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Call me Ted.Call me Ted. This is a web diary of my experiences launching, selling and maintaining Datawasp. I intend for it to record my emothions and reasoning as much as my technical actions. Where details are commercially sensitive I will, of course, omit them but I think I will be able to put down most of the interesting stuff that goes on. I can not guarantee that all the details are 100% accurate. I may have to change bits and pieces here and there to cover up errors make myself look more impressive generally. I have spent 4 years developing Datawasp. ( Click here if you want to see an account of the 4 year development effort which prequels this blog, and here if you want to look at a summary of my marketing efforts in that time.) That effort ended on 22 April 2008 when I pointed the download link on this site to the datawasp zip file and switched the payment system from 'test' over to 'live'. Since then I have been keeping a short diary of my activities - mostly for reference you will see in the entry for 8 May 2008 that I decided to start a blog describing my efforts.I have transferred that diary to this blog. Prior to developing Datawasp I worked for about 20 years(on and off) at a games software company where I developed weird non core projects like network stuff and games hardware. During that time I had some big successes and some big failures. I wish I had been keeping a diary in those times because it was often a roller coaster ride. However, rather than harp back to those times I am going to start a diary now for the roller coasters of the future. If you want to make any comments about anything in the blog you can do so on the message board here. ArchiveSo far this month.June 10Bin a while.Not much has happened here .. unless you count a load of programming. I have been working on my free giveaway promotional application and the coding is basically finished. Horah. 4 years for the 1st product 4 weeks for the second :) I spoke to an old friend on MSN recently and he suggested using a PR distributor to send out a press release. This seems like a good idea so I shall be looking into this. He gave me a link and I have already taken a call form them. Very informative. Its all a bit spooky actually. This guy explained to me that in all the newspaper offices in the world the 'news' comes screens hooked to a single news service. In the UK this is called the Press Association in the US it is called ' Associated press ' This explains, of course, why all the papers carry the same stories as each other and the TV and radio. Its all being centrally co-ordinated. I'm sure its all very benign but it makes me a little uncomfortable just the same. Naturally I am happy to join in on the side of the 'man' so I will probably be putting a press release out shortly thru this very system. Actually my first press release will not go to hard copy journalists in this way at all it will go the electronic route to tech web sites. The hard stuff comes later... |
