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Another example for the simple how-to videos to help regular people to get to understanding how-to quickly. The quicker you can get the concepts and use across with solid understanding conveyed the greater the adoption and the more use takes place.

Okay, this was fun and found people I only thought were in my del.icio.us network (which I only follow as a feed and set of feeds)

I am really loving the Paul Graham essay on developers working for large companies and the disadvantaged position this puts good developers. I have seen this quite a bit on goverment contracts when great developers on small nible teams get swamped by a team or project that has grown too big. Most of my government work was working on or managing smallish teams that I protected enough to let them shine, but few large organizations allow for this. Most large organizations I know only damage their developers by forcing unproductive environments upon them.

I have had a few chats with people in the past few weeks about the impact of Wall Street downturn on VC funding. This is the first mainstream press article I have seen. Many VCs are sitting on solid funds that are cash based and looking for their solid investments as a way around Wall Street softness.

Investment firms look for liquidity action in 3 to 5 years, which should mean now is a great time to invest to reap rewards in 3 to 5 years. The markets may return quickly, or over a longer period, depending if we are at the beginning of a long slide or short-term. Either way investing now in preparation for an organization’s slow growth and smart maturation should be a great investment now for peaking in approximately 5 years. Look at services like Google, Flickr, and SixApart that weathered the last downturn or started in the void to become stong services and companies when the economy returned.

this clever interface made my day