Archive for the 'Business' Category

The Gift Of Software

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

The holidays are upon us, and if you’re anything like me, you’ve put off buying gifts for your friends and loved ones until almost the last minute! I hope you won’t overlook the possibility of sending the gift of software this year. Thanks to a new feature in the Red Sweater Store, it’s finally easy […]

Invest In Yourself

Friday, November 28th, 2008

I made an offhand quip on the latest Core Intuition podcast, that in light of the recent stock market plunge, I should have invested money into my own company instead of the likes of Yahoo and Apple. I was (mostly) joking, but there’s a philosophical truth in there. All of us have lately learned, or […]

VoodooPad 4

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Big congratulations to my friend Gus Mueller whose company, Flying Meat, shipped VoodooPad 4 today. One of the major features in the updated desktop wiki software is page syncing across multiple computers, allowing users to easily maintain a collection of VoodooPad pages on multiple computers. I know from a user point of view syncing is […]

The Graphic Design Hat

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

Those of you who have followed my blog for some time are aware that Red Sweater Software is, more or less, a company of one. I am the lead developer, marketer, strategist, bookkeeper, PR rep, and, as luck would so terribly have it, designer. Bob Walsh brilliantly summarizes the conundrum of small indie business people […]