Flagged Articles #12

Wow - an entry on the flagged theme actually appears when it’s supposed to…

Anyhow, here’s my links of interest for the week ending March 11^th, 2006…

• Simplicity and Invisibility - Matt McCall
  More VC blogging goodness. Someone ought to aggregate the best of the VC blogging goodness and put out a book, or a website. Or maybe a ChangeThis doc.
• calcoolate.com: The Coolest Online Calculator
  Very useful, totally ajaxy calculator.
• Crazy Egg is Crazy Delicious! - Mashable
  Cool web stats site. I wonder what sort of bandwidth impact it has?
• DabbleDB: Online App Building For Everyone - Techcrunch
  Looks like a really interesting app - build your own. I think they could have a great model here by platformizing (did I just invent that word?) and shipping it…
• A Glass of Milk - Matt McCall
  A VC on the benefits of Karma. Be sure to read the anecdote at the end.
• ETech 2006 Trip Report: Scaling Fast and Cheap - How We Built Flickr - Dare Obasanjo
  Dare’s notes from an ETech tutorial where Flickr discussed scaling a web service.
• Entrepreneurial Proverbs - Marc Hedlund
  Rules to print out and stick to the wall…
• The Hacker’s Diet - John Walker
  The founder of AutoDesk talks about how he approached his weight problem from an engineering standpoint and found a solution (via Chris Pirillo).
• ETech Day 1: From Coder to Co-Founder - Robert Kaye
  More good advice.
• Why Looking for Venture Capital is Like Picking Up Girls - Greg Costik
  Sage words of metaphorical goodness from Greg.
• Curve Ball - Matt from AllPeers
  Being an emacs user, I particularly liked the graph depicting it’s learning curve…
• The Soul of a New Company - Jeff Bussgang
  Other than the fact that this riffs on the title of one of my favourite books “The Soul of a New Machine”, this is a cool post about the need to define ‘who you are’.
• Every time you add something you take something away -37signals
  The trade off between feature richness and usability. Deep can also mean key features go unused and unnoticed.

As always, not necessarily the most interesting stuff this week, but I flagged them for some reason…