Monthly Archives: August 2008

Weavolution it is!

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 31, 2008

Claudia and I spent some time talking this morning and agreed that “Weavolution” is the best name for the site.  It has elements of “revolution” and “evolution” – which is what we’re trying to do, combining weaving with Web 2.0.  Perhaps just as important, it’s an unusual, memorable name that isn’t already used for something [...]

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Doing things simply, and in order

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 29, 2008

Had dinner with a friend who’s a high-tech executive (marketing and business development mostly), and he gave me two very good pieces of advice: (1) don’t make it more complicated than it has to be (2) do things only when you need to have them done: not everything has to be done at once. This [...]

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Rapidly evolving

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 27, 2008

Much progress on many fronts over the last two days: I posted to WeaveTech yesterday looking for assistance with the social networking site.  Several people volunteered to donate time, skills, and donations (mostly items to be sold to raise cash).  Other people gave detailed feedback on what they’d like to see, advice on business setup, [...]

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Starting to take shape

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 26, 2008

In the last two days I’ve written 13 pages of specs for the social network project (don’t look too impressed: two of those pages are the table of contents!).  There are still a lot of gaps but the basic framework is starting to take shape. There are six basic kinds of “objects” (information-collections, or (I [...]

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Writing specs; knitting to weave

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 24, 2008

I am stymied in my attempts to weave doubleweave until I can get the wood pieces to enlarge my sectional beam, so I am working on other projects for the time being.  (I have called a woodworker about it, but they haven’t called me back yet; I’ll do another round of phone calls on Monday.) [...]

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