http://kaplak.com Making The World's Ends Meet Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:07:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream Thought I’d share a few notes on the things we test in the Kaplak Labs these days. Kaplak Labs is simply a WordPress based site in our WordPress MU powered setup, on which we test themes and plugins before we employ them on other sites. ... http://kaplak.com/2008/11/06/work-in-the-kaplak-labs-these-days/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream Sometimes I prefer to visualize an idea using nothing else but notepad - or preferably just pen and paper, whatever I have in front of me. The ‘back of the napkin‘ philosophy fits well with me. In fact when I tidy up old stacks of ... http://kaplak.com/2008/10/28/how-kaplak-stream-creates-new-value-for-web-publishers-and-niche-contexts/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream The Kaplak Mailing List was an important part of the first website of ours at Kaplak.com. However it didn’t come to play the envisioned role in our business strategy; as a direct communications channel and method of communicating directly with our potential customers. As you ... http://kaplak.com/2008/10/23/obituary-for-a-mailing-list/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream I’m in the process of setting up Kaplak Stream (working title), a project we (part) deliberately have been pretty silent about - at least in it’s deeper ramifications, even though we did touch upon the wider picture of feeds and aggregators recently, when I discussed ... http://kaplak.com/2008/10/07/the-structure-of-kaplak-stream-our-goal/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream Preparing a battle plan for integrating Wordpress µ (or MU) with our network of sites. I will commence the execution of this plan at a non-disclosed time sometime in the near future. The Kaplak Blog and Kaplak Wiki will remain online but the site in ... http://kaplak.com/2008/09/22/taking-a-deep-breath/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream Testing embed of early widget version, just out from the lab : Great, it seems to embed fine! Now, looking forward to play some more with it, with input. http://kaplak.com/2008/07/24/widget-test/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream This early sketch illustrates how a product/widget from a niche producer is made visible in a niche context somewhere else on the web : A web user and niche producer (A) encounters a Kaplak widget on a website, he knows and trusts (B). The producer finds ... http://kaplak.com/2008/07/17/the-kaplak-widget%e2%80%99s-online-journey/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream Over the next handful of articles I’m going to dive into what Kaplak is and how it works, as far as I can at the present time. This first article is a slightly modified re-run of the background article from our old main site : Background Originally, ... http://kaplak.com/2008/07/12/what-is-kaplak/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream I’ve sometimes experienced people who won’t accept invitations to connect with me on social networking sites such as LinkedIn or Facebook. Sometimes because they don’t know me or believe they don’t know me. “Knowing someone” is an extremely relative concept with the advent of the ... http://kaplak.com/2008/07/10/why-we-don%e2%80%99t-really-like-social-networks/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream This video is a few words about our online method and work ethos, which is greatly inspired by what has been coined “the wiki way”, by our friends at About Us, among others (and yet others). I’ve previously written about Kaplak’s multi-platform strategy and compared ... http://kaplak.com/2008/07/06/kaplak-and-the-wiki-way/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream The Kaplak Team at work, originally uploaded by morten.kaplak. Finally got around to get an account for us on Flickr and upload a bunch of photos from one of our recent sessions. These photos are from a meeting on the Kaplak premises in IDEA House in ... http://kaplak.com/2008/07/05/the-kaplak-team-at-work/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream I’ve previously written about the merits of attributing value to the context of finding information, rather than on any particular piece of information. This makes sense in an environment which literally explodes with new information, and shows no signs it’s gonna stop in any foreseeable ... http://kaplak.com/2008/06/30/contextualized-search/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream There’s a place close to where I live in Odense, where I come often to walk my dog. It’s one of those places I call ‘cracks of the industrial city’. As anyone familiar with the lyrics of Leonard Cohen will tell you, the cracks are ... http://kaplak.com/2008/06/27/the-grafitti-phase-of-a-startup/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream The pros and cons of commenting service Disqus The waters are divided these days on the blog commenting service Disqus, which we’ve also installed here on the Kaplak Blog. Personally I was impressed with it when I first saw it on the How To Split The ... http://kaplak.com/2008/06/10/to-disqus-or-not-to-disqus/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream If you’re reading this, you belong to a select group of people who have managed to find their way along intricate paths into this new home for the Kaplak Blog. Kaplak’s first site was since it’s inception last summer born as a temporary website for ... http://kaplak.com/2008/06/09/kaplak%e2%80%99s-online-strategy/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream Earlier this winter Rasmus Dahlberg of the Odense-based publishing house Det Historiske Hus asked me ‘why we had founded an association and not a company?’