This is Jamie Quint's blog covering technology, entrepreneurship, economics, and anything else interesting.
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This is the beginnings of a plugin I may put together to help others integrate Facebook into their Rails apps. Much of the […]
LinkedIn claims to let you “stay in touch with your network”, but what does that mean? If keeping lists of names and numbers is staying in touch with your network I’d say most people do an excellent job, but lists of names and numbers are meaningless. Valuable personal networks are built on meaningful relationships. You […]
The MPAA and RIAA seem to be on the frontpage of Digg at least every week, lawsuits in hand. Most recently for the RIAA it has been suing sites where users post guitar tablature, and now the MPAA is suing a small company that sells iPods pre-loaded with DVD movies (Of course you should have […]
I am currently working on a project for a class titled “Senior Design” it is supposed to be the capstone of my learning experience as an engineer, designed to teach me how to take a project from idea to implementation. The class steps through a series of required documents (project proposal, functional specification, project plan, […]
I usually don’t talk about myself on this blog directly, but today I have some especially exciting personal news that I wanted to share. I’ve incorporated for my consulting business. All the papers have been filed with the State of Oregon and the IRS, and I should be a legal entity by sometime next week. […]
I was at the 37Signals “Getting Real” Conference this week in Chicago, and while I had already read the book I found a lot of interesting insights into the world of being agile. The web has definitely ushered in a new world not simply because of the way we interact with information, but how its […]