I have several blogs where I had originally decided to keep a lot of my different stuff separated. This was meant to be the 'Corporate' blog for Tomorrowish and the projects that fell under that umbrella, such as TweePLayer and uTrust.info.
I am now going to shift this site to include news and blogging on trending topics in Tech, business, politics, entertainment, etc. The same stuff that Tomorrowish is focused on, and when it gets out to the public you guys can help spread those catagories as far and wide as you like. The core to all of this is looking at the trends that are coming down the pike and I will try to give you valuable sign posts along along the way. In the meantime all of my previous content that I have posted in this vein is at Polymathematics for Fun and Profit
Friday, January 8, 2010
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
My team is gaining weight (that is a good thing)
So over the past few weeks, I have been working, perhaps feverishly at times, building my team and the website. It is a fun throwback to my days doing theatre production, though I think I have improved my management skills since then. The project has the fun zipping of ideas back and forth with everyone excited and at the same time a more mature professional attitude about getting it done. This must be why people get addicted to startups.
The team has grown to more than I can count on my accessible digits and the level of skill and creativity is excellent. But enough of my gushing, heck they aren't likely to read this till well after this has proved its merits or not.
We have an excellent mockup of most of the site. Very detailed user submission forms and the new database should be quite flexible and robust enough to handle any impending popularity. There I just jinxed it. We have a flexible server architecture and the right people to impliment it, and I think it just plain looks good. I will be popping some screen shots up soon and taking requests to become members soon. Email me at info@tomorrowish.com if you are interested.
The team has grown to more than I can count on my accessible digits and the level of skill and creativity is excellent. But enough of my gushing, heck they aren't likely to read this till well after this has proved its merits or not.
We have an excellent mockup of most of the site. Very detailed user submission forms and the new database should be quite flexible and robust enough to handle any impending popularity. There I just jinxed it. We have a flexible server architecture and the right people to impliment it, and I think it just plain looks good. I will be popping some screen shots up soon and taking requests to become members soon. Email me at info@tomorrowish.com if you are interested.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Awesome Development Meeting
Over the Labor Day weekend. We actually labored quite successfully on the database design and ironed out a whole lot of generalities to some concrete somethings. It is a horribly difficult thing we are doing, and one of those, 'If it was possible someone else would have done it already." things.
'Enlightened Self Interest' is the catch phrase of the day. I remember when I was very young that was one of the key ideas my dad always came back to about why people do the things they do. Now I get to put the idea to the test.
Stay tuned for the next few weeks when I will be asking for submissions for the private alpha.
'Enlightened Self Interest' is the catch phrase of the day. I remember when I was very young that was one of the key ideas my dad always came back to about why people do the things they do. Now I get to put the idea to the test.
Stay tuned for the next few weeks when I will be asking for submissions for the private alpha.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Been Quiet Quite a While
Back on Stage With Lots of Work Behind the Scenes.
I haven't posted anything here in quite a while. At least I avoided a full year dead of updates. Lots has happened though. I have hired a web developer Joe Baz at Above the Fold. He has been excellent to work with so far and we are moving towards making the site available as a closed Beta soon. Hopefully a meaningful amount of time before the presidential election. I also have an expert database guru Mike Caprio out of Brooklyn. He is a long time friend and and excellent developer who seems very excited about the information architectures we are developing for Tomorrowish.
On the business side I have incorporated Tomorrowish LLC and received the trademark on Tomorrowish. We have bank account and a real line of credit. These may seem like little things to some of you but it is like building a house and making sure all the details of the foundation are properly in place.
The actual site will no longer be based on Plone, as my python skills were not up to the task. We are going back to a PHP/mySQL based site design. I have learned not to try to do everything and how to delegate tasks to experts that are far better suited to them.
What Is Tomorrowish?
Now the fun stuff. What is all of this for anyway. Tomorrowish will be a Prediction Scoreboard and Tracking site. We will track the public predictions of political pundits, technology 'experts', business analysts, Hollywood rumormongers, and maybe even a sports enthusiast or two. The goal is to learn who makes good and bad predictions and provide accuracy scores for all those people who get paid to, theoretically, know what they are talking about. As a bonus everyone who provides input to the site will gain their own accuracy and trustworthiness scores. So by succesfully pointing out the flaws of famous pundits, you might yourself become a famous pundit. The primary goal is to have a better way of knowing who to listen to and who is full of hot air.
I hope you will stick around as we develop this fun site and I promise it will be here sometime Tomorrowish.
