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This week in Twitter

A few of this week's 37signals staff posts at Twitter.

@mattlinderman: It's a fine line between preparation and stalling.

@jasonfried: Where's the double bounce prosperity?

@dhh: Wow, this is promising. Apple backs down from dev tool restrictions and promises to make review process transparent: http://bit.ly/aFCxOw

@sstephenson: Really enjoying http://longform.org/ for idle reading.

@jasonfried: Notes from today's Q&A at the 37signals HQ w/ Tony Hsieh, CEO of @zappos: a

VIDEO: The Soda Pop Stop. A celebration of a small…

The Soda Pop Stop. A celebration of a small niche business led by a guy who really loves sugar and carbonation.

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Kentico Software

Below: Q&A with Petr Palas, CEO and Co-Founder of Kentico Software (based in The Czech Republic). Petr will be answering reader questions today (Thu) here at Signal vs. Noise. If you have a question, leave it as a comment. This is part of our "Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud" series which profiles profitable companies that didn't take VC and have over $1 million in annual revenues.

What does your company do?

We help web developers have more fun creating websites. We have a single...

Well, that was easy

We just launched a new feature in Basecamp that allows you to move messages, to-do lists, milestones and files from one Basecamp project to another. You can read the full announcement on our product blog.

The UI we designed makes it simple to do. Just edit any message, milestone, to-do list or file in Basecamp, select the project you want to move it to, and click a button. Done.

It's so simple that it's easy to assume that adding the feature would be simple, too. Customers make this...

Product Blog update: Move items between Basecamp projects, syncing OmniFocus and Basecamp, S2 Form Processor for Highrise, etc.

Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog:

Basecamp

New in Basecamp: Move between projects

We just launched a new feature in Basecamp that allows you to move messages, to-do lists, milestones and files from one Basecamp project to another. Have you ever wished you could move a message that someone posted to the wrong project? Or split a to-do list and a couple of milestones into a brand new project? Now you can.

Spootnik synchronizes OmniFocus and Basecamp

"OmniFocus'...

QUOTE: I'm really liking Google's design…

I'm really liking Google's design lately. Even though people would say, "It's ugly and stripped down or whatever." The decisions they're making I think are really wise. Everything's based on speed. And the more you use it, the more you realize speed trumps aesthetics in most cases. If you can be fast and good looking, that's great. But I think I'd almost prefer fast.

And so, I like some of the decisions they're making about that. And I think that's starting to influence us a little bit in ...

INSIGHT: Suggested formula for figuring out how long…

Suggested formula for figuring out how long online videos should be: 1 minute of a web video = 1 hour of a feature film. So keep web videos under 2-3 minutes unless you've got a really compelling reason to go longer.

Shakespeare's word inventions

The Words episode of Radiolab (iTunes link) features an interesting segment on how Shakespeare behaved like a language chemist, combining words like elements. The relevant story starts at 22:00 in of the episode.

According to James Shapiro, a Shakespeare scholar at Columbia, the un- prefix is something Shakespeare created (at least he was the first to use it in print or on stage). That means he invented the words unaware, uncomfortable, undress, uneducated, unwillingness, unsolicited...

This week in Twitter

A few of this week's 37signals staff posts at Twitter.

jasonfried: The reason you can't get it done in one day/week/month is because you're making it take two days/weeks/months.

rjs: For fans of Christopher Alexander's recent books, Nikos Salingaros' "A Theory of Architecture" is a must read http://amzn.to/cGOdBg

longstride: Calling in GMail is pretty cool. Add it as one your Google Voice lines and you get inbound calls, too.

mattlinderman: Sparklines:Graphic designers = Windmills:Don...

[Podcast] Episode #20: Programming roundtable (Part 1 of 3)

Time: 19:38 | 09/02/2010 |

Summary

Three members of the 37signals programming team — Jeffrey Hardy, Jamis Buck, and Jeremy Kemper — answer questions from readers of Signal vs. Noise. Topics include Rails, Git, Mocha, Vim, nginx, Passenger, and more.

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