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04/30 YCombinator startup application form — I came across this very cool and simple set of criteria or rules to apply for funding from YCombinator. Not sure how well it works for them but they are quite reasonable. Here’s a sample: > “(4) Yes decisions will include the amount we’ll invest and the percent of the company we’d want for it. We usually invest $5000 + $5000n, where n is the number of participating founders (i.e. 2 founders get $15,000, 3 get $20,000), in return for between 1% and 10% of the company. The median is 6%.” Cool. Does it work?
04/27 Barcamp is coming to Boston again! — Well it’s not really ‘coming’ – it was here all along, just dormant. Here’s the down-lo: > BarCamp Boston 3 May 17-18, 2008 http://barcampboston.org/ BarCamp is an unConference, organized on the fly by attendees, for attendees. There is no registration fee, but you ...
04/27 Ray Ozzie on Mesh — You might have missed the announcement of Microsoft Mesh. Cycnical me: these grand strategies come and go. I believe this is the second or perhaps third major iteration of Microsoft’s strategy in this area, in each case without an actual scaling implementation of same.At any rate, if you are interes...
04/25 Grou.ps Launches Public Beta — Check this post Grou.ps Launches Public Beta from ReadWriteWeb: > "There are a lot of ways to collaborate online – wikis, forums, social networks – but there are very few providers that package all the tools together that a group might need. Grou.ps, a social groupware provider, aims to address that problem by providing its users one single package of integrated tools."Looks like it’s worth a look…
04/22 What’s Your Best Dilbert Punch Line? — Amazing idea from Scott Adams. Dilbert Mashups. Check this post What’s Your Best Dilbert Punch Line? from Mashable!: > “Dilbert has a huge following and I’m sure lots of people will have fun making their own punch lines for the popular comic, and there are even a few sharing options (embedding, email, social bookmarking, etc.) that will allow those Dilber writer-wannabes to share their humorous wit with friends across the web. One drawback, though, is the fact that you can only create a mashup for the current day’s comic strip.” Check it out!
04/16 Trade-off: Facebook vs. Ning — I am advising a client who is interested in reaching out to a huge existing community of folks who they, historically and today, can count as their natural constituency.The problem is, they don’t have their names or email addresses and want to connect to them, and them to each other. The question is...
04/10 Apple sense of humor — Funny comment by Apple about Windoze Look closely at the dialog box on the right. It’s Mac OS X info sheet for an attached Windows computer. Now look even more closely at the simulated screen on the image of an ugly big CRT monitor. See the BSOD? Who said they don’t have a sense of humor?
04/07 Amazon Web Services Gets Another Hiccup — I’ve wondered and written before about the ‘downside’ or ‘risk’ of building your application based on one of the excellent SAAS services from Amazon. And I do think they are excellent. But check this post [Amazon Web Services Gets Another Hiccup](http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/26563657...