This is not your typical rags to riches story, but an interesting rant from Jason Calacanis over at calacanis.com about what people did before they hit the A-List in blogging.
Strategy Before Tactics
If you have no defined strategy then what ever tactics you employ probably won’t meet your goals. How many of us in the information security business bought a product, tool, policy or process from a company because we needed to meet a legal requirement, a passing interest in a neat new toy, or a recommendation from a group or consultant without really visualizing how it will fit into our strategic and tactical goals for the company?
Get That Site Back Up Before It’s Delisted
If you’re site goes down for whatever reason, get it back up quickly or risk being de-listed from Google’s index.
Though it has been thought there may be somewhat of a grace period, it now seems robots only notice what’s there when they arrive.
Before You Send Stuff to Bloggers…
Karl over at ExperienceCurve posted an interesting question for bloggers yesterday about how you would react to getting free products as a blogger and what sense of obligation you might feel. Nokia is experimenting with this, and just about every consumer products brand I work with is considering it and trying to find the right way to do it as well.
Zune Phone Confirmed, Could Launch Before iPhone
Last week, Engadget reported that sources close to Microsoft had passed along information about a Zune-based competitor to Apple’s iPhone. Following up on those reports, CrunchGear goes on to say today that the Zune phone is not just a rumor and is confirmed for a 2007 release.
FMS: Pending Clients Before Accepting a Connection
I’m currently working on a video chat app using Flash Media Server and Flex. This will be version 2 of my Ameegos.com excercise and this time I want to add real scalability to the app.
Watch Your Steps Before Upgrading to WordPress 2.1
I ran into issues while trying to upgrade a Wordpress 2.0.7 installation to the new Wordpress 2.1 release.
Thinking Before Blogging
As more and more people discover the joy of keeping a blog on a global Web that zillions of anonymous surfers can peruse, it’s probably a good thing to think about the approach to what you’re writing about before launching it out into cyberspace.
What You Should Check Before Buying Wireless Equipment
When you buy wireless equipment, you want to make sure that everything you buy will work in your house with the computer(s) you already have and over the distances required.
Get Your Marketing Right Before SEO
One of the interesting and sometimes challenging things about working in the search marketing business is dealing with the amount of mis-information and lack of understanding about SEO and marketing in general.