Author Archives: scarle

I should write here more often!

Or maybe not, maybe what I write elsewhere should more easily be published here…

Looking for a few bright minds at Praized

As Twitted earlier today :
We will need to increase the Praized crew soon! Front and back end web developers, ops/sysadmin, community manager, ping me for more info!
You can find info on how to contact me on my contact page (how convenient)!
Will post more on Praized job page soon, thinking about using Standout Jobs to see [...]

My Google Shared items feed is my output

Having too much stuff to do and not enough time to write makes my Google Shared Items feed the main output I have these days… I even annotate most entries, tumblog style… It should be rewired in this blog soon (I do believe your blog is your network) but until then if you want to [...]

Where 2.0 is where I am @

I will be in the valley all week, kicking it off with Where 2.0 in Burlingame. If you have cool places to recommend around here, vote for them and tag them where20 at www.where2places.com.

Praized Media now in CrunchBase

Don’t know who I should thank for that, but it’s nice to stumble upon it!

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CrunchBase Information

Praized Media

Website:
praizedmedia.com

Location:
Canada

Funding:
$1M

Praized Media is a yet-to-launch startup working on a web-based application that will enable users to find and discover local places and merchants with help from people you can trust. Its tagline is �??where local meets social.�?� It also [...]

At the Grove on Fillmore

+praized!

Easier in smaller chunks

Another (really) good reason to twitter in french (or blog C'est selon):

Twitter-like microblogging seems a nice granularity for following thoughts expressed in languages you donâ??t speak (…) I realised this: twitter posts in a foreign language are easier to follow than either full blog posts, email threads or realtime IM/IRC chat. [...]

Going thru this too bad goo…

Bad stuff. As described by I never knew » Blog Archive » Hack Update
Not like I have a lot of time to deal with that shit. And It’s even worse than it appears.
Calisse, as we say around here!

Building a startup is like white water kayaking…

This quote just nails it, this is *exactly* how I feel these days, startupping Praized :

our job is to respond as quickly and effectively as you can to dynamic change in any given moment.

Twitted about this a while ago…
[via The Myth of the Startup Miracle « FoundRead]

Software is just Math

Thinking further about this, here is perhaps the deep reason why in the end, software is beyond the field of application of standards organizations. This reason is that software is actually “just” mathematics. That was not obvious in the first decades of the computer industry, but it is becoming a concrete reality. Publishing the source [...]