. I answered something to the meaning that the association was much more flexible than a formal business at this point, ... http://kaplak.com/2008/06/07/painful-beginnings-of-a-startup-in-the-making/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream We’ve applied now for becoming an Amazon.com Associate site, which is one type of income stream for Kaplak in our current phase. I wanted to test one of the Amazon widgets here. This one creates contextual links, i.e. figures out what the content around it ... http://kaplak.com/2008/05/13/kaplak-an-amazon-associate/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream Too much is happening these days in the Kaplak universe for this blog to keep up to speed. We have attended a pre-springboard (early investor’s presentation, still among “friends”), attended a conference for computer game producers and have met with some great people. We’ve also ... http://kaplak.com/2008/05/01/kaplak-and-delicious/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream We’re still looking for a talented webdesigner. Now we have a few distributable PDF’s on this position. Please toss them around to your colleagues and friends, if you know someone talented enough to work for Kaplak. Application deadline is April 21st. Talks with applicants take ... http://kaplak.com/2008/04/05/webdesigner/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream Kaplak is undergoing some changes re: ownership and leadership these days. In short, we’re abolishing the Association of Kaplak Investors in favor of a company with clarity of ownership and leadership, and we’re doing it a bit sooner than originally anticipated. I’ll get back to ... http://kaplak.com/2008/03/05/what%e2%80%99s-brewing-at-kaplak/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream If Kaplak is to succeed in ‘making the world’s ends meet’, we need to get in touch with potential customers globally. This is a daunting task, to say the least, and not something you do from one day to the other. Kaplak’s product may depend ... http://kaplak.com/2008/02/14/who-reads-kaplakcom/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream Last year I discovered Twitter, inspired by video blogger and online infopreneur Raymond M. Kristiansen. Raymond worked very hard during the national election last year to introduce Video Blogging as a serious campaigning tool for the candidates of Radikale Venstre, the Danish Social-Liberal Party, of ... http://kaplak.com/2008/02/05/kaplak-on-twitter/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream We now have a Squidoo page on Kaplak. It’s been interesting to play around with creating this page! Services such as Squidoo and NING present great filtering opportunities for niche oriented projects such as Kaplak, and I’ll return with more in-depth analysis of these services. http://kaplak.com/2008/02/03/kaplak-on-squidoo/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream Frequently Asked Questions Part I We’ve had a number of questions via email, and I’d like to answer and expand on some of them here. The type of question which tops the list is this one : When is Kaplak ready? When can I start downloading films? We ... http://kaplak.com/2008/01/29/when-is-kaplak-ready/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream Steve Blank, who we hold dearly at Kaplak, spoke in December at a Google conference about the history of Silicon Valley. This talk provides some fascinating insights into the intersection of war, technology and business, which shouldn’t be missed, if you’re interested in the history ... http://kaplak.com/2008/01/22/the-history-of-silicon-valley/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream Before we begin exploring concepts and concrete examples, we may do well from presenting the boundaries, within which this blog will operate. First, this blog is a blog of a start-up company, which has the overall purpose to make money, eventually. This is worth noting. We ... http://kaplak.com/2007/12/22/the-purpose-of-this-blog/ From Kaplak Blog. Promoted by Kaplak Stream Kaplak’s first website is online! It is yet a very simple website. For now it basically consists of a mailing list and this blog, and a few pages with what may be quite insufficient information about Kaplak and what Kaplak is about. There are good ... http://kaplak.com/2007/12/15/exploring-kaplak/