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hello, i'm yan

I am a photographer, entrepreneur, software engineer, guitarist, climber, and telemark skier

This blog is about startups, blogging, Ruby On Rails, virtualization and cloud computing, photography, customer service, marketing, ux and design, git, and lots more.

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I'm the founder of Planypus, the place to share your plans!

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Posts Tagged social web

Planypus 2.0 launches the fastest way to make plans with your friends

I’m really happy to report that after seven months of hard work, we’re back and better than ever! The new Planypus is an example of beautiful user-driven design, that really focuses on the goal: to make plans as humanly fast as possible. Not satisfied with the overcomplicated process of making plans at competing websites, we’ve [...]


Richard Stallman gets reactionary on clouds

GNU founder Richard Stallman is denouncing clouds as a proprietary trap. I greatly respect this man, but I have problems with his statements on two levels. First, I have previously argued that the most important and game changing factor of cloud computing is not the idea of storing your stuff on the interweb, (which is [...]


Yahoo offers insight on social reputation patterns

A new section of the Yahoo Design Pattern Library (YDPL) is on Social Reputation. Besides having a nice library of software/UI patterns at the YDPL, apparently they’re doing social behavior patterns as well. Yahoo identifies five different competitiveness levels for social communities (Caring, Collaborative, Cordial, Competitive, Combative) and recommends different ways of handling reputation in [...]


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