I haven't posted anything here in quite a while. At least I avoided a full year dead of updates. Lots has happened though. I have hired a web developer Joe Baz at Above the Fold. He has been excellent to work with so far and we are moving towards making the site available as a closed Beta soon. Hopefully a meaningful amount of time before the presidential election. I also have an expert database guru Mike Caprio out of Brooklyn. He is a long time friend and and excellent developer who seems very excited about the information architectures we are developing for Tomorrowish.
On the business side I have incorporated Tomorrowish LLC and received the trademark on Tomorrowish. We have bank account and a real line of credit. These may seem like little things to some of you but it is like building a house and making sure all the details of the foundation are properly in place.
The actual site will no longer be based on Plone, as my python skills were not up to the task. We are going back to a PHP/mySQL based site design. I have learned not to try to do everything and how to delegate tasks to experts that are far better suited to them.
What Is Tomorrowish?
Now the fun stuff. What is all of this for anyway. Tomorrowish will be a Prediction Scoreboard and Tracking site. We will track the public predictions of political pundits, technology 'experts', business analysts, Hollywood rumormongers, and maybe even a sports enthusiast or two. The goal is to learn who makes good and bad predictions and provide accuracy scores for all those people who get paid to, theoretically, know what they are talking about. As a bonus everyone who provides input to the site will gain their own accuracy and trustworthiness scores. So by succesfully pointing out the flaws of famous pundits, you might yourself become a famous pundit. The primary goal is to have a better way of knowing who to listen to and who is full of hot air.
I hope you will stick around as we develop this fun site and I promise it will be here sometime Tomorrowish.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Changing Servers, Adding a Wiki, and General News
From the outside Tomorrowish has been kind of stagnant for a while. I have been working on alpha level stuff on the back end, and have been going through the business details needed to get this project up and running, but I haven't had any way for interested people to really get involved.
So I am migrating up to Plone 3 for the front end server to provide user accounts, information and a wiki for user interaction to start. If you would like to provide input prior to that just leave a note here. I still need good web programmers that can help me get beyond the trial tools I have been using. This would be a paid gig, so if anyone is interested AND capable send me an email to info@tomorrowish.com. I do check it.
Tomorrowish made it to the semi-finals of the WPI Venture Forum Business Plan competition in November. We didn't make the finals, but I did get some encouraging conversations out of the process, notably from one of the judges in the competition.
Tomorrowish is getting the paperwork done now to incorporate in Massachusetts as an LLC. I am using the business law firm Exemplar Law Partners who also arranges the Boston Entrepreneurs Meetup Group. My interactions with them have been excellent every time.
So I predict a large number of turkeys will be consumed in the next week and waist bands around the country will get a little tighter.
I will make this more active I promise.
So I am migrating up to Plone 3 for the front end server to provide user accounts, information and a wiki for user interaction to start. If you would like to provide input prior to that just leave a note here. I still need good web programmers that can help me get beyond the trial tools I have been using. This would be a paid gig, so if anyone is interested AND capable send me an email to info@tomorrowish.com. I do check it.
Tomorrowish made it to the semi-finals of the WPI Venture Forum Business Plan competition in November. We didn't make the finals, but I did get some encouraging conversations out of the process, notably from one of the judges in the competition.
Tomorrowish is getting the paperwork done now to incorporate in Massachusetts as an LLC. I am using the business law firm Exemplar Law Partners who also arranges the Boston Entrepreneurs Meetup Group. My interactions with them have been excellent every time.
So I predict a large number of turkeys will be consumed in the next week and waist bands around the country will get a little tighter.
I will make this more active I promise.
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Friday, July 20, 2007
My Improving Blog for Improving my Blog
Well I am starting two blogs in one week. This cannot be a good sign, though at least I am getting some stuff down on virtual paper that was previously stuck in my head or waylaid in 'interesting' conversations with family and friends. I will likely hook this into the main Tomorrowish.com website directly and make it look a little more of a piece with that site. Until then this space shall be a public/private blog for the development of the Tomorrowish as a site and a business.
If I understand the way Blogger works properly I will be inviting people to post their own ideas and comments here privately, and I will also likely setup a wiki for more fluid input from people interested in Tomorrowish.
So this should start getting better very soon and hopefully never stop.
If I understand the way Blogger works properly I will be inviting people to post their own ideas and comments here privately, and I will also likely setup a wiki for more fluid input from people interested in Tomorrowish.
So this should start getting better very soon and hopefully never stop.
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