Cameron Olthuis

I haven’t posted a quote in awhile, but Matt Linderman from 37Signals said something that hit home with me.

If you trust the people, the process, and the goal, you don’t need all the bullshit trust-builders like specs, documents, and promises to make you feel secure. You can just make something good.

We are building a few products right now and we never really waste time creating specs and documents; instead we just start building and figure things out along the way. Because of this our end result is something that was created out of an evolution of our original idea, and is better because of it. It is very common to change directions a little bit once you’ve started. But, just as Matt says, the key factor in this is the trust in the people you work with. We have searched long and hard to find people we can trust to help us create our products, it has been a bumpy road, but well worth it!

I am heading up to The Future of Web Apps conference in the morning. I am planning to blog some of the sessions on PostBubble and a little bit here.

If there is anything you would like to know from the conference let me know and I’ll try to catch it and blog on it. If anyone is going to be there send me an email and we can meet up.

One potential problem with social search could be in the long tail. If the majority of searches are only performed a couple of times there won’t be enough human participation to make for good results.

Social search is already occuring on Google but people are “voting” with clicks instead of knowingly, and Google can even do this with the long tail.

What do other people think of this?

Noah’s wine taste off ended up being a lot of fun. The event was held at Mike Arrington’s house and was hosted by Bottlenotes and Entrepreneur27, they both did an excellent job putting on a fun event.

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to snap too many exciting pics and this is the best one I took.

In addition to food, conversation and wine we also played a game and even though the entrepreneurs were playing against the VCs we still worked in small groups to help each other out. Each group got to taste several different wines and then had to guess from a bunch of multiple choice answers for things like what region the wines were from and how much they cost.

In addition to the party we also had several meetings in the area and we got to hang out with some cool people. The best part of these trips is that new friendships and partnerships are made. Even though traveling for work (yes we did work stuff) is very exhausting I always have a lot of fun.

I will be up in the area again in a couple of weeks for The Future of Web Apps conference. Anyone else planning on going to that?