With up to 20 people on a single project, spanning design, programming, SEO and content, notifying everyone is a nightmare.
Focus in Business Means Leaving Money on the Table: Apple
Apple stay focused and are the second largest company in the world, leaving long time rivals at Microsoft and new rivals at Google in their dust.
Neo-Taylorism vs Toyota Production System vs Human Relations Movement for Knowledge Work
What’s cool about business theory is that it’s all been invented before. Here’s a practical rundown on Scientific Management for knowledge work.
Memory | SSD Reliability: whom to buy and whom to avoid
If you don’t like downtime and hassle, avoid OWC and OCZ at all costs. Storage is an area where failure is particularly taxing of time and energy.
Google Chromium Binaries: Here’s where Google hide the nightly builds of Chrome without the spyware
For some unaccountable reason, the URL 404’s now (don’t Google know about 301 redirects?) – here’s the new working nightly build link.
Linked In will spam you to death: they never release email addresses
LinkedIn claim a bug in their system which is not releasing email addresses that were entered at one time and later removed.
Ten steps to build a great mobile version of your website
As mobile devices get better, more visitors are using smart phones to surf. Here’s a step by step guide to quickly create a great mobile site.
WP e-Commerce 3.8 Review: Why WP eComm code is still broken
Takeaway for shopping site developers: Stay away from WP e-Commerce if you value your time, your reputation and your sanity.
Drupal vs Joomla vs WordPress: Developer’s Perspective
Drupal can be justified for enormous projects, Joomla should die a violent death, WordPress is great for any kind of site small or large. Here’s why.
Link Building: The Role of SEO in a Website’s Long Term Success
SEO is just an integer factor in the long term success of a site. The real exponential multiplier is the merit of the site itself.
Distilled-SEOmoz Link Building Seminar London March 18 2011
Here’s a preview of the pictures from the Distilled SEOmoz Link Building Seminar in London yesterday. Out of order as I’m just off to catch my plane Now in order and with better captions. Thanks for a wonderful seminar, Will, Duncan, Lynsey and everyone. Here are the photos with captions. I’ve written a separate more […]
Web server backups: DIY or Die by the hand of your webhost
Why you should never trust your webhost with backups. And what to do instead.
Highrise Tags Export: Docs out of date in their own Help system
Keeping out of date and inaccurate information in your help documents is just wrong. Case in point: 37signals Highrise export.
Google Search Settings won’t stick in Safari or OmniWeb: turn off Instant!
Google wins our Microsoft embrace, extend, extinguish award of the month for their attack on Safari and other webkit browsers.
Apple Mail: Getting rid of multiple draft messages in IMAP
Having trouble with draft messages proliferating like rabbits in IMAP in Apple Mail? Here’s the solution.
Apple’s Privacy Policies look more and more like Microsoft
How to protect your privacy when using an Apple computer. The distance between Steve Jobs’s talk about privacy and Apple’s walk. Baked-in privacy invasion.
Feedback/team building tool: Rypple
How should you get feedback from your employees. It depends on organisation size. Small groups: just ask. Larger: have a look at Rypple.
bcToolkit vs Freshbooks for Basecamp reporting: nod to Freshbooks for reports plus invoicing
Should you use bcToolkit? How important is reporting. Are there any more affordable alternatives to bcToolkit?
Why we don’t want VC: How seeking funding can destroy your business and your life
Rand Fishkin’s three months in VC hell in 2009 and how he woke up out of the nightmare and made SEOmoz profitable instead. Goal: build a better world.
37signals suite review: Is it worth upgrading? First fix the suite integration and syncing guys…
Is it worth upgrading to the 37signals suite from Basecamp? Really, it depends how much sync you need and how much integration you want.
