January 2008
Etsy.com takes $27 million investment and Jim... →
Etsy.com have just accepted a $27 million investment. The funding comes in part from two existing Etsy investors, Union Square Ventures and Hubert Burda Media, and from an important new investor: Jim Breyer at Accel Partners.
Why does Etsy need investment?
Etsy is almost break-even, meaning the revenue pays all our bills, including the salaries and benefits of the fifty employees.
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The Rise of Twitter as a Platform for Serious... →
For 2007, our Best Web LittleCo was Twitter, the microblogging/status application that captured the collective attention of Silicon Valley at SXSW last winter and has been on a meteoric rise ever since. We picked Twitter because it “has captured the imagination and become a new hybrid of chat, social networking and blogging.” But, unlike 2006’s Best LittleCo YouTube, which has...
Powerful new features in Google Analytics →
Google has recently released some amazing new functionality for it’s free (!) service Google Analytics. If you’re already using GA, make sure to update your tracking code to the new version.
By far, the coolest new feature is the ability to track independent metrics against each other to see how they correlate. For instance, you could compare page views and completed goals to see if there was...
ThisNext has taken $5 million to expand shopping... →
Social shopping service ThisNext has taken $5 million Series B in a round that included previous investors Anthem Venture Partners and Clearstone Venture Partners.
ThisNext launched in 2006 with a product that offers shopping combined with comments, tagging, social recommendations, comment ratings and a wishlist. Users can also create a website widget to show products they like to others...
Performance reviews are a big fat waste of time →
Welcome to your annual performance review.
In the next 90 minutes we will:
Review your performance over the last 12 months
Follow up on the goals from last year’s review
Set new goals for your professional development and career
Handle any problems you might have had in the last year
Fill out this 8-page form required by HR
Coach you to better performance
Get your totally open and honest...
Sprout Builder » Home →
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Jubilee line was nuts this morning, had to let 6 trains past, they were so rammed…
SMS and IM Actions to your Inbox with Twitter and... →
Twitter is a pretty cool short message communications service that has become very popular lately. It works really well across instant messaging services and mobile SMS gateways. We would like to announce that we have just finished an interface that allows you to send actions directly to your Vitalist inbox through Twitter.
To get set up:
Sign-up at vitalist-tools/twitter.
Enter you Twitter...
SproutBuilder: You've Got to See This Drag and... →
SproutBuilder is going to explode the world of widgets on the web. This is far and away my favorite product I’ve seen at DEMO, not just this year but ever in the three years I’ve attended. Limited beta accounts are available to RWW readers via http://www.sproutbuilder.com/readwriteweb The product is a drag-and-drop Flash authoring tool built on Adobe’s Flex. SproutBuilder lets...
Dividing Time: Web 2.0 Analytics Demo →
The page view died as an audience measurement metric last July when Nielsen stopped measuring it. In a world where technologies like AJAX allow web publishers to push new information to pages without refreshing, the amount of time a user spends on a site — along with the total number of unique users — has replaced the page view as the most important audience measurement metric. But...
10 questions to ask a tour operator reservation... →
Next week in London is the annual Travel Technology show….. Now for us travel technology geeks this is high pressure stuff. Not only do we get to pretend we know something about Sales & Marketing (!) - but we have to expose to our friends and competitors what we have been upto for the last 12 months.
I am going to be both exhibiting (Stand A49 TourCMS - don’t miss it!) and talking at a...
It cost more, so it must be better →
Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog have a post here about a study in which students were given five wine samples to taste and rate. Each had a price label attached to them, but in fact only three different wines were given i.e. two wines given twice but with different prices. Sure enough, the students opined that the wines were all different and improved with price. Sometimes, being cheapest seems...
Introducing new search views →
Posted by Andrew Hogue, Uber Tech Lead Introducing experimental views for search results There have been a lot of recent improvements to web search, but the appearance of results themselves has been pretty constant — 10 or so web pages in a vertical list. Frequently this is exactly the right format, but for some searches you need more options and more control. That’s why we’ve...
Introduction to good usability →
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Search Field →
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Professional Web Design Company releases Dos and... →
Guide includes a web design process not often used by designers; try this process and create more user-friendly, better organized websites. Published by Professional Web Design Company Chromatic Sites. Saved By: Paul Lomax | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: None assigned
UI-patterns.com →
User Interface Design Pattern Library. UI patterns for web designers. See examples and read rationale, solutions, and implementations for each pattern. Saved By: Paul Lomax | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: None assigned
SafeSubscribe(SM), from Constant Contact →
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Online Reputation Monitoring Tool | Trackur →
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Symfonians, another Symfony community →
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Web Hot or not? →
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Advanced CSS Printing - Using CSS Page Breaks →
Who wants to be a happiness engineer? →
Automattic (the people behind Wordpress, Akismet and other cool projects) are looking for something they call a happiness engineer. What’s that all about?
Happiness Engineer
Our software and services are far from perfect, and when things go wrong people aren’t shy about contacting us asking for help.
We consider the support side of the user experience to be vitally important because it’s...
Tips for symfony and Subversion at Spindrop →
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How Last.fm Will Create "Communities Around... →
Earlier this week we reported that leading online music service Last.fm, owned by CBS, had gotten major labels on board for its new streaming music services. Users will be able to stream full-length tracks from the likes of EMI, Sony BMG, Universal and Warner, as well as “thousands of independent artists and labels.”
