Tumblr (3.0; @fran)http://franimalhouse.com/<a href="http://www.kpcb.com/insights/2012-internet-trends">2012 Internet Trends — Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers</a>: <p><span>Love Mary Meeker’s reports on key internet trends. </span><span>This one’s particularly fun with the “re-imagined” section, but I think she’s still missing some important areas (e.g., consumer health, big data, enterprise).</span></p>http://franimalhouse.com/post/24167454773http://franimalhouse.com/post/24167454773Thu, 31 May 2012 18:34:41 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4wlusI1PS1qz4b2bo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Man, this was fun.  My first experiences creating stuff on a computer were with HyperCard.  (via <a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/">25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web | Ars Technica</a>)</p>http://franimalhouse.com/post/24145407546http://franimalhouse.com/post/24145407546Thu, 31 May 2012 13:20:52 -0700“<p>As a society, we’ve had 10,000 years to choose to be open and honest with each other, and we have generally chosen not to. But now we’re at a point where new technology plays a critical role in our lives, and technology has no use for our half-truths and doublespeak. They are disruptions in the flow of information. As we are all becoming parts of the machine, our relationships with each other are being ground down to purer, more efficient forms so that they can be put to better use.</p> <p>We are becoming more honest because it increases the speed at which information can travel. We are becoming less private because to withhold valuable knowledge from the rest of the network is to act selfishly. We are becoming more transparent because that is what the evolution of technology asks of us.</p>”<br/><br/> - <em><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://pieratt.tumblr.com/post/23108094947/transparency-in-the-evolution-of-technology">Varsity Bookmarking: Transparency in the evolution of technology</a> </em>http://franimalhouse.com/post/24021025392http://franimalhouse.com/post/24021025392Tue, 29 May 2012 15:15:06 -0700“Criticizing any platform is easy. Much easier, it seems for many advertisers, than organizing internally and publishing compelling content.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/1836466/the-truth-about-facebook-advertising?partner=rss">The Truth About Facebook Advertising</a></em>http://franimalhouse.com/post/24020871875http://franimalhouse.com/post/24020871875Tue, 29 May 2012 15:12:51 -0700“When you’re president, as opposed to the head of a private equity firm, then your job is not simply to maximize profits. Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot… And so if your main argument for how to grow the economy is ‘I knew how to make a lot of money for investors,’ then you’re missing what this job is about.”<br/><br/> - <em>President Obama on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2oLpu4zH6s">why Mitt Romney’s record in the private sector matters</a> (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://barackobama.tumblr.com/">barackobama</a>)</em>http://franimalhouse.com/post/23563060388http://franimalhouse.com/post/23563060388Tue, 22 May 2012 14:08:52 -0700<a href="https://stripe.com/">Stripe: Payments for developers</a>: <p>A way to start accepting payments instantly.</p>http://franimalhouse.com/post/23469905182http://franimalhouse.com/post/23469905182Sun, 20 May 2012 23:59:39 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m46gq71hDF1qab8zco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><br/>“If you’ve seen a better picture of a dog dressed as two pirates carrying a treasure chest today, I don’t believe you”</p> <p>via <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/chiefbrody1984/status/202769547005149184/photo/1/large">@chiefbrody1984</a> / <a href="http://stellar.io">Stellar</a></p> </blockquote>http://franimalhouse.com/post/23281179399http://franimalhouse.com/post/23281179399Fri, 18 May 2012 00:40:35 -0700<a href="http://www.seomoz.org/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success">Are You Setting Up WordPress For SEO Success?</a>http://franimalhouse.com/post/22658764820http://franimalhouse.com/post/22658764820Tue, 08 May 2012 10:26:19 -0700<p><div class="module-post-detail __FIRST__ image" id="module-post-detail"> <div class="body-copy"> <ul><li>So what are you working on?</li> <li>Have you raised funding?</li> <li>What makes new users try you?</li> <li>What competition do you fear most?</li> <li>What’s the worst thing that has happened?</li> <li>Will you reincorporate as a US company?</li> <li>What’s an impressive thing you have done?</li> <li>Where is the rocket science here?</li> <li>Why did you pick this idea to work on?</li> <li>Why do the reluctant users hold back?</li> <li>Who would you hire or how would you add to your team?</li> <li>What problems/hurdles are you anticipating?</li> <li>Who is “the boss”?</li> <li>What is the next step with the product evolution?</li> <li>What obstacles will you face and how will you overcome them?</li> <li>Who needs what you’re making?</li> <li>How does your product work in more detail?</li> <li>What are you going to do next?</li> <li>What do you understand that others don’t?</li> <li>Where do new users come from?</li> <li>How big an opportunity is there?</li> <li>Six months from now, what’s going to be your biggest problem?</li> <li>What’s the funniest thing that has happened to you?</li> <li>Tell us something surprising you have done?</li> <li>Who are your competitors?</li> <li>What’s new about what you make?</li> <li>How many users do you have?</li> <li>Why isn’t someone already doing this?</li> <li>What are the top things users want?</li> <li>What is your burn rate?</li> <li>How do you know customers need what you’re making?</li> <li>What domain expertise do you have?</li> <li>What, exactly, makes you different from existing options?