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Want a piece of chocolate cake? Really.
I made a del.icio.us chocolate cake yesterday. I sliced it into cubes and brought them with me to sapo.
So if you want your chocolate cake cube, you just have to come here and say: I read your blog! :). I’ll accept it in Portuguese too: Eu leio o teu blog!
I got into cooking mode yesterday. I decided to cook two different recipes. Besides the chocolat cake which is made from her grandmother’s recipe I also did a spaghetti with chicken and peppers which is my first meal cooked with soy sauce ever. Simply del.icio.us to say the least (now I’m modest! Am I not?).
So are you interested in your precious cube of chocolat cake?
A Guide for Startup E-commerce Entrepreneurs
Lafraise.com is an online t-shirt store that’s becoming more and more famous on the Web. The store has a few nice features. Users can submit and vote on t-shirt designs. It sells around 1.600 t-shirts per month at 22 euros each. Which means around 36.000 euros per month for a single guy. Sounds nice.
The owner (Patrice) writes a Boss’s blog since the start of the business where users read and comment on the business’s life. The blog has allowed Patrice to get more in contact with it’s users and they feel a human side to the store.
Following this good shared-knowledge way of doing things, Patrice has wrote a very interesting guide for new e-commerce entrepreneurs (in French). He writes how he got from just a simple idea into the full business. Among other topics there are suggestions on startup logistics, e-payments, web-based software, public-relations and customer relationship management.
It’s not the a guide with solutions to every problem one could get. But It’s more like an assurance guide that it can be quite simple to start your own e-commerce startup.
Thanks Laurent for the link.
Two minutes of silence also on the Web
A two-minute silence is held in memory of those killed and injured in the London bombings.
Despite the bad choice of picture, sapo.pt did a symbolic page that was online has an intro to the Homepage for 2 minutes.
Maybe something with more quality would be nice. But the idea is there.
23people.com: photosharing made simple
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, Reboot’s organizer, has launched a new photosharing site. It’s called 23people. It’s functionally is very close to Buzznet and Flickr so apparently there’s no real innovation.
Nevertheless, it has a very nice user interface. I really like the way it eases the moblogging process by creating an email for you to send pictures too your gallery. You can also make zip and email them in one-shot. That’s what users will value more. Simplicity of usage.
I was able to start moblogging from my T630 in just 5 minutes.
The service has just launched so as soon has we were creating our accounts, our photos were all over the Latest Photos banner on the homepage.
I have been looking into this type of services in the last few weeks trying to understand business models, interaction models and social networking models. 23people seems quite simple and effective on what it does for sharing photos, mainly mobile. Has for their business model for now you get 1Gb on a free account to play around but I have read that the paid accounts will be around 29 euros / year for unlimited capacity and I can’t see any other revenue source for now.
The market opportunity is great. The digital photo market is huge worldwide with more that 325 million camera phones and digital cameras sold in 2004 and only about 5% of households with digital cameras utilize photo services.
I don’t know about 23people funding but french company Photoways got 24 million euros of Venture Capital just last week. And they have a much more tradional share-and-print photo service oriented for digital cameras.
So in the end being mobile-oriented 23people position themselves uniquely and I think they’re ‘getting’ the market by letting users play with photos the way they want. Thomas is having a tremendous opportunity on this one and I wish him all the luck.
Update: interesting (and now hot) discussion with Thomas on 23 being different from Flickr.
Now that’s geek
She got a Flickr Pro account first then I did.
And what a fabulous gallery she has. She tags, notes pictures and publishes her own Flickr badge.
For this you get one week of premium promotional space on my homepage. *grin*
The Making of The Guardian on London 7/7
This post from a Guardian journalist is an inside view on the extreme job of what is like to run a newspaper with print and web edition on an event like this.
Logistics: with London blocked by the events all measures had to be taken to make sure the newspaper would come out.
“By shortly after 11am it had been decided to slim down the main paper to 32 pages, with early deadlines of 6pm for the tabloid G2 and 7.15pm for the broadsheet. There was a contingency to use an extra printing plant if necessary — in the end it was not needed.”
Advertisement redeployment: with the change on priorities comes the change of layouts.
“There were meetings with advertising and circulation staff. Advertisements were taken out of the first five pages of the paper and held or redeployed. A circulation very substantially greater than that for a normal Friday was planned — and, as Friday’s morning conference heard, substantially achieved.”
Website statistics: New media helps readers get information faster than ever.
“Nowhere was this clearer on Thursday than on the website, Guardian Unlimited. It recorded a record number of 7.8m page views (the previous record was 6.2m). There were 1.3m unique users. The busiest time was between 1pm and 2pm when the site was recording page views at the rate of 213 per second. Some of the eyewitness reports carried on the website had nearly 100,000 visits.”
The innovation: people on the scene started sending almost live pictures of the event. More that ever mobile cameras where useful in spreading the news.
“One thing that became clear was the unprecedented role, at least for the coverage, of a disastrous event within Britain, of camera phones, The most immediate images (particularly true of video images) were taken by eyewitnesses and participants in the events, by citizens rather than professionals.”
The end result:
The editor points out that “It was the product of a day when the function of journalism is clear to see.”. I agree.
Are they serious?
Maybe someone should tell these guys that banners do not have a good Click-Through-Rate.
London Under Attack
Conspiracy?
Monday: The week started with a visit to the Tax Office to get a document that the Social Security said I had to get before giving me the document that the Tax Office requested. Confused? Me too.
Later on the day, while joining her on the line (on the floor) waiting to make a new ID Card I found out that the service reminds me how dreadful a refugee camp must be. I stayed there for 10 (long) minutes.
Wednesday: Late night goodbye to newly-met-Estonian-friend who is travelling home the next morning. Arriving home at 02:30 am and finding out that my buildings storage rooms where filled with constantly running water. A inaccessible broken tap. A few thousand liters and 3 hours later finally some sleep.
Thursday: Striking London pictures from unavoidable War on Terror surprises.
Last minute reboot on very important machine. More than 3-hours of NFS, mounts and apache problems. 03:30 am. Sleep.
News homepages layouts on the London bombings
News sites have covered the London explosions throughout the day. Let’s see how they have adapted their layout to this event.
The World view:
Contrary to what happened on other events none of the World news sites got a low-graphics version running when the news started to spread.
BBC News |
CNN |
IHT |
El Pais |
The Portuguese view:
In Portugal SAPO also kept the normal Homepage on.
Other Portuguese news sites like Público, Diário Digital and SIC (the last 2 hosted under the SAPO network) turned their low-graphics version on, maybe expecting a much higher traffic.
SAPO |
Publico Low-graph 
Original |
SIC Low-graph  |
Diário Digital Low-graph  |
After 8 hours DD and SIC still had their special versions on.
