tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358328782011-06-08T02:27:48.002-04:00kortinanoreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35832878.post-69724972820591306022006-12-21T11:41:00.000-05:002006-12-21T12:00:32.932-05:00<object width="320" height="240"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WKrq5Tgjdgw"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WKrq5Tgjdgw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="320" height="240"></embed></object><br /><h4>San Francisco Digressions on Podcasting Equipment</h4><br /><a href="javascript:showHide('qandk_07','Show show notes','Hide show notes');" id="Lqandk_07">Show show notes</a><br /><div id="qandk_07" style="visibility:hidden;display:none;"><br />Equipment we decided not to use:<br />Multimix Firewire Mixing Board - doesn't do multi tracks, doesn't come with Cubase<br />AKG Acoustic Omni Directional Microphone - requires phantom power<br />Lew Blum Towing Company<br /><br />tip: carry duffle bags to catch a cab<br /><br />free wifi is hard to find in san fran<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35832878-6972497282059130602?l=3niac.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>kortinanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35832878.post-29831728483062190542006-11-30T10:21:00.000-05:002006-11-30T10:30:43.218-05:00<object width="320" height="240"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NiI0doJl36A"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NiI0doJl36A" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="320" height="240"></embed></object><br /><h4>tracking marketing campaigns</h4><br /><a href="javascript:showHide('qandk_06','Show show notes','Hide show notes');" id="Lqandk_06">Show show notes</a><br /><div id="qandk_06" style="visibility:hidden;display:none;"><br />-advice from <a href="http://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/people/faculty/fader.cfm?hi_fader">Peter Fader</a><br />-capital one tracks all of their promotional mailings, running about 10,000 tests a week<br />-very easy to track marketing campaigns on the web<br /><br />unique urls:<br />- eg, <a href="http://philafunk.com?qandk06">http://philafunk.com?qandk06</a><br />- we track using google analytics, setting conversion goals for a campaign, such as user signups<br />- because we track, we can tell which campaigns are worth time / money, which are not<br /><br />google analytics:<br />- very powerful, and free<br />- <a href="http://google.com/analytics">google.com/analytics</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35832878-2983172848306219054?l=3niac.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>kortinanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35832878.post-81725521000204519582006-11-21T12:29:00.000-05:002006-11-21T15:02:53.467-05:00<object width="320" height="240"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/krIHZk197BU"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/krIHZk197BU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="320" height="240"></embed></object><br /><br /><a href="javascript:showHide('qandk_05','Show show notes','Hide show notes');" id="Lqandk_05">Show show notes</a><br /><div id="qandk_05" style="visibility: hidden; display: none;"><br />apologies for our recording woes and missing last week's episode<br /><br />topic: cross browser compatibility<br /><br />firefox 2<br />-spellcheck, x on each tab now built in<br />-new design<br /><br />ie7 - the end of firefox? ;)<br />-built in to windows, safer, better than ie6, also has extensions<br />-basically, implements a lot of firefox features<br />-lacks 'find as you type' search--the best feature in firefox<br /><br />-firefox chief accomplishment-bringing competition back into the market and forcing ie to get their act together<br /><br />-cross browser compatibility--css, html elements behave slightly differently in each browser<br />-neither firefox nor ie passes the acid test: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid2<br /><br />useful extensions<br />-web developer for live css editing and more<br />https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/60/<br />-firebug javascript console and DOM inspector<br />https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1843/<br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35832878-8172552100020451958?l=3niac.