Category Archives: Projects

• Activenotes alpha release

  Posted on January 30, 2010 by Ben S. in ActiveNotes, Projects, Startup Journal

  So I’m working on a new project at activenotes.com. I hope to iterate through this fairly quickly and get a useful application. The idea is to keep track of the ever expanding media stream and allow you to cut through data overload.

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• Hibernate Search

  Posted on September 24, 2007 by Ben S. in Java, Projects, SaaS

  This sounds like a great way to seamlessly integrate a database model with full text search. Based on Apache Lucene, Hibernate Search focuses on ease of use and ease of configuration, lowering the barrier to entry of Lucene and its integration with a domain model. Seamless integration with the Hibernate and Java Persistence query model: [...]

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• Don’t fall in love with your ideas

  Posted on September 11, 2007 by Ben S. in Projects, Startup Journal

  Some chestnuts from an old Paul Graham about people tend to hold onto our bad ideas and why management will “dead march” crappy projects… Part of the problem is that big projects tend to grow out of small ones. You set up a still life to make a quick sketch when you have a spare [...]

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• Successful projects – “Just do it”

  Posted on August 2, 2007 by Ben S. in Business, Projects, Startup Journal

  “We made mistakes, of course. Most of them were omissions we didn’t think of when we initially wrote the software. We fixed them by doing it over and over, again and again. We do the same today. While our competitors are still sucking their thumbs trying to make the design perfect, we’re already on prototype [...]

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• Social Media Optimization (SMO) vs. Social Media Marketing (SMM)

  Posted on January 3, 2007 by Ben S. in Projects

  PostBubble has some new acronyms to start off your new year! SMO refers to the process of refining a website (optimizing it) so that it’s awareness and content are easily spread through social mediums and online communities by users and visitors of the website. This can include anything done “on-page” such as improving the design [...]

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• Web 2.0 Apps for Investment

  Posted on December 9, 2006 by Ben S. in Business, Projects

  Some interesting links found at Your Credit Advisor: The name BullPoo itself is enough to warrant a look at this investment community where you can “share and collaborate on investment information.” DigStock is a Digg-like list of stock market + investing articles. Members submit a synopsis of an article from elsewhere (with the URL) and [...]

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• Yahoo Updates Bookmarks App

  Posted on October 25, 2006 by Ben S. in KeepTabs, Projects, Startup Journal, Web Design

  Yahoo is unveiling an entirely new Bookmarks product this evening at new.bookmarks.yahoo.com – new interface, new back-end, the works. A screencast created by Yahoo developer Tom Chi is here which gives an excellent overview of the service (Chi also created the background music for the screencast). Compare that to the existing Bookmarks product (screenshot is [...]

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• Another todo list app

  Posted on June 22, 2006 by Ben S. in Projects, SaaS

  Toodled is another web-based to-do list. You can organize your tasks into different folders or projects. For example, you could have a folder for work related tasks, one for home projects and another for your hobby. You can have unlimited tasks and unlimited folders. You can easily share your to-do lists with coworkers, friends, family [...]

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• focus on the user experience

  Posted on May 16, 2006 by Ben S. in Projects, Sucks, Web Design

  Some good tips on making the user experience the focus of your development. always asking the question, “how does this help the user kick ass?” Speak for real users… not fake abstract “profiles”

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• Ning – Create and share your own social web apps!

  Posted on April 21, 2006 by Mendy G. in Business, Projects, SaaS

  Ning – Create and share your own social web apps! Ning is the new free and easy way for you to create your own Social Web Apps – so let the fun begin!

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