Normally the product is defined as a web site. Most founders are fairly passionate about the features and functions of the web site, iPhone application, Facebook application, or whatever web application represents the product. What applications and web sites have you been using? I talk to a lot of founders of startups.

Fantastic post by Dion Hinchcliffe - Ten Aspects of Web 2.0 Strategy That Every CTO and CIO Should Know. Raises some interesting points, but the general theme is: just figure out ways to get it to happen

Just the kind of person I like to meet. :) But I was a bit surprised when he emphasized how hard it had been for them to find a web developer in Los Angeles. My flippant comment was, “If you do a Google search for Los Angeles web developer, you’ll find a LOT of people and firms.” He has a great concept with some complexity to it.

I went to an event by Amazon on their Amazon Web Services in Santa Monica today. The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system. The S3 system is not a transactional object system, it's for larger objects, larger updates.

One of my recent fun experiences was doing a presentation at Harvard Business School (HBS) on the implications of Web 2.0 I've somewhat fallen off the map on this blog. Been traveling and consulting with a bunch of early-stage and growth companies. Really fun stuff these days. truly developmental kind of experience.

There are 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web , in no weighted order they are: 1.) Wikipedia and About are two of the most popular sites on the web, but the majority of their traffic comes from referrals from search engines, not people going directly to their site. On the web, Content is King. Search Engines. Social Media.

Companies Throw Contests for the Holidays Written by John Jorgensen on December 6th, 2007 | Posted in Startup Christmas is finally rolling around, and we’ve noticed Web 2.0 If you’ve heard of any other holiday giveaways or contests being put on by companies in the Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 company?

Tags: Web analytics

One of the challenges of using Web analytics techniques to improve a site's performance is that Web analytics can only measure what's there - not what's missing. Both sites needed to make adjustments that put their Web sites on the path that consumers normally follow when making purchases.

But it was not until the last couple years that I updated my skills and capabilities in web development. They have a custom implementation of CPanel, so it is really easy to add a domain, install and upgrade dozens of popular free and open source web apps like Wordpress or Drupal with just a couple of clicks with Fantastico. Hosting.