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>kortinanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35832878.post-1162683175601195192006-11-04T18:19:00.000-05:002006-11-10T22:59:30.009-05:00<object width="320" height="240"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/39Zf6hWYJZE"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/39Zf6hWYJZE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="320" height="240"></embed></object><br /><h4>Tim Westergren talks to Kortina about Strategy, Business Development, and the Founding of Pandora</h4><br /><br /><a href="javascript:showHide('qandk_04','Show show notes','Hide show notes');" id="Lqandk_04">Show show notes</a><br /><div id="qandk_04" style="visibility:hidden;display:none;"><br />-tim westergren is the founder and chief strategy officer of <a href="http://pandora.com">pandora</a><br />-pandora is on a national tour of townhall meetings<br />-pandora based on the music genome project, which classifies and maps similarities between songs<br />-music genome project originally used a b2b model and pandora radio only started 4 years after the genome project started<br />-pandora started with angel investment--tim discusses when it's prudent for an entrepreneur to seek investment--"how much can you get done with just sweat, without borrowing money?"<br />-it's easy to ask an investor to invest in an existing product than to invest in an idea<br />-where does pandora's money come from--subscriptions, ads, affiliate commissions?<br />-music genome project recommendations vs. social recommendations<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35832878-116268317560119519?l=3niac.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>kortinanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35832878.post-1162249995623329182006-10-30T17:44:00.000-05:002006-11-10T22:59:29.734-05:00<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ww91hnKV5Y4"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ww91hnKV5Y4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="320" height="240"></embed></object><br /><br /><a href="javascript:showHide('qandk_03','Show show notes','Hide show notes');" id="Lqandk_03">Show show notes</a><br /><div id="qandk_03" style="visibility:hidden;display:none;"><br /><br />last week: choosing servers and domain names<br />-cameras.com sold for 1.5 million dollars<br />topic: Languages, Frameworks, and Good Design Habits<br /><br />-bouncing - the part time job you should get until your company starts making money.<br /><br /><br />php<br />-first websites programmed by kortina and iqram were done in php<br />-<a href="http://www.iqrammusic.com">www.iqrammusic.com</a><br />-dynamically driven (<a href="http://dynamicdrive.com">dynamicdrive.com</a>)<br />-easy language to pick up, c syntax {};<br />-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCaml">ocaml shoutout</a><br />-kortina started with flat text (php with no database)<br /><br />databases<br />-<a href="http://mysql.com">mysql</a><br />-<a href="http://postgresql.com">postgresql</a><br />-database design: we took a class at penn<br />-prevent redundancy in your database<br />-spend lots of time planning!<br /><br />abstraction<br />-prevent redundancy in code as in database<br /><br />frameworks<br />-<a href="http://rubyonrails.org">ruby on rails</a><br />-saves time by taking care of tedious, common tasks<br />-php: <a href="http://cakephp.org">cake</a>, <a href="http://smarty.php.net">smarty templates</a>, <a href="http://pear.php.net">pear packages</a><br />-python: <a href="http://djangoproject.org">django</a><br />-learning good habits from good code<br />-concentrate your efforts on what's unique to your site--stand on the shoulders of giants when it comes to the basic stuff<br /><br />-totally sweet new outro music<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35832878-116224999562332918?l=3niac.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>kortinanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35832878.post-1161658698778425712006-10-23T22:56:00.000-04:002006-11-10T22:59:29.086-05:00<object width="320" height="240"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/p-jhEH_Pr_Q"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/p-jhEH_Pr_Q" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="320" height="240"></embed></object><br />>>update>><br />the full length episode is now above<br />>> >><br /><br /><br /><a href="javascript:showHide('qandk_02','Show show notes','Hide show notes');" id="Lqandk_02">Show show notes</a><br /><div id="qandk_02" style="visibility:hidden;display:none;"><br /><p style="text-decoration:line-through;"><br /><b>First Half</b><br /><br /><br /><b>Second Half</b><br /><br /><br />this episode is in 2 parts cause our google video account is f-ed and we're in the midst of setting up a director account on youtube. we hope to have this sorted out by next week.<br /></p><br />Choosing your domain and web host<br /><br />-quick fix for macbook spontaneous restarts - refrigerator<br /><br />-pick a good domain<br />-easy to type<br />-not too long<br />-avoid multiple spelling variations - flickr.com vs. flicker.com<br /><br />registrars:<br /><a href="http://hostway.com">http://hostway.com</a><br /><a href="http://godaddy.com">http://godaddy.com</a><br />-whois lookups from *nix command line or <a href="http://whois.net">http://whois.net</a><br /><br />-getting a server - not necessary if working alone<br /><br />-dev server<br />-supported software / languages - php, ruby, mysql, postgres<br />-one click installs? drupal, wordpress, rails...