Happy Birthday!
Ownzee turns one today :-)
Earlier this week, Wired published a story about GitHub, the “version control” site that’s taking the internet by storm. But it was more than just a story. It was an experiment in version control. In addition to publishing our GitHub story on Wired, we published our GitHub story on GitHub
GitHub was originally designed for software developers. It lets programmers upload code and share it with other developers. It keeps track of who made what changes where. And it helps merge all those changes together. It “controls” the various versions of an open source software project.
But nowadays, it’s also being used to oversee stuff outside the programming world, including DNA data and Senate bills that may turn into laws and all sorts of other stuff you can put into a text file, such as, well, a Wired article.
At Wired offices, you hear the question over and over again as we work on stories like the one you’re reading now: “Are you out of the story? I want to go in.” We have a version control problem. We publish Wired.com on WordPress. It’s a decent publishing tool, but when two people change a story at the same time, one of them doesn’t get her changes onto the final story.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Milton Friedman
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"Design and user experience is the new intellectual property."
-Ron Conway Startup School 2011
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The inspiration for Ownzee came from looking at the amazing product pages of Apple.
Thank you Steve Jobs for helping us all Think Different.
Do stuff that doesn't scale
YCNYC was a really cool experience, I got to see, hear and meet the people behind some amazing things happening on the Internet.
You can read up on most of what happen at YCNYC on TechCrunch or whatever but the highlight for me was at the end. Most of the YC alums were haning around, talking and being friendly, all you had to do was approach them.
Paul Graham was as impressive as his reputation suggest. He was doing office hours with everyone. At one point he must have had 50 people around him, Rock start style haha.
I stood in the crowd for like 20 mins til he looked over, reached out his hand for a shake and nodded his head to show he was ready to listen. I told him about Ownzee and it was amazing how quickly he understood and got to the core of the idea. Getting advice from one of the heavy hitters of Silicon Valley was amazing. All in all, I was impressed, great event, great people and a fun time.
Nothing is cool like 70's cool.
Im starting to notice my name (minus the H) in alot of places...
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If it's never going to be good enough for you, then it doesn't matter how bad it is, either.
~ Jason Fried
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