Python web Template System. (more)

aka Role Playing Game

The Sienna Storm RPG has a couple interesting wrinkles. (more)

whole-corporation (more)

Josh Marshall interviews Joe Biden, who might become Secretary Of State under John Kerry. There is no longer nor should there remain the standard for use of force that pertained from the Vietnam War until the time that we lost the election in 2000. And there is an emerging change in the standard... So that I think that what you see is emerging, is that the world has changed, is that a Kerry administration would reflect a willingness to use force unilaterally if one of several conditions pertained: One, international conventions were being violated; they affected American interests; and the international community would not step up to the ball. ... I made a very controversial speech in '94 saying I believe countries forfeit their Sovereignty when they engage in certain activities - genocide being one of those activities, harboring terrorist organizations with the knowledge that they are doing damage to other nations... (It) took me a while, and I think he would tell you this if you asked him, to convince Bill Clinton to use force in Kosovo. He kept saying, "The UN will not go." . I said "Don't go to the UN" - and I'm an internationalist - I said "Don't go to the UN. You're going to get No for an answer."

Tech Crunch is running a series of posts on the scams run through many Social Gaming networks on MySpace and FaceBook. In short, these games try to get people to pay cash for in-game currency (Virtual Money) so they can level up faster and have a better overall experience. Which is fine. But for users who won't pay cash, a wide variety of "offers" are available where they can get in-game currency in exchange for Lead-Gen-type offers. Most of these offers are bad for consumers because it confusingly gets them to pay far more for in-game currency than if they just paid cash (there are notable exceptions, but the scammy stuff tends to crowd out the legitimate offers). And it's also bad for legitimate advertisers. Zynga and others. (more)

finding relationships among data in a big Data Warehouse (more)

I'm finally trying Google Desktop on my MacBook. (more)

part of Customer Development - see that page for more details (more)

Growth Hacking guru (more)

At Living Independently we're actually doing SfaViaIssue TrackerWiki now (for retail sales). (more)

Steve Blank clarifies that a Lean Startup is not a cheap Start Up - it just waits to start spending fast after it has a scalable/sustainable sales model. The goal of an investor-backed startup is not to build a lifestyle business (Life Style Company). The goal is to reach venture-scale (~10x return on investment.) When you and your board agree you've found a repeatable and scalable sales model (i.e. have Product Market Fit,) then you invest the dollars to create end user demand and drive those customers into your Sales Channel. If you confuse Lean with Cheap when you do find a repeatable and scalable sales model, you will starve your company for resources needed to scale. Customer Development (and Lean) is about continuous customer contact/iteration to find the right time for execution.

William Lind released a draft of his FourGW Field Manual. While it necessarily deals with military theory, some of it quite complex, at its heart lies a story, the story of Operation David. Here, we drew on the model offered by the U.S. MarineCorps’ Command & Control FMFM. When Captain John Schmitt brought me the original draft of Command & Control, back in the early 1990s, I said to him, “John, the book needs a story that illustrates the concepts the manual is trying to teach.” John wrote a superb story, and ever since that FMFM came out, Marines have told me that they got much more out of the story than from the theoretical parts of the manual. I’m not sure our story is as good as the one John Schmitt wrote, but we have at least tried to do what he did. You can judge whether or not we succeeded. (more)

Product Development Crowd Sourcing service. (more)

Big data is a blanket term for any collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing applications. The challenges include capture, curation, storage, search, sharing, transfer, analysis and visualization. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data (more)

Donors Choose.org is a United States–based 501(c)(3) Non-Profit organization that allows individuals to donate directly to Public School classroom projects. Founded in 2000 by former public school teacher Charles Best, Donors Choose.org was among the first civic crowdfunding platforms of its kind.[3] The organization has been given Charity Navigator’s highest rating every year since 2005 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donors Choose> (more)

Process, and typical time lag, of your Selling process.

I love having an Issue TrackerWiki. (more)

founder of Duck Duck Go

ex- OLPC guy (more)