Just curious to know

Is there any specific reason for having different blogs for every individual instead of a single company blog ?

Hi rama, Peldi here from Balsamiq. If you look at our page here: http://www.balsamiq.com/blogs/ you'll see that each blog is about very different topics, it would be too much to have it all together, plus one of the blogs is in Italian! :)

This way each employee has a sandbox in which to be great and gather a following of their own.

HTH! Peldi

Thanks peldi for clarification.

And if you are building some software try to partner with another guy whose has similar interests as that of you.

Don't do it alone it is bit hard.

It depends on what his goals are. I'm not sure hes trying to start up his own company, but maybe just wants a big enough business to support himself.

I want to earn more than in my day job. I believe that small projects can be done by my own (I hire some freelancers). If I will decide for any bigger project I will partner with somebody - especially if he will bring the idea :)

I thought a lot on this application.

Can you please guide me on

1)Is this idea worth trying and to focus on? Iam relying on

    a) friendfeed API to fetch diverse content like delicious, facebook,Google Reader 
    b) twitter API for twitter

2) Its sole aim is to provide interesting content for a topic (users can rely on this if he needs to keep track on a topic ),

3)What parts of the application requires an improvement?

Thanks

The only danger in relying on friendfeed is that it was bought.

Otherwise I'm curious of what algorithms or measures you used to score shares?

I am working with another developer on a semantic/social processin application. We use external trending sites for search a well as Twitter search API with JavaScript. I think value comes from helping to make new connections, or raising interesting content from friends that may have been missed.

Check VictusMedia.com if you're curious (next patch is adding some groovy features once bug smashing phase is cleared).

yeah exactly iam bit worried as i am relying on friendfeed platform .As they are acquired by Facebook i donot for how much time will they support their API.

For scoring/shares i used the following simple algorithm like

1)Number of people shared this link

2)Blog popularity (i.e) If the blog is popular more shares has to happen for it to appear on appropriate topic popular page.

Any other ideas on improving the algorithm?

That sounds great as a first cut.

At VictusMedia we used Topsy as a measure of recent trending links related to categories.

Kids who are interested in learning only become entrepreneurs.The kid is interested in networking but he don't know the way to network.

One more important thing is to

1)share your experiences of your work via blog

This helps you in increasing the trust with your potential clients and to find new clients by means of inbound marketing see below link:

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/10807/Startups-How-To-B...

UI looks like 37signals home page

The below may be seem simple but i don't know when i was starting up :( ................

1.Don't go alone atleast partner with one or two similar minded person .

2.Keep run way for atleast 1 to 1/1/2 Year.(nothing auto magically happens)

3.More features will not make your product popular. Implement few set of features which uniquely showcases the core idea.These features has to be done very very very well (remarkable).

4.Atleast one mentors in same area.

etc..........

If any HNers ever come to Hyderabad India , drop an e-mail rama.vadakattu at gmail dot com

One important addition that you can make is to add popularity metric to each post so that readers can segregate popular posts vs non popular posts.

One such thought of adding popular metric is:

1)Track the number of shares happening for that post in twitter,delicious,Google Reader (via Friendfeed API).

Any clue on when the DjangoCon 2009 videos will be available online?

The guy who filmed them is working on them now - I know nothing from an official standpoint, but I ran into the guy doing them Saturday morning and he mentioned he was working on them already.

and is there any hope that the EuroDjangoCon videos will ever appear? I was really looking forward to seeing those :-(

ditto