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  • It is very risky and unreliable to build a business around API of another site. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/29/totlol-youtube/
    by harryb, 11:13 am | December 30, 2009


  • Batteries are the perfect gift one of the birthday invitees can pickup. Most toys you get fir your kids birthday are battery operated. You never have batteries in stock so u have to wait a few days till you buy a few to run the toy. And batteries almost cost 30% of the toys price. So I have decided to gift batteries going forward.
    by harryb, 11:00 am | December 27, 2009


  • Fotobook plugin for wordpress has some lightbox issues. If not installed right, pictures open in a new window. To get lightbox effect working for wordpress fotobook plugin, Step1: chmod 777 style.css under fotobook/styles/lightbox/style.css directory Step2: Download and activate the "shutter reloaded" plugin from here http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shutter-reloaded/
    by harryb, 6:36 pm | December 26, 2009


  • Giving up on idea is not the solution. You must survive the dip and disappointments. Tweak and re-invent. Example: wikipedia
    by harryb, 6:35 am | December 21, 2009


  • There is always such a gap between \"how well you think your idea will work and how users respond to it\". The founder is usually in la la land or the execution is not right
    by harryb, 6:29 am | December 21, 2009


  • Never signup for services where they ask for credit card information for a free trial. It is almost impossible to cancel.
    by harryb, 9:24 am | December 20, 2009


  • iPhone lets developers manipulate the release date anytime a change is made in the app description text or pricing. You can change the release date to appear at the top in "New Released App".
    by harryb, 6:32 am | December 16, 2009


  • Eat lunch when the food is served
    by harryb, 12:10 am | December 16, 2009


  • Ignorance is bad. Naivity is good
    by harryb, 12:04 am | December 16, 2009


  • "Most start-ups fail not because of their technology, but because they created products that no one needed" Eric, Ries #lbl test the need for the product and get user feedback before investing lot of time and money.
    by harryb, 6:12 pm | November 28, 2009


  • When buying a used car that has 70k miles, make sure the timing belt is changed. If the timing belt is not changed it will eventually cost you the engine.
    by harryb, 1:11 pm | November 26, 2009


  • A product is like a pregnancy; no matter how many people you throw at it, it still takes 9 months. - #lbl from Dave Sifry (Technorati)
    by harryb, 5:48 am | November 25, 2009


  • is technically the HTML5 doctype declaration, but the beautiful thing is that it forces everything back to IE6 into standards mode, and will remain valid for a long, long time. Don't believe us? Check out the declaration for Apple, Google Source: http://www.zurb.com/article/282/doctypes-for-designers
    by harryb, 5:47 am | November 25, 2009


  • If you're planning beyond 6 months, you're just guessing. Ideal time for planning features is 3-6 months. Going further than 6 months you become inflexible to changes in the marketplace.
    by harryb, 5:46 am | November 25, 2009

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