madmotive

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Reid Hoffman, Biz Stone & Stephen Fry talk about Twitter(nesta.org.uk)
2 points by madmotive 17y ago|0 comments
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Charging for software in the age of web apps(benwerd.com)
1 points by madmotive 17y ago|0 comments
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Pitch yourself, not your idea(cdixon.org)
41 points by madmotive 17y ago|3 comments
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by madmotive 17y ago
A very long article... One of the most significant bits for me: Seedcamp do plan to open source their funding documents.
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Saul Klein talks on Seedcamp’s present, past and future(eu.techcrunch.com)
1 points by madmotive 17y ago|1 comments
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Seedcamp: thoughts on the evolution of a European startup(localglobe.blogspot.com)
28 points by madmotive 17y ago|3 comments
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'Road trains' get ready to roll(news.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by madmotive 17y ago|0 comments
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Applied to Software Development(francisshanahan.com)
1 points by madmotive 17y ago|0 comments
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by madmotive 17y ago
This underlines to me why it's essential to have technical founders.
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by madmotive 17y ago
You shouldn't expect them to remember what was in the application. If they do remember something it will probably only be one line.
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by madmotive 17y ago
You get an email when you don't get in with a nice couple of lines explaining why. Our email came in the early hours of the morning. I'd encourage you not to respond to it, at least for a few days. I felt compelled at the time to send a few
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by madmotive 17y ago
This is exactly how our "interview" went. Despite being given the same advice by others that had been through the process we still foolishly wasted time preparing a short 1 minute pitch. We might have had a better result if we'd invested mo
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by madmotive 17y ago
What approaches do other OAuth providers take to this problem? Revoking all OAuth tokens on a password change/reset takes away a good chunk of the value that many people get from using OAuth.
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Twitter's OAuth has a gaping security hole(shkspr.mobi)
15 points by madmotive 17y ago|23 comments
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by madmotive 17y ago
The costs have dropped to zero for many of the smaller low traffic sites because they don't currently need more resources than those provided by Herkou's basic free service. We can boost the resources almost instantly as and when they need
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by madmotive 17y ago
Heroku is the only business critical service I use that makes me smile almost everyday. I wish my telephone company, ISP and bank could provide such an excellent product with the same levels of customer service. This week I finished migrati
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Microsoft cancels Family Guy deal(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by madmotive 17y ago|1 comments
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by madmotive 17y ago
Good point. So far about half have paid. I guess the main reason this works for us is that we prefer smaller projects. We don't aspire to being a huge consulting company / agency taking on bigger and bigger projects. We like working on smal
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by madmotive 17y ago
Our approach is to respond to RFPs with a fixed-rate proposal development fee. Anyone that's good enough to be in demand should do the same. Clients that expect you to do work for free will probably turn out to be difficult people to work w
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Facebook 'memorialises' profiles(news.bbc.co.uk)
35 points by madmotive 17y ago|28 comments
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by madmotive 17y ago
or, since it's on Heroku: heroku logs
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iPhone app for Safari Books Online(avitapp.com)
1 points by madmotive 17y ago|0 comments
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by madmotive 17y ago
I find it amusing that they actually seem to think $60 is the right price point for "students, hobbyists, individual developers". How out of touch with the community can you get. Looking at their visitor stats ( http://siteanalytics.compete
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Apple now allows in app purchases for free apps [The Email](iphone.broadersheet.com)
2 points by madmotive 17y ago|1 comments
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MongoHQ provides MongoDB as a service(mongohq.com)
2 points by madmotive 17y ago|0 comments
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by madmotive 17y ago
This was one of the best talks at the Future of Web Apps. Well worth a watch. I found the HTML5 forms demos much more interesting than the canvas (Flash killer) demos.
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by madmotive 17y ago
Uservoice has Single Sign-On http://uservoice.com/faq#sso Unfortunately it's only available on the more expensive plans. Animoto are using it here: http://feedback.animoto.com/pages/9153-general
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by madmotive 17y ago
Dust-Me Selectors ( http://www.sitepoint.com/dustmeselectors/ ) has worked for me along with getting organised in CSSEdit ( http://macrabbit.com/cssedit/ ). Best approach I've found to keep it all under control and avoid getting in a mess i
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Javascript library for retrieving and aggregating profile data(identengine.com)
2 points by madmotive 17y ago|0 comments
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Ident Engine discovers and retrieves distributed identities(alistapart.com)
6 points by madmotive 17y ago|0 comments

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