Thoughts on technology, investing, marketing, and entrepreneurship.

SXSW: Building buzz for your web project

The building buzz panel covered ideas and techniques for increasing the buzz for web projects without spending money on advertising. Here are the notes: – on creating a brand make yourself part of the brand; make yourself, employees, and fans famous need a face or a central figure to the venture myspace is important tool […]

Today's links for 3-18-06

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Tom Markiewicz on 2006-03-18 23 real simple steps to making your Internet life much better – Chicago Tribune | Eric Zorn: Keywords: RSS CSS Basics – Making Cascading Style Sheets Easy to Understand: Keywords: css, design, reference, web, webdesign

Everything Web 2.0

Christian Mayaud at Sacred Cow Dung has posted the longest list of Web 2.0 companies I’ve seen yet. EvolvePoint and FeedCraft are both listed. At what point will every company be Web 2.0 and we can start with a new term?

SXSW: Sink or swim, the five most important startup decisions

Consisting of some big names in web and software startups, this panel was mainly interesting due to these headliners. On the panel were Evan Williams (CEO of Odeo), Joshua Schachter (creator of del.icio.us), Joel Spolsky (CEO of Fog Creek Software), Michael Lopp (Sr Engineering Mgr at Apple), and Cabel Sasser (co-founder of Panic). There wasn’t […]

Today's links for 3-17-06

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Tom Markiewicz on 2006-03-17 Revver: share and make money off your videos Keywords: hosting, sharing, video Startup strategy and tactics for entrepreneurs and small business owners: large amount of startup resources nicely categorized Keywords: entrepreneurship, startups

SXSW: Starting Small, Web Business for the Rest of Us

This panel was primarily about becoming a freelance design professional or starting a small consulting business. The panelists created a site to correspond with the panel at startingsmall.info. Here are the notes: – first steps for starting a small business thereâ??s a time you need to take the plunge and quit work ideally, have a […]

SXSW: Wisdom of Crowds

James Surowiecki, the author of The Wisdom of Crowds, talked about the power of large groups to make intelligent decisions. I’ve not read his book, but after his presentation I’ve added it to wish list on Amazon. Here are the notes: