Where to host audio files on the web?
I want to do a few podcasts, and I want to be able to directly link to the mp3 files. Any ideas? Stuff that supports creative commons licensing is nice… other stuff is fine as well.
View ArticleLinkedIn Answers: a killer social app?
A few days ago, I simultaneously posted a question about source control structure to my blog and to LinkedIn Answers. My blog got one response. LinkedIn answers got, as of now, 14 extremely...
View ArticleSlideShare down due to ServePath outage
SlideShare is down and has been down for the last several hours. Our dedicated hosting provider (ServePath) is experiencing catastrophic network problems. For a while we were able to keep the site live...
View ArticleThe cloud is safer than your data center
I’ve moved jonathanboutelle.com over to the amazon computing cloud (from pair.com, where it’s been hosted for the last 5 years). It was dead easy to make a system that keeps your data in safe,...
View ArticleFirst thoughts on the Android App Store
I bought an htc incredible from Verizon today. One of my main motivations for switching (from a blackberry) was to understand whether android is a credible competitor to the iPhone. No other platforms...
View ArticleSlideShare launches freemium business model
Over the years, we’ve learned that a lot of people use slideshare for marketing their businesses. Those people have very specific feature needs: things like social analytics (who tweeted my document?)...
View ArticleJumpstarting customer traction and improving your valuation
Here’s my slides from my talk at TIECon 2010. It was a really fun crowd, and they asked a lot of really smart questions! Customer Traction View more presentations from Jonathan Boutelle.
View ArticleCloud interview on the windows azure blog
I talked to the folks who are in charge of the windows azure blog, and they were kind enough to publish it. I tried to focus on what the real benefits and challenges of cloud-based systems are...
View ArticleLEADING USING NUMBERS
WHY MICRO-MANAGING IS BAD Most adults (or even most children) _really_ don’t like being told what to do. In order to feel motivated and engaged, we need to have *agency*. Iin other words, we need to be...
View ArticleOne-question daily SCRUM
A daily standup meeting (or “SCRUM”) with the team is an important part of agile development. But done wrong, these meetings can be demotivating and can reinforce traditional command-and-control...
View ArticleSlideShare: The founders have left the building
Some news to share: Amit is moving on from SlideShare. This means all SlideShare founders have left now (Rashmi and I left several months ago). Rumor has it he’s going to be doing something high-impact...
View ArticleEx-SlideShare Mafia on 2 Continents
A fair number of startups are starting to come out of the team that made SlideShare. One interesting twist is that the team was in both New Delhi and San Francisco, so startups are popping up on two...
View ArticleDaily standups are socially naive
There’s been a lot of writing lately about how boring and awkward daily standup meetings are. There’s no doubt that they are boring and awkward. And there’s no doubt that management sometimes abuses...
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