Despite his Python guru-hood, I've noticed Phillip J Eby using PHP for his Self Improvement business. Of course, his requirements there are basically Content (CMS), E Commerce, and Virtual Community, as opposed to other custom/functional software, so leveraging existing PHP EcoSystem makes sense. (more)

LarryIrons notes some research suggesting that social interaction is needed within groups for Collaboration (Team Work) to take place. This is a big challenge for Distributed Team-s. Shared Experience, not just Shared Information, is fundamental to the social networks underlying collaboration and Community. Many, if not most, employees don’t only need to get to know one another through reputational systems, like who tags whom or rates them as possessing expertise. Comfort with one another is needed to develop a shared experience where trust increases the likelihood that needed information is shared, or that the need itself is anticipated.

EvanJacobs thinks that places like Seattle Wa who want a more vibrant Start Up EcoSystem like Silicon Valley should have city-subsidized (free) CoWorking-with-mentoring (Incubator). The only reason I didn’t make the leap to entrepreneurship earlier wasn’t the pay cut. The bigger leap was moving from a place where I was surrounded by people just like me to something that was much more isolated. I needed to land someplace that would help me learn about all of the issues surrounding startups but more importantly I needed time to think about and try different ideas... It would have open enrollment as well as a maximum length of stay to provide a sense of urgency. (Nyc Challenges)

The Startup Lessons Learned Conference is going on today: Lean Startup tribe. (more)

John Robb thinks: *Things will continue on this track until one of two things happen: things really begin to fail (complete system breakdown - Collapse); or (more)

setting the Price for your offering - key to your Revenue Model/Business Model (more)

My Archos70 has been annoying me lately where it suddenly reboots itself and then just keeps rebooting over and over. I think that forcing it to do a full shutdown, then booting it back up stops the cycle, but if I don't notice it I think it just keeps doing it forever. (more)

Dave Winer is building tools to manage his multiple sites via master OutLining. (more)

Stanislav Datskovskiy hopes to build a LoperOs Operating System around Lisp. By this time, I had come to believe that every piece of information stored on my computer should be a first-class citizen of the artificial memory... My concept of the system expanded from that of a hierarchical notebook to a complete programming system. Sounds like Steve Yegge. (more)

Google announced the first two Google Chrome OS Lap Top-s, coming from Acer and Sam Sung. The internet giant said because ChromeBook-s are not weighed down by software and applications common to most laptops, they boot up in eight seconds instead of minutes. The company said battery life on the device will last a day, security updates will be done automatically and they will be faster than traditional laptops. I rarely boot up my MacBook, since the sleep function works right. They're also offering a financed version at $28/mo. This smells like it's more for employees who rarely doing anything deep with any apps (so GoogleApps cover them fine), rather than a consumer market where games are important. Hmm, they're also offering at $20/mo for schools (Educating Kids) - that could have some uptake, though again, I want those kids using more creative tools... (more)

Andy Rubin has brought his Danger Hiptop co-founders into Android to work on peripheral hardware. Android Hardware is exploring everything from home automation to exercise gaming and robotics. (more)

Article about John Guttag's work in personalizing/automating the interpretation of Medical Monitoring data (EEG, EKG, etc.). (Personalization)

This Jenny8 Lee interview mentions the LocalWiki phenomenon. The LocalWiki site mentions the Davis Wiki for Davis Ca as their project. Oddly, the Davis Wiki site says it runs on Wiki Spot. Same people? Ah yes. (Public Wiki)

Private Wiki that stores everything in a single big file you can run locally - a One Page App (more)

OsamaBin Laden was killed. (more)

Open Source VoIP project out of SipPhone (more)

Mike Shatzkin notes 2 events from last week adjusting the Book Publishing industry structure. Amazon, which had previously established imprints for author-direct publishing and for translations of foreign works and had created a relationship with Houghton Harcourt to address their prior inability to get brick store distribution for books they owned, announced a new romance imprint called Montlake Romances. (Personally, I thought it was a bit strange that they announced it with just one book coming this Fall, rather than 10 books coming next week!) That put them squarely into the publishing business in a new way, and one could only imagine that the mystery shoe and thriller shoe and sci-fi shoe will be soon to drop... On Friday, we learned about a new business called Bookish, which will be the “new digital destination for readers.” In its announcement release, Bookish promises to use content and software tools to promote discussion and discovery around books and to answer the reader’s question: “what book should I read next?” What was most eye-catching about Bookish was its backing by three of the Big Six: Hachette, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster, who have apparently been planning this move for quite some time. (more)

Google has bought Gizmo! (more)

Bob Young is changing Lulu's Business Strategy, since declaring their current model "obsolete". He sees Lulu.com becoming a publishing platform where he will open up his printing network to make it available to everyone – printers, publishers, developers – everyone. “The world is not a threat” he asserted. He envisions Lulu.com being involved in “open publishing”.

Oy, Blue Host is complaining my MoinMoin site server has too many files (200k). * This is causing performance problems on your website as well as for other customers that are on this server. It can cause our servers to crash and cause additional downtime. Our research shows that server performance degrades when accounts have over 50,000 files. In order to ensure optimal performance for your account and the others in your shared hosting environment, we request that you reduce the number of files on your account to under 50,000 in 14 days.* What the heck am I going to do about this? (more)