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Jul
16
Posted by mark.
I run two consumer web businesses. LineBuzz.com and Geojoey.com. Both have more than 50% of the app impelemented in Javascript and execute in the browser environment.
Something that occurred to me a while ago is that, because most of the execution happens inside the browser and uses our visitors CPU and memory, I don’t have to worry about my servers having to provide that CPU and memory.
I found myself moving processing to the client side where possible.
[Don’t worry, we torture our …
Jul
16
Posted by mark.
In an earlier post I suggested that too much competitive analysis too early might be a bad idea. But it got me thinking about the tools that are available for gathering competitive intelligence about a business and what someone else might be using to gather data about my business.
Archive.org
One of my favorites! Use archive.org to see how your competitors website evolved from the early days until now. If they have a robots.txt blocking iarchive (archive.org’s web crawler) then you’re …