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A Dreamer, a Photographer, a Musician, a Webdesigner... sometimes a Java coder too: I am Niccolò Favari and this blog is about New Media, Creativity, Business, Communication, Entrepreneurship and lots more. Boring stuff indeed, because I am a very boring dude.

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December 11, 2007 – 6:07 pm
Posted in: Entrepreneurship Tags: , , , , | Comments (0)

Entrepreneurship Links and Articles

2007 is coming to an end. Time to make up your mind about your own future. These articles will help you in the process.

“Quitting your job and going it alone is one of the biggest–and riskiest–decisions you’ll ever make. So I think it would be worthwhile to unpack some of the statistics on entrepreneurs.” - Thinking of starting a business? Know the risk

“Tough question. Certainly if you look at your neighbors with real wealth, you’ll see a lot of entrepreneurs: Half the families with a self-employed breadwinner claim a net worth greater than $336,000, and folks who make it big push the average for such families to more than $1 million. Then again, you could meet more than a few business owners in the waiting room at bankruptcy court. In between are lots of people hustling for every buck. Unless you get past that stage, you’ll likely make less than you do now, says William Gartner, who teaches entrepreneurship at Clemson University.” - Would you be better off as your own boss?

And here you are with some other interesting links:

December 3, 2007 – 11:48 am
Posted in: World Wide Web Tags: , , , , | Comments (0)

How to destroy the Web 2.0 look

There’s quite misunderstanding around the net on what web 2.0 really is. We really have to separate the “look and feel” of a website from its purposes. Indeed we should separate websites and services altogether. Web 2.0 has nothing to do with webdesign (take a look at del.icio.us or gmail, no “web 2.0 look” there).

Today we talk about the “design” part. What’s wrongly referenced as “the web 2.0 style” or the “without personality style”.

Elliot Jay Stocks extensively talks about this in his “destroy the web 2.0 look” presentation. He talked about this topic in the “Future of Web Design” speaking at New York, almost a month ago.

Snap2Object has an interesting post on this too with many pictures of common “non web 2.0″ graphic elements.

Obviously there is also an “Analysis of Web 2.0 Design & Layout Trends” at StyleIgnite. Take a look, you may find it interesting.

November 26, 2007 – 8:58 pm
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Address bar shortcuts (keywords) for favorites (bookmarks) in Flock

Found the following hint while searching the FAQs

How do I get Firefox keywords back?

  • Enter “about:config” (minus the quotation marks) into the url bar and press enter.
  • Type “flock.favorites.showKeyword” (minus the quotation marks) into the “Filter” bar at the top of this window.
  • Change the value to true.

Warning: the Flock configuration window contains numerous settings which, if incorrectly changed, may render Flock inoperable. Please follow these instructions exactly as indicated to avoid this risk

Now you can assign keywords to your bookmarks (err… favorites) and type them in the address bar. I assigned “fd” to my flipthedolphin.com wordpress dashboard, for example.

Get the most out of your favorite social browser, Flock on!

November 21, 2007 – 2:52 pm
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Looking for Pixelfriends to SysAdmin a VPS

Are you a Linux master?
Do you love Bind books?
Do you know every aspect of Apache and PHP configurations?
Are you passionate about mail servers and web hosting?

Then would you like to share a VPS with me?

I’ve always been interested in the hosting business. It’s quite safe to start a hosting company nowadays, without way too much money to invest and without too much hassle for tech support and client management. There are tons of cost effective solutions for managed reseller hosting.

But lately I’ve found myself thinking about Virtual Private Servers. I’m not an expert on Linux and Apache but I think that a VPS gives you a lot more freedom than shared hosting. You don’t have limits on how you run PHP or what’s installed on your machine. You can resell whatever you want and manage your own operating system. You are the root user. It’s like owning your own machine… but you can always restore it if you break something.

The only problem is that I’d be the only one managing it. I’m sure I can’t do it all by myself. I need “a little help from my friends” but actually I know nobody with decent linux and sysadmin knowledge. So here I am: would you like to be my Pixelfriend? Are you interested in helping me to manage a VPS? I’d entirely pay for the Virtual Server and we could, eventually, come out with some sort of small business activity. I’d like to do it just “for fun” but basically I need to learn how stuff works. I need to learn how to remotely manage a system and how to setup domains, accounts and websites.

It’s a risk-free activity. You only have to collaborate with me managing the VPS linux host. Maybe we’ll build a very basic business so I will be able to pay you down the road. Maybe it will be just damn funny.

Think about it and let me know

November 6, 2007 – 1:42 pm
Posted in: World Wide Web, linux Tags: , , , , | Comments (0)

deb file for Flock 64 bit released. Gutsy users, enjoy!

Flock 1.0 browser has been released for windows, mac and linux. Well, a while ago to tell the truth. But today I found out that there is a .deb package for the 64 bit version, ready to be grabbed and installed in your Linux Ubuntu Gutsy distribution.

November 1, 2007 – 4:58 pm
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Flock Sync desktop-notebook feature request

After getting the 1.0 RC3 release of Flock, a few days ago, I posted a suggestion to the Flock team:

Hello there! I think there is need for a “a-la google” browser sync extension… or feature perhaps.

It would be great to do changes at local bookmarks, accounts and feeds while using the laptop… and having them mirrored in the desktop as soon as we fire the holy browser up!

This would be terrific! Think about it.

Evan replied with:

Hello,

Thanks for the suggestion! We definitely see the benefit in this and will be seriously considering it in the future.

Flock on

Follow the discussion here.

October 30, 2007 – 5:48 am
Posted in: Webdevelopment Tags: , , , , , | Comments (0)

Permanent Redirect (301) in plain PHP

Three simple lines made it


// Permanent redirection
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.flipthedolphin.com/");
exit();
?>

I just copied and pasted the above lines of code inside an empty file and renamed it to index.php, then putting it inside my /wordpress/ folder made the trick: no more 404 errors if someone visit www.flipthedolphin.com/wordpress/.

I found an interesting way to make redirects in ASP/VBscript, Javascript, ColdFusion and so on. Interesting stuff if you’re receiving many 404 from visitors that did not update their bookmarks (or if you’re losing readers because you changed the wordpress/feeds folder). Here it is: Permanent Redirect with HTTP 301.