Peldi Guilizzoni's Profitable, in 3 weeks! goes into great detail about how, after just launching his one-man software company Balsamiq, he's already broken.

Adam Howell July 16, 2008

Lessons of YCombinator: Things I'd do differently after 2 startups is a good writeup by the founder of RescueTime about what he's done right and wrong, like "we didn’t get distracted", "we launched" and "we were different".

Adam Howell July 15, 2008

Paul Boag, host of the popular web focussed podcast Boag World has recently released the first chapter of his upcoming book, "The website owners manual", as a free downloadable PDF.

The book is aimed at website managers and tells them everything they need to know about running a successful website. It also acts as the perfect guide for web designers on how to educate and communicate effectively with clients so that they clearly understand their role in the project.

Buying the book now also allows you early access to new chapters as they are written as well as receiving a full copy of the book when published. You can also interact with the author to ask questions, provide feedback and shape the final manuscript on the author forum.

Full details are available at http://www.boagworld.com/websiteownersmanual/

Keir Whitaker July 10, 2008

If you work on the web you most likely treat yourself to a well designed t-shirt every now and again. I know I do. That's why I've been enjoying Rumplo lately, it's a great way to quickly browse for fantastic new tees, like this one or this one.

Adam Howell July 8, 2008

Don't quit your day job is a nice piece from Forbes about successful, profitable businesses started by people on the side when they still had full-time jobs.

Adam Howell July 3, 2008

We have reached the final day of Matt Week, ahhhhhhhhh! The Carsonified office is buzzing with excitement. The aim of the day is to launch Matt by 5.30pm. Pre-launch drinks are starting at 5.00pm, hooray I think we all need a beer! I asked Keir if he thought Matt would be up and running by 5.30pm and was very confident it would be. Although when I asked Elliott he said "I'll tell you at 5.30".

Mike who has been glued to his chair all week, said things were going really well! But it is midday so anything could happen between now and 5.30pm. Tune into Matt at 5.30pm to see if we have done it.

Mean while Matts PR team have created a buzz over the waves with people twittering about Matt and also blogging. Ryan has got an interview with the local paper tomorrow, to tell his experince of this past week! We have also got onto Digg, with the awesome time lapse video :)

The tension is too much will we do it, I hope so!

Until 5.30pm - The Carsonified Team

Ryan Carson July 3, 2008

Where has this week gone, eek!! We have hit the end of day three already. I must admit the atmosphere in the office today has been a lot less jokey and a bit more tense as everyone is working away like busy beavers.

Keir and Elliott were behind schedule from yesterday, but their aim for today was to create a live working dev version of Matt. How did they get with this huge task? They had not quite got there, but were very close. Keir was pleased at the progress and said "We have completed the functionality, intergrating templates and are now looking into schedule's for tweeting". When asked the struggles of the day keir replied, "form intergration were a problem due to the lack of Django knowledge". So it seemed a day of getting there heads down had paid off, welldone guys.

Mike was also a bit behind from yesterday, his task of the day was to produce finished templates for the site, and web app templates in HTML. Mike had actually almost achieved this and was very pleased with the results, which is fantastic. The biggest hold back for him was the lack of time to be creative with the whole project.

Matts PR team had made great progress with the local press getting them involved. Ryan is going to writing about this experince for TechCrunch tomorrow. A few peeps will be joining us for the launch. Brilliant!

All in all a very busy day, but the progress is great, after yesterdays set backs we have caughtup and it looks like Matt could launch on time, fingers and toes crossed.

Until tomorrow - The Carsonified team

Ryan Carson July 2, 2008

I missed this the first time around but The paper version of the web is a great collection of early UI sketches from Twitter, Vimeo, Flickr and more.

Adam Howell July 2, 2008