Part of my thinking when I started RedPost, a web service, was to use as many other web services as possible for several reasons: to support the business model financially, to learn about other web services’ business process decisions (like invoicing, registration, etc.), and to gather user interface intel in designing our own user interface. [...]
In Friday’s Wall Street Journal James Altucher wrote a column entitled The Internet Is Dead (As an Investment): The days of infinite margins, 1,000% productivity gains, and growth of market throughout the universe are long over. Internet companies now should be treated, at best, like utility companies that get bought at about 10 times earnings [...]
We sent out this message just now to our Service Updates email list (software users who’ve subscribed to receive these sorts of things). Unfortunately, as is the case with Weather.com, we don’t always receive notice of problems like this before they just happen. Gah! Scheduling Update & Potential Problem This week, we upgraded our scheduling [...]
Wow. Microsoft truly does not fail to fail. Here’s the short version: you may have heard of Microsoft Outlook, the most popular email program with 36% of the email program market. You also may have become accustomed to receiving nicely formatted emails that aren’t just plain text (called HTML email). HTML email is difficult to [...]
If you try to go to shop.usps.com (the US Postal Service’s online store) right now, you get this: Ouch. UPDATE: This apparently is my problem only, as it happens just in Safari, not in Firefox. Weird.
I just signed today the Agile Manifesto, which is what forms the fabric of the Ruby on Rails (the software platform RedPost is developed in) philosophy. Here are the twelve principles: Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software. Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile [...]
Everyone, especially the media, has been freaking out about twitter as of late. I have my own love/hate relationship with it, but have come to a sort of common ground understanding of the medium once I figured out I needed a personal, private twitter account to be inappropriate on and a public, RedPost twitter account [...]
Just stumbled across this today…younoodle.com has some sort of proprietary rating system for startups that generates little charts like this one: They pulled us from the CrunchBase database. Interesting, not sure how useful it is…yet…
We just switched to RingCentral and a new toll free number, 877-REDPOST (733-7678). Our old toll free number and old fax number no longer work. Our local number (574-971-4753) rings direct into our toll free number. We also have cool features like: an automated attendant multiple extensions and mailboxes listening to someone leave a voice [...]
Holy crap, I just ordered a pizza online through Domino’s new web app (it’s JSP-based). It’s…awesome! I can see the first name of who’s making my pizza, what stage it’s at and while I’m waiting, take a survey on the election. According to the survey, of the 7,000 or so people who ordered online today: [...]
