Whats behind a macworld keynote

A look into whats behind a keynote address at macworld.

Google development practices / Woz

Steve Yegge talks about how Agile Development isn't the silver bullet. He goes into how software development is done at google.

Went and saw Woz on his book signing tour. It's fascinating to hear him speak about the early days and how he really did push the boundaries of computers.

Supped-up Video iPod tomorrow?

Theres been lots of press about Apples presentation tomorrow.

Wired has aggregated the best of the mockups that are floating around.

My favourite is the iPod Chimera.

Paper Scissors Rock

Very arty paper cuts.

Nabaztag

I just saw Nabaztag on my surfing and I think it's quite cool. We have an ambient orb in the office but Nabaztag looks a lot more fun!

Flicker and YouTube links.

NYT article

The New York times has an article about consumer reviews where PowerReviews gets a mention.

Techcrunch interviews P.G.

Techcrunch interviews Paul Graham.

Noah takes a picture of himself every day for 6 years and stitches them into a movie. Mesmerizing.

Interesting picture of frozen cherry trees.

Peer Pressure

Nice like article from entrepreneur.com about reviews and peer pressure.

Of course.. being the best review service out there.. we get a mention! ;-)

Customer satisfaction

It's very satisfying when our customers really love what we do!

Nathan Decker, Director of E-commerce, evogear.com:

"PowerReviews enabled one of our biggest coups to date. The implementation went smoothly, their team offered exceptional support, and the product itself far exceeded our expectations. Not only did we gain functionality on par or superior to the largest and most sophisticated eCommerce sites, we immediately differentiated our offering in the marketplace. In short, this company has it dialed. They are Web 2.0 personified. What exactly is Web 2.0 you ask? Who the hell knows, but PowerReviews has found a way to enable any website with robust, scalable, and fully featured reviews at no cost. As for me and my team, we are absolutely stoked."

Lessons from Kiko

Looks like Kiko the ajax web calendar is getting sold on ebay.

Theres a writeup of the why it failed by one of the founder.

Paul Graham seems to think that startups should stay out of Google's way.

I'm not sure I totally agree with that point of view. Theres been some reports that Googles other services (other than search) are not being as used as much as they hope.

Evolution of the desktop

Nice screenshots of opsys desktops of yesteryear.

Earthquake

First noticable (4.4) earthquake in SF.

Heres the image from the USGS.

Unfortunately I was in milbrae and didn't feel a thing. Yeah.. I was still there at 8.00pm.. Phuu.. working at a startup

what a hole

Worlds biggest hole. Blimey!

Glass Curtain

Interesting article about googles new HQ and their views on space and interactions.

Video on youtube which takes the whole desktop metaphor to another plane.

Son of Man

Nice etching on a powerbook from the famous René Magritte painting.

Impossible is relative

When you think you have impossible problems.. think about this guy.

Cars

Last weekend I went I saw Cars, the new Pixar movie. I loved it!

I have to saw that its right up there with the movies they produced.

I would however, recommend you view it as late in the evening as possible, as the afternoon shows will be filled with kids (they can be more 'expressive' than grown-ups...).

These films are really a class of there own. I read, that on their render farm, each frame took 17 hours to produce!

It also reminds me why I really don't like anything coming out of Dreamworks. Its ALL about the story. Animation is second.

Anyhoo.. I see that Apple sponsored the piston cup (from the movie).

Also some interesting facts about the movie.

Jonathan Schartz speaks

Its interesting to hear Jonathan talk on his blog about the use of product reviews:

Jonathan Schartz writes:
Which is why you'll see something very interesting next week start to appear on Sun's web pages and throughout our on-line store. You'll start to see product reviews written by users. You'll see user defined ratings, right on our products. Just like book or product reviews at Amazon. We're starting with just a few products, but it'll ultimately extend all the way up to our highest end enterprise offerings.

It's great to hear that corporations are willing to listen to their customers. There is great benefit in listening to the good and bad from your customers.

Site launched

Although we've got clients and actively developing in the background, we just launched our corporate site to give a lot more details of what we are about. Wohoo!

If you have any questions or interested in using our service, please let us know. We have operators standing by! :-)

Tips to Start

Some good tips in starting a company. Part1, part2, part3.

Congrats to all at PowerReviews.com, we are 1 year today! :-)