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Startupism has not been updated as often recently as any of us would like, and that’s mainly because we’re all fairly busy. The call has always been open for startup founders to send in articles or opinion pieces, though never a post about it on the front page.
UNTIL NOW!
So there you go. […]

As a web site based around one feature and one feature only, Digg is not a product. Digg is a feature.The underlying question is, how easy is it to implement this functionality into another web site? And I think, in the case of Digg, the answer is “very easy.” Couple this with their total inability to “cross the chasm,” so to speak, and you have a perfect recipe for a web site that models what could become a very popular feature… in other web sites.

This is part II of a series.
What kinds of apps are working on Facebook, and what can we learn from them as developers and designers? How do we even define success on Facebook applications? Installs? Active users? Canvas page views? Churn rate? Let’s see.
Let’s begin by taking a look at the Appaholic Viral Dashboard. Over […]

Since I started OnMyList in January, I’ve received tons of help and great advice from other entrepreneurs. Many of these fine people were complete strangers before I contacted them. Most were incredibly generous with the information they shared. Since our site went up in June, I’ve been on […]

Our buddy Siqi, coder of Facebook Mafia, and RoR developer with our friends at Powerset, wrote a comment to Aaron’s last post. This stirred me to write my own (software developer’s) analysis of designing and writing software and picking the “right” features.
In The Republic Plato reminds us that “Necessity is the mother of invention.” […]