<br /><br /><a href="http://dreamhost.com">http://dreamhost.com</a><br />- ruby, ssh access, pretty good control panel, some nice one click installs<br />-slow<br /><br />-svn - version control - merges file changes, keeps previous versions<br />-svn reference: <a href="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/">http://svnbook.red-bean.com</a><br /><br />-local development - best<br />-don't even need internet<br />-fast, safe<br /><br />-articles we have used for os x<br /><a href="http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/">http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/</a><br /><a href="http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger">http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger</a><br />-we've used for windows:<br /><a href="http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html">http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html</a><br /><br />BREAK<br />Interview with Little Kortina<br />-building a web app using drupal<br /><a href="http://noquo.dreamhosters.com/brewskime">http://noquo.dreamhosters.com/brewskime</a><br /><br />What we're up to:<br /><a href="http://philafunk.com/_/info/battleofthebands">http://philafunk.com/_/info/battleofthebands</a><br />NEXT WEEK<br />-err...choosing language / framework<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35832878-116165869877842571?l=3niac.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>kortinanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35832878.post-1161050034695209702006-10-16T21:49:00.000-04:002006-11-10T22:59:28.706-05:00<embed style="width: 320px; height: 240px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-6828138393220615843&hl=en"></embed><br /><a href="javascript:showHide('qandk_01','Show show notes','Hide show notes');" id="Lqandk_01">Show show notes</a><br /><div id="qandk_01" style="visibility: hidden; display: none;"><br />We've got a name! <span style="font-weight:bold;">The QandK Show</span><br /><br />Topic: <span style="font-weight:bold;">To Build or To Integrate?</span><br />*Welcome to Philadelphia<br />*QandK living quaters<br />*3niac Operations:<br /><a href="http://blogger.com">blogger.com</a><br /><a href="http://video.google.com">video.google.com</a><br /><a href="http://libsyn.com">libsyn.com</a><br />*Philafunk allows embeded content from:<br /><a href="http://youtube.com">youtube.com</a><br /><a href="http://video.google.com">video.google.com</a><br /><a href="http://flickr.com">flickr.com</a><br /><a href="http://slide.com">slide.com</a><br /><a href="http://meebo.com">meebo.com</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Warning: the glennlivet was strong this night.</span><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35832878-116105003469520970?l=3niac.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>kortinanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35832878.post-1160540790320987732006-10-11T00:16:00.000-04:002006-11-10T22:59:28.512-05:00<embed style="width:320px; height:240px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=6720448502909409293&hl=en"> </embed><br /><a href="javascript:showHide('qandk_00','Show show notes','Hide show notes');" id="Lqandk_00">Show show notes</a><br /><div id="qandk_00" style="visibility:hidden;display:none;"><br />Here's the first episode of the netcast (I hesitate to use the word podcast since you can't view or listen to this on your ipod yet) Iqram and I are producing. The show doesn't have an official name yet, but since it's the only show on the 3niac blog right now, I guess that's not really a problem.<br /><br />This show is about some of the experiences Iqram and I have had while trying to start a business. We've had some strange encounters and learned a lot, and now seems like a good time to start sharing some of what's happened along the way.<br /><br />Right now, our main project is PhilaFunk.com, which we're spending day and night programming, marketing, planning, promoting, etc, ad nausem. PhilaFunk.com is a social music store where anyone can sell their music online and keep 80% of the sales revenue. I'm pretty excited about it because I think it's about time someone gave a little back to musicians. We'll be talking a lot about PhilaFunk on the show since it takes up so much of our time right now, but we'll cover other stuff, too--pretty much anything tech / music / web / entrepreneurial related is fair game. Hope you enjoy episode zero.<br /><br />peace.<br /><br />Show notes:<br />* episode zero was shot in Toronto, at my friend Shreyans' office.<br />* introduction of Iqram, musician, camera guru<br />* introduction of Kortina, internet geek, rss syndicator<br />* PhilaFunk.com<br />* explanation of the show<br />* email is 3niacbox, not 3niac as stated in the show (3niac is too short for gmail)<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35832878-116054079032098773?l=3niac.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>kortinanoreply@blogger.com0