Archive for October, 2006

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

New Design

I’m not sure how many trusted readers we have by now, but I bet there’re quite a few. Like you. You’re coming back tomorrow to read our blog, right? So you’re a trusted reader. Okay, that’s one at least.
Anyhow, as our trusted readers have noticed by now, Playing With Wire has been redesigned completely. We […]

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

The True Purpose of Google’s Secret Search Engine

SearchMash is an interesting new search engine. It turns out that it’s actually just a shell on top of Google’s search engine. It’s a pretty cool shell though. One thing you can do is to hit space repeatedly to see more and more results, without reloading. Ajax goodness. Another thing you get is image search […]

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Another Problem

We’ve been at this for about a year already so we have seen our share of problems with our business plan. It seems like every other day some new competitor shows up. They still don’t do what we plan to do but like with artillery shells it doesn’t feel good when they start hitting close. […]

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Paul Graham Writes About 18 Mistakes That Kills a Startup

Today I found an article that really caught my attention. The article was written by Paul Graham, a startup-guru(?) who has been around for while, and pretty much knows what he’s talking about.
Anyhow, this article was called the 18 mistakes that kills a startup. So, since we’re a startup, I thought that I’d analyze […]

Monday, October 16th, 2006

Why Your Site Should be Multi-platform

For a long time most websites were essentially designed for Windows users running Internet Explorer. The simple argument was, ‘well, that’s what most of our customers run.’
That simple argument is not very effective anymore. With the strong growth of the Linux and Mac platform, more and more users are surfing the web using Firefox or […]