From the monthly archives: April 2008

Matt & I are back in the office after spending most of the week in San Francisco at Web 2.0 Expo last week. The show was interesting. Lots of extravagance and an interesting mix of people walking through the exhibit halls. We made a point to ask what brings people to the conference. Here’s a [...]

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We all know that the three most important determinants influencing the value of homes are location, location and location. Well it’s true of all real estate, including space on the trade show floor. We moved our booth at Web 2.0 Expo early this morning to a middle aisle with more foot traffic, based on our [...]

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Matt & I are at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Like many of you, I lived through the first Internet bubble. One seminal learning that impacted me in a positive way during the first boom was buying a few aeron chairs for my home at an auction selling off Corio’s assets. Their offices were [...]

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What does it mean when blist says that we want to democratize working with data, breaking our dependence on DBAs? Do I think the DBA profession is going away? No, not entirely, but their numbers will be fewer and their challenges will be greater. Complex systems will still require a DBA – either to model [...]

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We will be demonstrating blist, the world’s easiest database, in the exhibition hall next week at web 2.0 EXPO, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. We’re really looking forward to it. If you’ll be attending or exhibiting, drop by and say hello and check out all the new features we’ve been adding.

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Never. I’m serious. I know the customer is always right. Well not this time. blist is delivered as a service because that’s where it makes sense to run it – for you – not just for us. A number of people have asked about our plans to let you install blist and run it locally. [...]

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We launched the blist service in beta in late January of this year. Since then we’ve been managing what I think of as the five tensions competing for our limited software development resources. They are allocating development budget between: 1) fixing bugs thereby making the application more stable 2) improving performance 3) adding new features [...]

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Matt and Adam have been hard at work developing quick, how-to videos for key features in blist. We’ll add more videos over time, but here’s the initial video library: Starting your first blist Saving data in CSV format from Excel for import into blist Filtering data using the lens builder Creating a custom pick list [...]

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