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Kevin Rose: How to Promote Your Web App

27. June 2009

1611Comments2009-06-27+08%3A04%3A14Kevin+Rose

In this 11-minute interview we ask Kevin Rose, founder of digg and WeFollow five questions about web entrepreneurship. In case you don’t have time to watch the interview, we’ve summarized Kevin’s answers below. Feel free to share your answers to these questions in the comments below. We’d love to hear your perspective. What advice can you give [...]

Don’t Let Your Baby Die - How to use Social Capital to Market Your Web App

16. June 2009

1562Comments2009-06-16+12%3A57%3A05Ryan+Carson

Don’t Let Your Baby Die - How to use Social Capital to Market Your Web App

There’s a worryingly high web app mortality rate right now. I think the primary cause is the lack of marketing knowledge and how to apply it to web apps. I spoke at FOWA Tour Leeds on this subject so I’m going to summarize the major points below for you. You can also watch the complete video [...]

Launch a Business, Not a Side Project

17. May 2009

1488CommentsLaunch+a+Business%2C+Not+a+Side+Project2009-05-18+04%3A43%3A08Ryan+Carson

I think we have a serious problem in our industry. I believe it generally started when Basecamp became quite successful and 37signals started to talk about their theories on the subject. Their basic mantra was “Don’t quit your day job to build a web app. Build it in your free time and use your day job [...]

How to build mobile widgets

10. April 2009

1178CommentsHow+to+build+mobile+widgets2009-04-10+21%3A46%3A21Ryan+Carson

If you’re a web developer or designer, there’s a really exciting development happening right now called ‘mobile widgets’. Carsonified is working with Betavine to spread the word about mobile widgets, so we recently spent four days building one in order to see how hard or easy they are to build. The result was Twiggy, a [...]

Atlas: Under the Hood

28. February 2009

979CommentsAtlas%3A+Under+the+Hood2009-02-28+21%3A02%3A52Francisco+Tolmasky

At 280 North we’ve been working on a framework called Cappuccino for creating what we like to call desktop class applications. These are not your average web sites, but instead a new breed of web application that aims to replace many of the programs that currently run on your desktop. When we launched 280 Slides, [...]

20 Steps to Better Wireframing

18. February 2009

941Comments20+Steps+to+Better+Wireframing2009-02-18+12%3A32%3A50Clive+Howard

Possibly the biggest mistake in any development project is failure to plan. Recently, the owner of a prospective start-up told me that planning was unnecessary and a good developer could just start coding. This, I promise you, will end in tears. Wireframing is one of the first steps in your planning process and arguably it’s one [...]

Web Development is Moving On - Are you?

5. February 2009

793Comments2009-02-05+10%3A52%3A17Christian+Heilmann

It is quite interesting to see how web development turned from a niche for brochure-ware and intranets to one of the biggest software development environments in the market over just a few years. “The web as the platform” is a hollow dream no longer ‐ you can now run and develop a web application without [...]

How to Create an RSS-Enabled, Micro-Blog with Twitter

20. January 2009

780Comments2009-01-20+19%3A59%3A33Ryan+Carson

Have you ever wanted to create a simple multi-person blog, but didn’t want to bother setting up an entire WordPress installation? If so then we’ve got just the answer. By combining Twitter Search, Atom feeds, hash-tags and PHP, you can create an RSS-enabled, micro-blog using Twitter and be up and running in less than 10 [...]

I Can Haz Community?

5. January 2009

367CommentsI+Can+Haz+Community%3F2009-01-05+15%3A21%3A12Ben+Huh

Ben Huh from I Can Has Cheeseburger gives you 15 top tips on how to take your community to the next level, one user at a time. 1. Convert Casual Users into Fans The number one rule of creating a great community is to enable people to share the positive experience that they’ve had on [...]

Add Undo and Redo to Your Web Application With Cappuccino

13. November 2008

27Comments2008-11-13+17%3A32%3A17Francisco+Tolmasky

Undo and redo are two of the most essential features in any real rich application experience. In many cases, your user has already turned these commands into reflexes, automatically hitting the proper keys and expecting the right thing to happen. Unfortunately, this is often left unimplemented by developers when making the transition from the desktop [...]

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