Business ideas. . .
Dave Winer seems to be a never ending fountain of ideas about new businesses which can change the world. Today he writes about a talk he gave Wednesday night to the 106 miles group (an informal entrepreneurial bunch in Silicon Valley). Dave promotes applications that create conversations and I whole heartedly agree we need as many of those as we can get.
For those who don't know, the name 106 miles comes from the Blues Brothers movie, on of my all-time favorites
Elwood: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.
Jake: Hit it.
Links:
http://scripting.wordpress.com/2006/03/10/scripting-news-for-3102006/
http://106miles.blogspot.com/
http://www.106miles.org/
Busy Developer's Guides. . .
Guess I'm on a Dave Winer kick today. . .
Dave recently posted http://scripting.wordpress.com/2006/03/08/a-busy-developers-guide-to-rss-20/ at scripting dot wordpress dot com his idea that what the world needs is a "busy developers guide" to various things, in Dave's case, it was RSS 2.0.
I couldn't agree more. One of the things that I've seen over the thirty plus years I've been in the personal computer business is that the number and complexity of APIs that are necessary to produce even a simplistic application seems to grow exponentially. In 1977, all the documentation in the world about CP/M was in the form of 3 xeroxed manuals not more than half an inch thick when taken all together.
So anything which gives a developer an overview and some simple steps to follow is like an warm fire in the vast arctic of the contemporary API world.
Podcast of the day. . .
The www.ArtistLaunch.com podcasts
ArtistLaunch.com is a site where independent musicians can post their songs and people actually listen.
I have a small selection there under my musical pseudonym, The Hexagon, http://www.artistlaunch.com/thehexagon , and now there are a series of podcasts available via the main ArtistLaunch website at artistlaunch dot com.
Manic Minute Recommendation: Listen, you'll like it!
And that's your Manic Minute for March 10th, 2006, brought to you by Business-Podcasting.com!
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