09.12.08 Posted in Entrepreneurship, Posts, Reviews, Social Media, Technology by Ryan W.
When I first heard that Yammer (the “twitter for business” startup) had won TechCrunch50, I had mixed feelings. On the one hand, I’ve been using Backpack’s Journal feature to do something similar with an agency that I do work with, and I immediately saw the value. It’s interesting to see what other developers or designers [...]
08.23.08 Posted in Posts, Reviews, Social Media, Technology by Ryan W.
I’m a big fan of the “release early, release often” philosophy, where you break your software into small chunks and release it to market as soon as you can, let people play with it and give you feedback, and iterate from there. The other common option is to build a huge release and push it [...]
06.02.08 Posted in Entrepreneurship, Posts, Reviews by Ryan W.
My wife and I are both self-employed consultants, we have several investment properties, and we each have entrepreneurial pursuits on the side. All of these endeavors have income and expenses that need to be tracked, not to mention our personal finances, which are currently being tracked with Mvelopes and Mint. I took a bunch of [...]
01.14.07 Posted in Finances, Posts, Reviews by Ryan W.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki When I was about 19, this book changed my entire outlook on money and finances. Looking back, and reading through the book now, I see a lot that I disagree with, but it sparked my thinking about how to manage money, and what financial freedom truly means. [...]
12.15.06 Posted in Posts, Reviews, Technology by Ryan W.
My wife works at Current TV. They recently had their Christmas party, and they gave a 30gb black video ipod to every employee as a little Christmas bonus. Fortunately, I had just bought my wife a green nano a couple months ago, so she had no choice but to give me the video ipod. It’s [...]
11.22.06 Posted in Blogging, Posts, Reviews by Ryan W.
So I’ve had a huge problem with comment spam since I launched this blog. I was getting 10+ per day and climbing. I finally took the time to setup Akismet, which is a neat little service that moderates your comments and helps filter out spam. It’s a distributed service, so it compares comments posted on [...]
10.19.06 Posted in Finances, Posts, Reviews by Ryan W.
Early last month, I started using a service called mvelopes.com. This is a personal finance and budgeting program that you would use instead of MS Money or Quicken. I had tried both Money and Quicken with very mixed results. I found them to be bloated, buggy, and trying to do too much and failing to [...]