We made some tweaks to our website, especially the header and navigation. This is the first step in a series of changes we'll be rolling out. As with every website redesign, there's always a risk that some error went unnoticed by us, so if you come across anything that looks odd or broken, please let us know.
This is a little off-topic for this blog, but judging from the comments of Proto downloaders and users, a lot of you are interested in startups in general. Marc Andreessen (the Netscape+Loudcloud/Opsware+Ning guy) has been doing an incredible series of posts about startups on his blog. Here's the series so far, collected for your convenience:
“Spreadsheets … used improperly or incorrectly, or without sufficient control, pose a greater threat to your business than almost anything you can imagine.”
Interesting article on Reg Braithwaite's blog about software development. Here's a quote:
Theory P adherents believe that software can only partially be designed in advance. They believe that requirements suffer from observation, that the act of building software causes the requirements to change.
Using the GoogleFinance function in a Google Spreadsheet, you can have automatically-updated financial data from Google finance in your spreadsheet.
This week, I'm headed out to Mashup Camp in beautiful Mountain View, CA (more accurately known as Hangar View). If you're going to be there, let me know.
One of the most interesting demos at mashup camp was IBM's DAMIA.
I'm on the plane now (after my five hour ground delay at Mineta) thinking about Mashup Camp and my main takeaway is that I'm still a big buyer of the Unconference format. It's even more striking given that the last conference I went to was Enterprise 2.0. It does seem to lead to higher-quality discussions and a general better use of time.
