Michael Lehman's Independent Innovation

If you are a startup I think you'd find www.onstartups.com very worth your time. They have a post relating most startup plans to those of the South Park "Underpants Gnomes" who's business plan is:Steal Underpants?Make ProfitAlways a good idea to have a good #2 step in mind before you leap! You can also follow them on ...

Just ran into BrowserMob a cloud-based load testing tool based on Firefox and Amazon EC2. It allows you to throw hundreds or thousands of "virtual users" at your web site simultaneously.  Unlike most load testing tools however, it uses actual browsers (Firefox) to do the work which can give you a more realistic experience than ...

Joe Wilcox over at Microsoft Watch today wrote a piece entitled "Operating Systems Don't Matter". As I wrote in the comments to that post, I was a partcipant in a concrete example of his thesis: Digital Research, Inc. DRI wrote and distributed operating systems starting in 1977, beginning with CP/M and then MP/M, CP/M-86, MP/M-86, ...

It was 30 years ago today that I started, in earnest, to build Pascal/MT [wikipedia link], the first source-code-to-binary Pascal compiler.  In those days one could either use UCSD Pascal (a P-code compiler/interpreter) or Pascal/Z which compiled to Z80 assembler code with then had to be run through the Zilog Z80 assembler. Pascal/MT, ...

The nice folks at Seattle 2.0 webcast the Cloudcamp sessions. It was a great day with brilliant people and awesome energy. Recorded versions should be available soon.

Tomorrow, I am going to start podcasting and blogging regularly again. My day job (at Microsoft) has been consuming every spare cycle that I didn't need to eat and/or live but many things are converging which have inspired me to, once again, be attentive to (both personally and professionally) independent innovation and podcasting. If you ...

I've just started a new separate blog over at http://independentinnovation.posterous.com/ which purports to be a zero-friction blogging platform. The appeal, for me, is that I can post blog entries via email instead of having to be connected either to this site or to my Windows Live Writer. As this will let me post easily from my ...

Over on The Positivity Blog, Henrik Edberg, a 27 year old student from Sweden, gives us 7 Tips for Living a Happier Life, derived from Aesop of the "Fables" fame. Here are the 2500-year-old gems of wisdom (see Henrik's blog for more details): 1. Your wishes may not be all that they are cracked up to be. 2. Learn not only from ...

Ok, this is just too fun to pass up: http://putthingsoff.com/ In Nick Cernis' own words: "Put Things Off (PTO) helps freelancers, entrepreneurs and busy people just like you work smarter, play harder and live the lives they love. PTO talks about productivity, freelancing, running your own business, making money online, setting goals, ...

Steve Rubel, with whom (and a few others) I once tried to form a Mastermind group (our schedules never could mesh), has a great new post about Three Ways To Mitigate the Attention Crash. Summary:Inbox Zero -  www.inboxzero.com - A technique to use "email dashes" instead of on-demand reactivenessInvest in Search - Both Web and ...