Nice illustration of the Dot product technique, now I know it’s officially called Barycentric Technique, with flash animation
http://www.blackpawn.com/texts/pointinpoly/default.html
June 21st, 2009 |
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Browsing the internet today I found an impressive piece of Open Source. By Eric Bergman-Terrel, the Open Source C# Programmable Calculator lets you program functions for the calculator using C#. It compiles the code you write it on the fly; now I know what I will use when I need a scripting system for my applications.
http://www.personalmicrocosms.com/pages/cspcalc.aspx
June 20th, 2009 |
Today I got the email accepting tekBlues for MS BizSpark program. I cannot say how useful it’s and how dumb I was not getting into it before.
You don’t pay nothing, and get all the MS Software you need to develop and test your applications. It’s the equivalent to the upper-end subscription to MSDN. You also get support and the chance to list your startup in BizSpark’s directory.
Getting into BizSpark is a no brainer.
June 12th, 2009 |
In the BOS forum is frequent that some uISVers publish some partial data of their sales, visitors, etc.
Some interesting facts:
Cristian Pascu, FlairBuilder, Mockup & Prototyping tool:
Over the past 2 weeks, the best 2 weeks so far, I had:
~7150 visits
~5800 unique visitors
~12300 page views
~780 downloads (~10% * visits)
~30 sales (~4% * downloads = ~0.4% * visits)
Impressive numbers for a new product, we must take note of the following factors:
- Cristian went through a very long development and beta proccess during which he released versions, get reviews and built links.
- His product is really impressive
- His product is in a hot zone, trailing Balsamiq
Let’s compare it with text2go.com, Mark Gladding posted in BOS after his Bit Du Jour last experience and gave this numbers for reference:
…. To put the numbers into some perspective, I normally average 4-6 sales per week with about 60-70 visitors to my site each day….
text2Go was launched in August 2007, has almost three years in the streets and his daily visits are around 1/10 of the newborn FlairBuilder’s. IMHO, here’s a marketing problem. I like text2Go website, the product seems interesting and I think it has a great potential, in fact it has a 1,4% sales / visitors far over the industry media (according to A.Brice).
Another data point.Mo Flanagan developed a very cool gadget, it lets you view all the windows you like in the Chrome’s tabbed style. WindowTabs (very clever name and good a domain he got) is attractive and visually impressing.
@shanselman tweeted a link to WindowTabs about five hours ago and I have already gotten 50 downloads and several purchases. With AdWords, I struggle to get five downloads a day. Word of mouth marketing rules.
5 downloads a day? using adwords?.
Well, Mo is lucky, his product has the strength to become viral, after the tweet he got featured in lifehacker.com and got a peak of 3280 visits, 1332 downloads and 13 sales.
June 9th, 2009 |
As the uISVs are cash-strapped it’s important to be careful when investing in external services. Here are some excellent testimonials from people from BOS forum:
Outsorcing:
- Andy Brice’s outsourcing artwork through 99designs.com
- Joannes Vermorel’s “in praise of Voices.com”
- Dennis Crane’s report on Voices.com and EditAvenue.com
- Andy Wright’s experience with Ian Oszval from ProCasts
- MCoder (don’t know his name) report on using usertesting.com for testing his site.
June 8th, 2009 |
