Quote from Michael Porter

This looks like a good article on search optimization. It’s stuff you’ve heard again and again. I thought the best parts were to avoid search engine firms that promise the world. Like top placement and saying it’ll be easy. The best advice though? Stop worrying about your search rankings and try to improve your conversion…

Back in May there was a wonderful article on BrainFuel called The Niche Get Richer by our guest author Ward Andrews. PostBubble has an short article about how Web 2.0 monetization models, and I think it’s spot on. Essentially the point is that to be successful online and dominate a market, the best chances you…

Do you give gifts to your clients (specifically for Christmas/Holidays)? What about coworkers? Do you give everyone the same thing? Or are you just sick of giving out gifts?

I wrote this article and decided to publish it while I’m in Brazil. Enjoy! It’s fascinating to read about the purchase of Alaska. It happened 139 years ago. The story about how we came to purchase Alaska is almost laughable. Despite the fact that the entire history of the world has been filled with wars…

This idea reminds me of another… the 80% is good enough for now rule (I made that up). It goes this way: It’s better to have something 80% done today, even if it isn’t perfect, than to have something 100% done and have it be late. Full story, on design.org. Not to be confused with…

I’ve been pondering a new term I heard the other day. The term is “code debt.” I heard it while listening to Jason Fried in this podcast and I can’t stop thinking about it. Code debt to me is very real. It’s the debt you have to keep paying back when you have software that…