While focusing on other mundane tasks, I completely forgot to update this blog and explain the development process behind this app.
In the weeks that follow, I will describe every step taken to develop gosnip from a tiny frustration into a full-blown web application. We will talk about what gosnip is, how it started in my mind and what benefits can be gained from using it. Hopefully, no one will think this as a marketing blog (although I want to get a lot of users :P). I will aproach the subject having a general audience in mind. I hope that anybody in the communication field can benefit from this, as well as the average coder.

There will be articles describing the information architecture behind the website. I will try to raise a solid user base in order to run surveys and research new ways to manage information (taxo-folksonomy combination, you can spot it at work in the design at gosnip.net, also Focus Clouds, do a google, it’s very interesting).

Hopefully, we will delve into online advertising and how a small, user-centered webapp like gosnip can actually draw some profit from Google AdWords, Textlinkads and the like (at least, I will try). On a similar, more tech side, I will review any techniques and software that will go into the app, including the framework, the editor, microformats and OpenID, and all the stuff in between and beyond. A thing which will benefit everyone, since we have to know how these work. We are internet users, after all.

I’ll complete this post by analyzing the stir-fry: it’s tasty, easy to cook, and as healthy as it can be. It’s a chinese technique of cooking, I’m eating one right now and highly recommend it.

Happy coding!

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In the meantime… I entered a contest on kupuk.com to win a copy of Helvetica, the film. The site feels really nice, being the home of a Mac enthusiast who makes great software (I think, waiting for some betas Until then, this blog is a very good read about life in tech (or vice-versa ?) in general, and typography in special.

And I did win, which is completely irrelevant to the purpose of this blog. But there is an explanation: I mistakenly used this blog’s address instead of my personal one.

For curious cats, my blog will be located shortly at: nomorestories.com

I do want to thank Paul for the contest and so I’m using this blog. So thank you!