Archives / Year: 2007
Alpha Time!
I have sent a link to an alpha build of Balsamiq Mockups to two of my most trusted advisors. I am so nervous, this will be the first time...
Heads Down Time
I haven't blogged in a while because I have been heads down coding coding coding...working on the client-side of Mockups, and I am really pleased with the progress I...
Books Books Books
I have been reading a lot of books in preparation for "the big jump". I thought I'd post links here for the ones that I keep going back to,...
Igor Naming Guide
I just read this excellent PDF I found while thumbing through Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality again in preparation for my meeting with the branding gurus tomorrow. It made...
balsamiq
So no-one liked WOPStudio, I was never really in love with it either. Plus someone pointed out that WOP doesn't really have very good connotations, given that I'm Italian...
The Web Has Come a Long Way
Before wopstudio.com, the last website I created was maybe 6 years ago. I have of course been staying in touch with technology and developments in web applications, but I...
Welcome WopStudio
I decided on a company name today: WopStudio. Wop is for Web Office Plugins, but you don't have to remember that...just remember wopstudio, or wopstudio.com! 🙂 I like the...
My Web Office Suite
Today I registered an account with Google Apps for webofficeplugins.com (I'll register another for wopstudio.com tomorrow). So now I have a pretty complete Web Office suite for my startup:...
Web Office Plugins
Today I registered webofficeplugins.com - not a snazzy abstract Web2.0 company name, but it's descriptive and sums up nicely what I'm setting up to build, or at least the...
It’s Good to Have a Blog
Ok one last post before I go to bed. I just wanted to write down how good it feels to have a blog again. This will be my third...
Google Analytics Hooked up
When did Google buy Urchin? I must have missed that...it's been so long since I've had a website I cared about. Anyways, I set up Google Analytics for this...
Book: “Founders at Work”
I am reading Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days, a collection of interviews to founders of some pretty famous companies, and some that failed famously like Visicalc....
Starting to Look Into the Startupping Blogosphere
This reminds me of when I first looked around for parenting blogs...too much information and hard to tell what's good and what's not. Anyways, I found this wiki article...
Looking for Branding Help
I just sent this email to a few friends of mine who work in advertising (most are pretty high-up and senior). I'm sharing it here for record-keeping and because...
Website Protected
Ok I just learned about .htaccess and used it to password protect the entire site. I feel better now, I'm not ready to have people at work know what...
Ten Rules for Web Startups
I just came across this link by the founder of Blogger.com (I'll write more on him someday): ten rules for web startups It's encouraging to see other people (and...
Setting up the Server
Thanks to the awesome guys at ConnectSolutions.com Plus9 finally has a real home on the network. No more using my living room's mac-mini with a DynDNS and a flaky...