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Matt at 37 Signals:
When you choose that path, you get clarity. Everything is simpler. It’s simpler to explain your product. It’s simpler for people to understand. It’s simpler to change it. It’s simpler to maintain it. It’s simpler to start using it. The ingredients are simpler. The packaging is simpler. Supporting it is simpler. The manual is simpler. Figuring out your message is simpler. And most importantly, succeeding is simpler.
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Summed up: quick and simple is best.
I might add that if you’re not trying to build your own self-hosted customer base, using a well-known point of sale like eBay, Amazon, or iTunes, or a highly-used, 3rd-party checkout option like PayPal or Google will create much less friction than a home-brewed option. Granted, your per-item profit margin may decrease, but so would tech support and website maintenance. Not to mention, with less friction sales are likely to increase enough to make up for that lost profit margin. (Via Marco.)
Ever wonder what it was like to drive down the street of San Francisco in 1905? Well now you can know.
A must-read article by the beloved Joshua Blankenship on humility and integrity.
Seth Godin:
The best new media (like blogs and possibly twitter) open doors to people who didn’t used to have a voice. The worst ones (like blogs and possibly twitter) merely create new venues for scams and senseless yelling.
Speaking of good information design, check out this examination of CNN.com’s entire history of daily web stats (13 years worth!).
Is it interesting, easy, beautiful, and true?
Gotta love guys that geek out over building a new cave.
Sean Sperte’s deck from a talk at Northwest University about his Church, the Internet, and web standards.
Lately I haven’t been doing much writing (online) or reading (online). But today I opened up Fever for the first time in a few weeks and with my fresh cup of coffee spacebared through quite a few interesting things, and some very link-worthy ones.
If you too have not been reading (online) lately, I’ll be curating some worth-while stuff for you today from my reading this morning.
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I am 28, live in the Midwestern United States and work full-time as Head Cheese of marketing and design with a Christian ministry. I am quite happily married to a woman who is much better looking than I am. Aside from publishing a weblog I often travel across the United States helping produce conferences for young adults. I have been playing drums since I was in 5th grade, I love to write, I love graphic design, my sister is an outstanding photographer, I have a black belt in Tae-Kwon-Do, and I drive a 20th Anniversary Edition Volkwagen GTI, #3455.