Slightly less important, I launched Strongest Man, a World’s Strongest Man fan site with videos and forums. I’ve been toying around with sites that could be launched with less than two days of effort and decided to combine that with finding friends who could act as community managers. My friend Adam (Grinnell alumnus) was involved in the sport. He runs the forums.

My Introduction to AppExchange Article got a good reception on the O’Reilly Network. I’m writing a second one that shows how to integrate with the AppExchange through their API. Hopefully that’ll be published the week after Thanksgiving.

I’m all for Microformats now after hearing Chris Wanstrath speak at SF Ruby Meetup. Joined all the mailing lists and then started working them into my next project.

The rest of the week was mostly meetings, some of which involved taking Eggs up to O’Reilly for his first day at work. That’s where Sara Winge gave me a nice anecdote about the difference between large and small companies. She sells her CD on CD Baby and when they run low on stock she’ll get an email along the lines of “Your fans love you! They’re lining up around the block for your CD! Could you please send in another ten copies ASAP?” You don’t get that type of service selling on Amazon. As building for the web get’s easier we’ll have much better options for choosing small services and that’ll often mean fantastic customer support.

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