RubyRailways has a great list of the Top 10 Ruby on Rails Weblogs. Its a great resource to add to your Google Reader or whatever RSS reader’s your current favorite:

• weblog.jamisbuck.org
• weblog.rubyonrails.org
• slash7.com
• errtheblog.com
• nubyonrails.com
• redhanded.hobix.com
• hivelogic.com
• mephistoblog.com
• rubyinside.com
• loudthinking.com

Dario D’Onofrio guest blogs over at Profy.com today, sharing some of his experience with the rest of us. Every business on this planet has two golden rules - Cut costs & Higher profits. No matter how big you get or how small you start, you always have to know how and where to cut costs. I was fortunate enough to have a great mentor who taught me how to bite the bullet, even at time I didn’t want to. For the rest of the readers who aren’t as lucky, Dario’s post gives you a lot of fodder for thought. Here are 11 ways a startup can think of cutting costs:

1. Look into projects according to your background
2. Ask your family/friends to comment on your project
3. Observe your competition before spending money
4. Keep your ideas secret
5. Negotiate with suppliers
6. Don’t tell media what you are doing in the first stage
7. Be flexible
8. Spend more time thinking than doing
9. Be ready to give up when everything goes wrong
10. Run a blog to keep in touch with users
11. Don’t hire, outsource instead

Its official - Feedburner just got Googled. Read about it on Burning Questions - CEO Dick Costolo’s blog as well; Techcrunch estimates the deal to be worth around $100 million.

This is a good move. Feedburner is a great service and with enough traction in the business, so only good things can come from this. Better marketing campaigns management with RSS feeds, more control to the bloggers. What more could we want, right?

Go Go Google!

Om Malik has a very interesting post over at GigaOm regarding the Last.fm acquisition by the old media behemoth - CBS:

 It is a community of like-minded (or same taste) music lovers that continues to grow. To distort a cliché, let a billion radio stations boom. CBS could start making money with the obvious business of selling music, but the real thrill would be if CBS takes this (to use another cliché) wisdom of crowds, and turned it into a tool for programming its on-the-air play lists.

This is nothing short of a historic meetup - two icons of the World today (not just the tech world) Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. The two met at the D5: All Things Digital - The Wall Street Journal Executive Conference and sat down with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. The conversation is simply engrossing, a must see for everybody!. I have been seeing the full videos over at Gizmodo, but I wanted to keep it here for reference also. Continue reading for all the 7 videos.
(more…)