startpad

Rightscale provides tools to provision and automatically adapt the size of your AWS server instances to meet changes in demand. They got a couple of recommendations from the attendees at our Startpad Countdown lecture with Jeff Barr this week.

Quoted: RightScale provides a platform and consulting services that enable companies to create scalable web solutions running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that are reliable, easy to manage, and cost less. Try it FREE!

Nice 5 minute video of Liquid Planer demo

NYT article on coworking spaces. They mention Seattle's Office Nomads.

StartPad's space is like this as well - our current tenants are up-and-running businesses with significant funding. We start at $300/month for a desk - $550 will get you a desk in a private office (with one office mate).

Quoted: Equipped with cellphones and Wi-Fi, young people who work independently are banding together in shared spaces.

This is the culprit in our email from StartPad having disclosed BCC fields in our outgoing mail.

Damon's Twitter Statistics site. Really cool visualizations about how you're using twitter - see how many tweets you send at different times of the day, where they are coming from, etc.

It's been two years since this startup job-fair event at RedFin. Has it been repeated? I sure recall it as being super popular.

We could host one here are StartPad if there is demand for it.

I'd like to use the Summize API to build a nice Twitter widget in StartPad.org.

Some great mentions and a quote from StartPad tenants, RescueTime, in the New York Times this weekend.

Quoted: A typical information worker who sits at a computer all day turns to his e-mail program more than 50 times and uses instant messaging 77 times, according to one measure by RescueTime, a company that analyzes computer habits. The company, which draws its data from 40,000 people who have tracking software on their computers, found that on average the worker also stops at 40 Web sites over the course of the day.
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“We are hunter-gatherers at the core,” said Tony Wright, chief executive of RescueTime, who is also a member of the new nonprofit group. “We open e-mail and hit ‘send and receive’ to see if something interesting has come in.”

ResuceTime on NPR

Quoted: Outsource your daily task and stop making to-do lists in favor of don't do lists &mdash; these are just two of Timothy Ferriss' tips for a shorter work-week. The author of <em>The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich,</em> offers guidelines for a plush Blackberry-free life.