June 5th, 2008 | Uncategorized |
About 2 months ago, I announced that I was no longer a corporate gnome. In that post, I mentioned that Webcraft was no longer slated to be [just?] a web development company. Two weeks later, I explained the first service offering, Digital Theatrics. I mentioned that I was sending off the first client proposal that night.
Two months later, things are on track. Of course, few things have gone exactly as planned and most things have taken twice the effort I expected. However, this week joyfully marks the beginning of the first ever Webcraft Studios Digital Theatrics campaign. I couldn’t have accomplished what I have without the support of some awesome individuals (thanks guys). The client seems excited and I think this campaign will serve their product well. This entire project is a huge experiment. I would tell you the details of the top secret campaign, but then I would be forced to kill you. We don’t want that.
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May 28th, 2008 | Mobility, The Company |
I love to travel. I want Webcraft to support a mobile work life for both myself and anyone who comes along for the ride in the future. I thought I would take a moment and blog about the value of a mobile office and some tips I’ve been learning along the way.
To me and many others, a mobile work life is freedom. I’ve spent far too many days looking out of an office window admiring the beautiful day that was passing by as I worked. A couple of weeks ago, I was working from a barstool in a little Mexican surf town called Sayulita. A couple of years ago, the town completely lacked an ATM or any medical facilities. Even then, there were several places in town to get online. While I was there, I would catch up on work in between surf sessions and delicious meals. It’s a completely different way to live life.
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April 28th, 2008 | OSS Web Dev Methodologies, The Company |
Every startup I’ve been a part of has gone through that, “what are we going to do for email?” stage. It used to be very simple. Those with the technical experience would setup a pop or imap server along with SMTP. Problem solved. However, eventually someone would need to access their e-mail via the Web so next would come a webmail application such as SquirrelMail. Maybe next, the biz types would need a calendar so along comes something like php-Calendar. But, before you know it, those biz types see a couple of folks walking around with Blackberries and they’re off to the IT department with their list of feature demands. The next thing you know, the company is sporting an exchange server and suddenly they’re locked into the Microsoft path.
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April 15th, 2008 | Digital Theatrics, The Company |
In a previous post, I mentioned a “genre of services” I would like Webcraft Studios to perform. Tonight, I’m ready to announce the first of those services. I call it Digital Theatrics.
Digital theatrics is the art of weaving a digital story in a virtual medium through social role playing. Social Role Playing is the art of impersonating a character on a social website.
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April 10th, 2008 | OSS Unfriendly Webapps, The Company |
A little while back, I posted about Citibank’s poor linux support. While Citibank had a goofy user experience that made it seem as though they were completely blocking traffic from Linux machines, there was a way to access the site and - according to user reports - the site is fully functional on Linux.
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I just got home from a two week trip. While disconnected, I had a sudden brain fart. I saw Twitter reinvented as a distributed system and provided free as open source. This morning I woke up to find the ‘Twitter Fail Whale’ in full effect. Twitter is, once again, overloaded with users. This is so common, that the Fail Whale is now a t-shirt! I believe it’s time to re-think Twitter.