In the following post syndicated from last100, our network blog...
sfGuardPluginExtraDocumentation - symfony security →
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Symfony Workshop, Paris, Feb 13 →
As symfony workshop is an interactive training session during which you will learn how to develop high-quality web applications fast and efficiently with symfony. After three days of symfony immersion, guided by experts sharing their knowledge and experience, you will know enough techniques and methodology to become fluent in agile web development with symfony.
IgnoreAll: The One-Click Facebook Cleanup Tool →
Sometimes it’s the little things that you have to love about the internet; especially when little things can help you clean up a big mess. I’m willing to bet that you’ve got hundreds of Facebook application invitations and requests that are sitting on your account cluttering things up. IgnoreAll.com is a simple Javascript bookmarklet that with one click selects the...
The Future of Software Development - ReadWriteWeb →
An awesome array of programming languages and infrastructure libraries combined with agile methods has allowed us to break free of old software development dogmas. Just a handful of great engineers can now successfully build systems of great complexity.
Web Site Attempts to Collect Every Rule of Thumb →
You can stay in control of virtually any situation as long as you know where your towel is. That’s a good rule of thumb to remember for anyone planet hopping around the universe. But how do you know how to evaluate the programmer for your next project? Or know if that girl (or guy) at the end of the bar likes you? Don’t panic. Terrestrial travelers can consult a new web site called...
Rupert Murdoch makes U-turn on free WSJ content -... →
“The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.”
– (aka Brooks’s law)
- Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man Month
Crowdstorm version 2 - iterate, iterate, iterate! →
One thing which has been really interesting over the past 5-6 weeks is that having an actual site live is a very useful thing. We debated for quite a while whether we were going to put the current version live, bearing in mind the list of bugs and elements that didn’t quite seem to work correctly, going through the following points:
You actually have deployed something which is a great morale...
symfony: creating individual modular sites with a... →
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jquery in symfony →
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Usability and Interface Design Books →
by Alexis Brion
Usability and interaction design are fields that are becoming more and more important for every design. Both fields consider the interactions between the user and a system; accordingly, it also applies to the interaction between users and web-sites. A product has more chances to be successful if it’s design makes emphasis on usability. Making a website easy to use and easy to...
Homepage | eXpresso →
eXpresso is the best way to share Excel spreadsheets with the people you know. eXpresso enables multiple contacts to work on the same Excel spreadsheet at the same time, saving all changes to a common version in real-time. Plus, you can track changes to specific cells, receive alerts when changes are made, and access version history or audit logs. Saved By: Paul Lomax | View Details | Give Thanks...
Buildersite wins Angel funding round →
Buildersite, a web-marketplace for construction services for both homeowners and tradesmen has secured an Angel round of funding led by Alex Hoye, former co-founder of GoIndustry which went public in 2006. He will chair the startup’s board. Also investing is The Accelerator Group, whose principals Robin and Saul Klein have invested in successful UK startups including Lovefilm, Agent Provocateur,...
@builtbydave which payment system are you working on at the mo? I’ve recently been up to my neck in SecPay and CyberSource… yay.
12 Things I Wish I'd Known Before Building a Web... →
Google Health is coming soon... →
Spotted by Google Blogscoped is a login page for Google Health, Google’s entry into the online health records space. At the time of writing the site isn’t allowing logins, but it does include this text:
With Google Health, you can: * Build online health profiles that belong to you * Download medical records from doctors and pharmacies * Get personalized health guidance and relevant news ...
How to Build a Web Start-up, Part 1 →
I just finished my first episode of How to Build a Web Start-up, where I share tips for starting quickly and cheaply, and how to create your first cashflow spreadsheet.
How to Build a Web Start-up - Part 1 →
We live in an extremely exciting period of human history where it has never been easier or cheaper to start a web-based business. You just don’t need a bricks-and-mortar shop to make it big anymore.
However, there are still a massive number web start-ups that fail every year. How can you avoid becoming one of them and being plunged into the TechCrunch deadpool?
In this series for Vitamin, I’ll...
Django People: OpenID and microformats →
In hindsight, it was a mistake to launch Django People without support for OpenID. It was on the original feature list, but in the end I decided to cut any feature that wasn’t completely essential in order to get the site launched before it drowned in an ocean of “wouldn’t-it-be-cool-ifs”. I thought that, once launched, the site would see a small amount of activity from a...
12 Things You Wish You’d Known Before Building a... →
Ryan’s original presentation - essential reading for all those thinking about building a web app, is now available on SlideShare.
You can also listen to the audio that goes with the presentation.
Check it out!
Automattic raises $29.5M for WordPress →
Automattic, provider of the WordPress open-source blogging software and spam filter Akismet, has raised $29.5M in a Series B round of financing led by True Ventures. Other participants in the round include The New York Times, Polaris Ventures, and Radar Ventures.
The large injection of capital will not only go towards the development of Akismet and WordPress (the downloadable software) but the...
eXpresso Takes The Enterprise Route to Web Office →
I first noticed eXpresso when they bought a little start-up called Xcellery that had a neat way to collaborate using Excel. I had used the product and it worked pretty well. eXpresso was named as one of PC World’s 25 Most Innovative Products of the Year for 2007. PC World succinctly summed the product up: “[it] allows Excel users to share their spreadsheets, online or off.”...