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The formula for building web applications

June 30, 2008

I read this article on Mashable (via Fred Wilson’s tweet) and had to post this quote on building web applications:
Determine a basic need -> Create a service that satisfies it in the simplest way possible -> Open it up.
It sounds simple, but it’s not; determining a basic human need, like the need to share photos [...]

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Small Business Backup System Using Amazon S3

February 13, 2008

My friend Thomas Myer has a great article up on the Amazon Web Services Developer Connection on Building a Small Business Backup System Using Amazon S3.
When you run a small business, you’re usually running too fast and hard to think about data backups. Then something terrible happens—a hardware failure, an employee or contractor gets sloppy [...]

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