</li> <li>What’s the conversion rate?</li> <li>What systems have you hacked?</li> <li>Who would use your product?</li> <li>How will customers and/or users find out about you?</li> <li>Why did your team get together?</li> <li>In what ways are you resourceful?</li> <li>What is your distribution strategy?</li> <li>What has surprised you about user behaviour?</li> <li>What part of your project are you going to build first?</li> <li>What resistance will they have to trying you and how will you overcome it?</li> <li>How are you understanding customer needs?</li> <li>What’s the biggest mistake you have made?</li> <li>Who might become competitors?</li> <li>What do you understand about your users?</li> <li>What is your user growth rate?</li> <li>What are the key things about your field that outsiders don’t understand?</li> <li>Who is going to be your first paying customer?</li> <li>If your startup succeeds, what additional areas might you be able to expand into?</li> <li>Who would be your next hire?</li> <li>How do you know people want this?</li> <li>Would you relocate to Silicon Valley?</li> <li>What do you know about this space/product others don’t know?</li> <li>How much money could you make per year?</li> <li>How long can you go before funding?</li> <li>How will you make money?</li> <li>Will your team stick at this?</li> <li>How much does customer acquisition cost?</li> <li>How did your team meet?</li> <li>Who in your team does what?</li> <li>How are you meeting customers?</li> <li>How many users are paying?</li> <li>How is your product different?</li> <li>Are you open to changing your idea?</li> <li>How do we know your team will stick together?</li> <li>What is your growth like?</li> </ul></div> </div></p>http://franimalhouse.com/post/21945527519http://franimalhouse.com/post/21945527519Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:48:49 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2fy7ratYK1qz4b2bo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Yep.</p>http://franimalhouse.com/post/21049203875http://franimalhouse.com/post/21049203875Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:21:27 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2fhawj0GT1qz4b2bo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://www.sadanduseless.com/2012/04/texts-from-my-dog/">Texts From My Dog</a>)</p>http://franimalhouse.com/post/21030486698http://franimalhouse.com/post/21030486698Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:16:08 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m29hcwdlsI1qjjis9o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>This is insane.  Twitter users discover the Titanic was real.</p>http://franimalhouse.com/post/20888456975http://franimalhouse.com/post/20888456975Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:18:39 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1xetyGoik1qz4b2bo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Glowing blue waves — yet another reason to visit the Maldives. (via <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/pictures/120319-glowing-waves-ocean-blue-bioluminescent-plankton-science/">National Geographic</a>)</p>http://franimalhouse.com/post/20432585325http://franimalhouse.com/post/20432585325Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:05:58 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1v30nyUW81qz4b2bo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-future-of-mobile-deck-2012-3?utm_source=twbutton&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sai#">The Future Of Mobile [DECK]</a>)</p>http://franimalhouse.com/post/20354261391http://franimalhouse.com/post/20354261391Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:55:35 -0700<a href="http://dribbble.com/">Dribbble - Pinterest for designers</a>http://franimalhouse.com/post/19187422465http://franimalhouse.com/post/19187422465Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:24:43 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0mgnaI4D61qz4j35o1_r2_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>OMGPOP having their <a href="http://mashable.com/2011/12/07/alec-baldwin/">Alec Baldwin</a> moment.</p>http://franimalhouse.com/post/19027579737http://franimalhouse.com/post/19027579737Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:23:36 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0n7meNdpf1qz4b2bo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/03/09/employment-situation-february">The Employment Situation in February | The White House</a>)</p>http://franimalhouse.com/post/19027410312http://franimalhouse.com/post/19027410312Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:20:38 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0jo8cQZ8c1qz4b2bo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Wish they had these when I was a kid.  </p> <p>(via <a href="http://www.play-modern.com/store">play modern » PRODUCTS</a>)</p>http://franimalhouse.com/post/18929969014http://franimalhouse.com/post/18929969014Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:29:00 -0800<a href="http://www.charitynavigator.org/">Charity Navigator - America's Largest Charity Evaluator</a>: <p>Was looking for something like this!  </p> <blockquote> <h2>Charity Navigator, America’s leading independent charity evaluator, works to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic marketplace by evaluating the Financial Health and Accountability and Transparency of America’s largest charities. </h2> </blockquote>http://franimalhouse.com/post/18923973351http://franimalhouse.com/post/18923973351Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:38:22 -0800<a href="http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/">Font Awesome, the iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap</a>http://franimalhouse.com/post/18894453385http://franimalhouse.com/post/18894453385Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:00:32 -0800