Last summer, I was following some chatter around some Minnesota-based web projects pointed at making music easier to find and publish online. Just got word this morning that they are both officially up:
DJ Edna – an open-source website framework for musicians, including streaming, store, gallery, all that stuff.
“…allows the artist to bypass traditional distribution [...]
Quicktime version
The team at Slantwise Design is testing out ShoutAt.com, their second build-in-a-week Ruby on Rails project.
From the sole developer, Dan Weinand:
“It’s still a little rough around the edges, and we’re already looking at features to add. We’re looking for help in testing it out, especially since every phone, and every carrier has their [...]
Got word today that two new organizations are launching Digg-like services, where members contribute then rank each other’s contributions.
I’m excited for more of these services because the real value to these recommendations services is with very small communities. Where everyone could conceivably know everyone else. With too many members and too many contributions, another [...]
“The next wave of innovation isn’t going to be as easy. The hard problems in the WWW are no longer usability or ease of everyday content creation.” – Peter Rip, EarlyStageVC
As a bonus, Mr. Rip offers a ‘is your web 2.0 project forgettable’ checklist.
More from Steve Borsch.
Adobe has recently released its much talked about Apollo software, which is billed as “a development environment for developing cross-platform RIAs for the desktop.” This sounds REALLY interesting to me. I am also REALLY not a developer. So if one of you supersmart designer/developer types wants to try it out, I would LOVE to hear [...]
The and brillant minds at slantwisedesign just launched Better Together (goesbetter.com). It’s a new toy site where you tell the world how much better pointless and web applications, human blood and ice cream, and chocolate and peanut butter are, um, well, together.
Aside from the possibility of entertaining and pairs, I foresee some interesting pair-battles: [...]
From my perspective, it’s more interesting to look at the underlying infrastructures of “Web 2.0″ – the building blocks – that makes the new generation of web experienes possible. These tools change more than websites – they change how people work, and lower the cost of failure, and provide a solid foundation to start, while [...]
This is the first of a new ongoing series here at MNteractive where I sit down with the companies in the Twin Cities’ web community.
To kick it off, I talk with the Refactr team; Ben, Jesse, and Scott, to talk about how they’re building a software consulting company on the agile software development, Groovy [...]
Back around MinneDemo 1, Aaron Fulkerson presented MindTouch’s enterprise wiki software at wiki.com.
According to their press release:
“MindTouch today announced it has partnered with Entrepreneur John Gotts to launch Wiki.com, the premier online destination for consumers to learn about, create and share wiki sites.”
Yes, the same wiki.com that Gotts bought for $3 million.
I was there [...]
http://eightandfive.com/2006/12/22/flash-developers-first-impressions-of-wiis-internet-channel/
(Â sorry I decided to post to another blog I contribute to, but seems to sort of fit what we’re covering here as well )