February 2008
1 post
Blame the administration...
What is the defining characteristic of a start-up? It’s right there in the name. It is starting up. It starts up small, and then grows externally (users) and eventually internally (staff and infrastructure). All companies exist in one of four states. The state diagram is pretty simple:
Notice that there is no Succeeded. Be sure to see that you can go straight to failing. Also notice...
January 2008
6 posts
Woo to the Hoo
Version 0.2 or Parkr has been deployed and is now live. We are seeing an odd little error message in the forms (and are looking into it). To the user three major changes are evident:
You now use your email address as your login and not your shortname
You can now get and update your location via SMS
There is now a public page where you can share your location with your friends (if you have...
FYI
No metaphore laden goodness. No sage advice. No creative mispellings. Just a note to say that the service will be coming up and down over the next few hours. We will post when the new release is up and testing is done.
Who Are You?
It is quite possible that half of the reason that people watch the various editions of CSI can be attributed to the brilliant choice to play The Who during the opening. The selection of “Who Are You?” is especially brilliant. It speaks directly to the core of any criminal investigation: establishing identity. Did you catch the segue? Did you see how now I can transition to one of the...
Teething pain
Version 0.1 of ParkR has very quietly gone live. Not without a little teething pain. It was supposed to launch on parker.lemur-labs.com, but a strange little Proxy issue is preventing that at the moment. We have every confidence that we will resolve it soon, but for the moment it has bested us. And so we compromise.
Why are we even telling you this? Is it a good idea to point out where we are...
Small pieces, loosly coupled
At Lemur-Labs, we believe that the future of software on the net is best described by the ideal of “Small Pieces, Losely Coupled.” As such here is some of the services we use:
We host our servers at ServerBeach provides our severs
Googe Apps provides our email, calendar, spreadsheets, and wordprosser
We receive SMS though TextMarks
We send SMS via Clickatell
We use Tumblr...
First Post!
So this is the obligitory test post. Every new corporate blog does one and talks about the great things to come. It is almost a law, but at least we can put our own spin on it:
We are not exactly a corporation (yet). We aren’t paticularly professional — though don’t think for a minute we don’t care about what we do, or about you for that matter. We aren’t exactly...