January 2009
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Sheep, dogs, horses, pigs...an inkling market →
Introducing Inkling cloning! Creating a market in Inkling already takes very little time but who wants to get a repetitive injury if they have to create the same market for 10 different sales…
WatchChecking out Bandcamp. Pretty yet depressing song!
Oddpost - kind of a forgotten company that kicked... →
Forgotten because they were bought be Yahoo mail and well, Oddpost help reinvent Yahoo mail, but few people really know that.
Oddpost is in my top 3 inspirations for starting my own business. I can’t tell you how many times I went through this company’s photo book of them starting the company. They were starting this thing from coffee shops and chinese restaurants: no office...
Scott Adams Blog: My Cat 01/28/2009 →
Going to remember this. It’s sad, but thankfully have 2 healthy animal companions at my home office. One of them is a kitty that also has an enormous warning on her chart at the vet. She’s just impossible. Can’t believe something that small, can be so terrifyingly ferocious.
Why don't more software applications look like...
“Frequently museums offer opprtunities for additional hyperactivity, which may attract some people, or many people on some occasions, but there are others who would appreciate or learn to appreciate a Silence Room…Are we as much concerned with the effects of noxious impressions on our minds as we are with air pollution?”
-by Alma Wittlin’s “A Twelve Point Program for...
A dog misses his special friend →
You’ll probably cry reading this. Be warned.
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Going to be writing a lot more here about museums
To preface some future posts, I’m going to write a few of these posts about how software is like a museum. Jason Fried at 37signals.com might have been the originator of this analogy. I’ll paraphrase his words: —————— You as a designer or you as founder of your software company should act as a curator at a museum does. A museum is a limited...
“If talent were bricks, these guys would have a shitload of bricks. They made my...”
– Ricky Van Veen, CollegeHumor
“The jokes he rolls out on his global tours are actually the output of thousands...”
– Innovate Like Chris Rock - Conversation Starter - HarvardBusiness.org
WatchLights Out - Santogold
Great Psych episode this week
Shawn: We're up to code!
Arson Inspector: You're smoke detector is a paper bowl with an m&m on the bottom
WatchThe Apples in Stereo - 7 stars: A song Clint used in this wicked awesome video he put together for his and my sister’s wedding.
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“Assholes sometimes get rich and famous. We shall not become assholes.”
– GasPedal — About GasPedal — The Way We Work
Ottawa boy's invisible invention warns birds about... →
Sounds like a wicked smart idea.
“The trend (an increase in morbidity an mortality from coronary heart disease in...”
– The Power of Clan - I haven’t read a Dr. Spock book myself. But I hadn’t thought of it this way. Is this saying, that a common parents’ goal of not raising “a spoiled momma’s boy” may actually be a factor in ripping up our interconnectedness as families a bit?
“Put on (the) dog is an expression that means ‘to make a display of wealth or...”
– The Mavens’ Word of the Day - Put on (the) dog is possibly connected to the fact that noble or wealthy ladies had lapdogs as pets; these dogs were small enough to put on the lap.
“I think it could have ended last season…What do you think?”
– Good Bye “Prison Break” - One Source Talent Blog This is the type of show that maybe should have had a 2 year arc tops? Everything nicely imagined right from the get go so it could have a proper wrap up. This could have ended at the end of season 2 i felt. Didn’t need to add yet...
Reports page now available →
Inkling marketplace admins now have access to a reports page listing the reports available to them. These are all comma separated files (csv) that can easily be opened with Excel. As an admin…
“A few years ago, my request for a Sidecar was often met with ‘are you...”
– Drink Recipes - The Sidecar
If you cannot measure it.... →
John Wanamaker, the famous retailer once quipped “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” For many years, it was a quote that marketers could rely on…
Enterprise 2.0 Predictions for 2009 →
Given the business we’re in I hesitate to highlight an individual’s prediction for 2009, but I thought last year’s predictions for Enterprise 2.0 by a ZDNet contributor was an insightful write-up and…
Here's to the Crazy Ones →
I was clearing some space on my hard drive this evening and ran across an old Apple video that I had saved. It was the very first commercial from their “Think Different” campaign: “Here’s to the…
WatchAsher Roth - I love College. Seems to have some talent at hip hop and he’s got a song out about lovin college!? Sweet. Of course, it’s not quite the parts of college you want your kids loving. But maybe it’s a start in a different direction. And you should see the video of this kid on Carson Daly. He’s looks like he’s loving life too. Contagious.
The Great Prioritization Debate of 2009 Coming to... →
As people have returned from the long Holiday break, we have been hearing more and more from our friends, delivery partners, and clients about the grand “prioritization” process that is happening at…
Taking a bath
So in the last 12 years of my life, I think I’ve had 3 baths.
Mind you, I still shower. A lot. Why don’t we take more baths though, especially us guys? Maybe my guy friends are just keeping this secret to themselves?
I took a bath a couple days ago and I found myself repeating everything I said the last time I took a bath (about 9 months ago). “That was awesome!” “I should be doing this every...
Easier to access market management →
A couple months ago we added hover menus to our “management” market listings. Those are the markets listed when you click “manage markets”. You see that link when you are an admin or your Inkling…
When a Phillips is not a Phillips! →
I had no idea screw drivers had this much variation. Probably an article my dad will find very interesting.
Roseto Supper Club
I just started reading Malcolm Gladwell’s new book Outliers. Seems like a popular Xmas list item this year. Just read the introduction about this little town of Roseto, PA.
This is a Huffington Post article about the same town, and it summarizes the same things Malcolm does in the intro. This is an interesting thing to keep in my mind, especially in my “it’s a new...
New corporate home page →
Last night to kick of the new year, we launched a new version of our corporate home page (http://inklingmarkets.com). We are very proud of how it turned out.
Apart from getting an aesthetic…