilized hosting services from a variety of vendors with varying levels of success. My goal here is ...
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Friday, July 20th, 2007
I am working on a class (when I take a break developing for ThemBid.com) that allows easy usage of the Digg API within Ruby on Rails. I wanted to integrate the class in such a way that I can easily share the code within my own projects and eventually for ...
Posted in Ruby on Rails | 3 Comments »
Friday, July 20th, 2007
In marketing, an addict is someone who must have or use your product or service and will do so repeatedly. Robert Allen came up with 12 principles of persuasion to create this effect. Here, I apply these principles to Web 2.0 startups.
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Friday, July 20th, 2007
One key step in creating any business is understanding your market and competition. For those who don't have the big bucks to buy the marketing data you need, this is the resource for you. I have compiled a list of statistical resources I found valuable when we were doing our ...
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Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Now that ThemBid.com is implementing codename "secret sauce", we needed a brush up on the C in CSS, since the new project involves whole portions of the site needing style overrides.
If you are not fully utilizing the cascading feature of CSS, or you just need a quick brush up, then ...
Posted in Development | 19 Comments »
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Thanks to a surge in press ( front page of linuxtoday.com and digg.com [twice] ) ThemBid.com has exceeded 100,000 unique visitors since launch, three and a half months ago. To celebrate we will be holding special promotions with great prizes. Check back with this blog for details.
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
There have been multiple occasions where I am trying to read an article and the website is down. I have encountered this multiple times where people say something like: "I got around 13,000 hits and server couldn't handle it". There are even websites that become popular by making ...
Posted in Development | 32 Comments »