When it comes to building social sites listening to users is a bad idea.    The ones that want something the most are usually fringe users who want something very specific.    For instance on my site there are 900,000 dailly users  of which 2,000 use the forums.    Of those 2000 users who use the forums less than [...]

Florida State safety Myron Rolle will risk missing all or part of a game against Maryland in order to be interviewed for the Rhodes Scholarship.

Don’t waste your time and money advertising on social networking sites. People just aren’t receptive to it. Social media ads suffer from extremely low click through rates and just disrupt the flow of social media users. It’s true that there are positives of social media advertising but I think the negatives outweigh them. Positives of [...]

We’re doing a bit of load testing on an upcoming feature for Socialbrowse and I thought I’d write about two tools I’ve found to be incredibly helpful and easy to use. HTTP_LOAD The first is http_load.  With http_load you can send many requests at a time to load test your server in just a single process [...]

Is Barack Obama considering Hillary Clinton for secretary of state in order to get her off his back or as a prelude to protecting her back?

What could be more basic and functionally unchanging as a sink? To demonstrate the danger in this assumption, here is a look at how sink designers are abandoning the generic, water-intensive styles of old in favor of new designs heavily influenced by the natural world, technological innovation and the desire to conserve water. Here are [...]

A managed bankruptcy may be the only path to the fundamental restructuring the auto industry needs.

A team of ex-Googlers, with backing from Y Combinator, the Friendfeed founders and others, have created what might be both the ugliest and most useful group productivity app we've seen. Etherpad, a new product from Appjet, launches this morning, and you must try it out. It's comparable to Google Docs or a wiki, but it's far more useful. You start off by creating a new workspace. You type basic text on numbered lines at will. Then invite someone else in and have them type as well. Each user's edits are highlighted a different color. Changes are ...

Many former Google employees, now entrepreneurs, have tapped into a network of affluent and technically skilled investors — their former co-workers.