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• 08.02.08
  We just got promoted to a new office! News, start-up | (4)

  Secondbrain shares office with my previous company, Making Waves. Both companies are growing, and finding a good workplace for my team has been a challenge. But today, we our new office was ready. The past six weeks we've used the company cafeteria as our office. We didn't complain because we had easy access to the coffee machine and the staff treated us with special made Vietnamese breakfast rolls if we behaved properly. The construction workers finally finished the new office section, and Johan (in the picture below) and I moved in there today. Finally, we got proper chairs and proper desks. ...
• 05.22.08
  More Great Additions to Your Favorite Content Library development, start-up | (1)

  The excitement here at Secondbrain central is building as we add more services and features heading into the Beta 2.0 release. Our MacBook Air contest is going well, and users are enthusiastically adding great content every day. Just so you know, there is still time to compete for these fantastic prizes, so hurry-sign up - and add to your collections and friends. In the upcoming weeks we expect everything Secondbrain to be enhanced greatly. We will obviously add the most popular services out there via RSS and API and here are some of the services and features our users can expect ...
• 10.02.07
  Second Brain Beta Preview Released start-up | (2)

  We just deployed the Beta Preview release of Second Brain to secondbrain.com. This means that we have officially transitioned to the new platform. - Share your public content history on your personal profile page- Get your personal url to share with other people (example: http://secondbrain.com/noplay)- Synchronize services automatically- Create smart collections that update automatically based on your tags- Create collections of content directly from your library- See rich previews of content inside your library- Comment and rate other people's collections- Add other peoples public collections as favorites Go to secondbrain.com to give it a try. Use the same nickname and password as ...
• 09.14.07
  The time for smart aggregators start-up | (0)

  There has been lots of talk about aggregators and lifestreaming lately. And today, Om Malik writes about it in GigaOm in a post where he describes the aggregators as an approach to vertical search. The explosion of content on the Internet is making searching for information difficult once again. It is one of the reason we are seeing a sharp increase in the number of companies — vertical search engines and wiki-based collaborations, for example — that want to help us find the information for which we’re looking.But the biggest aggregators, like Wikipedia, still get more than half of their traffic from Google.These traffic ...
• 06.20.07
  Why do a start-up advice, start-up | (0)

  Marc Andreessen - yes the Netscape guy - wrote a great post about why not to do a start-up. Like many other references to this post I also find this an excellent description of start-up life. Even though I am starting my company within the corporate systems of my previous company (Making Waves), and don't have to deal with the basic challenges of corporate routines and culture, his thoughts really resonate with my own reflections - especially the emotional roller-coaster part of it. However, I do think the reasons to do a start-up outweigh the reasons not to do it. Thank ...
• 01.22.07
  Ready, Set Go/No Go development, start-up | (0)

  So we are approaching the time when we are going into Private Beta release mode. Actually, on this Friday, the 26th of January - we should have our first Private Beta deployed on the server. Our state of readiness is a matter of definition and expectations, but a working version of the application is a must. Most of our development is on track, but the last few days are always critical. So I started thinking about the criteria for a Beta release. Was is a Private Beta, what is a Public Beta, and what are the minimum requirements for such releases? I found this great post at ...
• 11.01.06
  The ALPHA Presentation development, start-up, technology | (0)

  It's been a long time since I posted anything, but it is not because it has been quiet around here. I will try to do summarize the past two months in a few separate posts. The last post I did was on finishing the ALPHA for our September deadline. It was a hectic time, and we worked very hard. The goal was to present it to the management of Making Waves the next day (who provide the seed money for the Second Brain project). It didn't go exactly as planned: I was of course a little unprepared for the presentation since I ...
• 09.28.06
  Crunch time for the Second Brain Team development, start-up | (0)

  You should hear the office right now. It is 4 PM and It is buzzing with life. The deadline is in two hours. Seven people are doing all they can to finish the ALPHA on time. They have all been working 10 -  12 hours everyday the past few weeks. 30 minutes ago - nothing was working. And hour before that, everything worked fine. It's stressful, but at the same time, this is typical of any project - almost like a standard ritual we have to go through in order to get our creative kicks. I know we can do it - ...
• 08.30.06
  Four weeks to go development, start-up | (0)

  Today marks a big milestone. We have one more month to go before the ALPHA must be ready. The team is busy right now migrating to the new database, but as soon as all the user controls are updated, we'll finish the remaining. Two big ones are waiting: the ContentManager and the MapEditor. And then there is the whole issue of CSSing the user interface. In most projects, you can play with the scope, the deadline and the resources. It is all interrelated. In this project, the deadline is fixed. The only factors we can work with is the scope, which ...
• 08.20.06
  Planning the Fall start-up, strategy | (0)

  It will be a very exiting fall. We will finish the first early version of Second Brain in September, and start testing and promoting it to people we know in and around the Making Waves network in October. Continue Reading...

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