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18 Apr 2006

Burn an ISO image to a disk from the OSX command line: hdiutil burn yourimage.iso

Mini icons are nice. Pointers to GPL, CC, and license-free icons.

Entrepreneurs selling a company should watch out for tricks a buyer may use to reduce the price. Some unethical investors may try the same sort of things.

There’s lots of talk and thinking about tagging recently.

Finally some numbers of the size of the citizen’s media advertising market. 10,000% growth in podcast spending over the next four years is quite a prediction.

Jeff Jarvis wants an open ad marketplace to eliminate all friction from the ad buying process. Chas Edwards says that friction is a benefit, not a problem with ad buying. I think there’s room for both.

Cool OSX Apps is a blog with semi-regular pointers to... cool OSX apps. Heartscripts is the same idea, but for PHP apps.

The idea of pushing session management to the client using Ajax and some RESTful concepts is interesting. A demo would probably help me understand it better.

The Zend Framework has a nifty new site.

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Lighten Your Process Burden
Dec 7: Everyone hates oppressive processes, but somehow we keep managing to create them.
Product Add-Ons Are An Expansion Myth
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Protecting your Product Soul when the Same Product meets New People.
Nov 23: Expand into new markets while preserving your product’s core value. Discover how to adapt and grow without losing your product’s soul.
Building the Next Big Thing: A Framework for Your Second Product
Nov 19: You need a first product sooner than you think. Here's a framework for helping you identify a winner.
A Framework for Scaling product teams
Oct 9: The people, processes, and systems that make up a product organization change radically as you go through the stages of a company. This framework will guide that scaling.
My Networked Webcam Setup
Sep 25: A writeup of my network-powered conference call camera setup.

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